Get a professional-style read of your pages without leaving the editor. Live Coverage scores what you've written on 14 dimensions, gives a Pass, Consider, or Recommend verdict, and quotes the exact lines worth fixing. Stuck? Where next suggests what happens in your next scene. Free to start, no credit card.
Free: 2 full reads a day. No credit card.
Live Coverage is in the desktop editor, on screens 1024px wide or more.
Start Live Coverage creates a free account, then opens a new screenplay with the Live Coverage panel. If you already have an account, the same button opens that panel. The panel is part of the desktop editor, on screens at least 1024 pixels wide. You can write in the Fountain editor or import a .fdx, .fountain, .txt, .pdf, or .docx file. The read uses the draft saved on the script.
Live Coverage will not start on an empty page. The saved draft needs at least 400 characters of story text. The editor tells you to write a page or so first, a scene or two.
Coverage is a full read of the pages written so far. Where next starts from the scene at your cursor, or from the last scene you wrote if the cursor is not in a scene. You can add a question of up to 500 characters, for example how a character gets out of the room.
The panel fills in while the read is still running. A note can jump to its scene. When it quotes a line, Show finds that line, and you can attach the note to the script or dismiss it. Re-running an unchanged draft replays the stored read and does not use your allowance. A read that comes back empty is refunded.
A full read uses the same 14 dimensions as Scripy’s full coverage report. Scores run from 1 to 10 in half-point steps. The weighted overall score waits until at least six dimensions can be scored.
Where the draft is, a logline, a Pass, Consider, or Recommend verdict for the pages as they stand, a headline, and the protagonist’s current goal. The overall score is out of 10. It appears once at least 6 of the 14 dimensions have a score. A dimension the pages cannot support yet is marked n/a.
Problems worth fixing now, most serious first. Each one has a category (continuity, logic, character, structure, pacing, dialogue, clarity, or format), a severity (high, medium, or low), a scene, a title, an explanation, and a concrete fix. The quote is copied from the page and checked against the draft. If that line cannot be found, the note does not show a quote.
Directions for a writer who is stuck. A full read asks for three. Each one has a title, a scene heading, what happens next, what it pays off, what to watch, and the earlier scenes it builds on.
Open threads are setups still waiting for a payoff. Working well is what the read says to protect. After a later read, a previous note is marked fixed when its quoted line is gone and the new read does not raise it again.
Where next is the other mode. It returns where the story stands at the cursor, the question the audience is asking, four directions, and threads the next pages could use.
From the Live Coverage panel, Full coverage report sends the draft to script coverage. That is one AI analysis, separate from the Live Coverage allowance. The finished report is grouped into seven sections.
Logline, overall rationale, named strengths, a closing note, opening-page notes, theme, and reader’s notes.
The same 14 dimensions, each scored out of 10, plus viability, writer potential, and a confidence figure when the read produced them.
A nine-beat sheet with page numbers (on target, early, late, or missing) and story architecture: A, B, and C stories, act-break pages, and structural flags.
Character notes with role, voice, arc, want, and need.
A pacing view by quarter, subtext examples with the on-the-nose line, and a genre checklist.
An appendix of quoted evidence tied to a dimension and a page range.
A rewrite queue with a priority of high, medium, or low, the issue, and a suggestion.
The owner of a saved report can ask follow-up questions in a chat on that report. Market notes can include a target audience, a budget range, commercial and festival scores, and comparable titles when the read produced them.
Live Coverage is on Free, Indie, and Pro. The counts below are full reads. A full read costs 3 units and Where next costs 1, so a Where next run uses a third of a full read. Daily and 30-day windows both apply. Prices are in USD. The full comparison, including annual billing, is on pricing.
| Plan | Price | AI analyses | Live Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 2 lifetime | 2 full reads a day, 10 a month |
| Indie | $19/month, or $190/year | 10 per month | 5 full reads a day, 40 a month |
| Pro | $49/month, or $489/year | Unlimited | 15 full reads a day, 120 a month |
Free analyses do not reset. Indie’s 10 analyses reset at the start of each calendar month. Live Coverage uses its own 24-hour and 30-day windows, not that calendar month.
Two guides on the blog walk through the shape of a coverage report and a blank form you can copy. This page is about running that read in Scripy.
Live Coverage is a read of the screenplay open in the Scripy editor. You run it from the right-hand panel. Coverage scores the pages written so far. Where next starts from the scene at your cursor, or from the last scene you wrote, and can take a question of up to 500 characters. The saved draft needs at least 400 characters of story text before a read will run. On a long draft, scenes far from the start, the end, and your cursor are skimmed.
A full read returns scores on 14 dimensions (Premise, Concept, Plot, Structure, Character, Dialogue, Pacing, Theme, Tone, Logic, Visual Storytelling, Originality, Craft / Presentation, and Marketability), a Pass, Consider, or Recommend verdict, a logline, and a headline. It lists problems to fix, each with a severity, a category, a scene, a quote from the page when the line can be found, and a fix. It also lists directions for the next scene, open threads, and what is working. Notes from the previous read whose quoted line is gone can be marked fixed. Where next returns where the story stands at the cursor, four directions, and threads the next pages could use.
The Live Coverage panel can open a full coverage report. That run is a separate AI analysis and uses one analysis. The report is scored out of 10 with a Pass, Consider, or Recommend verdict, a rationale, named strengths, and a closing note. The screen groups it as Overview, Scores, Story, Characters, Craft, Evidence, and Rewrites: a logline, genre and structural archetype, a nine-beat sheet with page numbers, character notes, opening pages, theme, a pacing view, subtext examples, story architecture, a genre checklist, market notes and comparable titles, a rewrite queue, an evidence appendix, and reader’s notes.
Every plan. Free includes 2 full reads a day (10 every 30 days), Indie 5 a day (40), Pro 15 a day (120). It doesn't use your AI analyses.
A full read costs 3 units and Where next costs 1. Free includes 6 units a day and 30 units every 30 days. Indie includes 15 a day and 120 every 30 days. Pro includes 45 a day and 360 every 30 days. The panel shows whichever window is tighter. Re-running an unchanged draft is free, and a read that comes back empty is refunded.
Free includes 2 AI analyses, and they do not reset. An analysis is one full script coverage report or one production breakdown. Indie is $19 a month, or $190 a year, and includes 10 analyses a month. Those reset at the start of each calendar month, and unused analyses do not roll over. Pro is $49 a month, or $489 a year, and does not cap analyses. Writing in the editor is not metered on any plan.
No. It judges the pages that exist. A missing ending is not scored as a flaw by itself. A dimension the pages cannot support yet is marked n/a, and the overall score waits until at least 6 dimensions have scores. The read still needs at least 400 characters of story text, about a page or a scene or two.
No. You run a read when you want one. It's fast feedback on the pages you've written, so you can fix problems before you pay for human coverage or send the script out.
Free gives you 2 full reads a day and 10 every 30 days. Indie ($19/mo) raises that to 40 every 30 days plus 10 AI analyses a month for full coverage reports. Pro ($49/mo) gives you 120 reads every 30 days and unlimited reports.
Live Coverage is in the desktop editor, on screens 1024px wide or more.