Prewrite review

Prewrite is a visual workspace for planning, organizing, and writing story projects. It brings outlines, scenes, characters, and screenplay drafts together, with support for projects such as screenplays, novels, podcasts, videos, and business stories.

Its seven views—Connects Home, Timeline, Cards, Page, Characters, Stats, and Slideshow—offer different ways to work with the same story material. Prewrite also includes templates for structures such as Three-Act, Save the Cat, Hero’s Journey, Story Circle, and Freytag. You can rename elements, restructure a template, or build a custom structure.

For screenplay projects, Prewrite imports PDF, FDX, and Fountain files and organizes scenes, characters, and scripts. It works with Final Draft or without it. A story library lets writers browse, copy, and edit stories. The Free plan covers one story; paid plans start at $14.99 monthly, or $12.44 per month with annual billing.

Prewrite’s main strength is keeping planning material and draft-related work in one workspace. Instead of committing to a single outline format, writers can use different views for story elements: Timeline, Cards, Page, Characters, Stats, and Slideshow are available alongside Connects Home. The published material lists the views, but doesn’t detail how their contents differ, so it’s worth checking whether they fit your workflow before switching.

The templates give writers several established starting points, while custom structures avoid locking a project into one prescribed framework. That flexibility is useful if a template is a starting scaffold rather than a rulebook. Screenplay import also supports PDF, FDX, and Fountain, and Prewrite says it can organize imported scenes, characters, and scripts. Final Draft is not required.

• The Free plan includes story templates, screenplay import, script exports, and read-only share links.
• Premium adds unlimited stories, one-sheet and Story Packet exports, Prewrite story-file import, and premium support.
• Pro adds viewer and editor collaborators at no charge, plus Timeline Poster, PowerPoint, Scene Cards, Character Sheets, Story Report, and CSV exports.

That makes the plan differences relatively clear: the higher tiers are aimed at more projects, richer exports, or collaboration.

The Free plan is limited to one story. That’s enough to assess the workspace on a single project, but not to manage several active stories without upgrading. It includes script exports and read-only share links, but the plan details reserve several other exports for paid tiers.

According to the pricing information, Premium costs $14.99 per month, or $12.44 per month on annual billing, and lifts the story limit to unlimited. Pro costs $29.99 monthly, or $24.89 per month annually. Annual billing is paid once a year and saves 17%, so those lower figures are monthly equivalents, not monthly payments.

Export access is split between tiers: one-sheet and Story Packet exports are listed for Premium, while Timeline Poster, PowerPoint, Scene Cards, Character Sheets, Story Report, and CSV exports are listed for Pro. Pro’s viewer and editor collaborators join free, but the plan itself is the more expensive tier. A separate free-trial term is not published. If you mainly need one story and script exports, Free may be sufficient; check the paid export requirements before budgeting for a switch.

Prewrite lists three plans: Free at $0, Premium at $14.99 per month, and Pro at $29.99 per month. Annual billing is paid once a year and saves 17%, making the listed monthly equivalents $12.44 and $24.89 for Premium and Pro. The Free plan is limited to one story, but includes templates, screenplay import, script exports, and read-only share links.

Premium removes the story limit and adds one-sheet and Story Packet exports, Prewrite story-file import, and premium support. Pro costs about twice as much as Premium. Its extras are collaboration with free viewer and editor collaborators, Timeline Poster and PowerPoint exports, Scene Cards, Character Sheets, Story Report, and CSV export. Check which exports you need before choosing: paid export options differ by tier. No add-ons are listed. The pricing page does not state a free-trial offer; annual billing also means paying for the year upfront.

Prewrite accepts screenplay imports in PDF, FDX, and Fountain formats, then organizes scenes, characters, and scripts. The product says it works with Final Draft and without it, so importing a draft is a clear route in for screenwriters. The Free plan includes screenplay import and script exports; importing Prewrite story files is listed as a Premium feature.

Before moving a project out, check the export you need. Free includes script exports, while one-sheet and Story Packet exports are on Premium; Pro adds formats such as PowerPoint and CSV. The published materials do not specify a full-project export format or what data those exports preserve, so confirm that before making Prewrite your only copy. They also contain no Reddit posts or comments, so we can’t substantiate what users report as reasons for leaving. The practical lock-in question is whether your scenes, characters, and structure can leave in a format your next tool can use.