Comparison

INK.SCRIPT vs Feather Book Writing App

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

Head to head
About

INK.SCRIPT

Features
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Every story starts with a blank page. INK.SCRIPT is a quiet, focused screenplay editor for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Bring your scenes, action, characters, and dialogue together on a true screenplay page—with every project saved automatically on your device. No account, no cloud uploads, no subscriptions, and no tracking. A TRUE SCREENPLAY PAGE • Set in Courier Prime with authentic 60-column screenplay margins and indents on every screen size • Six screenplay elements: Scene Heading, Action, Character, Parenthetical, Dialogue, and Transition • Natural writing flow: press Return to move automatically from Scene Heading to Action or from Character to Dialogue, and press Tab to cycle element types • Smart character cue suggestions: InkScript offers matching character names from your cast and script as you type • Dual dialogue: pair two consecutive speeches side by side with a single tap • Drag-and-drop reordering: drag the handle beside any line to move it, with live order previews and smooth edge scrolling SCENES, DETAILS & WRITING STATISTICS • Scene navigator: browse numbered scenes with their opening line and line count, jump straight to any scene, or step between scenes from the bottom Scene Bar • Live page count and screen time: see your script's length in printed screenplay pages (≈ 1 minute on screen per page, excluding the title page) alongside scene, character, word, and note counts • Script details: set your title, logline, writer credit, and choose from 7 book-style cover colors for your library NOTES, CAST & VERSION HISTORY • Line notes: attach notes to any line in your screenplay and review every note grouped by scene in script order • Automatic cast list: everyone who speaks appears automatically with speech count, scene count, and first appearance (grouping extensions such as V.O. or O.S.), plus characters and descriptions you add before they speak • Version history: save named drafts before major rewrites, compare line changes (+added, −removed, ~changed), and restore any version safely—InkScript saves your current script first and supports full Undo FIND AND REPLACE • Search across your entire screenplay with optional case matching, jump between matches, and replace single occurrences or all at once IMPORT & EXPORT IN INDUSTRY FORMATS • Import existing scripts from Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain (.fountain, .spmd), and formatted or plain text (.txt), preserving scene structure, title page metadata, and script notes • Export print-ready paginated PDF screenplays (12 pt Courier, 10 characters per inch, 6 lines per inch, title page, page numbers from page 2, optional scene numbers in both margins, dual dialogue columns, scene-heading widow protection, and automatic (MORE) / (CONT'D) speech breaks on US Letter or A4 paper) • Export Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain (.fountain), and formatted plain text (.txt) via the native share sheet EXPLORE A SAMPLE SCREENPLAY • Open the bundled sample screenplay ("Simulation 834,211") from the welcome tour or library to test scene navigation, notes, cast tracking, and export right away BUILT FOR iPHONE, iPAD & MAC • Adaptive layout that scales from a focused single-column page on iPhone to a three-column studio workspace (Scenes sidebar, screenplay page, and Notes/Cast/Versions inspector) on iPad and Apple Silicon Mac • Full hardware keyboard shortcuts for creating projects, switching element types (⌘⌥1–6), toggling panels, undoing/redoing, and finding text • Light, Dark, and System appearance • Dynamic Type and VoiceOver accessibility • Localized in English, Turkish, and Spanish PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your screenplays stay on your device. INK.SCRIPT works completely offline and collects no personal data, analytics, or usage telemetry.

About

Feather Book Writing App

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Feather is a writing app for people who want to write a book and want some peace to do it. You write in plain text with Markdown, your chapters sit in the sidebar, and everything you need to keep a story together is a few taps away. WRITE • A quiet editor with Markdown you see as you type: bold, italics, headings, quotes and lists • Chapters in a sidebar, with word counts, status and coloured labels • Two chapters side by side, handy for rewriting or comparing • Zen mode, so only your text is left • Find and replace across the whole manuscript • Your work is saved as you write, and after a crash Feather picks up where you left off NOTES ON YOUR TEXT • Notes attached to a sentence or passage, visible without cluttering your text • A checklist for each chapter and a notepad for the whole book • A story bible with characters, places, objects and organisations, with relationships and photos, always one click away from your text PROOFREAD • Spelling and grammar in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese • A word list for each book; names from your story bible are ignored automatically • The repetition panel finds words that sit too close together, as well as filler words, adverbs and sentences that keep starting the same way SEND YOUR BOOK INTO THE WORLD • Export to Word, EPUB, PDF, Markdown or plain text • Pick a destination: general, Amazon KDP paperback, Amazon KDP Kindle or Apple Books • A PDF that looks like a printed book, with the right trim sizes and margins • Print with a choice of chapters, paper size and title page STAYS YOURS • Your book is an ordinary folder of text files. You can always open it in another app, keep it in iCloud Drive or put it on a backup disk • No account, no subscription and no ads. Feather collects no data • If you like: a small local server (off by default) that lets another app on your own Mac, such as an AI assistant, fetch a chapter and add proofreading notes to it. Nothing goes onto the internet Feather runs on Mac, iPad and iPhone and comes in Dutch and English.

Screenshots

INK.SCRIPT4 screens
Feather Book Writing App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: INK.SCRIPT at 17.0 against Feather Book Writing App's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
INK.SCRIPT versus Feather Book Writing App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterINK.SCRIPTFeather Book Writing App
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYahya GonderFlying Elephant Agency

In-app purchases

None

INK.SCRIPT

No in-app purchases

None

Feather Book Writing App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is INK.SCRIPT free?
INK.SCRIPT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Feather Book Writing App free?
Feather Book Writing App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do INK.SCRIPT or Feather Book Writing App have ads?
Neither INK.SCRIPT nor Feather Book Writing App shows ads.

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