Write the movie.
Not the margins.
Formatting that stays out of the way, a reader that follows your characters and scenes as you write them, and notes that live in the script instead of your inbox.
Final Draft formats your script.
Typewrite understands it.
Wave 01 opens September 2026. Your price stays locked for as long as you keep the plan.
Built by someone you can name.
Screenwriting communities have been burned by anonymous tools that appeared overnight and took the pages with them. Here is where we stand on all four counts.
Written by a screenwriter
Typewrite started during a screenwriting semester at NABA, and was tested first on the classmates who had pages due on Monday.
A name on the door
Not a pseudonym and not a Discord handle. Founder, roadmap and changelog are public, and so is the email that reaches an actual person.
Your pages are not training data
Drafts are never used to train a model. You choose whether your work is stored in the EU or the US, and you can export or delete all of it at any time.
Priced for working writers
Free forever for students with a valid enrolment. Early access pricing is locked for the life of the plan, and there is a free tier that is not a trial.
You did not get into this to maintain a document.
It is 2am and the scene finally works. Then you renumber the scenes and the breakdown no longer matches. You rename a character and find her in fourteen other places. You send a PDF and the notes come back in an email, a Word file and a voice memo.
None of it is in the script. So you keep a second document to track the first one, and a third to remember which version the director actually read.
The software is not helping you write. It is asking you to file.
Two things it does that nothing else does. Six it just gets right.
The big cells are the reason to switch. The small ones are the reason you stop noticing the software at all.
It formats itself, so you can stop watching it.
The editor knows which element you are in and moves to the next without being told. Pick one and watch the same line snap into place.
Tab cycles elements · Enter commits and moves on
It reads while you write.
It holds the whole draft in context — who your characters are, what they have already said — and offers a line only where you leave room for one.
One page,
one minute.
Live in the margin, always current.
Hands stay put.
Every element reachable without a menu.
Nothing is quietly lost.
Every draft is versioned. Compare two side by side, restore one without losing the other, and read any earlier page whenever a note refers to it.
The page engine runs locally.
A dropped connection does not stop the writing.
Out is as easy as in.
Production-ready, title page included.
Two people, one page, no merge conflict.
Live cursors, inline notes that stay attached to the scene, and roles that decide who can rewrite and who can only comment.
Four states.
One document.
- 01BoardCards you can move with your hands. The shape of the story before you owe anyone a sentence.
- 02OutlineThe cards become beats in order. Nothing is retyped — the board simply reads as a list.
- 03TreatmentBeats open into prose. Still your voice and your paragraphs, not a template asking to be filled in.
- 04ScriptProse becomes format. Every scene keeps the card it came from, so the structure never drifts from the pages.
- 01Mara can't sleep. The kettle won't boil.
- 02Daniel calls at 6am. He already knows.
- 03The read-through. Nobody mentions the rewrite.
- 04She takes the notes meeting alone.
- 05Two weeks pass in one cut.
- 06The kitchen again. Different light.
Mara cannot sleep. It is past four and the kettle has been on long enough that the sound of it has stopped meaning anything. She is not waiting for tea. She is waiting for the version of the scene that does not embarrass her.
At six, Daniel calls. He is careful in the way people are careful when they already know the answer, and she can hear him deciding which half of it to say out loud.
By the time of the read-through, everyone in the room has read the new pages and nobody says so.
The script already knows what is in it.
Cast, props, locations and background are tagged from the text itself, and stay attached when you move the scene. Nobody retypes a breakdown at midnight because the schedule moved.
- Cast 0
- Props 0
- Locations 0
- Background 0
Your pages stay yours.
The single most common question screenwriters ask about an AI writing tool is whether the draft leaves the room. Here is the answer, in writing, before you type anything into it.
Never training data
Your drafts are not used to train any model, ours or anyone else's. There is no setting to get wrong, because there is no setting.
You pick the region
EU or US data residency, chosen per account. Storage, backups and processing stay in the region you selected.
Export is not a hostage negotiation
PDF and Fountain out at any time, including the full version history. Cancel the account and the export still works.
Nothing is quietly lost
Every draft is versioned. You can read any earlier page, compare two drafts side by side, and restore one without losing the other.
Most screenwriting software is a typewriter with a spellchecker.
Formatting has been a solved problem since 1991. What has not been solved is software that understands the thing it is formatting.
| Typewrite | Final Draft | WriterDuet | Celtx | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formats as you type | ||||
| Real-time collaboration | ||||
| Board, outline and script as one document | ||||
| AI that reads the whole draft | ||||
| Breakdown generated from the script | ||||
| Free for students |
Check mark: available. Dash: partial, limited to a tier or an add-on. Cross: not available. Compared against publicly documented features, last reviewed July 2026.
Early access pricing, locked.
Wave 01 opens in September 2026. Whatever you pay then is what you keep paying, including after general availability raises the list price.
One project, the full editor, PDF export. Not a trial and not time-limited.
Start freeUnlimited projects, the reader, Characterbook and breakdown, full version history.
Join wave 01Everything in Writer, plus the writers' room: shared drafts, live notes, per-seat roles.
Join wave 01Students write free, permanently, with a valid enrolment. No credit card and no expiry date.
Screenwriting software stopped being ambitious in 1991. We are not asking for permission to restart it.
Read the long versionTypewrite — Milan · Los Angeles
Before you hand over a draft.
No. Your drafts are never used as training data for our models or anyone else's, on any plan including the free one. Prompts and outputs are retained only long enough to deliver the response, and you can choose EU or US data residency for everything stored on your account.
FDX import is on the roadmap and not promised for launch. Fountain import and export work today and round-trip cleanly, so if you need to move a script now, that is the reliable path. We would rather ship FDX properly than ship it broken and lose your formatting on the way in.
Only if you ask it to, and only a line at a time. The default is a reader, not a ghostwriter: it tracks your characters, flags where a scene contradicts an earlier one, and answers questions about the draft. It can be turned off entirely, and the editor is a complete product without it.
Your scripts stay readable and exportable. You drop to the free tier, keep access to every draft you wrote, and can export all of them as PDF or Fountain with the full version history. We do not lock pages behind a lapsed subscription.
Wave 01 opens in September 2026, with general availability in the Q4 2026 to Q1 2027 window. Waves are small on purpose — we would rather onboard a few hundred writers who get answered within a day than a few thousand who do not.
A founder with a name, a screenwriting background and a public changelog, currently between Milan and Los Angeles. Typewrite began during a screenwriting semester at NABA and was first tested by classmates who had pages due. You can email a human and get a human back.
Fade out.
The next draft is going to happen anyway.
Join wave 01 and write it somewhere that keeps up with you.