Final Draft Mobile Reviews

Doesn’t use the same shortcuts as the desktop version

Filmgeek47

I’d really love to use this app on iPad. For some reason it’s been designed with an entirely different keyboard workflow than the desktop version. I’ve got a decade’s worth of muscle memory to hit return and various keys to set action-character-dialog etc. Please add an option in settings to “use desktop keyboard shortcuts.” All your hard work on this is pretty useless for me otherwise, as it’s simply not worth the effort to have to relearn how to write with the iPad specific shortcuts you’ve created. EDIT: I’ve generally had a great experience with FD support, but this response is simply incorrect. First off, Final Draft doesn’t have any built in “custom shortcuts” functionality, so I’m not sure what they’re referring to there. But if I use the desktop version and press return, it lets me select an element with various letters (i.e. c for character). On the iPad version it just goes to a new line. No idea why they’ve chosen to uproot the paradigm that has made their software so intuitive on the desktop, but TL;DR, if you love how the desktop version works, don’t bother with this one.

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mall doon

Good creative juice

Bring over the Beat Board

writerwrongphil

The one key feature this app is lacking, besides the handy navigator window as it appears on the desktop version, is the new and improved Beat Board. In fact- if you can add different card types for the beat board for characters, locations, and scenes — kind of how Save the Cat has the index cards for their board. Drop down windows for section headers and q/a for character profiles. Setups and payoff cards too. Your app is the best and will only get better if these options find their way over. There’s no reason to not include it when other apps try but fail at creating something similar. C’mon guys. You got this.

Freezes

Amppph

I paid for this and the app keeps closing on me or freezing up on me, whenever I go to use it.

Unusable on iPad Pro + Dropbox.

stalbot207

I’ve said this in a previous review but this app is unusable on an iPad in landscape. Without a zoom out setting, you are stuck with only viewing a couple lines if you have the keyboard up on screen. And if you have the magic keyboard... it’s only BARELY useable. The app is stuck to scaling the width of the pages to the width of your screen. Which on an iPad 12.9”... makes the text gigantic. Horrible for reviewing pages. Great for writing blind. Not only that but my app keeps freezing when working off a file in Dropbox. The only way to unfreeze and resume work on that file in Dropbox that I can tell is to reboot the device entirely. The developers honestly need to raise the price of the app and or create a subscription service so that they can put actually energy into this. I think MAYBE if you’re on an iPhone this might be acceptable but with iPad’s becoming essentially laptops at this point... there is a huge gap missing between writing on your desktop and writing on your phone. Also I don’t know who these people are who are writing screenplays on their phones. I mean bravo but lets please show some love to the people on iPads.

Good... but could be better

chops131

JUNE 2021 UPDATE - great support this time helping me figure it out - so for anyone with issues exporting to pdf either during or shutting off revision mode - I had the iPad on night mode and when I turned that off, for whatever reason, the pdf exported just fine. On FD Mobile, exporting to PDF while in revision mode causes text to be missing throughout the document. FEB 2021 Revision - support recommends I “don’t use revision mode” - why have it then!? Easy fix I finally figured out by myself is that turning off revision mode fixes the export to PDF issue but that is just a little unfortunate.

Stability Issues

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Excellent app except its tendency to crash, and crash often. Thank goodness for auto save.

Awesome App!

yeshuaforreal

This app is very easy to use and does much of the work for you. All you have to do is write the perfect story. Amazing app to use for scripts!

Needs zoom in/out

Alasdair.Scott

It’s great … until you run it on iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard in Landscape mode … This app needs to have a Zoom function so you can see the page zoomed out … it’s practically unusable in landscape orientation which is a real shame, otherwise a 5 Star product.

Solid but needs more for iPad Pro users

boyoboyitsfun

Love this app but with the Magic Keyboard relegating users to landscape view you really miss out on the real estate afforded in portrait orientation. FD needs to add a feature so you can zoom out to see more than a third of a page at a time.