Top 15 Slugline Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Slugline is a minimal, distraction-free environment for the most important part of screenwriting—the writing part.

Slugline works with plain text. It automatically turns your writing into a properly formatted screenplay, without you ever needing to press the Tab key or touch the mouse.

No buttons. No settings. Just writing.

FEATURES

- Simple, elegant interface
- The first distraction-free screenwriting environment
- Automatic formatting to Hollywood screenplay standards
- Printed on paper or PDF, your screenplay is indistinguishable from one made with apps costing much more
- Helpful structure templates, including the famous beat sheet from Save the Cat!
- Integrated outlining
- Bold, Italic, and Underlined text
- Notes, Scene Synopses, and Omitted text help keep you organized
- Preview—What you see is what you get
- Full-screen mode
- Fully optimized for Retina displays
- Includes Courier Prime, a beautiful typeface designed for screenplays
- Slugline's plain text files are compatible with any writing app, on any platform ...

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