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Story Beats

Scrite bundles a few story structure templates in Scriptalay, which are listed on the Home Screen as soon as you launch Scrite. These templates offer a predefined set of index cards on the structure canvas tagged with beats from a story structure. For instance, the “Hero’s Journey” template, when opened, looks like this: Notice how […]

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Index Card Fields

In an early version of Scrite, index cards on the structure canvas featured additional fields, as advised by Blake Snyder in his book “Save The Cat”. Soon after we released that version, we got a lot of backlash from writers who don’t prefer using ideas from “Save the Cat” for structuring their screenplays. Later, we […]

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Software Update

New Home Screen

The latest nightly builds of Scrite feature a new “Home Screen” dialog box, which is shown right after the app is launched. This one screen packs so many options yet isn’t overwhelming to the user. We believe options are easier to find here. For first-time users of Scrite, the screen displays all templates in one […]

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What is Blake Snyder’s Save The Cat Beat Sheet (with Examples)

Story frameworks help you map out your myriad ideas into a screenplay. In the year 2005, Blake Snyder famously introduced a 15 point beat sheet in his book book “Save The Cat”. It provides a set of 15 clearly defined elements that every screenplay should have. Additionally it also specifies what page or page range […]

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Help! Scrite is crashing all the time 😰

It has come to our attention that Version 0.9.4a and a few other versions before that have an issue. Many users have complained that the app doesn’t launch anymore even after updating it several times. This issue has been discussed on Discord in this thread and two solutions have been presented. These solutions have already […]

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Nightly Builds

The Scrite app is currently in beta, and we are preparing to take it to a 1.0 alpha stage. During this time, we publish two kinds of releases Public Beta Releases – these are founds in the downloads section. Nightly Beta Releases – these are found in a separate nightly builds folder on OneDrive. Generally […]

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Version 0.9.4 Beta Released

We have just released an update to Scrite. This time we decided to not get very ambitious in terms of features, but to simply focus on bug fixes and stability. In this page we outline all the changes in this version. But if you just want to grab the update, then head to Download / […]

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Media, Reviews & Blogs

Screenwriting Mentor’s Paul Reviews Scrite

Paul hosts a YouTube channel on which he reviews screenwriting apps among other things. The channel is called Screenwriting Mentor (formerly Small Town Movie Critic). In addition to publishing a review, Paul has also published another video about his first impressions.

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Configuring Watermarks

One of the most frequently asked questions about Scrite is this: “Can I turn off or change the watermark?” The answer is YES, and in this article we will show you how. Table Of Contents Default Watermark Settings By default, all PDFs generated using Scrite carry a watermark that reads “Scrite” in the middle of […]

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Version 0.9.3 Now Available

Get ready for an exciting new year with the latest update to the 0.9 series! It’s been three months since version 0.9.2 was released, and we’ve added a host of new features and squashed some pesky bugs. Download / Upgrade to version 0.9.3 beta now! If you have any questions or comments, please reach out […]