This is the new look of Scrite as of version 0.4.0 Beta. The new UI is minimalistic. It is clean and less crowded. It’s focus is entirely on the writing area, which is what one would expect from a screenplay writing app. If you want to first put the latest version of the app for […]
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One consistent feedback we received from many of the early adopters of Scrite, who are professional screenplay writers themselves, was this: Scrite must support industry standard formatting. Infact our mentors: Director Abhaya Simha & Director Adarsh Eshwarappa were also suggesting that we start focusing on industry standard formatting. Writer & director Sudarshan (FB Link), who […]
When we launched our first beta on 17th April 2020, many people downloaded the app and gave us positive feedback. One of the main feedback areas was the Screenplay Editor in Scrite. While new writers loved the idea of creating structure and screenplay in parallel, seasoned writers preferred a simple “document like” look of Final […]
Many of our users work out of a 32-bit Windows OS, could be Windows 7 or Windows 10. Some of them have a 64 bit hardware, but the software is 32 bit. They have been unable to install Scrite on their systems, because we were not providing 32 bit installers. Although one could technically setup […]
With Scrite 0.3.7 Beta, we finally have a working Find & Replace. As with all features, this one is in beta too. As we use it more and more, we will uncover issues if any and fix it. Suppose for example, you want to change the name of a character in your Screenplay. Take a […]
We have an entire section in the user manual dedicated to importing screenplays from various formats like Final Draft, Fountain, Celtx, Word, HTML and so on. This post is not about revisiting that. Suppose that you lookup a screenplay on the web somewhere and you now want to use Scrite to study it. To map […]
Many Linux users wrote to us asking for a build of Scrite on Linux. Distributing on Windows and macOS is straight forward because they only have one vendor each. But Linux has several vendors: Ubuntu, RedHat, openSuSE and more. Packaging Scrite for each platform is a pain. However, in recent times most distributions support AppImage […]
Many users have written to us that they are unable to figure out what English alphabets to type in order to transliterate a word to their local language. While a link to alphabet mappings was documented in our user manual already, we thought it may be useful to simply show alphabet mappings in the UI. […]
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The Hindu on Scrite
Shilpa Sebastian of The Hindu was the first to publish about Scrite in news-media. You can click on the link below to read the entire article. Link: Scrite, an app to help write screenplays
If you install the latest update of Scrite and then open any of your existing screenplays, which are written using Scrite or imported from Fountain, Final Draft, etc; you will notice something delightfully new. Below is a screenshot of Scrite showing the complete screenplay of “The Big Fish” imported from Fountain file format. Notice that […]