Final Draft v. 11 | The choice of Studios and Production Companies worldwide
Advanced Brainstorming
With Final Draft 11, you can brainstorm, visualize, report, tag, collaborate and customize your writing environment like never before.
Refined Beat Board
Limitless space to organize your ideas in a customizable, visual way. Plan set pieces, store character research, and much more.
- Beats can be anything – plot points, character arcs, research, location ideas
- Beats can contain both stylized text and images
- Drag content to and from your script and Beat Board, preserving formatting
- Color code for easy reference with a vibrant color palette
New Story Map
Connect your Beat Board ideas to your script. Keep on track with visual guideposts to your story.
- Organize Beats and Structure Points from the Beat Board
- View Beat content easily while writing
- Visually plan milestones and plot points
- Easily navigate your script and Beat Board
Streamlined Writing and Editing
Final Draft 11 automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards allowing writers to focus on what they do best: writing.
Real-Time Collaboration
Collaborate simultaneously with your writing partners IN REAL TIME - around the corner - or around the world.
Easier Formatting
Use your creative energy to focus on your story and characters — let Final Draft take care of the rest.
Title Page
All Final Draft templates come with industry standard title pages that are easy to customize.
Tab & Enter
Use just the Tab and Enter keys to write your script quickly and easily.
Format Assistant
Be confident your script is professionally formatted before you print or email it.
Reformat Tool
Speed through the reformatting process when importing different file types.
Automatic Backup Folder
Protect your work with automatic file backups.
Agile Production
Final Draft is used by 95% of film, television and multimedia productions to get from page to screen.
Revision Mode
- Mark and review all changes to take a script through production. Set your revision colors, lock pages, omit scenes - Final Draft makes it easy.
- Add, edit or remove scene numbers throughout your script
- Lock Pages so your revisions don’t affect your page numbers
- Export to PDF in Revision Mode with industry standard colors
- Protect your script with customizable watermarks on PDFs and printed pages
- Omit a scene to make last minute changes without disrupting production
Tags Mode
- Powerful reporting, your way - create custom reports on any element of your script.
- Dig into your script by tracking customizable story elements and character traits
- Get ready for production by Tagging costume, props, locations and more
- n for budgeting and scheduling
Final Draft v. 11 | The choice of Studios and Production Companies worldwide
Unicode Support - Final Draft 11 ships with fonts which support over 97 different languages. Users can also add their own fonts to type in additional languages.
Pagination & Page Management - Automatically format and paginate to industry standards. Meet page count requirements by using any of the Final Draft 11 custom formatting tools.
Keyboard Shortcuts - Customize your workflow and save time.
Automatic Backup Folder - Protect your work with automatic file backups.
- Final Draft automatically formats and paginates screenplays and teleplays to entertainment industry standards
- Prominent filmmakers such as Guillermo del Toro, David Lynch, J.J. Abrams, and Sofia Coppola recommend using Final Draft.
- The market leader and the preferred file format of the Writers Guild of America West online Script registration
- Final Draft is the proud recipient of a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award
- Scripts created in Final Draft 11 on Windows, Macintosh or in the Final Draft Mobile app for and iPhone/iPad look exactly the same



