DubScript Active
The long-lived native Android screenwriter, Fountain-first.
At a glance
- Maker
- Independent developer
- First release
- 2011
- Status
- Active — still developed and sold
- Platforms
- Android, ChromeOS
- Pricing
- Free on Google Play
- Native format
- Fountain (.fountain)
What it is
DubScript is the Android answer to screenwriting — Fountain-native, importing Final Draft and Trelby, exporting PDF and FDX. Half a million downloads across fifteen years says the niche is real.
What people are saying
The good
Mobile writers call it a genuinely pleasant way to write a formatted script on a phone or Chromebook, with Fountain handling and final PDF output praised as excellent for a mobile app, a free core and no account required.
The bad
A licensing bug once kept showing ads to users who had already paid (documented, later fixed), unusual Unicode characters could crash file loading, and the newest work lands in a beta channel first, leaving the stable release lagging. A phone-first workflow caps how far a feature script gets.
Paraphrased consensus from user reviews, forums and retrospective coverage across the web.
Where it came from
Trusted on the platform since 2011; it keeps pace with Android itself (foldables and Chromebooks included).
Worth knowing
It predates most screenwriting apps on this list — Android screenwriting since before Fountain had a spec site.
Getting scripts in and out
Imports: Final Draft (.fdx), Trelby (.trelby), Fountain (.fountain), Plain text (.txt), Markdown (.md)
Exports: PDF (.pdf), Final Draft (.fdx), HTML (.html), Fountain (.fountain)