Trelby

Trelby

Trelby is designed to make screenwriting simple, fast, and elegant. It's completely customizable.

Trelby is open-source software to which you can contribute.

Features

• The screenplay editor ensures proper script formatting and pagination, as well as auto-completion and spells checking.
• Multiplatform: Works the same on all systems and produces the same results.
• Multiple views to suit your writing style, including draft view, WYSIWYG mode, and fullscreen.
• Character name database: A database of over 200,000 names from throughout the world.
• Scene, location, character, and dialogue reports.
• Compare: This feature allows you to compare scripts to see what has changed between versions.
• Import: Final Draft XML (.fdx), Celtx (.celtx), Fountain (.fountain), Adobe Story (.astx), and Fade In Pro prepared text (.fadein).
• PDF, formatted text, HTML, RTF, Final Draft XML (.fdx), and Fountain are all available for export (.fountain).
• PDF: A highly configurable PDF generator is built-in. Allows you to embed your favorite typeface. To help track shared files, it also allows you to create PDFs with custom watermarks.
• Trelby is free software, and developers and screenwriters are encouraged to contribute to making it more useful.

There's more...

• It's open-source, free, and cross-platform.
• Final draft is compatible.
• It clearly shows the variations between different script versions.
• A character name database is included.