Storyist

Well designed storyboards (index card format) which integrate nicely with main manuscript. Best when used with bluetooth keyboard.

I love the features this app includes, it has everything you need to write a screenplay. JUST REMEMBER THIS IS MY FAVORITE SCREENWRITING APP FOR THE IPAD!!! The good: 1) YES IT HAS FDX. support... WHICH IS HUGE 2) extended keyboard makes switching from dialogue to scene heading to whatever easy! 3) automatic formatting, for example: you write a character then press return and it automatically goes to dialogue. Or if you start typing a character name or scene heading that you've already typed a bubble pops up with what it thinks you're typing and then all you have to do it either tap return and it'll fill it in automatically or tap the character name/scene heading that is in the bubble. 4) "title page" file is automatically included in each project you create, you just have to switch out the information provided with your actual information. 5) Has story sheet file types, these include, character, plot point, setting, scene sheet, and section sheet. Using these story sheets you can provide information that can't be as easily/directly expressed through the screenplay. 6) folders, 'nough said. 7) and my favorite the perfect amount of IMPORTING/EXPORTING OPTIONS. 8) dropbox support. BUT WITH EACH NEW FEATURE COMES PROBLEMS.... The bad: 1) there is no tutorial, there's a "Getting Started" project file.... This is frustrating because it's in the way AND if you delete it you are out of luck if you get confused or lost. 2) When you create a new project is included default files that you have to delete EVERYTIME you create a new project, this is a good and bad feature because it makes things like writing a title page as easy as fill in the blank BUT I would very much so prefer a "on/off" button for each of the default files so that you don't have to delete the "about this template" file EVERY TIME YOU CREATE A NEW PROJECT! 3) it's difficult edit headers and footers 4) You cannot rename files while the file is open, you have to edit it from the outside of the file by tapping the title The ugly 1) Notecards make 0 sense, not that they are a stupid idea but I HATE that it creates notecards AUTOMATICALLY, another feature I wish I could turn on and off, + the deleting a notecard removes the information that caused the app to create the notecard in the first place, and by that I mean "if you create a new scene, then the app automatically creates a notecard, if you delete said notecard then it deletes the ENTIRE SCENE... Yet again anther feature I want to be optional. 2) IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DELETE STICKY NOTES... This is a headache, especially when you have some notecards full of relevant information and other with things like "rewrite this paragraph" (or scene or dialogue or whatever)... Once you've rewritten whatever it was you wanted to rewrite THE ONLY WAY to not see that irrelevant sticky note is to turn off ALL your sticky notes, this doesn't delete them it just makes them invisible. 3) iPhone app is useless for screenwriters, this is due to that fact that the extended keyboard doesn't include the same formatting options that make the IPad app so easy to use. If you want a screenwriting app for your phone or iPod I'd go with Fade In.... It's easy to use and gets out of your way. Although it doesn't have as many features as Storyist.

Storyist is a great app, but its code does not allow the Zoom feature in IOS 8 to employ its "Follow Focus" function, which would allow me (and many other visually impaired writers) to use this app comfortably. Please, please update Storyist to include support for "Follow Focus," so I can actually see what I'm writing.

The index card function is slick and powerful...when it works. There's a few bugs that I hope they work out. And I can finally keep copies of my scripts on google drive. That wasn't supported with my FadeIn Pro app. The word processing section is amazing.

After years of waiting, I finally jumped ship waiting for literature and lattes to come out with an iPad companion app for Scrivener. I was told about storyist and jumped in with both feet. A few issues - first is the app does not automatically sync documents, this is up to you to do as the user. I'm told that the new storyist Mac app syncs with iCloud but no such option available in app. The design is a little plain and as I am running iOS 8, it looks more dull than it would otherwise and has a few up bugs which I don't think are directly the apps fault, but it would be great if there were updated to iOS 8. Over a year since the last update and while I would admit this doesn't need to be changed every 30 seconds, it would be nice to keep up with OS updates. 5 stars when we get iCloud sync in app and iOS 8 update.