Besides Industry Standard Formatting, the next most requested feature in Scrite was “Spell Check.” With version 0.4.2 Beta, we now have a spell check feature in place. Scrite highlights all misspelled words using a red-shaded-background. This is distinct from what all other apps do, which is render a wavy-red-underline. We would love to do that […]
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In screenplays, sometimes dialogues tend to spill over a page boundary to the next page. For example, consider MAN’s dialogue in the screenshot below. The dialogue is split across two pages. When viewed on screen, we are able to relate that the first line on page 37 is dialogue of MAN. However, when this is […]
Release Information Release Date: 13th June 2020 Update available for both 32 & 64 bit Windows, macOS High Sierra+ and 64-Bit Linux OS. Download from here. What’s new? This update brings sweeping new features and design changes to Scrite. Support for industry standard formatting One consistent feedback we received from many of the early adopters […]
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 […]
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 […]