A simple screenwriter
with a terrible name
Mr. Wryly
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A simple screenwriter with a terrible name
Mr. Wryly is built for writing screenplays in your browser. It's free, simple, and uses Fountain so your work stays portable. For the safest experience, turn on Cloud Backup to save your scripts to your own Google Drive. You can also use Mr. Wryly without Cloud Backup, but local-only mode stores just one script at a time.
Mr. Wryly is in beta. It's new and still being polished, so bugs are possible. Please back up your work and report anything that breaks.
Fountain is a plain-text screenplay format. It was made so that anybody could write a screenplay in any text editor. Mr. Wryly is one of many tools designed to make that even easier. For more information, and to see other tools, visit fountain.io.
Just start writing your screenplay. Mr. Wryly will try to figure out whether you are typing a character, action, dialogue, and so on, and then format everything properly. If he guesses wrong, use the format bar to manually assign a line type.
Scenes are added to the scene list as you go, and you can use that list to jump around your screenplay. The Stats panel tracks your scene count, characters, and locations. Click any of those numbers to open a full panel — you can rename characters and locations globally, and export a scene breakdown as a CSV.
Tip: Click "Characters" in the Stats panel to globally change the name of a character throughout the script.
Import opens a .fountain, .fdx, .pdf, or .txt file from your computer and brings it into Mr. Wryly. When Cloud Backup is on, importing adds the file to your script library. When Cloud Backup is off, importing replaces the one local script after a warning.
When Cloud Backup is on, Scripts shows your whole screenplay library. You can switch between scripts, download copies, or delete old work. When Cloud Backup is off, Mr. Wryly stores only one local script, but Scripts is where you can download older snapshots of that script.
Cloud Backup saves your work to Google Drive so it's safe even if your local browser storage is cleared. It's optional and free, and highly recommended. Without Cloud Backup, you can only work on one screenplay at a time in Mr. Wryly.
With Cloud Backup, you can store and switch between several screenplays, keep snapshots and revisions, and pick up on one device where you left off on another. You just need a Google Account.
Save a Copy downloads the currently active script as a .fountain file. It is useful for portability and extra safety, but it does not include older snapshots. If you need to download older snapshots, you can do that in Scripts.
Snapshots are saved versions of your script that you can browse and restore. Mr. Wryly creates them automatically when you take big actions you might want to roll back, or just if it's been a while since your last snapshot. You can also create one yourself with Add Now in the Snapshots panel.
With Cloud Backup on, snapshots are part of your cloud-backed library. With Cloud Backup off, snapshots are local-only and belong to the one local script.
Source shows the raw Fountain text behind the formatted editor. It is useful when you want to paste, clean up, or directly edit the plain-text version of the script.
Focus hides the side panels so you can concentrate on just your writing.
The Ambience panel lets you turn on some ambient noise to help you concentrate. Personally, I use the brown noise.
PDF Export settings control what gets included when you preview or download a PDF. You can include or hide the title page, page numbers, and scene numbers.
Preview shows an approximate paginated version of your screenplay. When you download the PDF, page breaks and layout may differ slightly from the preview.
The Settings panel has options like turning off typewriter scrolling, automatic CONT'D, name and location autocomplete, and lets you set other defaults.
Mr. Wryly is intentionally lighter than a full screenwriting app. It is good for drafting and working with Fountain text, but it does not try to replace production tools with collaboration, locked pages, revision colors, and so on. Maybe some day.
Mr. Wryly was built by David Friedman with help from Claude.
Fountain format was created by John August and Stu Maschwitz. Fountain parsing uses fountain-js by Jonny Greenwald (based on the original by Matt Daly), MIT licensed.
Courier Prime by Quote-Unquote Apps and DM Sans by Colophon Foundry are both served via Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License.
Mr. Wryly doesn't collect personal information, doesn't have accounts, and doesn't send your scripts anywhere — unless you choose to turn on Cloud Backup, in which case your work is stored in your own Google Drive. For more, read the full Privacy Policy.
Found a bug or have feedback? Email david@ironicsans.com.
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