The popular – and feature-filled – OS X application Scrivener has been dancing with the thought of an official Linux release for over a year. As a film-maker myself I’m all to aware of this. There are a dearth of decent screenwriting applications available for Linux. Sadly no-one picked up the coding mantel, and so the application wandered off into the dusty desert of forgotten-about-ware… This gesture, it was hoped at the time, would see the Blyte updated and maintained by the community. Now called Trelby the app has a new developer at its helm and a new release ready for download.īlyte, as it was then known, was open sourced in 2006 after disappointing sales of the commercial application dissuaded the developer from continuing work on it. Yes, after five long years of no development, the film-making friendly tool has been unexpectedly resurrected like many a film franchise. Both offer different pricing models depending on which features you need.It might sound like the sequel to a film you never knew existed, but after five long years in the wilderness open-source screenwriting software ‘Blyte’ is back from the dead. If you're looking for something that offers more bells and whistles for story development – like call sheets, storyboards, and shooting schedules – then you might want to investigate Celtx and StudioBinder. Most of the programmes mentioned in this post are pure scriptwriting software.
Think about how much you're going to be using your scriptwriting software (do you just need it for a one-off stage play?) and factor that into your decision-making. However, if you pay £89 per year for WriterDuet, it'll be more expensive than Final Draft when you use it for three years on the trot. With a one-time fee of $249.99, Final Draft looks like a pretty expensive option. If you plan on using your scriptwriting software for a few years, it's important to think about the long-term costs of whichever screenwriting program you go for. So if you only use it for three days in a month, you'll have 27 days left ( more info). Scrivener lets you try the product for 30 days of actual use.
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