Comments on: Screenplay

By: Stewart McKie

Stewart McKie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:18:08 +0000

This will be a great app for the Apple Tablet. While I’m not sure I want to write a full screenplay on my phone I think it’s a great tool for scenewriting as opposed to screenwriting.

My suggestion for the way to develop this further is to concentrate on sharing and feedback. If I write a quick scene draft in Starbucks, it would be good to have a quick way to share it with a mate who could view it on their phone and easily respond with some ‘first-take’ feedback. Tis feedback is winged back to me and attached to my scene.

What would be really cool is if this feedback was recorded as a verbal note rather than requiring my mate to type it. This way I can ‘crowdsource’ my new scene quickly and easily and take better advantage of the connectivity and verbal paradigm of the iphone.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:20:19 +0000

any more codes left?

By: MacF

MacF — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:11:35 +0000

Nice. Final Draft should have made this. Or at least buy them!

so… Does in also IMPORT final draft docs? .fdr/.fdx?

So if I’m working on a script; can I switch between FD and Screenplay without ANY loss of lay-out?

That would really be the best selling point for me.

Anyone?

Thanks in advance.

By: Johnmonk66

Johnmonk66 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:00:03 +0000

I don’t take the reviews of serious screenwriters seriously, I look to my fellow wannabe’s. I paid 300 dollars back in the day for Final Draft and never regretted it. This Iphone app is the closest thing to FD I have seen, and its on my phone!!!
Sure lots of people say you can’t write a whole screenplay on it, but I say, “why not”? If you write more than 5 good pages a day you are doing well, and I can fill 5 pages on my phone in an hour when I am rough writing.
I find this to be the best iphone app ever, and if a new version came out that could import current works, and if the developer wanted 50 bucks for it, I would gladly pay it.
Yes everyone, a properly formatted screenplay writing program for three dollars, it’s the best thing ever….for me.

By: Ashton

Ashton — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:46:14 +0000

Well, I downloaded this, and it’s neat, but it really lacks polish. The fact that it doesn’t use the autocomplete dictionary makes it slower to use than notepad for typing up ideas.

The inability to delete a character, even if that character no longer has any lines, was annoying, especially since it’s easy to accidentally create a character.

The shake to undo feature pops up, but doesn’t seem to actually undo formatting changes.

Overall, I’d say it has potential, but it’s got a fair ways to go before being something I’d use regularly.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:21:36 +0000

Pete, I have the App. It exports as a text file which you then email to yourself. I use Final Draft on my desktop and by opening the text file within Final Draft it retains all the formatting, no problems.

Cheers

By: pete

pete — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:08:42 +0000

TJ – what file type does this app use? Can you export or convert the screenplay files to PDFs, Final Draft, or Rich Text? This seems crucial for people who’d be using this app in conjunction with their projects on their desktop/laptop.

By: Yardyy

Yardyy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:47:07 +0000

Thanks for your all your info, maybe Apple will change thier policy soon.
I wonder if it could be that in the UK its still a growing market and they dont want to discount further.

By: Michael (Admin)

Michael (Admin) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:32:58 +0000

Yeah it’s too bad Apple only does promo codes for U.S. (yet another reason for the world to hate us!!) but I think it’s only a matter of time before the system spreads to other countries.

Ideally promo codes would be global, but Apple must have had some reason to not go that route already. There’s probably some international software licensing limitation that none of us knows anything about.

By: T. J. Brumfield

T. J. Brumfield — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:33:05 +0000

I asked a European developer, and apparently Apple only issues US promo codes I’m sorry to report.

You can certainly contact Apple and ask them to reconsider this policy however.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:52:30 +0000

I purchased the product yesterday and have already started writing a screenplay I had in mind. Very easy to use. I was laying in bed writing away in the dark at 1am in the morning. I haven’t tried the export feature yet but will soon. Great idea and great first start! Looking forward to the updates with the importing feature :-)

By: Yardyy

Yardyy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:12:24 +0000

Thanks looking forward to it very soon.