For years it's proprietary format helped it keep its stranglehold on Hollywood production houses but then along comes PDF. When a free application is available that works so well and looks so good (Celtx), and the competing pay applications are upping the ante by offering far better customer service and applications which offer more features in a better looking package, you know Final Draft is in trouble. It is, without a doubt, the industry standard. Final Draft has, for many years, been the mack daddy of screenwriting applications. But, like I said, it's hard to beat free, especially when free works so well in this case. It's basically just a barebones screenwriting program that formats things correctly, prints, outputs in PDF, and offers an online backup feature. It doesn't have any virtual index card functionality, and it doesn't include any sort of outliner. It doesn't have a page view For those of you like me who like to see what you're writing as it would look in the context of a page, it's a feature you'd miss. However, Celtx is missing some of the features of pay programs. It's just so hard these days to beat free. It formats things correctly and is a great buy at $0. It's not perfect (by any means), but it looks good, and is mostly intuitive to use for writing. If you're looking for the best cheap/free screenwriting application, you can do no better than Celtx. Many of those OTHER programs are merely template programs-which means that they are addons to Microsoft Word, adding additional screenwriter-relevant functions. There are other alternatives whose niche is simply being less fully featured, harder to use, and cheaper. As far as I can surmise, there are roughly four worthy screenwriting applications out there: Sophocles 2007 (which is currently in beta, but works quite well), Final Draft 7, Celtx, and Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 (as yet unreleased).
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