Malayalam & English, mixed freely
Three built-in input schemes — Mozhi (phonetic), Inscript 1, and Inscript 2. No OS keyboard setup needed. Mix Malayalam and English on the same line.
Scriptty.
A free, offline screenwriting app for Malayalam & English writers. Hollywood single-column & Indian two-column formats, built-in Malayalam input, production-ready PDFs.
Malayalam screenwriters have always had to choose between two compromises — write in a tool built for Latin scripts and fight every mixed-script line, or use a generic word processor and lose the formatting that makes a screenplay readable on set.
Scriptty is the third option. The editor speaks screenplay, not "rich text" — every element has its own behaviour, its own keyboard shortcut, its own typography. Malayalam input is built in, so you toggle scripts mid-sentence with Ctrl+Space and never leave the page.
Why Scriptty
Built for how screenwriters actually work.
Hollywood or Indian two-column
Write in standard Hollywood single-column. Export as Indian two-column for production teams who want dialogue and translation side by side.
Fully offline. Yours.
Zero network calls at runtime. Your screenplays live on your machine as
.screenplay files. No cloud, no account, no telemetry.
One file, three lenses
Writing view with scene annotations in the margin. Cards view as a typeset shooting-script tear sheet. Story view for Idea, Synopsis, Treatment, and Narrative.
Multi-episode, one file
An IDE-style episode explorer with per-episode status, drag-to-reorder, and an Episode Breakout view that drills from a series overview into each episode's scenes.
Plan the shoot, not just the script
Tag each scene with a location group and a shoot date. Export a Daily Shoot List PDF — scenes grouped by day & location with industry-standard page-eighths totals.
An editorial-grade printed page
Title page, prose covers, and scene cards share one masthead vocabulary. Per-section page numbering, transition widow control, full-width production cards, Compact card-view export.
A smart, restrained editor
Auto-uppercase scene headings & characters. Malayalam-aware autocomplete. Smart curly quotes. Adjustable editor font size. Paste a plain-text draft and watch it become a properly formatted screenplay.
Autosave that survives a crash
Background autosave to a hidden recovery file. If the app or your machine crashes, the next launch offers to restore your unsaved work — even an unsaved new document survives a power loss.
Imports Fountain and Final Draft
Co-writers' .fountain and .fdx hand-offs flow in through one
Import Screenplay… wizard. Round-trip-aware Fountain export sends
them back without silent data loss. Per-episode Fountain export for series.
Quick reference
A pocket guide.
Three columns covering the editor, the production prep, and the file/output side. Full manual lives inside the app under Help.
The editor
Element navigation
The editor cycles through six element types via Tab and Enter.
- Scene Heading → Enter → Action
- Action → Tab → Character
- Character → Enter → Dialogue
- Anywhere → Shift+Enter → new Scene Heading
- Anywhere → Cmd+Shift+T → Transition
Malayalam input
Ctrl+Space toggles English ↔ Malayalam mid-sentence. Three schemes — Mozhi, Inscript 2, Inscript 1.
Smart features
Smart curly quotes. Character autocomplete after 2 characters (Malayalam-aware). Auto-uppercase for scene headings and character cues.
Production
Scene cards
Each card carries description, shoot notes, extras list, location group, and shoot date. Cmd+Shift+K opens the Cards view.
Daily Shoot List
From the Export modal, pick Daily Shoot List for a per-day production report — scenes grouped by date & location with page-eighths totals.
Statistics
Cmd+Shift+I opens five views — Overview, Characters, Locations, Schedule, Episodes — with sortable columns and CSV export.
Web series
Cmd+Shift+N creates a new series file. Each episode has its own metadata, scene cards, and story sections.
Files & output
The .screenplay format
Plain JSON. Human-readable. Open it in any text editor if you ever need to.
Import
-
Fountain (
.fountain) — Highland, Slugline, Beat, WriterDuet hand-offs. Round-trip aware: synopses, sections, inline notes, and non-standard title-page keys re-emit on Fountain export. -
Final Draft (
.fdx) — XML format from FD 8 onwards. Six native paragraph types map directly; bold / italic / underline runs preserve as marks; dual dialogue collapses to sequential pairs; revisions and locked numbers drop with a summary toast. - Both flows pick film-or-episode destination via a single File → Import Screenplay… wizard.
Export
- PDF — Hollywood or Indian, with optional Title page, Synopsis, Treatment, Narrative, Scene Cards, Daily Shoot List sections
- Fountain — plain text format compatible with Highland, Slugline, Beat, WriterDuet, and Fade In. Series projects can export one file per episode.
- Plain text — formatted .txt with proper indentation
Autosave & recovery
A hidden recovery file is updated as you type. Survives crashes and power loss.
v0.10.0
What's new.
Final Draft (.fdx) import
Co-writers handing off Final Draft files now flow into Scriptty as a film or as a new episode of an open series. Six paragraph types map directly; bold / italic / underline runs preserve as inline marks; dual-dialogue blocks collapse to sequential pairs; revisions, locked numbers, script notes, and tagging drop with a summary toast that tells you exactly what was transformed or dropped.
Round-trip-safe Fountain import
The earlier release added Fountain import; this one closes the loop. Synopses absorb
into scene-card descriptions, sections attach to the next scene's shoot notes with a
depth marker, inline notes attach to the containing scene, and non-standard
title-page keys round-trip via a hidden extra map. A co-writer can edit
your Fountain in Scriptty and send it back without silent data loss.
One designed import surface
Both formats live behind a single File → Import Screenplay… wizard
— pick the format and where it lands (new film or new episode of an active series).
The standard Cmd+O Open dialog also accepts .fountain and
.fdx directly.
Production planning, end to end
Scene cards carry a location group, shoot date, and extras. Daily Shoot List PDF groups scenes by day & location with industry-standard page-eighths. Statistics adds Schedule and Episodes views with sortable columns and CSV export.
Editorial-grade PDF redesign
Title page, prose covers, and scene-card / shoot-list openers share one masthead vocabulary. Per-section page numbering. Transition widow control. Courier Prime now bundled into every PDF.
Episode Breakout view
For series projects: a top-level card per episode with a scene preview list. Click an episode to drill into its scenes. IDE-style explorer with per-episode status, drag-to-reorder, hover-rename.
Paste to Screenplay
Drop plain text into the editor and Scriptty converts it into a properly formatted screenplay — Hollywood-style detection plus a Malayalam-aware character-cue path.
Autosave & crash recovery
Background autosave to a hidden recovery file. Survives crashes and power loss. A normal save clears it.
Behind Scriptty
Credits & thanks.
Built by
- Hrishikesh Bhaskaran stultus.in
- Hiran Venugopalan hiran.in
- Abraham Joseph dreamingnomad@gmail.com
Inputs & feedback
- Aashiq Abu Filmmaker
- Sijith Vijayakumar
Contribute
Scriptty is open source under the MIT license. Bugs, feature ideas, and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.