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The Best Screenwriting Software For Film & TV

Stencil’s built-in screenwriting software allows you to connect your screenplay to various other production tools including your storyboards, shot lists and film coverage plans.

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Our screenwriting software helps you connect your script to your characters and locations as well as to your storyboards and shot lists.

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Screenwriting Software That Helps Writers Get More Done

In film production, the screenplay is intricately linked to numerous other aspects of the process.

Screenwriting software must integrate seamlessly with various production elements, as they all rely on the story. For instance, storyboards and shot lists are directly informed by the script. That’s why we designed Stencil to ensure these tools communicate with each other effectively.

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Screenwriting Software For Film & TV

Stencil allows you to embed our screenwriting software directly into your own studio’s website and brand it to look like your own!

Visualize Your Screenplay's Plot

Not only can you write your script directly within Stencil, you can also visualize your story’s plot and subplots on your plot visualization page.

Detailed Screenwriting Checklists

Built-in screenplay checklists allows you to check off scene “must haves”. This ensures that each scene is being properly developed.

Connect Your Script to Your Storyboard

Stencil allows you to connect your script to a storyboard. This helps the director and cinematographer “see” the story before it’s shot.

Character Development Tools

Stencil comes with built-in character development tools that help ensure that you’re populating your story’s world with well designed characters.

Collaborative Screenwriting Tools

The collaborative writing / feedback tools within Stencil help ensure that your writers get the feedback they need to create great stories.

Multi-Step Script Grading Systems

We offer a built in grading system which allows your writers, directors or script consultants to grade each scene within a script.

Connect Your Script to Your Shot Lists

You can also connect your screenplay to a shot list. This allows your camera department to translate story into camera setups.

All-In-One Film Production Software

Stencil comes will all of the tools you need to manage your film production studio. We help you manage storytelling, budgeting, casting, location scouting, storyboarding and so much more!

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Screenplay Writing With Team Collaboration

Allow team members with permissions to co-write a screenplay or leave feedback on a script

Stencil comes with built-in screenplay collaboration tools that allow you to give permission to others on your productions team to help with script development. These people could be editors, co-writers or any other individual with a nack for developing stories.

Connect Your Script to Plot Visualization Boards

Our screenwriting software allows you to visualize your story as it comes to life

Each time you add a new scene within Stencil, a corresponding plot card will be added to your story’s plot visualization page. This will allow you to see all of your screenplay scenes “at a glance” as your audience will experience them.

Screenplay Writing Checklists & Draft Control

Ensure each scene is as good as it can be by passing it through our screenplay checklist tool

Each time you add a scene you’ll be able to run the scene through a comprehensive script checklist tools which checks ensures the proper development of your story’s plot and characters.

Connect Your Script to a Shot list and Storyboard

Visualize your script as your audience will experience it

Within Stencil we wanted to keep story and images close. For this reason, we made it easy to attach a scene to a shot list and storyboard. This allows you to visualize how your screenplay will play out on screen.

White Label Screenwriting Software

Embed Our screenwriting software directly on your film or video production studio’s website and brand it to look like your own.

Users of Stencil can embed our screenwriting software directly on their own sites and have their writers login to the software as if it was their own. You can also brand the software to match your production studio’s colors.

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A Small Price to Pay to Create Better Films

Our film production management software was designed by filmmakers for filmmakers. All of the tools built into the software are designed to help you create higher quality films. Subscribing to Stencil is an investment in your film production studio, not an expense.

Sterling, Stencil Developer

FAQ

Still have a few last questions before taking stencil for a test drive?

We’ve tried to make Stencil as easy to use and user-friendly as possible. However, we’ve included an FAQ to the right to answer the most common questions we receive.

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What's the cost?

A full featured version of Stencil is free to try for 7 days (without a credit card). After 7 days, if you want to keep using the software, the cost is as low as $29 / month.

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Can I suggest a new feature?

Yes please! We want to make Stencil as powerful of a film production aid as possible. if you have ideas you can simply click on “suggestion box” in the left sidebar.

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Are there contracts?

No. There are no contracts. Our pro members pay as a little as $39 / month. If you ever want to cancel you can do so in one click on your “account settings” page.

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Can I use it for casting crew and actors?

Yes. Each of our paid plans come with our casting tool built in. Simply look for the plan that has the usage limits that you require.

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Do you offer offline access?

No we don’t offer offline access. Currently you must have an internet connection to connect to Stencil. We are primarily a web application since most production work is best done collaboratively and live.

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Who owns the content I create?

You do. We claim no rights whatsoever to the work you create within Stencil.

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Can I whitelable Stencil?

Yes. All of our plans come with the ability to embed Stencil on your own film studio’s website. You can also change the colors to match your film studio’s brand. your entire team / castings etc can all be managed from your own domain.

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I need help putting Stencil on my studio website.

We’d be happy to help. Simply click on “contact us” in the sidebar and let us know what you need. There is no cost for this service.

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I have a question

If you have a question that’s not covered on our website, simply reach out to us by clicking on “contact us” in the left sidebar.

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Is your product for indie filmmakers or studios?

We built Stencil to handle our own studio needs. Therefore, it’s primarily built to handle the needs of many different types of production studios working on various project types (i.e. films, documentaries, commercials, music videos etc.). However, solo filmmakers also use our software to manage smaller productions.

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