Your film is already in your head.Let’s get it onto the page.
Tell IdeaM your story in a sentence. It asks a few good questions, then builds your film the way a writers’ room does — characters, world, structure, every scene — and hands you a complete first draft in proper screenplay format, ready for you to make your own.
Every screenwriter knows this moment.
You have carried this story for months. You know how it ends. You can hear two of the characters arguing in the car. You have the image that opens the film.
Then you open a blank script, and the cursor blinks at FADE IN. Where does act two turn? Who is the second lead, really? Which scene comes before the one you can already see?
IdeaM gets you from that blinking cursor to a full draft you can hold, read, and rework — so your energy goes into making the story great, not into facing an empty page.
From one idea to every scene, step by step.
Open Build, choose Screenplay, and answer a few questions. Only the story is required — leave the rest blank and IdeaM fills it in. Your answers steer everything that follows.
It asks you first
- What’s the story? A logline, an idea or a “what if”
- A working title, if you have one
- The genre — drama, comedy, romance, thriller, mystery, science fiction, horror or family
- How it should feel
- Who it is about
- Where and when it takes place
- A film it should feel like, as a touchstone
- Whose name goes on the title page
Then it builds, in order
- 1Title and logline
A title with alternates, a one-sentence logline, the hook, the theme and the tone.
- 2Characters
What each one wants, what they truly need, the flaw in the way, how they change and how they talk. Anyone you named stays as you described them.
- 3The world
Setting and era, the key locations that become your scene headings, the rules of this world, its look and sound.
- 4Story structure
A seven-beat structure for a short, or a fifteen-beat sheet in eight sequences for a feature.
- 5Scene-by-scene outline
Every scene in order — where it happens, who wants what, and how the scene turns.
- 6The acts, written
Each act written as finished screenplay scenes, picking up exactly where the last one ended, with every earlier step in view so your characters stay themselves from page one to the final image.
See one scene written three ways
The same scene from a real feature, written on your Mac for free, in Hybrid with a Google polish, and in Faster mode, side by side.
Read the real thing
Written by IdeaM from a one-line idea — unedited first draft.
Your whole film, in one outline you control.
Nothing disappears into a black box. The screenplay lands as an ordinary branch of your outline — the development work on top, the script beneath it, one item per scene. Read it, reorder it, rewrite it. The outline is the script.
- Drag a scene to a new place and the script follows.
- Zoom into one act and hide everything else while you work.
- Rewrite a scene yourself, or ask the AI to rework it in plain English — and see every AI change before it lands.
- Change a character’s backstory, then rewrite the scenes that depend on it.
- The Last Slice
- Title and Logline
- Characters
- The World
- Short Film
- Story Structure
- Scene-by-Scene Outline
- Act One
- INT. SUNSET GRILLE - DINING ROOM - NIGHTone scene
- Act Two
- Act Three
Pages in the format the industry reads.
When the acts are written, IdeaM turns the outline into the two forms screenwriters actually exchange.
Screenplay PDF
Laid out to industry convention: a title page, US Letter, Courier 12, the standard binding margin, character cues and dialogue on their standard indents, and page numbers from page two.
Fountain file
The plain-text screenplay format that screenwriting apps such as Final Draft, Highland, Fade In, WriterSolo and Slugline can open — so your draft moves straight into the tool you already love.
A short or a feature — your call.
About 10 to 15 pages — a 10 to 15 minute film. One clear want, one turn, one change, in seven to ten scenes.
Aims for 90 to 120 pages, written sequence by sequence across eight sequences — about seventy scenes. A longer run, and a full feature draft at the end of it.
Written by the free AI on your own computer, or in Hybrid with your own Google AI key: Google plans the film and polishes the dialogue while your computer drafts every scene.
Writing for television? IdeaM — TV Pilot Writer
2.
INT. SUNSET GRILLE - DINING ROOM - NIGHT
Artie Miller (22) ducks in sideways, wide-shouldered, wiping road grime off his knuckles with a red shop rag.
Three pre-1965 silver quarters smack the counter.
ARTIE
Boysenberry, doll. Two inches thick. And fill the cup black before my eyes cross.
Martha’s rag drops to the floorboards.
ARTIE (CONT’D)
Any day now. Marty’s sitting on the porch counting headlights.
GUS (O.S.)
Burner’s on. Pot’s fresh.
Everything around the writing, too.
A screenplay is the tip of a lot of thinking. IdeaM holds all of it.
Research in your Second Brain
Save articles, interviews, videos and notes about your world and your characters, then ask your own material questions and get answers from it.
Capture on your phone
A line of dialogue in the shower, an image on the train — Quick Capture saves it in seconds, even offline, straight from your Home Screen.
Outlining built for story
Drag scenes and sequences around, zoom into one act, tag storylines and characters, and see the shape of the whole film at once.
Rewrite in your voice
Rework any scene with a plain-English instruction, and teach Your Voice how you write so the drafts start sounding like you.
You have the final say
Every AI change is shown to you first, and nothing lands until you approve it. Snapshots and unlimited undo keep every version safe.
Dictate anywhere
Talk a scene through out loud and watch the words land on the page, wherever you can type.
A complete first draft — and the real writing begins.
What you get is every scene on the page, properly formatted, with the structure already working for you. The voice, the jokes, the moment that makes an audience catch its breath — that is yours to shape, and IdeaM makes the shaping fast. Rewrite, reorder, cut and polish until it is unmistakably your film.
Bring the story you have been carrying.
Give it a sentence. Get back a first-draft screenplay to read, rework and make your own.