Plotwell
Plotwell is a browser-based platform connecting screenplay development with storyboarding, production planning, and budgeting.
What Plotwell is
Plotwell is a browser-based platform connecting screenplay development with storyboarding, production planning, and budgeting. Its development workspace includes loglines, synopses, treatments, character breakdowns, pitch-deck documents, and a development agent. The screenplay editor formats script elements and supports Final Draft and Fountain import and export, plus PDF export. AI tools can generate scenes, brainstorm, rewrite dialogue, and insert text using project context. Script Doctor analyzes pacing, act breaks, structural gaps, character consistency, and dialogue patterns, with severity levels and per-issue dismissal. Storyboards can generate AI panel images from scene descriptions, while production tools extract cast, props, and other elements, assign shoot dates and locations, and generate call sheets. Budgeting includes line items, over-budget alerts, calculations, and PDF or CSV export. The free plan costs nothing and includes one project, one collaborator, 10 AI credits, all features, and version history for the last five saves. Additional projects and collaborators each cost $3 a month.
Good
- Free plan includes all features.
- Imports and exports Final Draft and Fountain.
- AI tools can rewrite dialogue and generate scenes.
- Budget exports are available as PDF or CSV.
- Users retain ownership of their creative content.
Watch out
- Free plan includes one project and one collaborator.
- Free plan includes 10 AI credits.
- Additional projects cost $3 a month each.
- Additional collaborators cost $3 a month each.
Who it suits
Plotwell is aimed at indie filmmakers and small crews who want screenplay, planning, and budgeting tools in one browser-based workspace. Its collaboration roles and exports may also suit teams sharing project materials.
Verdict
Plotwell brings writing, storyboarding, production planning, budgeting, and collaboration together for screenplay projects. The free plan includes all features, with limits on project count, collaborators, AI credits, and version history.
Plans and prices
From Plotwell's own pricing page, checked 1 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free | 1 project · 1 collaborator · 10 AI credits · all features · version history last 5 saves |
| Additional collaborator | $3 a month | Each collaborator beyond the first · cancel or remove anytime · per additional collaborator |
| Additional project | $3 a month | Each project beyond the first · cancel or remove anytime · per additional project |
| AI credits — 200 credits | $5, paid once | 200 AI credits · one-time purchase, never expires |
| AI credits — 500 credits | $10, paid once | 500 AI credits · one-time purchase, never expires |
| AI credits — 1,400 credits | $20, paid once | 1,400 AI credits · one-time purchase, never expires |
The facts
Each one read from Plotwell's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI and service integrations
- Privacy documentation lists Replicate, OpenAI, OpenRouter and xAI for AI inference, plus Supabase, Stripe, Vercel, Render and Amplitude as service providers.checked 1 Oct 2026
- AI writing
- The AI writing agent generates scenes, brainstorms ideas, rewrites dialogue and inserts text at the cursor using project context.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Plotwell describes itself as made for indie filmmakers and small crews.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Budgeting
- Budgeting provides category and line-item costs, over-budget alerts, quantity-by-rate calculations and PDF or CSV export.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Collaboration supports owner, admin, editor and viewer roles, threaded comments, read-only viewer mode, email invitations and changeable permissions.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Product scope
- Plotwell connects screenplay writing, storyboarding, scene breakdown, scheduling and budgeting in one platform.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Screenplay editor
- The editor auto-formats scene headings, action, dialogue, parentheticals and transitions and supports Final Draft and Fountain import and export plus PDF export.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Script Doctor
- Script Doctor analyzes pacing, act breaks, structural gaps, character consistency and dialogue patterns with severity levels and per-issue dismissal.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Security and compliance
- Plotwell says it is governed by the GDPR and Spanish law, uses TLS 1.2+ in transit, storage-layer encryption at rest, bcrypt password hashing and database row-level security.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Storyboard
- The storyboard tool generates AI panel images from scene descriptions, includes shot type and camera movement metadata, supports drag-and-drop reordering and read-only sharing.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Story development
- The studio includes logline, synopsis, treatment, character breakdown and pitch-deck documents plus a development agent.checked 1 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser and file handling
- Plotwell runs in the browser, and PDF and Word documents are read in the browser without being uploaded anywhere.checked 1 Oct 2026
The company
- Content ownership
- Users retain ownership of scripts, storyboards, beat sheets, documents and characters, while Plotwell claims only the licence needed to store, process and deliver the content.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Madrid, Spainchecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Production planning
- Scene breakdown extracts cast, props and production elements, while users can assign shoot dates and locations and generate call sheets.checked 1 Oct 2026
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