Screenplay Beats
Creativeweight 1tracker · keeps what you put in
Every screenplay is easy except for the middle, which is most of it. Screenplay Beats keeps the skeleton visible while you work: each beat or scene, which act it lives in, and the scene notes underneath. When act two starts to sag — and it will, it always does — you can see exactly where.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here — go on, put something in it.
Open the demo full-screen: /demos/screenplay-beats.html
What it keeps
- Beat / sceneshort text
- Actchoice · Act 1 / Act 2 / Act 3
- Scene notesnotes
Questions people ask
How do I outline a screenplay using beats?
Write each beat as its own row — inciting incident, midpoint, the low point, the run to the finale — and assign it to Act 1, 2 or 3. The notes field holds what actually happens in the scene. Move and rework beats until the spine stands up.
Does this work for other story structures, like novels or plays?
Yes — three acts is a broad church. Novelists and playwrights use the same beat-by-beat list; the tool does not check your union card.
Is my screenplay idea safe from prying eyes in a browser tool?
It never leaves your machine — the tool runs offline, has no account and no server, and lives in one HTML file you own. Your twist ending stays yours until you choose otherwise.
Fits your knife at weight 1. Nothing here is final — Knife follows Life. Reforging within your tier is free, forever. Add it, drop it, reforge later; the file stays yours either way.