Screenplay Beats
A private screenplay beats in one HTML file on your machine: no account, no cloud, no server to talk to.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here: go on, put something in it.
Forged into a knife, this tool ages with use: the blades you reach for wear soft, entries you tend keep their bloom, and the years travel with the file through every reforge.
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.
What it keeps
- Beat / sceneshort text
- Actchoice · Act 1 / Act 2 / Act 3
- Scene notesnotes
Standing facts
- One HTML file. Opens in any modern browser, on any operating system.
- No account. No login, no sign-up, no e-mail wall.
- No cloud. Nothing leaves your browser: no server, no telemetry, no analytics.
- Yours forever. The file keeps working whether or not Offline.Ltd does.
- Ages with use. Entries you tend keep their bloom; the years travel with the file through every reforge.
In ten years
Whatever you put in (Beat / scene, Act and Scene notes) stays inside the file itself. There is no account to lapse, no plan to be sunset, no migration e-mail with a deadline in it. A decade of screenplay beats entries is a decade of your own handwriting, kept in a document you can back up like any other.
If Offline.Ltd closes tomorrow, nothing on your machine notices. That isn't a marketing promise; it's simply what a file is.
Getting your data out
Export to CSV from inside the tool and open it in anything: a spreadsheet, another app, a text editor. Or keep the HTML file: it is plain, readable, and inspectable; you can open it in a text editor and see your own rows sitting there. No export queue, no "we'll e-mail you a link within 48 hours", no format that only one vendor can read.
Copy the file to a USB stick, a NAS, a folder your devices already sync. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, online or off, because a browser is the only thing it ever needed.
Who else sees this
Nobody. Your Beat / scene, Act and Scene notes never leave the file on your own disk. There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics, and no code in the file that opens a network connection, pull the cable and watch it carry on working. How privacy works across the Creative tools →
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.
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