FOR SCREENWRITERS & STORYTELLERS
StoryBreak is your virtual corkboard. Add scene cards, drop in structural beats, tag your characters, drag everything into order — then export to Fountain and write.
7-DAY FREE TRIAL · NO ACCOUNT · NO INSTALL · WORKS ON IPAD
Every writer knows the ritual. Cards spread across a table, a wall, a floor. Scenes rearranged until the structure finally clicks into place. It's the most natural way to think about story.
Final Draft buries this under a word processor. Milanote is a generic board that has no idea what a midpoint is. Scrivener requires a weekend to learn.
StoryBreak does one thing: gives you a corkboard that understands screenplay structure — beats, acts, character arcs — without getting in the way of the writing.
"The corkboard is where the movie lives before it becomes a script. Don't skip it."
Download one HTML file. Open it in any browser — Chrome, Safari, Firefox — on laptop or iPad. No install. No account. Pick your structure template and name your project. You're working in thirty seconds.
Add scene cards, write what happens, drop in structural beat markers, tag characters, set statuses. Drag everything around until the structure feels right. Or paste in an existing script and let StoryBreak auto-detect your scenes and beats.
When the structure clicks, export to Fountain and open in Final Draft, Highland, or WriterDuet. Or export a treatment, story bible, CSV, or plain text. Your corkboard becomes the roadmap for your first draft.
Not a word processor with a card view bolted on. Every feature exists to serve the structure of the story.
Each card holds a scene title, scene content, writer's notes, a status tag, and character labels. Everything you'd write on a physical card — plus search, filtering, and unlimited undo.
COREThree-Act Structure (11 beats), Save the Cat® (all 15 beats), TV Structure (cold open through cliffhanger), and Hero's Journey (all 12 stages). Drop any beat marker between any cards.
STRUCTUREPaste any Fountain script, numbered outline, or chapter list. StoryBreak reads the scene headings, act breaks, and structural keywords — turning them into cards and beat markers automatically.
PROTag characters to scene cards. Filter the board to any single character and instantly see their complete arc. Spot gaps, imbalances, and scenes where a subplot character disappears for thirty pages.
PROWriting a TV pilot and a feature at the same time? Switch between projects instantly from the Projects panel. Each saves separately and auto-syncs every second as you work.
BUILT-INHit Share and StoryBreak generates a single link with your entire project inside it. Open it on your iPad, your laptop, a coffee shop computer — your full corkboard loads instantly, no account needed.
BUILT-INFountain, Plain Text, CSV, HTML Treatment, Act Storybreak, and Story Bible. Print physical index cards in three sizes. Export a PDF-ready treatment for producers and development meetings.
PRONo cloud. No account. No subscription server. Your story lives in your browser and in a downloaded file. Nothing leaves your device unless you choose to export or share it.
PRIVACYDrop beat markers between your scene cards to map your story against any structural system — or mix and match across all four.
| FEATURE | FINAL DRAFT | MILANOTE | SCRIVENER | STORYBREAK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $100 | $12.50/mo | $60 | $14 |
| Dedicated corkboard | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Understands screenplay structure | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Beat markers — 4 systems | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Auto-detect beats on import | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Character arc tracking | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Open on any device, no account | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| No subscription ever | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Steep learning curve | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ |
Full Pro access for 7 days — no card, no account. Then $14 once to keep it forever.
WORKS EVERYWHERE
I was breaking a feature — a non-linear story with three interlocking timelines. I did what writers do. Bought a pack of index cards, wrote one scene per card, spread them across every flat surface I could find, and started moving things around until the structure made sense.
It worked — until it didn't. I added a scene in Act Two and had to shift twenty cards. I moved a flashback and half the floor stopped making sense. I wanted to show my writing partner where we were and ended up texting a blurry photo of a table. And every time the story changed — which is always, because stories always change — I was on my knees rewriting cards I'd already written.
The problem wasn't the index card method. The problem was the cards were physical. I needed them to be dragable, editable, shareable — somewhere my writing partner and I could both look at the same board from wherever we were and actually work together on the structure.
I looked for that tool for a long time. Tried a lot of things. Nothing did exactly what a pile of cards on a table does — just without the table. So I built it myself. One file, no account, works anywhere. That's StoryBreak.
— JOSH, CREATOR OF STORYBREAK
Open StoryBreak in your browser right now. No install, no account, no friction. Add your first scene card in thirty seconds.