Beat - Free Editor for Creative Fiction Writers in macOS
Beat is a free and open-source simple and elegant screenwriting app for macOS, using the plain-text Fountain screenplay format. It's fast, lightweight and, above all, has a distraction-free, minimalistic UI.
Features
- Minimalistic UI with as little distractions as possible
- Smart, automatic screenplay formatting
- Multiple story structure views with filtering, sections and synopses, including a collapsing list, index cards and timeline
- Dark mode for the children of the night
- Hide Fountain markup
- Final Draft import / export, including revisions, outline items and soon tags
- Title page editor
- JavaScript plugin API
- Automatic scene numbering
- Page numbers and separators
- Revision generation management
- Autocompletion for characters and scene headings
- Color-coded scenes
- Statistics view, with line count per character, inclusivity by gender, scene locations, etc.
- Fountain QuickLook plugin for Finder
- Backup vault
- ... and many more!
License
Beat is free and open source under GPL.
Resources & Downloads
- Home
- Download for macOS from the Mac App Store
- Source-code (Github)
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elegant screenwriting app for macOS and iOS – free and open source!
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Beat is an elegant screenwriting app with focus on story structure. It has as little distractions as possible to let you concentrate on writing. The app was created by a screenwriter for other screenwriters. Beat lets you write in a flow. Just start typing and let Beat take care of the formatting.…
GitHub - lmparppei/Beat: Beat - a simple and elegant screenwriting app for macOS
Beat - a simple and elegant screenwriting app for macOS - lmparppei/Beat
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