Story Architect (.starc)
Story Architect keeps each project as a SQLite database with the screenplay stored as structured XML inside — open, decodable, and very rescuable.
Format facts
- Created
- 2022
- Created by
- Story Apps (successor to KIT Scenarist)
- Status
- Current — in active use
- Reference
- Story Architect (official) ↗
Software that uses it
Native format of Story Architect.
What it carries
- the full screenplay text with scene headings, action, dialogue, parentheticals, shots and transitions
- act, sequence and beat structure wrappers
- the project’s dictionaries and settings stay in the file (we convert the screenplay text)
What it can't represent
- import only — we rescue scripts out of the project, we do not write new .starc files
- title pages, synopsis and treatment documents are not (yet) converted
Where it came from
Story Architect (first desktop releases circa 2022) is an open-source, all-in-one writing app for screenplays, TV, novels, stage plays and more, built by the KIT Scenarist author’s team as that app’s successor. Its .starc project file is a SQLite database whose documents table holds the screenplay as structured XML — which is exactly why stuck .starc projects can be rescued.