FOR SCREENWRITERS & STORYTELLERS

Every great script
started on index cards. Build your story before you write a single page.

Your virtual corkboard. Scene cards, structural beats, character tags, drag-and-drop ordering. Export to Fountain, PDF, or print real index cards. Find the layout that fits your process.

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ACT ONE
KEEP
INT. LOWER PRICE HILL - NIGHT
Marie walks the strip, sodium lamps turning everything amber. A cop car slows. She doesn't run.
◆ INCITING INCIDENT
ACT TWO
REWORK
INT. REDEEMED HOME - DAY
First intake. Marie sits across from Stephanie. Neither of them speaks first. The clock ticks.
◈ MIDPOINT
ACT THREE
NEW
INT. COFFEE SHOP - MORNING
She serves someone from her old life. Doesn't flinch. Pours the coffee. Moves on.
★ RESOLUTION
SEE IT IN ACTION

Your story wall. Your way.

Drag scenes between acts, mark what works, track every thread. Board view to think, Script view to build.

Board view with scene cards across multiple timelines Card editor showing scene content, status, connections Beat markers from Save the Cat, 3-Act, and Hero's Journey Script view showing linear scene order Status system: Keep, Cut, Rework, New

The Board

Every card is a scene. Every column is a timeline. Drag to rearrange. Think visually.

Inside a Card

Title, scene content, notes, conflict, connections. Everything about the scene lives here.

Beat Markers

Drop structural beats from four systems: 3-Act, Save the Cat, Hero's Journey, and TV.

Script View

Same cards, linear order. The sequence your audience experiences. Drag to reorder.

Status System

Tag every scene KEEP, CUT, REWORK, or NEW. See your count at a glance. Edit without deleting.

"Before Chinatown. Before The Shawshank Redemption. Before any great screenplay existed on paper, it existed on index cards."

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."

HOW IT WORKS

Three steps.
No learning curve.

01

Create your free account

Sign up in seconds. Email, Google, Discord, or Facebook. Free account, no credit card. Your projects sync automatically so your story is always there on any device, any browser.

02

Build your story card by card

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.

03

Export and write

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.

FEATURES

Everything on
the corkboard.

Free account. No install. Every tool a screenwriter needs to build structure before they write a word.

FREE
🃏

Virtual Index Cards

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.

FREE
◆

Four Complete Beat Systems

Three-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.

FREE
🗂

Multiple Projects

Writing a TV pilot and a feature at the same time? Switch between projects instantly from the Projects panel. Each project saves separately and stays right where you left it.

FREE
☁️

Cloud Sync

Sign in and your projects follow you everywhere. Open on any device, any browser. Your full corkboard is always there. Your data is yours, secured with row-level encryption.

FREE
🔗

Share Any Project

Hit Share and StoryBreak generates a single link with your entire project inside it. Open it on any device. Your full corkboard loads instantly for anyone you share it with.

FREE
PRO
⚡

Smart Import

Paste 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.

PRO
👤

Character Tracking

Create a character and StoryBreak auto-detects their name every time you write it. Filter the board to any character and instantly see every scene they appear in. Spot gaps, imbalances, and scenes where a subplot character disappears for thirty pages.

PRO
↗

Six Export Formats + Print

Fountain, 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.

PRO
🎯

Story Connections

Link any two cards as Setup & Payoff, Plant & Reveal, or Foreshadow & Callback. Color-coded tags appear on each card so you can track every thread at a glance. No tangled lines.

PRO
🎬

Present Mode: Live Story Room

Push a live view of your board to any screen. AirPlay, HDMI, or a second monitor. Work in the editor while your writing partner or team watches every change happen in real time. Hover a card and it lights up on screen. Type a new line and they see it instantly. Like Google Docs for your corkboard.

PRO
STRUCTURAL BEATS

Every framework
a writer needs.

Drop beat markers between your scene cards to map your story against any structural system, or mix and match across all four.

THREE-ACT STRUCTURE
🎬 Opening Image 🏠 Setup ◆ Inciting Incident ▶ End of Act One ⚡ Pinch Point 1 ◈ Midpoint 🔥 Pinch Point 2 ▶ End of Act Two ★ Climax ◎ Resolution 🎞 Closing Image
SAVE THE CAT® / BLAKE SNYDER
🎬 Opening Image 💬 Theme Stated 🏠 Set-Up 💥 Catalyst ⚖ Debate 🚪 Break Into Two ❤ B Story 🎲 Fun and Games ◈ Midpoint 🔥 Bad Guys Close In 💀 All Is Lost 🌑 Dark Night of the Soul 💡 Break Into Three 🏆 Finale 🎞 Final Image
TV STRUCTURE
📺 Cold Open / Teaser ▶ Act One Break ▶ Act Two Break ▶ Act Three Break ▶ Act Four Break ◈ Mid-Episode Turn ◎ Tag / Coda 📡 Season Arc Beat ⚠ Cliffhanger
HERO'S JOURNEY / JOSEPH CAMPBELL
🌍 Ordinary World 📯 Call to Adventure 🚫 Refusal of the Call 🧙 Meeting the Mentor 🚪 Crossing the Threshold ⚔ Tests / Allies / Enemies 🏔 Approach to Inmost Cave 💀 The Ordeal 🏆 Reward ↩ The Road Back ✨ Resurrection 🌟 Return with Elixir
COMPARISON

