Penn reads the whole script and marks the line that is not working. It tells you why. Push back and it defends the note or concedes. Here is a note on a sample scene. Replace the scene with yours and read it the same way.
Free. No account. Put the sample back
Penn is an AI reader. It never writes your pages and never trains on them. A note is about your scene, not a template. How we handle your work.
Penn is a reader, not a ghostwriter. It reads your pages and leaves notes in the margin. Your script stays human-authored from FADE IN to FADE OUT, and we never train on your work. Nicholl and Austin ban AI-generated pages, not AI-read pages.
Final Draft formats your script. It has watched a million scripts die on page 32 without saying a word. What is still unsolved is the read, and here is what you have now.
Two weeks, one pass, a number. The report arrives after you have stopped working on the draft. It cannot follow you into the rewrite, and you cannot ask it a question.
It tells you the draft is great, then rewrites it. No page memory, no craft, no spine. Paste a scene and it hands back a different scene with your name on it.
Never gets to it, and too kind when they do. A reader who owes you a swap, has not read past page 30, and is not going to tell you the second act sags.
Open the draft or paste a scene. Fountain, Final Draft, plain text. Penn reads from the top and holds the whole script in mind, so a note on page 40 knows what happened on page 12. Each note sits beside the line it is about and says what is working, what is not, and the question that cracks it open.
Then you argue. Tell Penn the parking line is the point, that Maya deflects because that is who she is. Penn defends the note with the page it came from, or concedes and says what changed its mind. Rewrite, and the next read picks up from what you changed.
Not a mockup. These are screens from the app on a real draft. The pen is yours. Penn's reading sits next to the page.
We do not have a wall of praise yet. We have the notes. Both of these are Penn's real, unedited reads of sample pages. Paste your own above and hold it to the same standard.
Everything here is a read of your work. None of it writes your pages.
Notes on the line. Not a report at the end. A note in the margin, next to the line it is about, while you are still in the scene.
Remembers the whole script. Penn keeps a bible of your characters, promises and threads. A note on page 80 knows what you set up on page 4.
Argues back. Disagree with a note and say so. Penn holds its ground when it is right and concedes when you are. A conversation, not a verdict.
Full coverage when it is ready. A complete read with structure, character, dialogue and a prioritized rewrite plan. In minutes, on every draft.
A craft library. Analyses of 91 produced screenplays. When a note says a scene is a memo, it can show you how a produced script solved the same problem.
Hear it read. A table read of your pages, performed aloud. The fastest way to find the line that does not sound like a person.
You have a draft. Maybe a first one, maybe a fourth. You know something in the middle is not working and you are tired of guessing which thing. You have priced coverage and put it off. The people who offered to read it have not.
Better Draft is for that week. Paste the pages, get the notes tonight, argue with the ones you disagree with, and go back into the draft knowing what to fix. Draft after draft, until the script is ready for the rep, the contest, or the producer who said send it when it is done. If you are still at the logline, the free read above works for that too. The rest of the desk earns its keep once there are pages.
Can I push back on notes I disagree with?Yes, and you should. Tell Penn why the note is wrong and it defends the note or concedes. The argument is the point.
Will this compromise my authorship?No. Penn is an AI reader. It never writes your pages. Notes are not authorship. Nicholl and Austin ban AI-generated pages, not AI-read pages.
Will my script train your AI?Never. Your pages are never trained on and never shared. You own everything you write.
Why not just pay $100 for one human read?Do that too, on the final draft. Better Draft is for the six drafts before it: notes tonight, on every draft, for less per month than one read.
Can an AI really hold a 90-page script?Penn keeps a bible of characters, promises, and threads. A note on page 80 knows what you set up on page 4. Paste a scene above and judge the taste yourself.
We are writers and filmmakers. Every script we finished, we finished because someone in the room read it honestly and early. Most writers never get that room.
So we built a reader. Not a writer. Penn tells you what is not working and why, and leaves the pen in your hand. You are the author. You always will be.
A separate, smaller thing, because your ideas do not keep office hours. Capture the line, the fix, the idea, the moment it hits. Speak it or snap it. It lands on the desk, filed to the right script, ready for your next session at the computer. Open Better Draft Notes.
A native app, signed and notarized by Apple. Your scripts live on your machine as real files, it opens in a second, and your work is there even when the wifi is not. Same account, same Penn, same notes. Free with your account, for Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 12 and up.
Send the whole script to Penn, our AI reader. Usually within 20 minutes you get industry-standard coverage, margin notes pinned to the line, and a day to argue with any of them. $19, one time. No subscription.
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Paste the pages. Get the notes. Argue back. Rewrite.
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