Scriptyard is a spatial story-planning tool built for screenwriters and storytellers. Map characters, locations, scenes and structure on an infinite canvas, then export to Markdown, Fountain, or Final Draft.
What's great
the visual corkboard layout for structuring a story is genuinely useful, it matches how a lot of writers already plan before they touch a script format. free to use is a nice bonus for something this focused.
What needs improvement
not clear yet if it supports real-time collaboration for a writers room, that would be the natural next step once the solo workflow is solid.
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The infinite-canvas-to-Fountain/Final Draft export is what would actually pull me in — most story-planning tools trap the structure in their own format and re-typing it into a script kills the whole point. When you export to Fountain, does the scene and character layout on the canvas carry through as scene headings and structure, or does it flatten into a plain ordered list? And if I keep moving things around on the canvas after exporting, is there any re-sync or is export strictly one-directional?
That narrative-first interpretation (Act>Sequence>Scene>Beat>Shot) actually answers my re-sync worry — if the graph is the source of truth and export is just a projection of it, then rearranging cards and re-exporting re-projects cleanly, which is what I want. So the day-one thing I would test: if I drag a scene into a different act on the canvas after exporting, does a re-export fully reflect the new placement, or do orphaned beats/shots from the old position linger in the Fountain output? Basically, is export idempotent from the current graph state?
The infinite canvas idea sounds great for visualizing structure. One thing that would really help my workflow is a beat board view that auto-syncs with the canvas, so I can drag scenes around spatially but also see them in a linear outline that stays current. Right now I'd worry about losing the script's logical flow when everything lives on a canvas. A toggle between spatial and outline modes, with the outline updating in real time, would make this feel complete for actual drafting days.
Tested Scriptyard. Found an ARIA attribute that isn't permitted on the element it's used on, which can trip up screen readers, plus some text under the contrast threshold and a bit of content that sits outside any landmark region (harder to navigate with assistive tech). On the technical side you're missing the standard security headers (CSP, X-Frame-Options, HSTS) and there's no robots.txt or sitemap, worth adding for search visibility. Genuinely like the index-card-in-a-browser concept though.
Really respect the "no login, no cloud, doesn't train on your writing" stance — that's clearly a direct response to what writers are actually worried about right now, not just a feature checkbox. The index-card-wall analogy makes total sense as the thing to digitize. Does it support any kind of collaborative/multiplayer editing yet, or is it intentionally solo-first for now?
@minimal_human Good to hear it's on the roadmap! No rush — solo-first makes sense for now, especially with the local-only approach. Curious whether collaboration would still keep the "no cloud" promise, or if that'll need some kind of opt-in sync layer?
@minimal_human Very nice ) Thanks
the index card wall replacement is such an obvious need once you say it out loud. does the export to Fountain/Final Draft preserve the spatial layout at all, or is it just a linear scene order once it leaves the canvas?
Congratulations on the launch! I read through the site but couldn't tell - when you rearrange cards on the canvas, does that order carry into the Fountain/Final Draft export, or does export just pull the text and leave sequencing to you?
@minimal_human Thank you! Yes, demo would be very nice - a short clip would show the value faster than any description.