Free screenplay editorVisual production workspace
Write, format, revise, visualize, and export your screenplay in one cinematic workspace.
The editor is 100% free.AI writing and image generations show their credit cost before they run.
One screenplay. One source of truth.
Melies keeps the page at the center while structure, story memory, visuals, and delivery stay close enough to use without breaking your flow.
Write scene headings, action, character cues, parentheticals, dialogue, transitions, and shots with screenplay-aware Enter and Tab flow. Pagination stays aligned with the exported PDF.
Search every scene by heading, summary, or cast, highlight the matching words, and jump directly to the right page. The beat board lays the story out as cards with flow lines, in sync with the script.
Character cues are normalized so a name, a voice-over cue, and a shared cue resolve to the correct cast. Characters, locations, scenes, and statistics each have a focused production view.
Rewrite selected text or the current scene, polish dialogue, continue writing, request coverage, or turn a beat into a scene. Melies previews the scope, protects the draft, and lets you accept or reject changes.
Generate character portraits, location references, a cover poster, and scene frames with your chosen image model. Existing visuals stay contextual, easy to browse, and reusable across the project.
Download Fountain, FDX, TXT, or a paginated PDF. The complete ZIP also gathers the poster, character and location references, scene images, storyboard sheets, and a project manifest. Overview mode shows every page exactly as it prints.
Context, not another chat window
Put the cursor in a scene or select the exact lines you want to change. Melies adapts the available actions to that scope, explains the result, and shows the cost before writing.
Use a text selection for a surgical pass or leave the cursor in a scene for scene-level help.
The action modal explains what will change and displays the exact credit cost before it runs.
The page enters a visible writing state, protects manual input, and progressively reveals the proposed result.
Compare rewrites, accept only what works, or return to the automatically saved pre-pass version.
A visual story bible that travels
Generate a portrait for each character and a reference for each location. When a scene becomes a storyboard, Melies automatically carries every available matching reference into the generation.
Create the canonical portrait that holds identity across scenes.
Establish the visual language of every recurring place.
Match the scene heading to its cast and location references.
Generate frames with the available visual bible attached.
Existing character, location, and scene previews stay available beside the editor and open in focused galleries with Previous and Next navigation. Missing references can be generated from the same context.
How the workflow works
Open a blank screenplay or bring in an existing TXT, Fountain, or Final Draft FDX file.
Format the pages, search the outline, navigate scenes, and watch characters and locations take shape.
Use AI only where it helps: a selection, a scene, the next beat, dialogue, or professional coverage.
Generate the poster, character and location references, then carry them into scene storyboards.
Export the script alone or package the draft and every generated preview for the next production step.
A simple boundary
Free accounts get the complete screenwriting workspace. A paywall appears only when you choose an AI action and do not have enough credits to run it.
Every action confirms its scope and exact credit cost before it runs.
Complete feature index
A workspace, not a prompt box
Melies uses AI for focused passes inside a real screenplay process. You still control structure, voice, pacing, and what makes the final draft.
A prompt and the text pasted into it.
The active selection, scene, cast, locations, and screenplay structure.
A replacement draft arrives all at once.
Focused passes explain their scope and preserve the draft before writing.
Visual references live in separate tools.
Character and location references travel into scene generations automatically.
Copy the text and rebuild the project elsewhere.
Export the screenplay, poster, references, storyboards, and manifest together.
Built for screen stories
Navigate a long draft without losing scene purpose, recurring characters, locations, or revision history.
Move quickly from a contained script to a poster and visual plan that communicates the film.
Track a larger cast, recurring places, scene distribution, and dialogue balance across a pilot draft.
Work surgically on selected lines or ask for broader notes while the original version stays recoverable.
Use the screenplay as the shared source for character references, locations, scene frames, and storyboard sheets.
Questions, answered
AI screenwriting software combines a screenplay editor with artificial intelligence for focused writing tasks such as rewrites, dialogue polish, scene continuation, beat development, and coverage. Melies also connects the screenplay to character, location, poster, and storyboard generation.
Yes. With a free account you can write, format, organize, import, save versions, view statistics, and export screenplays. Only AI writing and image generation use credits, and every generation shows its cost before it runs.
Yes. You can import Final Draft FDX, Fountain, and plain TXT files, then continue editing them in the Melies screenwriting workspace.
Melies exports Fountain, Final Draft FDX, TXT, and paginated PDF files. The poster appears on the PDF title page when one has been generated.
Yes. Highlight exact lines for a selection-based rewrite or dialogue pass, or leave the cursor in a scene for scene-level actions. Melies confirms the scope before running and lets you review the result.
You can generate a canonical image for each detected character and location. When you generate a scene or storyboard, Melies automatically attaches every available matching reference to improve visual continuity.
Yes. Generate scene frames from the Scenes view, create a poster from the title page, or continue into the dedicated screenplay-to-storyboard workflow for editable multi-panel sheets.
Yes. Complete project export creates an organized ZIP containing the screenplay files, generated poster, character and location references, scene frames, storyboard sheets, and a JSON project manifest.
No. Melies is designed to reduce formatting friction, keep story context visible, and provide focused options when requested. The writer keeps control of theme, voice, structure, pacing, and every accepted change.
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