About

Scrite makes screenwriting fun, engaging and productive. Since its public beta launch in April 2020, over 45000 users from all over the world have used the app.

Since starting the paid subscription plans in January 2025, close to 18000 people have started their free trial and many of them have subscribed to a paid subscription plan.

People

Prashanth started development of Scrite when Prime Minister Modi announced 21 days lockdown on 24th March 2020. Within three weeks, on 17th April 2020, a beta was made publicly available. Early adopters and beta testers provided a lot of feedback that helped shape the development of the app. Though the app continued to be in beta until January 2025, it was already usable and was actively used by many professional and hobby screenwriters across the world. Many of the films you watch today are written in Scrite.

Surya, a film maker by profession and UI designer by practice, joined the team in mid 2020 and has since been responsible for the visual design of Scrite.

Punit, a consultant in the film industry by profession who had his own ideas for building a platform for screenwriters, joined the team in late 2020 and has since been showcasing Scrite to key influencers in the country and is helping shape the course for Scrite to grow beyond just being an app, and into a platform.

Scrite’s source code is publicly available on GitHub under the GPL-3.0 license, meaning anyone can view, study, and modify it. The codebase remains fully open source, even though the officially distributed apps operate on a freemium model.

Scrite was started by Prashanth as a hobby project under TERIFLIX, which has since been closed. VCreate Logic, Prashanth‘s software services company, took on the commercial operations to validate the market. With that validation behind us, Scrite’s commercial operations have now moved to IEDN Technologies, a newly incorporated company with Prashanth and Punit as directors, marking the beginning of its next chapter as a fully incorporated business.