Industry-perfect pagination
Courier Prime, 12pt, US Letter, 54 lines a page. Page counts match Final Draft to the line — so when an agent asks "how long is it?" your answer is the right one.
Open any .fdx
or .fountain
file. A collaborator reads with you in the right pane. You write. It observes — never drafts.
EXT. ROOFTOP — NIGHT
Wind. The city below, indifferent. MARA, 30s, holds a folded page she has not yet read aloud.
MARA
I keep waiting for someone to ask the right question.
She unfolds the page. The wind catches the corner.
DANIEL (O.S.)
So ask it yourself.
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Ask anything about your script. Get observations, character arcs, beat maps. The collaborator plays the room — Showrunner, Script Editor, Director, Save-the-Cat — and switches with one click. It will not draft a single line of dialogue. That part is still yours.
Learn about the collaborator →Courier Prime, 12pt, US Letter, 54 lines a page. Page counts match Final Draft to the line — so when an agent asks "how long is it?" your answer is the right one.
Spin a draft called "Studio notes pass" without touching the main one. Switch with one click. Restore any earlier version on demand. Local-first, syncs when you want.
25 minutes. A ring counts down on the status bar. Words written, streak earned. Tweet your sprint if you must. Stop when the clock stops.
One page is one minute of screen time. That rule has not changed since 1948 and a reader's eye knows when something is off. Lastslate locks the margins, the font, the natural advance — so your script reads like a script the moment it lands in someone's inbox.
See the formatting rules →INT. KITCHEN — MORNING
Sunlight, thin and gray. MARA pours coffee for one. A second mug sits clean on the rack.
MARA
(to no one) Tuesday again.
She lifts the second mug. Considers. Puts it back.
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Open Final Draft, Fountain, plain text, or a PDF you got over email. Lastslate reads it. The title page, the dual dialogue, the scene continuations — all of it.
Round-trips with title-page metadata, dual dialogue, and revision colours preserved.
Plain-text first. Save once and your script reads in any tool that supports the spec.
Drag in a PDF; Lastslate reconstructs scenes, characters, and dialogue you can edit.
Starter template with industry margins, FADE IN, and a proper title page out of the box.
Multi-cam or single-cam scaffold, ACT ONE / ACT TWO breaks, COLD OPEN built in.
Five-act structure, teaser, scene cards aligned to act breaks.
Lastslate is local-first. Start free. Add cloud backup when you have a script worth backing up. Add AI when you want a collaborator in the right pane.
Editor, drafts, local history.
Or $50 / year — save ~17%.
Or $150 / year — save ~17%.
Everything writers ask before they switch to Lastslate — Final Draft compatibility, supported formats, the AI collaborator, pricing, and privacy.
Yes. Lastslate opens and saves Final Draft .fdx files round-trip, preserves title-page metadata, dual dialogue, and revision colours, and paginates to the same industry standard — Courier Prime 12pt, 54 lines per page — so page counts match Final Draft to the line.
Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain (.fountain), plain text (.txt), and PDF — drag a PDF screenplay in and Lastslate reconstructs scenes, characters, and dialogue you can edit.
No. The AI collaborator only reads. It plays Showrunner, Script Editor, Director, or Save-the-Cat, maps arcs, and asks the right questions — but never drafts a line of dialogue. You keep the pen.
The editor is free. Hobbyist is $5/month or $50/year and adds encrypted cloud backup. Pro is $15/month or $150/year and adds AI Chat and AI Rewrite.
Lastslate runs on macOS 12 or later as a universal binary — native on Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4) and Intel Macs. The app is notarized by Apple.
Yes. Lastslate is local-first — your scripts live on your Mac. Cloud backup is opt-in, encrypted in transit and at rest, and nothing you write is used to train a model.