skript for windows

download and run it.

A screenplay editor that works in Malayalam and Tamil as well as it does in English. Nothing to sign up for — your scripts stay on your own machine.

On a Mac, iPad or iPhone? The beta is on TestFlight.

Download for Windows 64-bit · .msi instead

windows will try to stop you

This is expected and there is nothing wrong with the file. The installer isn't signed with a certificate yet, so Windows shows a blue box saying “Windows protected your PC” with only a Don't run button visible.

  1. Click More info — it's the small link in that blue box.
  2. Click Run anyway, which appears after you do.

If your browser also warns while downloading, choose Keep. Certificates are on the list; until then this is the honest way in.

what to expect

You can write, and nothing you write will be lost — it saves as you type, keeps a version history, and can mirror a copy to a file on your own disk every thirty seconds. It exports a PDF — US Letter, with the real page count — and Malayalam and Tamil are set properly in it. Not yet: A4, and scripts other than those two and English, which print as empty boxes for now. The page on screen still wraps like a web page; only the count and the page marks are exact.

Press Tab to change what an element is, or a digit key to jump straight to one. Characters, locations and times of day are suggested from what you have already written; Enter takes one. Type Manglish or Tanglish in Latin letters and it arrives as Malayalam or Tamil. Rename a character everywhere in one undo, or find and replace anything with Ctrl+F. Two people talking at once sit side by side (Ctrl+Shift+D). Fill in a title page that goes out with the file, turn on scene numbers, and keep the line you are writing in the middle of the screen if you like. A menu bar — File, Edit, Format, View — carries all of it. Open and send back Final Draft .fdx files, and keep the whole project — pad and version history too — in one .skript file. There are two sample scripts inside — one Tamil, one Malayalam — so you can see it working before you type a word.

already have it?

Install this one over it. Your scripts should carry across, but export a copy of anything you care about first — upgrading over an older build hasn't been tested on a real Windows machine yet. From 0.1.3 on, skript tells you itself when a newer version is out; before that, it couldn't.

on a mac, ipad or iphone — the beta, through testflight

The Mac, iPad and iPhone apps are the same editor in a window of their own, with keyboard shortcuts and your scripts saved in the app's own folder. It comes through Apple's TestFlight, which installs it and keeps it up to date; there is nothing to sign and no warning to click past.

  1. Install TestFlight from the App Store, if you don't have it.
  2. Open testflight.apple.com/join/21DyEv5C and choose Accept, then Install.

Needs macOS 14, or iPadOS / iOS 18, or later. One link serves all three. If the link says the beta isn't open yet, it is waiting for Apple's review — usually a day. A TestFlight build lasts 90 days; a new one replaces it before then.

this build

Version
0.1.23
Built
3 October 2026
Needs
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Size
2.5 MB (.exe) · 3.6 MB (.msi)
Signed
Not yet — see above

earlier builds

Kept, not replaced. 0.1.22, 2 October 2026 — .exe · .msi. PDF text that Firefox and Preview can read. The newer build only stops the suggestion list appearing when a script opens.

0.1.21 and 0.1.20, 2 October 2026 — .exe · .msi · .exe · .msi. First PDF export. Their Malayalam PDFs read correctly in some viewers and not in Firefox or Preview — export again from 0.1.22.

0.1.17, 30 September 2026 — .exe · .msi. Find & replace, dual dialogue, typewriter scrolling, the menu bar. No PDF.

0.1.12, 29 September 2026 — .exe · .msi. Manglish and Tanglish input, rename, scene numbers, the title page.

0.1.7, 16 September 2026 — .exe · .msi. The pad in screenplay elements, and autocomplete that learns.

0.1.3, 16 September 2026 — .exe · .msi. The first build that tells you about updates.

0.1.0, 14 September 2026 — .exe · .msi. It predates autosave, typed paste, the new layout and the update check.