Everything a script needs, before and after FADE IN.
Most screenwriting software is a very good typewriter. Quilva is that — and the corkboard, the whiteboard, the story bible and the print shop around it.
Script mode — correct by default
A rigid, purpose-built screenplay editor that keeps you in the flow. You think about the scene; Quilva thinks about margins, capitals and element order.
- Tab cycles Scene Heading → Action → Character → Dialogue
- Enter is context-smart; Shift+Enter drops in a parenthetical
- Scene headings and character names auto-capitalise and autocomplete
- Courier Prime plus six script faces on the same metric — one page, one minute
- Up to four versions of every scene, each with its own status
Final Draft — a real two-way bridge
Quilva reads and writes Final Draft's own structure rather than guessing at it. The Story Map's act and sequence strips become your outline; your outline goes back out as clean, non-overlapping strips.
- File → Import → Final Draft Script, with a guided wizard
- Acts, sequences, scene names and synopses come across
- ScriptNotes become Quilva comments, anchored to the exact words
- Export back to .fdx with title page and SmartType filled in
- Fountain import and export for plain-text workflows
Planner — beat it out
Your corkboard and index cards, without the pins. Spread beats across the table, colour-code them by thread or character, and rearrange the whole second act with a drag.
- Colour-coded cards with icons and tags for every beat
- A free Work Area for scenes that don't have a home yet
- Stacks to drop in whole structures at once
- Rename the levels — Screenplay → Act → Sequence → Scene
Timeline — A, B and C stories
Lay your threads out like an editor's timeline. See where the B-story goes quiet for twenty pages, where two arcs collide, and test a restructure without touching the script.
- Parallel tracks for plot, subplots and character arcs
- Tag-driven strips that organise themselves
- As many timelines as you need — by character, location, theme
Atlas — your series bible
Characters, locations and organisations with rich profiles — and Quilva tracks every appearance across the script, so you always know when you last saw someone.
- Profiles for every character, location and thread
- Appearances tracked across scenes, acts and whole series
- Icons that follow a character through the planner and Compass
Publisher — from draft to reader
Clean screenplay PDFs on A4 or US Letter in a click, plus the documents that get a project read: a treatment, a reading copy for notes, and the formats producers ask for.
- Screenplay PDFs with title page — Quick Publish with Ctrl+P
- Final Draft (.fdx) and Fountain export
- Treatment export — a polished PDF overview of your structure for pitches
- A single web page for readers, who can add comments you import straight back
