Comparison

Script Pilot vs The Script Tool

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

Head to head
About

Script Pilot

Features
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Script Pilot formats the page while you type, so a screenplay looks like a screenplay from the first line and you never touch a margin again. FORMATTING ON AUTOPILOT Type INT. and the line becomes a scene heading. Type a name in caps and it becomes a character cue; press return and you are in dialogue. Tab cycles all eight elements, and the app handles every indent, every margin, every convention a reader expects. TRUE PAGES Real 8.5 x 11 sheets on screen, numbered and broken exactly the way your PDF breaks: Courier 12pt, industry margins, 55 lines to the page. Page 26 on your phone is page 26 in the export. One paginator runs the screen, the page count on your shelf, and the PDF, so nothing can quietly disagree. FLIGHT MODE Pick a destination -- one page, three, five -- and take off. Everything behind you locks until you land on the page count. No edits, no undo, no scrolling back to fix a line. It is the fastest way through a first draft, and the report at the end tells you how far you actually flew. THE BEATMAP A visual board for your structure, built into every script. Drag beat cards, wire them together, or start from Three-Act, Save the Cat, or the Hero's Journey. Beat sheets are documents of their own too, if you would rather work the structure before the pages. THE DEV BOARD Photograph the whiteboard, the napkin, the handwritten page. The Dev Board keeps the real-world material an idea came from, with dates the app stamps itself, so a script carries the record of where it started. AN ASSISTANT YOU POINT AT THINGS The writing assistant only works on the part of the script you aim it at, and it proposes -- you accept or reject every change. It never rewrites your draft behind your back. OUTLINES, TREATMENTS, NOTES Not everything is a screenplay. Outlines, treatments and notes live on the same shelf, in the same account, with the same sync. YOUR SHELF, EVERYWHERE The phone and scriptpilot.film are one account. Start a scene on a laptop, finish it on a train. Every keystroke syncs, and pulling down on any screen forces a refresh when you want to be certain. FREE DURING EARLY ACCESS Every feature, unlimited scripts, no purchases inside the app. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app at any time.

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: โ€ข Read and edit your screenplays in proper screenplay format โ€” scene headings, action, character, dialogue, parentheticals and transitions. โ€ข Checks: spelling, punctuation, format and character-name consistency, flagged right in the script. โ€ข Reports: pages, scenes, speaking parts, dialogue share, and breakdowns by character and location. โ€ข Collaboration: see notes from the people you've invited, and share a read-only link you can revoke at any time. โ€ข Home-screen widget: the status of your latest review and the size of your library, at a glance. โ€ข Face ID and Touch ID: the app locks itself whenever you leave it, so an unpublished script is never left open. โ€ข Notifications: when a review finishes, a collaborator leaves a note, or accepts an invitation โ€” 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

Script Pilot4 screens
The Script Tool4 screens

Verdict

The call

Script Pilot and The Script Tool are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Script Pilot versus The Script Tool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScript PilotThe Script Tool
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size26 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShort Bread Apps LLCGreg Howard

In-app purchases

None

Script Pilot

No in-app purchases

None

The Script Tool

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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