Why not just use
what already exists?

FEATUREFINAL DRAFTMILANOTESCRIVENERSTORYBREAK
Price$100$12.50/mo$60Free / $9/mo
Dedicated corkboard✕✓✓✓
Understands screenplay structure✓✕✕✓
Beat markers (4 systems)✕✕✕✓
Auto-detect beats on import✕✕✕✓
Auto character tracking✕✕✕✓
Story connections (setup → payoff)✕✕✕✓
Live presentation mode✕✕✕✓
Projects sync across devices✕✓✕✓
Lifetime option available✓✕✓✓
Steep learning curve✓✕✓✕
PRICING

Start free. No credit card.
When you're ready, Pro is $9/month.

Free account forever with core features. Upgrade when you're ready, or don't. Your work is always yours.

FREE
Free
Start here. Always free. Enough to feel it.
  • Up to 10 cards
  • 2 timelines
  • Board view + Script view
  • Core beat markers
  • Cloud sync, your work is always saved
  • No credit card required
Start Free →
PRO
$9/mo
The full break. Cancel anytime.
  • Unlimited cards, timelines & characters
  • Presentation mode, live story room on any screen
  • Cloud sync across every device
  • Smart Import, paste any script, auto-detect scenes
  • Story Connections, link setup → payoff
  • 6 export formats including Fountain, Story Bible, CSV, and more
  • 6 print layouts including physical index cards
  • Character tracking, tag, filter, see any arc
Go Pro / $9/month →
PRO ANNUAL SAVE 27%
$79/yr
Two months free. Same full Pro, just smarter math.
  • Everything in Pro
  • $6.58/mo effective, two months free
  • Billed annually, cancel anytime
  • Presentation mode, live story room on any screen
  • Smart Import, paste any script, auto-detect scenes
  • Story Connections, link setup → payoff
  • All exports & print layouts
  • Character tracking, tag, filter, see any arc
Go Pro Annual / $79/year →
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Own it forever. One payment. Every feature we ever ship. This price goes away when the launch window closes, and it won't come back.
  • Everything in Pro, forever
  • Lifetime access, no renewal, no subscription
  • Every future feature included
  • Launch pricing, this offer is not permanent
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Every feature in StoryBreak was built by one person. No VC funding. No team. Just the tool, and the belief that writers deserve something built for the way they actually work.

WORKS EVERYWHERE

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WHY I BUILT THIS

I bought the index cards.
Then I built the app.

I was developing a feature film with three separate timelines that had to weave together. A present-day story, a past story, and a subplot, plus a whole layer of backstory that may or may not make the final cut. I needed to see all of it at once, lay out every beat, and figure out how they fit together before I wrote a single page of script.

So I did what writers do. Bought index cards, markers, and a foam core board. Started writing every scene point and beat on its own card and pinning them up by timeline. It worked for about an hour. Then I realized I was going to be hand-writing hundreds of cards, and every time the story changed I'd be back on my feet rewriting and repinning everything from scratch.

What I needed was the same thing, just virtual. Three timelines running side by side. A fourth for backstory and the scenes I wasn't sure about yet. The ability to drag cards around instantly, update a beat in two seconds, and then collapse all four timelines into one master sequence to see the whole story in order.

I looked for that tool. Nothing did exactly what a physical corkboard does, just without the board. So I built it myself. That's StoryBreak. Four timelines, one script view, full flexibility, no install. Exactly what I needed, and now it's yours too.

- JOSH, CREATOR OF STORYBREAK

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USE IT ON YOUR IPAD

Add StoryBreak to your home screen.

StoryBreak works as a full app on your iPad through Safari. No App Store needed.

1. Open storybreak.app in Safari

2. Tap the Share button (square with arrow)

3. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen

4. Tap Add

It launches fullscreen, works offline, and feels native. Your projects sync automatically.

GET STARTED

The corkboard
is open.

Start free. No credit card. When you're ready to go all in, Pro is $9/month.

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