Your screenplay has 47 speaking roles. PlotLens knows every one.
Upload a .fdx or .fountain screenplay and PlotLens reads its format natively — scene headings, character cues, dialogue attribution, and action lines. It builds a living reference of your story world and flags possible conflicts before they reach production.
PlotLens reads your uploaded screenplay like a script supervisor.
It doesn't treat your script as a wall of text. PlotLens understands the structure of screenwriting and uses it to extract richer, more accurate narrative data.
Scene headings
INT/EXT, location, time of day — tracked and cross-referenced
Character cues
Every speaking role identified and tracked across scenes
Dialogue attribution
Who said what, with parentheticals and context preserved
Action lines
Physical details, props, and continuity details extracted
Continuity issues that cost real money.
Script supervisors catch what they can on set. PlotLens catches what they can't — in the script itself.
Character name drift costs reshoots.
"MARTINEZ" in the pilot becomes "MARTIN" in episode six. Different writers, different habits. The actor's contract says one name. The script says another.
Scene location drift breaks continuity.
The apartment was on the third floor in Episode 2. Now it's on the fifth. The set was already built. Catching it in the script saves catching it on the stage.
Which character knows what in which scene.
Detective Park learns the suspect's name in Scene 34. But she uses it in Scene 28. PlotLens tracks character knowledge and flags when someone knows something they shouldn't yet.
Your co-writer doesn't need to use PlotLens.
Manuscript Check results can appear as comments they can read in their own writing tool. Share your Story Bible without sharing logins. Your Story Bible is the set of facts your story has established — what readers call canon. When you're working with a room, PlotLens scales with you.
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Screenplay format is parsed natively rather than flattened into prose, so scene headings, character cues and action-versus-dialogue survive into the Story Bible. What follows is what works today — including the part that does not yet, which is Final Draft watching.
Upload the script as Fountain
.fountain is one of the eight formats PlotLens parses, and it is the screenplay markup path — so scene structure comes through rather than being read as paragraphs. If you are working in another tool, export to Fountain and upload that.
Know what the Final Draft integration does and does not do yet
The PlotLens Companion desktop app ships Final Draft support, but .fdx watching has not been opened: the rollout unlocks Scrivener first, so adding a Final Draft file is still blocked server-side. Until it opens, export and upload directly. Nothing on this page describes Final Draft watching as working today.
Search by speaker and by scene
Search filters include POV character, speaker, a dialogue-versus-narration toggle, scene type, chapter range and a story-position cutoff. Hybrid search is the default and fuses keyword and semantic retrieval, so an exact line of dialogue and a paraphrased description of a scene both land.
Check a rewritten scene without re-running the script
Spot Check takes a pasted excerpt of up to roughly two thousand words and reports against the Story Bible in two to eighty seconds, with no project documents required. It is free on every tier and never counts against the monthly quota, so checking one revised scene costs nothing.
Order the story without a calendar
A timeline event carries up to three independent ordering signals: a free-form in-story date label, a sortable ISO absolute date, and an integer narrative order, which is the default sort. Parallel and alternate storylines get the Branches view — a multi-lane flow graph where each branch has a name, a colour and an optional parent branch. Events are added manually; nothing is auto-extracted into the timeline.
Frequently asked questions
Explore PlotLens by capability
- Story bible softwareA story bible built from the manuscript, not maintained by hand
- AI story bibleCharacters, places and rules extracted automatically, each with a citation
- Series bible softwareOne Story Bible across every book or season, kept current as you write
- Continuity checkerNew pages checked against established facts, with the passage that set it
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