Whirmon's blog

Rough sketch for a comic project I'm making on Tapastic.

A free, multiplatform, feature-rich screenwriting program!

Trelby is simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple. It is infinitely configurable.

Trelby is free software, that you can contribute to.

Features

Screenplay editor: Enforces correct script format and pagination, auto-completion, and spell checking.

Multiplatform : Behaves identically on all platforms, generating the exact same output.

Choice of view: Multiple views, including draft view, WYSIWYG mode, and fullscreen to suit your writing style.

Name database: Character name database containing over 200,000 names from various countries.

Reporting: Scene/location/character/dialogue reports.

Compare: Ability to compare scripts, so you know what changed between versions.

Import: Screenplay formatted text, Final Draft XML (.fdx), Celtx (.celtx), Fountain (.fountain), Adobe Story (.astx) and Fade In Pro (.fadein).

Export: PDF, formatted text, HTML, RTF, Final Draft XML (.fdx) and Fountain (.fountain).

PDF: Built-in, highly configurable PDF generator. Supports embedding your chosen font. Also supports generating PDFs with custom watermarks, to help track shared files.