Method Storyteller
Screenwriting that formats itself.
Tab and Enter move between scene heading, action, character and dialogue; pages break the way a production expects; Fountain is the native file, and .fdx files open and save.
Open-source tools for making films, from the first draft to the last shoot day.
Write the script, read it anywhere, schedule it and budget it, in free apps that run on your own computer and keep your work in open files.
- Write Method Storyteller
- Read Method Reader
- Schedule Method Schedule
- Budget Method Budget
The apps
Method Reader
Screenplay PDFs into e-books and editable scripts.
Turn a script PDF into an e-book that reflows on a Kindle or any e-reader with the script's shape intact, and send it straight to the device. Or get the script back to edit, as Fountain or .fdx. Formerly Screepub.
Method Schedule
Film and TV scheduling, from script to stripboard.
Breakdown, stripboard, calendar, day out of days and reports, in open files on your own computer. Hands its shoot days straight to Method Budget.
Method Budget
Film and TV budgeting that shows its working.
Topsheet to detail, fringes, globals, versions and compare, and an explanation for every number. Opens the budgets other tools export.
Open, all the way down
Your computer, your files
Every app runs on your own machine and works offline. Nothing about your production is uploaded anywhere.
Open formats
Scripts are Fountain, budgets and schedules are documented text files you can read, diff and keep in version control.
Free and open source
MIT or Apache-2.0, on GitHub, with every decision written down in each repo.