Released September 26, 2026 · Download the latest version
Highlights
The big one is Authorship: Inkwell now keeps track of which words you typed, which came from Quill, and which you pasted in from somewhere else — and can show you, at a glance, how much of a page is actually yours. It is off until you turn it on, it never touches your file, and it never leaves your Mac. Alongside it, two new reading tools for your action lines. Production Highlight tints the things a breakdown cares about — characters, props, animals, vehicles, sounds. Style Check underlines the writing habits that slow a page down, with a reason attached to each one. And if you import from PDF, this release stops Final Draft’s exports from inventing characters that were never in the script.New
- Authorship. See which words are yours, which are Quill’s, and which were pasted in. Turn the tint on from the Focus menu, and open the word count in the status bar for a breakdown by characters and percentage. Use Mark As in the right-click menu to correct anything Inkwell got wrong, and Paste as Me (⇧⌥⌘V) when you are pasting your own writing back in.
- Production Highlight. Tints characters, props, animals, vehicles and sounds inside action lines, so a page reads the way a breakdown reads. Each category has its own switch, and ⌃⇧⌘D turns the whole thing on and off. Nothing is written to your script — it is paint on the page, and exports never see it.
- Style Check. Dotted underlines under passive voice, adverbs, unfilmables, over-long action and speeches, and words you just repeated. Hover any one of them for the reason. Also switchable per category.
- A Focus menu of its own. Focus Mode (⌘D), how much stays lit — the paragraph, the element, or the scene — typewriter scrolling, and every overlay above, all in one place. The same menu is on the title bar, so you do not have to go to the menu bar to dim the page.
- Back and Forward. Go ▸ Back and Go ▸ Forward walk your jumps in order, so following an outline click or a search hit no longer loses your place.
- Screen time in the status bar. The estimated running time of the current scene, and of the whole script, without opening anything.
- Icons in the menus. Format, View, Go, Revision, Account and the right-click menu now carry symbols, so the item you want is easier to find at a glance.
Improved
- Your title page greets you. Opening a script shows the title page rather than dropping you at line one, and clicking it opens the title-page editor.
- Pasted text reads as pasted. It now carries a cool two-tone tint instead of looking greyed out, so it is clearly marked without looking disabled.
- Quill re-reads less. When it needs to look at a scene again it reads that scene, not the whole screenplay, which makes long conversations about a long script noticeably quicker.
- Character voice hints are yours to ask for. The hints that flag dialogue reading unlike a character are now off unless you turn them on, and they live in the Focus menu with the other overlays. Writing someone out of character is often the point, and the app should not have an opinion about that uninvited.
Fixed
- PDF imports stop inventing characters. Final Draft’s PDF export overprints text to fake bold, which Inkwell was reading as real characters — so scripts arrived with doubled cues and people who do not exist. Those duplicates are now recognised and dropped.
- Watermarks stay out of your script. Text watermarks that run across a page, or down the length of one, are scrubbed on import instead of landing in the middle of your action.
- Dialogue blocks survive the trip. Importing from PDF, Final Draft or Fountain no longer splits a speech into fragments.
- Character extensions survive Fountain import.
JANE (V.O.)staysJANE (V.O.), and Inkwell stops adding a second(CONT'D)to a cue that already had one. - Undo puts your selection back. Typing over a selection and then undoing restores the whole selection, not just the caret.
- Dual dialogue gets its colors. Character tinting now reaches both columns.
- Find’s character filter matches the sidebar. Filtering by character in Find now normalises cue names the same way the sidebar does, so it finds the lines you expect.