Highland is a powerful, straightforward screenwriting app. With Highland, crafting a perfectly-formatted screenplay is as simple as writing an email. Just type. Highland will make it look good.
Created by acclaimed screenwriter John August (Big Fish, Frankenweenie), Highland works its magic on plain text, allowing you to focus on the writing. "The old apps force you to do all the formatting. They feel like relics of a different time -- bloated and slow to get updated. We made Highland lean, fast and future-proof."
Features
- Write screenplays in plain text. The Fountain format is straightforward and future-proof.
- Edit and save FDX files, even if you don't have Final Draft.
- Preview, print and export perfectly-formatted PDFs.
- Melt screenplay PDFs, making them editable again.
Version 2.5:
New Features:
Revision Mode! [PRO]
Track your changes in different colors, complete with stars in the margin. The industry standard for screenplays now available for all documents.
Custom Themes!
Build your own themes using our new Theme Builder. You can rename, delete, or share themes from the new Themes Preferences panel.
Drag and Drop Navigator!
Reorder your scenes, sections and other elements right in the Navigator.
Title Pages in all Templates
We’ve added Title Pages to all templates. This is especially useful for Manuscripts, which can now be made submission-ready entirely in Highland 2.
Printable Gender Analysis Reports [PRO]
Want to share your script’s Gender breakdown with others? Now you can turn the Gender Analysis Report into a great-looking PDF.
Word Analysis [PRO]
See which words you’re using most frequently, which words aren’t in the dictionary, which words are different between the US and the UK, and even which adverbs you’re using.
Sample Documents
Confused about how Highland 2 works? Looking for a starting point to build a document? Pick one from our built-in samples.
Convert to Narrated Script
Convert a Screenplay into a Narrated Script, which translates your document into a speakable format perfect for Apple’s built-in voiceover tools.
"What’s New" Window
Never miss a feature update! We’ll let you know when we fix or add cool things to the app.
Improved:
UI Refinements
We’ve tweaked quite a bit, including new chromeless windows and a redesigned Launch screen..
Video Tutorials
Learn how to use all of Highland 2’s features with new videos accessible from the Launch screen.
Interruptible Sprints
Sometimes you need to bail on a Sprint early. Highland 2.5 records your progress up to that point, so you don’t have to worry about losing progress.
Custom alignments in HEADER and FOOTER
Love a template, but need more control over Headers and Footers? You can now add forced alignment markup to Headers and Footers.
New Manuscript options
Highland 2.5 can automatically pad section headings and remove the indentation from the first paragraph of a section. Manuscript is also now available in Basic.
Simplified Cheat Sheet
We’ve merged the Fountain and Markdown Cheat Sheets to create a single reference for writers. It now works offline as well.
Superscripts
Need to throw in some algebra? We’ve got you covered. Just use the caret notation to create superscripts, e.g. a^2 + b^2 = c^2. [Shoutout to Pythagoras]
Better Dual Dialogue Formatting
We’ve tweaked how dual dialogue is printed in Screenplay PDFs. We’ve also improved character highlighting of dual dialogue, both in the Editor and the Preview.
Forced Page Break behavior more consistent
Forced Page Break markup now always means "start on the next page," resulting in fewer blank pages. (If you want to insert a blank page, you can still do so with two forced page breaks.)
Table of Contents links in PDFs
For PDFs, Table of Contents creates links within the document. Handy!
Links in Script templates
Script templates now support links in the form of [title](url).
Fixed:
- Navigator jumping to the top when you add text to the bottom of your document
- Bin selection when deleting a Bin item
- Final Draft 11 support for tagged Character Cues
- Splitting term lists across pages
- Using Dropbox as a Backups folder should work more consistently
- Automatic list numbering is more reliable
- Better handling of underscores within words (e.g. this_and_that)
- Removed font size changes via the pinch gesture
- Highland 2 will remember the PDF options
- Save the Page Setup settings (paper size, etc) with a document. This means if you set a document to A4 you won’t have to set it again
I purchased the original Highland app thinking I might write a screenplay, but I never did. Highland 2 is a much more versatile writing app that you will find yourself using daily. Start by checking out their video ==> https://vimeo.com/254361080
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