Written for the
vertical screen.
Microdrama runs on a brutal clock: a hook in the first ten seconds, a turn every minute, a cliff at every episode break. Screenburn is the writing studio built around that clock, with guided development, a Retention Engine that reads your pacing, and an AI that never opens your script. It writes features and TV pilots with the same discipline. Free.
What the studio holds
Retention Engine
Reads your draft the way an audience watches it, scene by scene, hook by hook. Attention leaks get flagged before a viewer ever finds them.
Microdrama Market Context
CherryBowl, our catalogue of more than 35,000 vertical series across 19 platforms, feeds trend context straight into your development choices.
Formats That Fit
Microdrama and YouTube Shorts sit beside feature, TV pilot, short film, novel, short story, and Scripted Reality. Switch format mid-draft without losing work.
The Privacy Wall
Suggestions build from your answers and your structure. The AI has no path into your pages, and Studio-level analysis asks consent first.
Guided Development
Up to 74 story questions, with around twenty more per character. The answers become load-bearing: they drive structure, scenes, and suggestions.
Screenburn Suggests
Stuck on a question? Five real works arrive as reference points, each checkable against the record. Free on every question, for every writer.
A Proper Editor
Courier Prime, automatic element detection, six custom node types, and formatting that holds up in a production office.
Writers Room
Hand Studio a brief and get a complete first pass: concept, characters, every scene drafted. Twenty a month.
Novel Import
A manuscript goes in; a scene-broken screenplay comes out. Studio converts prose without flattening it.
Watermarked Exports
Every Studio export carries a per-recipient fingerprint. A leaked script names its own leaker.
The free tier is the product
Free
$0
Free forever
- ✓Unlimited stories
- ✓All nine formats (feature, TV, microdrama, Brand Story, and more)
- ✓Guided development: up to 74 story questions
- ✓Unlimited characters
- ✓Screenburn Suggests on every question
- ✓Retention Engine: see whether your story holds an audience
- ✓Professional screenplay editor
- ✓Real-time collaboration (you plus one writer)
- ✓All nine export formats (PDF, Final Draft, Fountain, and more)
- ✓Version history with diffs
Studio
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- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓Studio Writers Room: full first-pass drafts, twenty a month
- ✓Novel-to-screenplay import
- ✓Collaboration for the whole team (10 seats)
- ✓Script Mirror voice analysis (with consent)
- ✓Campaign Pack export for Brand Story (calendar, scheduler files)
- ✓Forensic watermarking on exports
- ✓Priority support
- ✓Dedicated account manager (terms apply)
Four moves, one script
Pick a format
Microdrama, feature, pilot, or five more. Each format loads its own structural spine.
Build the cast
Character questions until everyone on the page has a reason for what they do.
Work the questions
Story decisions, one at a time. The structure assembles itself from what you choose.
Write the scenes
The editor keeps versions, runs collaboration live, and exports to nine formats.
Every format, its own spine
Nine formats, each with a structural template and a guided path. Microdrama sits first for a reason.
Microdrama Series
Vertical episodes on a retention clock
Feature Film
The long arc, fully guided
TV Pilot
A season argument in one episode
Short Film
One idea, sharpened
YouTube Shorts
Hooks for the feed
Novel
Prose with structural scaffolding
Short Story
Compression as craft
Scripted Reality
Unscripted shape, scripted spine
Brand Story
Marketing built as story
The craft, written down
Short structural guides on how professional stories hold together.
Where the others stop
| Feature | Screenburn | Final Draft | Celtx | WriterDuet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industry-standard formatting and exports | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited projects on the free plan | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Guided story development | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Retention Engine | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| AI that never reads your script | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Microdrama and vertical formats | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Real-time collaboration on the free plan | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Forensic watermarking with leak tracing | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Watch it work
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Your first episode is twenty answers away
Free covers unlimited stories, every format, the full editor, the Retention Engine, and suggestions on tap. Studio adds the Writers Room, novel import, watermarked exports, and seats for the whole team.