Frequently asked questions

Inkwell is an AI-native writing platform. It treats your screenplay as structured data, so you get version control with save points and draft lines, semantic change tracking, and AI skills that edit the draft — the tools that transformed software development, reimagined for writing.

Plot is the screenwriting product: a structured screenplay editor with every screenplay element type, screenplay AI passes, and the full production pipeline. It imports Fountain and FDX and exports industry-formatted PDF. Canvas is a general-purpose block editor for novels, research, and long-form documents. Both run on the same platform — version control, AI skills, and collaboration power both.

Fountain is an open, plain-text markup for screenplays. Inkwell parses it in real time so your script is structured data as you type — but you don't have to write raw Fountain. The editor handles formatting and lets you Tab between element types as you write.

Yes. Inkwell imports and exports Final Draft (FDX) and Fountain, and exports industry-formatted PDF. You can bring existing scripts in and take your work out at any time.

Plot is generally available — start free in the browser today. Canvas is in early access / beta for Pro and Team subscribers.

Yes. Open Plot in the browser, start free, invite the room with a link — nothing to install.

Yes — in active development for real offline writing. Planes, trains, dead wifi: your draft shouldn’t pause when the network does. Until it ships, the full editor is live in the browser today.

Yes. Apple apps are coming so you can read and review on the go, then edit when you’re ready — same projects as the browser and desktop, not a disposable mobile notepad. Start in the browser now; phone and tablet are next.

Inkwell's AI runs as skills — structured passes that understand screenplay structure and propose edits in the document as reviewable markup. A dialogue pass rewrites lines, a continuity check flags inconsistencies, coverage reads the draft the way a professional reader would. You accept or reject changes like any other edit, instead of copying text out of a chat panel.

No. Every skill proposes changes against a save point and shows them as a diff. Nothing is applied until you accept it — accept all, reject all, or take individual suggestions. A save point is always one step behind you.

The heart of the guild's position on AI is that the writer stays the author, using AI is the writer's choice, and AI-generated text is not treated as writing — and Inkwell is built to sit on the right side of that line. Skills only ever propose changes as a reviewable diff: the AI suggests edits, you accept or reject each one, and the draft you keep is one you approved line by line, which leaves a clear record that the writing is yours. Nothing auto-applies, you own your screenplay outright, and you decide which passes run at all — so if a room or studio sets its own AI policy, you can honour it. We do not generate whole screenplays from a prompt; passes are for craft and continuity on a script you already wrote. The revision-colour sequence and FDX/PDF handoff ship at launch, included in the paid Pro tier; the fuller printed production lifecycle — locked-page numbering and A-pages tied to save points — is on the Pro roadmap.

Only the scoped context the skill needs — typically the scenes or lines in scope for that pass, plus structured metadata the skill requires. Your full account library is not uploaded as a bundle. With bring-your-own-key, requests go to the provider account you configure.

Yes. The full WGA-standard revision colour sequence — white through tan — ships at launch, included in the paid Pro tier. Printed locked-page numbering, A-pages, and omitted-scene handling tied to save points are on the Pro production roadmap, so you'll see what changed between table read, director pass, and lock as those land.

Yes — revision mode is live today on Pro and above: lock the production draft (the White pages) and advance the WGA colour sequence pass by pass, all on the same draft line rather than a separate export folder. Printed locked-page numbering and A-pages in the exported PDF are still maturing on the roadmap.

A-pages are added scenes after a script is locked — common on set when new material is written. Revision mode on Pro and above already locks the production draft and tracks colours pass by pass; printed A-pages in the exported PDF are still maturing, and they'll sit alongside those colours so breakdown and scheduling tools get a consistent script.

Yes. Pro lets you invite up to five collaborators across your projects to work on the same screenplay. Team is built for writers' rooms — real-time collaboration, shared draft lines, shared workspaces, and role-based permissions for parallel takes without losing accountability.

Semantic change tracking shows what moved — scene by scene, line by line — not just that the file changed. On Team, collaboration surfaces who is in the document and comment threads anchor to the passage under discussion.

Breakdown reports export to PDF and CSV on Pro and above today, and revision mode — also Pro and above — locks the production draft and advances colours in the editor. Printed revision artifacts — coloured pages, revision asterisks, and A-pages in the exported PDF — are still maturing, so document exports render the current pages while the colour ledger tracks each pass. Fountain export stays available for lossless round-trip when your pipeline expects plain text.

