First-rate screenwriting app

I gave Final Draft 9 a try. I really did. But while Final Draft may be the de facto standard for screenwriting, its a clunky old piece of software. Its numerous keyboard shortcuts conflict with standard OS X text editing shortcuts. Its navigation is astrocious. And its just not fun to use.

Then I learned about the Fountain markup language for screenwriting. Its not for everyone, but for me, theres no going back to clunky WYSIWYG editors. Fountain lets you focus on your scripts action and dialogue, rather than constantly fretting about how it looks on the page. Once you learn the language, even syntactic edge cases like dual dialogue are effortless to write.

Of course, you can write Fountain in any text editor. I use Sublime Text on a daily basis for editing other kinds of text. So why use Highland? Well, Highland is simple, attractive, and lets you switch between editing and previewing your script with a keystroke. It has only the features you need for editing Fountain, which makes it very easy to find those features. And I have yet to run into a single bug. This is simply great software, and Im delighted to use it.

LostLeviathan about Highland