Screenplay format conversion & rescue
ScriptBridge
Convert any screenplay between any format — even the old ones everyone else forgot. Plus a toolbox of helpers: translation, character sides, script comparison and more.
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Free conversion formats
Fountain (.fountain)The open plain-text screenplay format
Final Draft (.fdx/.fdxml)Files from Final Draft, the industry-standard app
Fade In (.fadein)Files from Fade In, the professional screenwriting app
Trelby (.trelby)Projects from Trelby, the free open-source screenwriting app
Adobe Story (.astx)Scripts stranded when Adobe shut Story down in 2018
Open Screenplay Format (.osf)Screenplay XML designed to outlive any single app
Celtx (.celtx)Projects from the old desktop Celtx, before it went cloud-only
ScreenJSON (.screenjson)Screenplays stored as structured JSON data
TextBundle (.textbundle)Zip packages that bundle a Fountain script with its assets
Markdown (.md)Scripts written in Markdown, the plain-text format of the web
Highland (.highland)Packages from Highland, the Mac Fountain app
CSV scene breakdown (.csv)A spreadsheet with one row per scene, built for scheduling tools
Story Architect (.starc)Projects from Story Architect (STARC), the screenwriting app
KIT Scenarist (.kitsp)Projects from KIT Scenarist, the free open-source screenwriter
Scrite (.scrite)Projects from Scrite, the free scene-card screenwriting app
Pro conversion formats
Plain text (.txt)A script saved as bare text, no formatting markup
Word (.docx)Scripts written in Word, where most drafts live
HTML (.html)Scripts saved as web pages, from old tools or exports
PDF (.pdf)Adobe's standard, what most scripts are distributed in
Rich Text (.rtf)The universal “save as…” of dead software
Word 97 (.doc)Word 97 to 2003 files, the most orphaned scripts on earth
Scrivener (.scriv)Projects from Scrivener, the writer's organizer
Script Studio (.ssp)Projects from Script Studio, formerly Movie Outline
Sophocles (.scp)Scripts stranded by Sophocles, the app that vanished in 2008
Movie Magic Screenwriter (.mmsw)Scripts from Movie Magic Screenwriter, still sold today
Also in the toolbox
- Script linterChecks your script for common formatting mistakes — stray dialogue, broken scene headings, spacing errors — and tells you how to fix each one.
- Store converted scripts ProKeep scripts in your account with version history: upload a new draft, keep the old ones as backups, download any version anytime.
- Scanned-PDF script Conversion ProGot a scan or PDF version of a script and want to turn into a proper editable script? Photographed or scanned script pages get rebuilt into an editable screenplay, page by page.
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Temporary files are deleted, never kept. Free conversions are processed on our server for the conversion only and destroyed very quickly after upload. No content in logs, analytics, or email.