No. Plot is for screenplays and production workflows; Canvas is for novels, research, and team documents. Both share version control and AI skills. See the audience guides at /for for screenwriters, writers' rooms, showrunners, novelists, researchers, teams, and students.

Screenplays and teleplays → Plot. Long-form documents, research, internal wikis, or team specs → Canvas (in development). Teams and writers' rooms → Team plan on /pricing. The /for hub maps each audience with workflow detail.

Notion and Google Docs excel at flexible wikis and familiar co-editing. Inkwell adds named save points, draft lines, and semantic diffs as first-class primitives — see the honest comparison on /for/teams.

Yes. Educators use Inkwell to teach Fountain literacy, formatting, and structured revision. Skills propose edits students must review — a useful default when AI is part of the assignment. Contact education@inkwell.software for classroom onboarding.

Verified students and educators receive 50% off Pro after beta. Email education@inkwell.software from your institutional address with your program details — we verify manually during beta.

Yes. Their screenplays, save points, and exports belong to them. Inkwell does not delete student work when a term ends — they can export to Fountain or PDF on any plan (FDX on Writer and above) and continue on a personal plan.

Skills run as reviewable passes — students see each suggested change and accept or reject it. That makes AI-assisted assignments auditable: you can require a dialogue pass, then grade the draft the student actually kept, not a chat transcript.

You do. Your screenplays, save points, and version history are yours. Inkwell exports to Fountain and PDF on every plan — and to FDX (Final Draft) on Writer and above — so your work is never locked in; lossless Fountain round-trip means your writing survives Inkwell.

Yes. Inkwell supports bring-your-own-key configuration so you can run skills against your own provider account, with model and key managed in settings. Hosted skill passes remain available on every plan if you prefer not to manage keys.

Your documents live in Inkwell's cloud workspace, encrypted in transit and at rest. Export anytime — Fountain and PDF on every plan, FDX (Final Draft) on Writer and above — so your master copy does not depend on staying subscribed.

No. Your scripts are not used to train foundation models. Skill passes send scoped context to the provider you authorize (Inkwell-hosted or your own key) and return suggestions — they do not opt your work into a training corpus.

You can request account deletion by contacting privacy@inkwell.software. We remove workspace data per our privacy policy and confirm when deletion is complete.

Enterprise and studio teams can request a security overview by emailing team@inkwell.software. During beta we answer directly — formal SOC documentation will follow as production deployments scale.

Yes — the Free plan covers everything you need to start writing: two screenplay projects with two draft lines each, save points with recent version history (named save points are always kept), 20 AI skill passes a month, and PDF and Fountain export. Three paid tiers build on it. Writer adds ten projects with ten draft lines each, 200 AI skill passes a month, complete version control, and FDX (Final Draft) export. Pro adds the most capable AI models, five times the AI quotas, custom skills, takes, production reports with revision colours, and collaboration with up to five people across your projects. Team adds real-time collaboration, shared workspaces, and role-based permissions for writers' rooms. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.

Absolutely. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time. If you downgrade, you keep access until the end of your billing period. Your screenplays and save points are never deleted.

Your screenplays, save points, and version history are always yours. You can export to Fountain and PDF on every plan — including Free — and to FDX (Final Draft) on Writer and above, at any time. Nothing is deleted when you change or cancel a plan.

Yes. Verified students and educators get 50% off Pro after beta. Contact us at education@inkwell.software with your institutional email — we verify eligibility manually during beta.

Save points are immutable snapshots of your work — think of them as save files you can always return to. Draft lines are parallel versions of your screenplay — like exploring an alternate ending without losing your original.

Canvas is in early access / beta for Pro and Team subscribers — join from the Canvas product page. Plot is generally available for screenplays today. Canvas shares the same version control and AI skill engine as Plot, extended for general-purpose documents.

Canvas is in early access / beta for Pro and Team subscribers — join from the Canvas product page. It shares save points, draft lines, and skills with Plot — extended for customizable blocks and Markdown-friendly long documents.

Canvas is designed for Markdown round-trip and structured blocks — import/export is a launch priority. During early access we will publish supported formats in the Canvas changelog; Fountain and FDX remain Plot's screenplay path.

Cross-product block embedding is part of the product-family architecture — screenplay blocks inside research docs or other Canvas documents. Early access will ship incrementally; follow the blog for Canvas milestones.