DubScript Screenplay Writer for Android™

"...great for beginning screenwriters... full-featured [and] good-looking..."
--New York Times

Designed for writers of film, TV, and online shorts, DubScript is an industry-strength, open-standard screenplay editor.

Or try the open testing version


DubScript reads Final Draft (.fdx) and plain text Fountain screenplays and outputs to PDF and Final Draft (.fdx).

Now works on Android-enabled Chromebooks!

The complete package

  • Easy plain-text format - copy/paste-able and compatible with other apps and text editors
  • Read Final Draft (.FDX), Trelby, and Fountain. Output to PDF, .FDX, HTML, or printers
  • Markdown text-format support (just open or save plain text files ending in ".md")
  • Save files to your device, cloud storage, or share with others
  • 900+ writing fonts for every writing mood and genre. PDF output is always industry standard 12 pt Courier Prime
  • Built-in Wellness Exam scans for potential Fountain/format issues, screenplay "clams", red flags, etc
  • Title page, dual-dialogue, and bold, underline, & italic
  • Character & slugline auto-suggestion, undo/redo, find/replace, copy/paste, spell-check, auto-complete, keyboard shortcuts, scene numbering, notes, and more
  • Auto-bold sluglines and transitions
  • Click-click-click...ding! Typewriter sounds
  • US Letter & A4 paper sizes
  • Locally-saved recovery backups
  • Hear your script spoken out loud
  • Statistics, scene and character reports
  • Dialogue browser
  • Compare drafts
  • Chromebook/foldables support
  • Android 16 ready

Click here for more details.

Material 3 Expressive, stability improvements, Hindi, and more coming out!

A quick heads up that a new version is rolling out-- there are TON of UI improvements built around the new Material 3 Expressive design system as well as bug fixes, stability improvements, a faster launch, and the removal of unneeded code (resulting in a smaller app!) This new version is Android 16 ready!

5-10-22 Updated Web Site!

The DubScript web site has grown a little long-in-the-tooth in the last few years. This update to the CMS should hopefully be more user-friendly with a more modern interface, and more accessible and with a better text editor! As time goes on, look forward to more changes. But for now, this should be a vast improvement!

NOTE-- there was one user who just created an account as the site was being transitioned-- to that one user, please just re-create your account on the new system and all will be good.  Thanks!

Big New Rollout, Rollin' Out!

Having completed beta testing, the "July 4th build" of DubScript, representing new exciting improvements from last year's production release, is now gradually making its way to the production track. In this new version, the code base was migrated from Java to Kotlin and reorganized, the UI was improved, many edge-case bugs were fixed, and there are brand-new features all over the place, including old style typewriter sounds when typing, Markdown formatting support (specifically the Commonmark flavor), a "Wellness Exam" (as if performed by a "script doctor", get it?) that will automatically scan your Fountain-formatted script text looking for potential formatting issues and other common "clams" and "red flags", along with suggestions for addressing them. There are 140 new writing fonts, bringing the total to over 940 fonts. And so many minor finesses and speed-ups here and there that are pretty subtle. Also the internal libraries from Google built into the app were updated to the very latest stable versions,

To try out the Markdown formatting support, just open (or create) a plain text file ending with ".md" (no quotes-- as in example.md). Be sure to read the Help & Info section for details.

New open testing version available!

Just released in the new open testing version:

✓Typewriter Sounds (Settings)
✓"Wellness Exam" automated scans for potential format issues, "clams", & red flags [beta]
✓Markdown (.md file) file format support [beta]
✓Speech now reads scene numbers out loud
✓UI improvements / new icons
✓Targets Android 4.1 -> 11
✓Internal code reorg
✓Java -> Kotlin migration
✓Smaller app
✓Library upgrades & misc. bug fixes

Biggest Update In A Year Rolling Out Now!

After dozens of beta releases, the first major release in a year is rolling out! Let's get right to the highlights!

✓ New: Dark theme (see Settings)
✓ New: Dialog browser (see Help & Info | Character Report)
✓ Refined UI, new settings screen, better "section" element view
✓ Improved pagination, speech, comments, FDX export, file size warning
✓ Android 10 ready
✓ +39 writing fonts (total: 847)
✓ Improved on Chromebook & foldables
✓ 64-bit compliant
✓ Smaller app size
✓ Misc. bug fixes & improvements

A few more details below.

New Release RC45 and New Beta RC46

After months of development, RC45 went full-release! Improvements include:

✓ Android 9 Pie support
✓ Theme improvements
✓ Better Chromebook integration
✓ Smaller install
✓ Faster performance
✓ Better support for older devices
✓ Voice-to-text now uses default system language
✓ New Jetpack/AndroidX libraries
✓ Improved stability
✓ New typefaces (808 fonts!)

Also, RC46 entered the beta channel. You'll find a new Dialog Browser to play with!

Fountain Resources

Fountain is an easier way of writing screenplays that lets you use any simple text editor.

(note- JA is a cool guy, but not affiliated with DubScript)

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