Available now on the Mac App Store

X-ray your screenplay.

Open any screenplay PDF and see the 10,000-foot view — every character across every scene, every sequence, every location, all on one screen. Letting you diagnose what's working, what isn't, and what's missing.

Screenplay X-Ray showing character grid, sequences, and scene breakdown
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See how it works

macOS 12.0 or later · Apple Silicon · $9.99

What you'll see

Scene info panel showing characters present

Every character, every scene

A grid of every character against every scene, color-coded for presence or dialogue. See instantly who carries the middle, who vanishes in act two, who's been overwritten.

Sequences, in the rhythm you set

Group scenes into named arcs and color them. Drag the edges to reshape. See your story's beats laid out like vertebrae.

Longest action paragraphs and dialogue lines ranked

The verbose parts, surfaced

Your longest action paragraphs and dialogue runs, ranked. The pages that bog. The speeches that ramble.

Locations grouped

Same-colored sluglines pop. A too-long stretch in one room jumps right out of the grid.

Character highlighting with one lead isolated

Highlight and filter

Isolate a single character's arc. Dim the noise. Compare two leads side by side at a glance.

Save your views

Every visualization saves to a small file you can revisit across drafts. Compare structural shifts between rewrites.

How it works

1

Open any screenplay PDF

Final Draft, Highland, Fade In, and the rest all export standard PDFs that the parser reads.

2

The app reads the structure

Sluglines, character cues, dialogue, action — all parsed locally on your Mac.

3

Explore. Shape. Save.

Group your sequences, highlight your leads, save the view to compare against future drafts.

Private by design

Your screenplay never leaves your Mac. No cloud, no account, no telemetry — the parser runs entirely on your device.

Screenplay X-Ray shows you what you've written. Whether it's any good is your call.