Launching today
Typerino
Screenwriting and playwriting for movies, television, stage.
99 followers
Screenwriting and playwriting for movies, television, stage.
99 followers
Industry-standard screenwriting and stage-play formatting for feature, television, and stage. No Markdown, no syntax: what you type is what gets exported. Mac and Windows. Free 14-day trial, then $11.99/mo, or $99/year.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Charlie, and Typerino is the screenwriting and playwriting app I wanted and couldn't find.
I love the craft and I've spent a lot of time inside the existing tools. I've spent my career as a software designer & builder, so naturally I built my own.
The writing engine is designed from the ground up around a single goal: that it should feel great and look great. Typing should feel crisp and delightful. No perceptible delay between thought and word on the page, even in a feature-length script. Industry-standard formatting is there, the writing surface is clean and quiet, and it runs natively on both Mac and Windows.
I'm calling this 1.0, but I think of it the way screenwriters think of a first draft — the thing you ship so you can start making it better. It's not everything I want it to be yet. It is something I trust you to write in. I'll be patching and adding fast, and I'd genuinely love your notes on what to sharpen next.
Easiest way to feel the difference: download it, open a blank script, and just type for thirty seconds.
I am sure Typerino is a great product, just curious what makes it better than celtx or other tools? I have used Celtx for a couple of stage play scripts a few years ago.
@maddy19 I've used Final Draft, FadeIn, Celtx, and a few others for years. They're all functional and each does some things well, but none of them felt like a pleasure to use. I was inspired by what Vellum did for ebook creation and wanted to bring that same care to screen and stage writing. And since you're writing stage plays... that's a first-class format in Typerino, not an afterthought bolted onto a screenplay editor, which is usually where other tools fall short for playwrights.
The “just type for thirty seconds” point is a good way to frame it. For writing tools, speed and feel matter as much as features, especially when someone is working on a long script.
This is so nicely designed. Have you thought about making themes or ereader export?
This looks really promising! I've already started to import my scripts from StudioBinder to keep working Typerino!
@uxward Thank you Brandon! 🙏