What's new
What we have built, month by month, in BlackSlate and BlackSlate for Writers.
Your account
Download a copy of everything you have saved, or delete your account and its data, from the account page.
Legal
The Terms, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy now live in one place on blackslate.ai, and the app links to them.
Security
A published security contact (security.txt) for anyone who finds a vulnerability.
Milestones
Anniversaries of real events, people and works from 2027 to 2034, each with the reason it matters.
Thematic Debates
100 live public arguments, with both sides set out, as starting points for drama.
US rights evidence
Each record shows what the US date rests on: the renewal search, the rule applied, and what is still unchecked.
Line bank and music cues
Writers can collect lines they want to keep, and tag music to a passage of the script.
Typewriter
An optional typewriter sound for the editor, built from real recordings.
Scene tools
Reorder and omit scenes, add notes to lines, rename a character everywhere at once, and compare two drafts side by side.
Beats
Mark story beats on the page; predicted beats show dashed until the writer confirms them.
Preview Links and folders
Share a read-only preview of a script, and sort scripts into folders on the slate.
Persistent undo
Undo history survives closing the script.
Clearance check
Scan a script for named brands, people and places that may need clearance, and read the results as a report.
A4 by default
New scripts start on A4, the UK page, with US Letter one setting away.
Story structure
A structure guide scaled to the length of the script, with acts you can hover and jump to.
Scene navigator and reports
Jump between scenes, and see every character and location with where they appear.
Revision mode
Coloured drafts and locked pages, the way production revisions are issued.
Final Draft and PDF
Import and export Final Draft (.fdx) files, and export a correctly formatted PDF.
Title page and dual dialogue
A title page editor, and two characters speaking at once.
Undo, scene numbers, find and replace
The editing basics a screenplay needs.
Groundswell
Stories people are already telling online, scored for how they could work on screen and checked for clearance risk.
Honest US rights
Records no longer claim US public domain status where the renewal has not been checked; they say "Not verified".
Better genres and synopses
Genres filled in from TMDb, Wikidata and Open Library, and synopses shown where we have them.
Bold, italic, underline
Inline styling in the screenplay editor.
Slate report
Export the whole slate and its deal terms as one report.
Deal terms, Signals and Casting
Track option fees, terms and dates for each project; see the evidence that a project fits the market; and find cast with the reasons behind each suggestion.
BlackSlate for Writers
The screenplay editor for writers on a producer's slate, with correct page breaks.
Find the next project before anyone else does
Producers and development teams start here. Writers come in through the producer who has them on a slate.