The system now also includes voice-to-text capabilities so you can dictate your next screenplay just by talking to your computer. You can also use the room to brainstorm ideas using the Beat Board view, essentially a cork board that makes it easy to put up ideas, scenes, or characters.
Final Draft creates a chatroom where you and your collaborators can sit and work together on a single document and the changes are visible on all copies of the text. The most important change is the decidedly proprietary collaboration system. Now the latest version is beginning to offer many competitive features including collaboration tools and powerful formatting tricks. While most of us are content with Word or Google Docs, screenwriters have gotten used to Final Draft’s unique key combinations and styling but made do with software that was, to be fair, far behind the state of the art. It’s an app dedicated to writing and developing screenplays and it has stood the test of time, going through 11 iterations to reach this latest version, the pinnacle of screenwriting warez. Of all the fascinating apps to be found out in the wild I’m especially enamored of Final Draft.
