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# Inkwell
> Last updated: 2026-10-13
> The IDE for writers — AI-native screenwriting and document tools with version control, inline editing, specialist skills, and Agent Mode.
Inkwell keeps scenes, dialogue, action, revisions, and AI connected in the same writing workflow. Plot is for screenwriting; Canvas is for long-form documents.
Blog posts, help articles, glossary terms and workflow guides in each published language, the screenplay formatting reference and its articles, and the privacy and terms pages are also served as Markdown: add `.md` to the page URL (for example https://www.inkwell.software/privacy.md) or request the page with `Accept: text/markdown`.
## Use Inkwell when
- A screenwriter needs named save points, alternate draft lines, or scene- and dialogue-level change tracking.
- A writer wants AI changes proposed inside the draft for review instead of pasted into a separate chat.
- A screenwriter needs to move between Final Draft FDX, Fountain, and industry-formatted PDF with documented format boundaries.
- A writers’ room or team needs shared structured documents, a record of who changed what, and role-aware collaboration.
- A writer or researcher needs evidence-backed screenplay craft references or private browser-based analysis tools.
## Important boundaries
- The public website provides product information, research, guides, and browser-private tools. Inkwell does not advertise a public developer API or public CLI.
- Product editing, collaboration, AI skills, and Agent Mode require the authenticated Inkwell application.
- Research pages publish Inkwell's original analysis — aggregate statistics, measurements and methods — and name the source behind each figure.
- Private analysis tools process supported files in the browser and are not a substitute for human creative judgment.
## Product facts
- [Products](https://www.inkwell.software/features): Plot is the screenwriter's IDE. Canvas brings the same version control, collaboration, and agentic AI foundation to long-form work.
- [Plot import formats](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/interop): Final Draft FDX and Fountain.
- [Plot export formats](https://www.inkwell.software/pricing): PDF and Fountain on every plan; Final Draft FDX on Writer and above. Production PDF workflows are on Pro and above.
- [Version workflow](https://www.inkwell.software/learn/version-control-for-screenwriters): Save points name restorable moments, draft lines hold alternate versions, and semantic changes compare scenes and dialogue instead of raw file characters.
- [Collaboration](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/guides/collaboration): Pro supports collaboration with up to five people across a writer's projects. Team adds room-scale real-time collaboration, shared workspaces, and role-based permissions.
- [AI review behavior](https://www.inkwell.software/ai): Ghost text suggests the next phrase, Ask answers questions grounded in the draft, Inline Edit proposes alternatives for a selection, and specialist skills return findings or reviewable changes. Agent Mode works a scene or act goal on a separate draft line and returns the result for review. You accept or reject each change, or all of them.
- [Incorporate behavior](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/guides/incorporate-changes): Incorporate previews a whole-document change set and applies it after confirmation. For a focused scene experiment, use a take or Agent Mode.
- [Plans](https://www.inkwell.software/pricing): Free, Writer, Pro, and Team are the self-serve plans, with sales-assisted Enterprise available for organizations. Free includes two screenplay projects, recent version history, up to 20 AI skill passes a month, and PDF and Fountain export.
## Products
- [Plot](https://www.inkwell.software/plot): A screenplay editor with inline AI and Agent Mode. Review every AI edit, compare draft lines, import and export FDX or Fountain, and deliver a production PDF.
- [Canvas](https://www.inkwell.software/canvas): Block-based document editor with version control, AI skills, and lossless markdown — for novelists, researchers, and teams writing long.
## Start here
- [AI for screenwriters](https://www.inkwell.software/ai): Write with AI inside the screenplay: ghost text, Ask, inline editing, specialist skills, and Agent Mode for a scene or act. Accept or reject every change.
- [Help center](https://www.inkwell.software/help): Short answers for the moment you are stuck: how to do a thing in Inkwell, what a word on the screen means, and why a run did not go the way you expected.
- [Features](https://www.inkwell.software/features): Agent Mode, inline AI editing, screenplay skills, save points, alternate draft lines, collaboration, and production workflows.
- [Pricing](https://www.inkwell.software/pricing): Compare Inkwell screenwriting plans: start free, then add version control, FDX export, production tools, the most capable AI models, and room collaboration.
- [Compare screenwriting software](https://www.inkwell.software/compare): Capability-by-capability matrices for Plot and Canvas tools.
- [Screenwriting software alternatives](https://www.inkwell.software/alternatives): Advisor plus alternative pages for Final Draft, WriterDuet, Arc Studio Pro, Fade In, Celtx, Highland, and Slugline.
- [FAQ](https://www.inkwell.software/faq): Answers about Inkwell — AI skills, production workflows, education pricing, security and BYOK, WGA revision colors, Canvas, and who owns your work.
- [Resources](https://www.inkwell.software/resources): Free screenwriting tools, formatting guides, a plain-language glossary, and software comparisons — for writers finishing a draft or leaving Final Draft.
- [Screenwriting representation desk](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/screenwriting-representation): How to choose, find, query, and evaluate a screenwriting agent or manager, with links to maintained live directories instead of a copied roster.
- [AI skills](https://www.inkwell.software/skills): Run AI skills for dialogue, continuity, structure, research, coverage, rewrites, and your own custom passes. Review changes or findings inside the draft.
- [Security](https://www.inkwell.software/security): How Inkwell handles your drafts, API keys, AI requests, and account data during beta — who owns what you write, how it is encrypted, and the current limits.
