
Create believable character arcs and profiles. Movie Outline excels at organizing your thoughts and structuring your story even before you begin writing the script. Montage helps you build a query letter, and then manages your submissions to conceivably hundreds of industry contacts, including managers, agents, and production companies. The only screenwriting software developed exclusively for Macintosh OS X, Montage is unique in the way it integrates with Apple’s Address Book.

If you’re on a Mac, you can take advantage of the submission tools in Montage. The Final Draft® demo is crippled, and won’t print a script. The Movie Magic® Screenwriter™ demo is fully functional, but it expires after five days. Trial versions of both programs are available for download on their Web sites. Movie Magic® Screenwriter™ (Part 1)įinal Draft® vs. You’ll learn their individual strengths and weaknesses, and which one deserves your hard-earned dollars.įinal Draft® vs. In 2009 we pitted these two 300-pound gorillas against each other in a two-part review. Trying to decide which to buy? Check out past issues of the Story Sense newsletter. Both programs are stable and filled with features. These two kings of the hill are, of course, Final Draft® and Movie Magic® Screenwriter™.

They’re at the top of their class, standards of the industry. They’re the most mature, the most sophisticated, and the most flexible of all screenwriting programs.
