Scriptease
Screenwriting + film production in one offline Mac app
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Scriptease is an offline macOS app for professional screenwriting AND full production management in a single project file. Write a scene and it flows into breakdown, stripboard, a Movie-Magic-style budget, and call sheets. No script yet? Start from a scene list. TV season? One project, one screenplay per episode. 100% offline, private, one file on your disk. Buy once: $99.99, no subscription. Mac only. Free 14-day trial, no credit card.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 64%) · 0 views
Niche: creative and book writing software · 120 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▲ +38% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Writing
- Movies
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Could you build this?
Partial A native macOS screenwriting editor is achievable with AI-assisted coding, but professional production budgeting and scheduling (Movie-Magic-style, union and fringe rules) requires deep film-production domain knowledge.
What it would actually take: The writing editor, scene-based breakdown, and call sheets can be vibe-coded in Swift/SwiftUI with a local document store. The hard part is the budgeting engine, which must match industry conventions such as union rates, fringe calculations, and standard account codes, and that needs input from working line producers. Matching the professional formatting standards (e.g., Final Draft-compatible screenplay output) is also a significant effort.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 183 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #101 of 184 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- HiiScript · ph · 2026-09-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- River Writer · ph · 2026-10-24 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Debut · hn · 2026-01-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Writer Studio · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- StoryWriter · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- ScriptLix · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Plotscribe · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Scriptlet · ph · 2026-09-22 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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