🔃 Related Projects

Obsidian Plugins

• Obsidian Fountain plugin
  • newer plugin, different philosophy
  • turns Obsidian into a pure Fountain writing app, instead of hybrid with markdown
  • has index cards, readonly view, export to PDF

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Alternative apps for writing/exporting Fountain

If you’re here, you’ve probably already disregarded the industry-standard giants that cost upwards of a few arms and legs. But there are some good free/cheaper ones out there too.

Here’s a list of all sorts of apps that I’ve scoured for your consideration:

• Highland 2
  • Made by the creator of Fountain.
  • Features its own text editor app, WYSIWYG, “Revision Mode” and analysis tools.
  • Since everything is wrapped in a nice bow, it’s probably the best Fountain-writing app if you’re not technical.
• Final Draft (industry standard, paid)
• Fade In (professional, affordable)
• WriterDuet (collaborative, online)
• Arc Studio (modern, cloud-based)
• Trelby (free, open-source)
• betterfountain (VS Code extension, lovely actually)
• Slugline
• Celtx
• afterwriting
• beat
• lichendust/meander: 📝 A powerful, portable utility for production screenplays and manuscripts
• mjrusso/mountain: A tool for working with files in the Fountain screenplay format.
• eprovst/wrap: A Fountain export tool with some extras…

Apps for compiling notes

• chuangcaleb/ffluent: CLI to bundle atomic Fountain screenplay files
  • My attempt to replicate longform but for Fountain files, as a CLI (before I knew it was a thing).
  • Uses a json/yaml file at each folder directory to configure a custom sequence! So you can have complex folder organization structures
  • Marked as abandoned since this project, but it may be of interest to you!