Knovela
About

Knovela — screenplay & story platform

Piece together the story. See it take shape.

Knovela is a screenplay writing app with a visual timeline, plotline visualization, franchise-level characters, branching drafts, and a proper screenplay block editor.

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Scene 01 — Opening · click any line to edit

Visual timeline

See your story laid out on a visual timeline.

Chapters stack vertically. Scenes sit under their chapter with locations, times, and cast. Plotline lanes connect the subplots that run across the whole story.

SubplotsRedemption arcLost siblingThe bet

Act I — Setup

INT.NIGHTWriter's desk

The writer opens a blank page

Writer
EXT.DAYDowntown street

The inciting tragedy

WriterStranger

Act II — Confrontation

INT.DUSKDiner

A subplot surfaces

WriterBarista
EXT.NIGHTRooftop

The midpoint reversal

WriterStranger
INT.DAYDiner

Characters collide

StrangerBarista

Act III — Resolution

INT.DAWNWriter's desk

The quiet ending

Writer
Editing

Block editor — try it

The screenplay editor, in your browser. No signup.

All six screenplay elements. A slash menu to switch between them. The real editor, minus our backend.

Try it · Type / to change element

Keyboard · Enter new line · Backspace remove empty line · / element menu

Drag-and-drop order

Rearrange the story without rewriting it.

Grab a scene, drop it where it belongs. Chapters, scenes, and plotlines all reorder in place — no copy-paste, no lost context. Try it below.

Try it · Drag a scene to reorder

  1. Scene 1INT.NIGHTWriter's desk

    The blank page

    Writer
  2. Scene 2EXT.DAYDowntown street

    The inciting tragedy

    WriterStranger
  3. Scene 3INT.DUSKDiner

    A subplot surfaces

    WriterBarista
  4. Scene 4EXT.NIGHTRooftop

    The midpoint reversal

    WriterStranger
  5. Scene 5INT.DAWNWriter's desk

    The quiet ending

    Writer

Keyboard · Tab to the grip · Space to lift · ↑ ↓ to move · Space to drop

Franchise

Franchise · Characters

Characters live across your whole universe.

Write Maya once. She stays consistent in the pilot, the spin-off, and the standalone. Every scene she's in is one click away.

Lead

Maya Reyes

Ex-detective. Tells the truth even when it costs her.

The Long NightSmoke & SaltCoda
Supporting

Jules Okafor

Maya's partner. Reads the room before it can lie to him.

The Long NightCoda
Recurring

The Barista

Owns the only diner open past 3 a.m. Hears everything.

Smoke & SaltCoda

Franchise · Locations

Locations remember their history.

Every place you write stores where it's appeared and what happened there. The diner isn't just a scene heading — it's the set of every confession in the show.

Recurring

The Diner

Every major confession happens over burnt coffee here.

In 11 scenes

Exterior

Rooftop

Two meetings, one fight, one kiss — always at night.

In 4 scenes

Interior

Writer's desk

Frames the story. Opens and closes the series.

In 6 scenes

Franchise · Ideas

Capture the ideas that aren't scenes yet.

Scribbled notes, half-formed arcs, a line of dialogue overheard on the bus. Keep them next to the project they belong to until they're ready to become a beat.

SceneReady

Maya finds a second photograph

Mirror to the pilot's diner scene — this time she's the one sliding the photo across.

ArcDeveloping

Jules has a brother nobody knew about

Thread through season 2. Pays off the 'lost sibling' subplot from episode 3.

One-linerSeed

Coffee, always cold

Running visual motif. Someone is always the last person at the table.

BeatDeveloping

The barista's knowing look

Non-verbal moment. She knows more than she's saying — about everyone.

Versions

Versions & drafts

Branch a version. Try the ending that scares you.

Fork any draft into a parallel version. Compare side-by-side. Keep the take you love — or merge the best of both.

v1 · Main draft
v2 · Noir rewrite
v3 · Happy ending
v4 · Ending merged back

Versions · Diffs

See exactly what changed between drafts.

Compare any two versions side-by-side. Modified lines flag amber, additions green, and removals red — the same color language the app uses on the timeline.

SCENE 01 — The Deadline

ModifiedAddedRemoved
Main·Without Knovela
Alternative ending·With Knovela
INT. WRITER'S DESK — NIGHT
INT. WRITER'S DESK — NIGHT
A WRITER stares at a blank page. Three hours to deadline. Index cards spill across the floor.
A WRITER opens Knovela. The timeline fills with every scene they've already outlined.
WRITER
I had the whole thing in my head an hour ago.
WRITER
I had the whole thing. Turns out the app has been holding it for me.
The writer pushes the notebook away. The deadline passes. Silence.
The writer pushes the notebook away. The deadline passes. Silence.
—
Scenes click into place on the timeline. The writer types the last line, smiling.
FADE TO BLACK.
FADE OUT. NEW PROJECT.
Team

Team · Roles

Three roles. Clear boundaries. No 'shared doc' chaos.

Organizations group projects and people. Every member has a role that decides what they can see, edit, and ship — so you can invite a showrunner, a co-writer, and a producer without re-explaining permissions every time.

Role

Owner

Founds the room. Invites members. Can transfer the whole organization.

Role

Editor

Writes scenes, branches versions, and edits the timeline alongside the rest of the team.

Role

Viewer

Reads the current draft and leaves comments — useful for early readers and producers.

Team · Members

Invite collaborators without leaving the document.

Add an email. Pick a role. Done. Members land in the project with the right permissions the moment they accept the invite.

Invite to organization

Demo — no email actually sent

  • Andrea Chen

    andrea@studio.com

    Owner

  • Noah Patel

    noah@studio.com

    Editor

  • Dana Ortiz

    dana@studio.com

    Editor

  • Kai Okafor

    kai+reader@producers.tv

    Viewer
Import & Export

Import

Import an existing draft and turn it into a working story.

Pull in the screenplay you already have. Knovela parses the script, generates scenes, plotlines, characters, and locations, and turns the draft into structured story data you can keep rewriting with.

FDXFountainPDFDOCXTXT

Upload the draft

Bring in a screenplay from Final Draft, Fountain, PDF, DOCX, or plain text without rebuilding the project by hand.

Parse the structure

Knovela parses the script and generates scenes, dialogue blocks, characters, and locations inside the same structured workspace you write in.

Keep shaping

Review the imported draft, merge entity matches, and keep outlining, rewriting, and exporting from there.

WHAT YOU GET

Scenes

Generated from the draft and ready to reorder.

Characters

Extracted into a trackable cast list.

Plotlines

Inferred from the draft and linked to the scenes they drive.

Locations

Pulled into a reusable story library.

Dialogue & action

Preserved as structured screenplay blocks.

Export

Export a polished screenplay PDF when the draft is ready to travel.

After importing, outlining, and revising, export a screenplay PDF with proper margins, Courier, slug lines, dialogue, and parentheticals in the format producers expect.

Industry-standard PDF

1.5″ left margin · Courier 12pt · Proper slug lines

Updates

Shipping next

Coming soon.

What's already in flight. Join the updates list so you don't miss launch day.

Next up

Realtime collaboration

Co-write with live cursors, presence, and inline comments. Invite a showrunner without sending a zip file.

In exploration

Audio generation

Hear your scenes read back with per-character voices. Catch rhythm problems before a table read.

In exploration

Storyboard generation

Turn shot lines into framed images. Visualize a sequence without leaving the timeline.

Product updates

Get product updates — early access, new features, release notes.

One email, occasionally, with shipped features and early-access invites. No noise.