Question 1

What is Pagefurl?

Accepted Answer

A writing app for screenwriters and novelists. It lays out your whole story as one picture (the spine, the act cards, the sequences and the scenes) with a full page editor one click away.

Question 2

Is the screenplay format industry standard?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Scene headings, action, characters, dialogue, parentheticals and transitions follow the standard layout, and the PDF export is checked against the rules of the Nicholl Fellowships, the Austin Film Festival and Sundance.

Question 3

Can I write a novel in it?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Choose Novel when you begin and you get chapters and sections in standard manuscript format, with a word count in place of a page count.

Question 4

Can I bring in a script I already have?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Import Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain, Highland, Word, PDF, Markdown or plain text, into the whole story or into a single act.

Question 5

Which story structures are built in?

Accepted Answer

Start from four act cards or pick a structure: Three act, Save the Cat, Hero’s journey, Seven-point, the eight-sequence approach or Kishōtenketsu.

Question 6

What does it cost?

Accepted Answer

14 days free, no card needed. Then €12 a month or €96 a year. The first 100 subscribers keep a founding price of €72 a year for as long as they stay subscribed.

Question 7

What happens to my work if I stop paying?

Accepted Answer

Nothing is deleted. You can still open, read and export everything. Export is always free.

Question 8

Who owns what I write?

Accepted Answer

You do. Your writing is stored only to run the app for you. It is never sold, never published and never used to train AI models.

Question 9

What do I need to run it?

Accepted Answer

A modern browser on a Mac, a Windows PC or a Chromebook. You can also install Pagefurl from the browser as an app with its own icon.