A fast, forward-moving writing instrument.
Vomit Draft opens by asking what type of writing you want. Normal is an unformatted pad for freewriting, prose and journaling, where Enter simply starts a new paragraph. Screenplay is the standard screenwriting format described below. Vomit Mode works in both. Start fresh, or switch modes, any time with New.
Click the page and type. Enter carries you to the next logical element: a scene heading flows into action, a character into dialogue. Press Enter on an empty action line to get a character cue; on an empty dialogue line to return to action.
The app formats as you go: lines starting with INT. or EXT. become scene headings, CUT TO: becomes a transition, and a short UPPERCASE name followed by Enter becomes a character.
Tab / Shift+Tab cycles the current line through the eight element types. Cmd/Ctrl 1–8 jumps straight to one: scene heading, action, character, dialogue, parenthetical, transition, shot, general text. The selector in the toolbar always shows the current type.
Drag across lines to select whole blocks, or press Cmd/Ctrl A twice to select the entire script. Then Backspace deletes the chunk, typing or pasting replaces it, and Cmd/Ctrl 1–8 retypes every selected line at once. Esc dismisses. One Cmd/Ctrl Z undoes any of it.
Press the pill, pick a duration, and write. Everything already written fades and locks. No edits behind you, no undo, no going back. Just forward, like a typewriter. Reloading the page won't stop the clock. When time runs out, everything unlocks and the draft is yours to shape.
Your work autosaves in this browser as you type and is recovered when you return. Save and Open move scripts as .json files, and Open also reads Final Draft (.fdx) scripts directly. Export offers Final Draft (.fdx), plain text, a printable HTML file, or print-to-PDF, with properly margined pages containing nothing but your words. In screenplay mode, Export > Title page sets up a standard title page that prints as page one.
The left sidebar lists every scene. Click one to jump to it. The status bar tracks scenes, an estimated page count, and autosave.
A standard screenplay title page, printed as page one.
Vomit Mode works in both. Switch any time with New.