Montage Discontinued
The Mac-only contender that outlived its publisher.
At a glance
- Maker
- Mariner Software
- First release
- 2006
- Discontinued
- —
- Status
- Discontinued — the app is dead
- Platforms
- Mac
- Pricing
- Was $139.95 one-time
- Native formats
- — own .montage format (undocumented)
What it is
Montage (2006) was “the only professional screenwriting software developed exclusively for Mac OS X” — a claim Fade In and Highland made obsolete. Last updated around 2008; publisher Mariner Software wound down over the 2010s.
What people are saying
The good
Launched as the affordable, Mac-native screenwriter at a moment when Final Draft competition felt overdue, and by version 1.4 importing Final Draft scripts was essentially effortless.
The bad
Launch reviews cut deep (missing page locking and scene numbering) and it never closed the gap in time to matter. Development stalled and stopped with no formal notice, and its publisher later went under entirely, leaving .montage files with no vendor at all.
Paraphrased consensus from user reviews, forums and retrospective coverage across the web.
Where it came from
Launched at $139.95 to Macworld fanfare in July 2006; by September 2023 users report Mariner unresponsive and its website offline. No formal death notice was ever published.
Worth knowing
Its .montage files are among the most requested rescues nobody can decode yet.