- [Changelog](https://www.inkwell.software/changelog): What’s new in Plot, Canvas, and the Inkwell platform — every release grouped by product, with the change to your drafting day spelled out in plain terms.
- [Known product issues](https://www.inkwell.software/known-issues): Published product issues affecting Plot, Canvas, or the Inkwell platform — who is affected, the workaround if one exists, and where the fix currently stands.
- [Interactive ghost text demo](https://www.inkwell.software/demo): Type dialogue — pause — accept ghost completions. No account required.
- [About](https://www.inkwell.software/about): The story behind Inkwell — why we're building the IDE for writers, what developer tooling changes about creative work, and where the product goes next.
- [Contact](https://www.inkwell.software/contact): Reach the Inkwell team for product support, billing, classroom licensing, legal, and privacy — the right inbox for each, and when to expect a reply.
## Research and private tools
- [Screenplay Anatomy Atlas](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/screenplay-anatomy): Original aggregate analysis of 2,077 structured screenplays, with empirical distributions for action, scene rhythm, cast arrival, dialogue concentration, and summary compression.
- [Screenplay dialogue & speaking-cast research](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/screenplay-dialogue): Original aggregate analysis of 994 parsed IMSDb scripts — dialogue-turn concentration, raw versus effective speaking-cast size, dialogue-scene composition, turn length, and adjacent-speaker topology. A second corpus, Cornell Movie-Dialogs, agrees on the median turn length and adds separate exchange-structure, credit-position and credited-gender cuts.
- [Free screenplay dialogue & cast balance tool](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/dialogue-balance): Private browser analysis for Fountain and Final Draft. Measures speaking-character concentration and scene mix against the published dialogue corpus; does not grade dialogue or infer character importance.
- [How long should a screenplay be](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/screenplay-length): Reader bands, official contest windows, and a private FDX-forward page-count checker that uses MovieSum story words as a planning proxy — not as a measured page count.
- [How much do screenwriters make](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/screenwriter-pay): Official 2026 WGA floors for covered features, episodes, staff weeks, and High-Budget SVOD residual totals, with BLS Writers and Authors wages and WGA West aggregate earnings for context. A spec is unpaid until a sale, a hire, or a paid option; scale applies to covered work after a signatory buys or hires.
- [Free WGA minimums explorer](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/wga-minimums): Interactive lookup of published Guild floors by deal family and writing step. Not a salary calculator and not legal advice.
- [Screenplay pacing, measured](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/screenplay-pacing): How a draft distributes its length rather than how long it is — measured action share, scene density, and speaking-cast arrival across ten equal stretches of 2,077 screenplays, plus a browser-private pacing map that places one draft on the same distributions. Measures shape; does not detect beats.
- [Scene Order: A Screenwriting Revision Exercise](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/scene-order-lab): Reorder seven scenes, trace audience and character knowledge, and take a repair checklist into your next revision.
- [Formatting reference](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/screenplay-formatting): The standard screenplay format, measured: the font, the margins and where each element sits. Then format dialogue, montages, title pages and production drafts.
- [Fountain and Final Draft: what survives the move](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/interop): Element by element: what round-trips between Fountain, FDX, and Inkwell, what arrives as action, and what production state does not transfer at all.
- [Submission center](https://www.inkwell.software/resources/submissions): Current official screenplay opportunity requirements, visible freshness states, private PDF review, and application packet checklists.
- [Free screenwriting representation planner](https://www.inkwell.software/tools/representation-planner): Research one agent or manager, assemble a tailored screenplay query, prepare meeting questions, mark unresolved red flags, and export a private brief.
## Complete indexes
- [Full machine-readable content index](https://www.inkwell.software/llms-full.txt): All audience guides, learn pillars, guides, formatting situations, submission opportunities, skills, tools, comparisons, alternatives, glossary terms, blog posts, changelog entries, and every translated page.
- [XML sitemap](https://www.inkwell.software/sitemap.xml): Canonical crawl inventory with last-modified dates.
- [Guides by audience](https://www.inkwell.software/for): Screenwriting software for solo writers, writers' rooms, and showrunners; long-form writing for novelists, researchers, and students — Plot and Canvas.
- [Glossary](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary): Plain-language definitions of the screenwriting terms writers look up — slugline, spec script, beat sheet, shooting script — plus the Inkwell vocabulary.
- [Free screenplay and TV writing templates](https://www.inkwell.software/templates): Download free screenplay and TV writing templates for pilots, features, beat sheets, series bibles, coverage, rewrite plans, and table reads.
## Browser editor tools
- [Use browser editor tools](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/browser-editor-tools): Use a browser agent with native WebMCP support to read the open document, select a passage, and replace selected text.
## Languages
Inkwell's site is written in English, and some pages are also published in German (`de`), Spanish (`es`), French (`fr`), Japanese (`ja`), and Korean (`ko`). A translation lives at the English page's path under its language prefix (https://www.inkwell.software/de/tools/character-profile translates https://www.inkwell.software/tools/character-profile), and every page names its translations in `hreflang` alternates. A page without a translation is English only. The [full content index](https://www.inkwell.software/llms-full.txt) lists every translated page with its counterparts.
- [Deutsch](https://www.inkwell.software/de): German, 193 translated pages.
- [Español](https://www.inkwell.software/es): Spanish, 193 translated pages.
- [Français](https://www.inkwell.software/fr): French, 193 translated pages.
- [日本語](https://www.inkwell.software/ja): Japanese, 193 translated pages.
- [한국어](https://www.inkwell.software/ko): Korean, 193 translated pages.
