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Beat - Free Editor for Creative Fiction Writers in macOS

Hazem Abbas

Nov 14, 2024 — 2 min read

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Beat is a free and open-source simple and elegant screenwriting app for macOS, using the plain-text Fountain screenplay format. It's fast, lightweight and, above all, has a distraction-free, minimalistic UI.

Features

Minimalistic UI with as little distractions as possible
Smart, automatic screenplay formatting
Multiple story structure views with filtering, sections and synopses, including a collapsing list, index cards and timeline
Dark mode for the children of the night
Hide Fountain markup
Final Draft import / export, including revisions, outline items and soon tags
Title page editor
JavaScript plugin API
Automatic scene numbering
Page numbers and separators
Revision generation management
Autocompletion for characters and scene headings
Color-coded scenes
Statistics view, with line count per character, inclusivity by gender, scene locations, etc.
Fountain QuickLook plugin for Finder
Backup vault
... and many more!

License

Beat is free and open source under GPL.

Resources & Downloads

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Download for macOS from the Mac App Store
Source-code (Github)

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Cross-platform macOS Windows Linux Android RaspberryPi

Development

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