Comparison

Final Script AI vs The Script Tool

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Final Script AI

Features
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Final Script AI is a professional screenwriting app for iPhone — industry-standard formatting, a beat board, structure templates, production revisions, and an AI writing room powered by Claude. WRITE LIKE A PRO • Auto-formatting editor with smart return, type cycling, and smart-type autocomplete • Scene headings, action, character, parenthetical, dialogue, transitions, dual dialogue • Live page count and runtime estimate • Beat board with index cards in act columns • Structure templates: Three-Act, Save the Cat, Hero's Journey • Outline view with beats and scene list AI WRITING ROOM (BYOK) Bring your own Anthropic API key — stored securely in your Keychain, never on a server. Powered by Claude: • Continue Scene — draft the next lines in your established voice • Punch Up Dialogue / Tighten Action — craft-level rewrites • Coverage Notes — an honest reader's report with logline, strengths, concerns, and next steps • Generate Logline / Synopsis — pitch material from your script • Brainstorm Beats — unstuck ideas with real range • Check Character Voice — flags off-voice lines using the character bible • Suggest Names / Analyze Tone PRO EXPORT • Import and export Fountain (.fountain) • Export Final Draft (.fdx) — Pro • Export print-ready PDF (US-Letter Courier) — Pro PRODUCTION READY • Production revisions with WGA color order (blue, pink, yellow, green, goldenrod, buff) • Locked pages and revision drafts • Character bible with voice notes PRICING Free: unlimited projects, full editor, beat board, Fountain I/O, 10 AI assists per month. Pro ($24.99/year): unlimited AI, Final Draft + PDF export, production revisions, character bible. Your screenplays never leave your device. Your API key is stored only in the iOS Keychain. TERMS & PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mvalasek77-droid.github.io/finalscript-ai-privacy/

About

The Script Tool

Features
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The Script Tool app is for writers who already use The Script Tool. Sign in with the same email and password you use on the website. There is no sign-up in the app. Your whole library, in your pocket: • Read and edit your screenplays in proper screenplay format — scene headings, action, character, dialogue, parentheticals and transitions. • Checks: spelling, punctuation, format and character-name consistency, flagged right in the script. • Reports: pages, scenes, speaking parts, dialogue share, and breakdowns by character and location. • Collaboration: see notes from the people you've invited, and share a read-only link you can revoke at any time. • Home-screen widget: the status of your latest review and the size of your library, at a glance. • Face ID and Touch ID: the app locks itself whenever you leave it, so an unpublished script is never left open. • Notifications: when a review finishes, a collaborator leaves a note, or accepts an invitation — each one switchable. Import Final Draft (.fdx) and Fountain files and download them back any time; your original file is kept byte for byte. Optional AI features run on your own Anthropic API key. Everything else works without one.

Screenshots

Final Script AI4 screens
The Script Tool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Script Tool at none against Final Script AI's 1. The Script Tool also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Final Script AI sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $24.99 per year. The Script Tool asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 3 level
Final Script AI versus The Script Tool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinal Script AIThe Script Tool
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMike ValasekGreg Howard

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Final Script AI

Subscriptions1
  • Final Script AI Pro$24.991 Year
None

The Script Tool

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Final Script AI free?
Final Script AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Script Tool free?
The Script Tool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Final Script AI or The Script Tool have ads?
Neither Final Script AI nor The Script Tool shows ads.

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