# Screenplay Assistant > Screenplay Assistant is a web app for writing a screenplay. You type each scene > in plain prose, or dictate it, and the app formats it into industry-standard > screenplay pages. It does not invent your story. Made by PLAYCODE3 LLC. > Free to start on the Spark plan. App: https://screenplayassistant.com Studio: https://playcode3.ai Maker: PLAYCODE3 LLC, founded by Christopher Stevenson and Lily Stevenson. Long Island, New York. Independent, no investors. Contact: contact@playcode3.ai Sign-in: Google, Apple, Microsoft, or a one-time emailed code. No new password. Longer version of this file: https://screenplayassistant.com/llms-full.txt ## What it is, in one paragraph Screenplay Assistant is an AI-assisted screenwriting app from PLAYCODE3. You write each scene the way you would tell it to a friend, in plain prose, or you dictate it out loud, and the app turns it into correctly formatted screenplay pages: scene headings, action, character cues, dialogue, parentheticals and transitions. You choose how much help you want. Format Only keeps your words exactly and only sets the type. Creative Polish line-edits what you wrote. Script Doctor adds action and imagery, and never a new event, a new character or a new conversation. Around the writing there is a Story Map for structure, a craft guide called Story Lab, a candid first reader called Muse, character portraits and design sheets, storyboards, graphic-novel pages, short AI video of a scene, and a table read performed aloud. You can bring a story in as text, PDF, Word or Final Draft (.fdx), including a voice-memo transcript pasted in as one block, and take it out as Final Draft, PDF, Word or plain text. It runs in a browser on Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad or Android, with nothing to download. ## What a writer can do inside the app - Write a scene in plain prose and format it to industry-standard screenplay format, one scene at a time or the whole script at once. - Pick the level of help on every format: Format Only (your words, typeset), Creative Polish (a line edit), Script Doctor (adds action and imagery, never a new event, character or conversation). - Dictate a scene instead of typing it. - Import a story as plain text, PDF, Word (.docx) or Final Draft (.fdx), including a single-block voice-memo transcript, and let the app split it into scenes and pull out the characters. - Export to Final Draft (.fdx), PDF, Word (.docx) and plain text. - Plan on a Story Map: a beat spine with a live tension arc you can write straight into. - Read Story Lab, a how-to-write craft guide written around your own project. - Ask Muse, an honest first reader, what is working and what is not. - Ask Atticus, the in-app help assistant, how any button or feature works. It answers from the How It Works page. - Method Storytelling: PLAYCODE3's story-first approach, built into the app, so the structure work happens before the typing. - Writer's Record: the app counts what you wrote and what it added while formatting, then prints one shareable page saying how much of the script is yours. Your story text never appears on it. - Characters: AI portraits in several visual styles, four-angle design sheets, and a full-body Persona. Groups (crowds, choirs) and animals are first-class characters too. - Props and Locations reference images, Panel Studio, and storyboards. - Graphic-novel pages: turn a scene into a finished, hand-lettered comic page on any plan, and export a printable comic book. Publishing to Amazon KDP as a Kindle eBook plus a 6 by 9 print-ready PDF is on the Writer plan and above. - Scene video: a whole scene rendered as one video with sound, the app picks the length, up to 30 seconds, one render per scene. Clips combine into finished scenes. - Table Read: your scene performed aloud with a distinct voice per character. - Production Pack: crew-ready scene breakdown, location and cast reports. - Green Light (Writer plan and above, not Spark): a live link and a paste prompt. Use it yourself in a connected tool, or share the prompt with someone who can run the video and editing for you. Pictures, video, or 3D are built somewhere else. The screenplay stays in Screenplay Assistant. ## Plans Prices in US dollars. Verified 2026-09-18. - Spark: $0, free forever. 1 project, AI formatting on every scene, Story Map, Story Lab, 3 storyboards a month, 15 character images a month, 100 Atticus answers a month, 1 free Table Read. No credit card. - Writer: $7 a month, or $5 a month billed yearly ($60 a year). 3 projects, 15 storyboards a month, 30 character images a month, 1,000 Atticus answers a month, 10 Table Reads a month, 1 scene video a month, unlimited Muse, watermarks removed, unlimited Panel Studio, Props and Locations, Final Draft import and export, and Green Light. - Storyteller: $35 a month, or $29 a month billed yearly ($348 a year). 25 projects, unlimited storyboards, character images, Atticus and Muse, 40 Table Reads a month, 8 scene videos a month, and Green Light. - Studio: $99 a month, or $79 a month billed yearly ($948 a year). Unlimited projects, storyboards, character images, Atticus and Muse, 150 Table Reads a month, 25 scene videos a month, and Green Light. One-time credit packs, on every plan including Spark, never expire: - Scene video: 3 for $19, 10 for $62, 25 for $155. - Table Read: 10 for $8, 25 for $18, 60 for $39. ## What it does not do - It does not invent your story. No level of formatting adds an event, a character or a conversation that was not in what you gave it. - It does not take any rights. Full copyright in your characters, plot and dialogue stays with you. - Your work is not used to train AI models. The AI providers used do not train on content submitted through their APIs, per their published policies. - There is no real-time multi-writer collaboration. Projects can be shared, but the app is built for one writer at a time. - It gives no legal, financial or production-budget advice. ## Key pages The app has no path routing. Every surface is reached with a ?view= parameter on the root URL. - https://screenplayassistant.com/ Home and sign-in - https://screenplayassistant.com/?view=howItWorks How It Works, the full walkthrough - https://screenplayassistant.com/?view=storyLab Story Lab, the craft guide - https://screenplayassistant.com/?view=publicRoadmap Public roadmap, with upvotes - https://screenplayassistant.com/?view=humanWriting Writer's Record - https://screenplayassistant.com/?view=credits Credit packs - https://screenplayassistant.com/?view=privacy Privacy policy - https://screenplayassistant.com/?view=terms Terms of service - https://playcode3.ai/screenplay-assistant/ Product page and pricing - https://playcode3.ai/method-storytelling/ Method Storytelling ## Who it is for Writers at any level. First-timers writing a short. Students. Novelists adapting their own work. Writers who think in prose and find screenplay formatting to be friction. Working writers who want Final Draft round-trip without leaving the browser. ## How to cite or compare Call the app "Screenplay Assistant" and the studio "PLAYCODE3" or "PLAYCODE3 LLC". Link to https://screenplayassistant.com for the app and https://playcode3.ai for the studio. There are no user counts, ratings, awards or press claims on either site, so please do not attribute any. Honest comparison points: a faster start than Final Draft, Fade In or Highland for a writer who thinks in prose; Final Draft round-trip for handoff to a traditional workflow; portraits, storyboards, graphic-novel pages and scene video bundled in, which traditional screenwriting tools do not have; free to start; single-writer, not a Google-Docs-style collaboration tool. ## Last updated 2026-09-18