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Released November 8, 2026 · Download the latest version

Highlights

Your page count, the way the industry counts it. Inkwell now lays out every page the way Final Draft does: 54 lines to a page, dialogue that continues with (MORE) and (CONT’D), and headings that never get stranded at the bottom. On real scripts we tested, Inkwell’s page count now lands within about 3% of Final Draft’s. Your script’s page count may change after you update. That’s expected: it’s now the number a producer or a contest will see. Try Quill before you sign up. Quill, the optional writing partner, now gives you three free questions with no account. If you like it, create a free account and your conversation comes with you.

New

  • Three free questions for Quill, no account needed. Open Quill and ask away. When you’re done, sign up or sign in right in the panel, and your conversation and any unsent question carry over.
  • Ask Quill about a passage. Select some text, right-click, and choose Ask Quill About This. Quill opens with the passage quoted, ready for your question. Nothing is sent until you add one.
  • Notes on a script you just brought in. After you import a Final Draft, Fountain or PDF script, Inkwell offers to ask Quill for notes on it. Dismiss it if you’d rather not.
  • Suggestions that fit your script. On a blank page, Quill suggests ways to get started. Once you’ve written something, its suggested questions use your own characters’ names. Click one to ask it.

Improved

  • Pages that match Final Draft. Scene headings, character names and parentheticals stay with what follows them. Transitions never start a page. Long speeches split between sentences, with (MORE) at the bottom and NAME (CONT’D) at the top of the next page. Dual dialogue sits side by side. You’ll see the same pages in the editor, in exported PDFs and in Quick Look previews.
  • Signing in waits for you. If you’re creating an account and checking your email, Inkwell keeps waiting instead of giving up after a minute and a half. You can reopen the browser or cancel at any time.
  • A cleaner page by default. Authorship colors are now off by default. Turn them on from View ▸ Show Authorship to see which text came from Quill or was pasted in. Inkwell keeps track either way, so turning it on shows everything.

Fixed

  • Fountain shortcuts work everywhere. Lines that start with Fountain’s markers, like > FADE OUT., .FLASHBACK or @McCLANE, now become a transition, scene heading or character name when Quill writes them or when you paste them, just as they do when you type them.
  • Dialogue reads the same everywhere. Typing a script and opening the same script from a Fountain file now agree on what’s dialogue, including speeches around lyrics and section headings.