skript · privacy

your script stays with you.

skript is a screenplay editor. It has no accounts, and it never sends what you write anywhere. This page says, exactly, what it keeps on your machine and what leaves it.

what stays on your machine

• Your scripts. In the browser, they live in that browser's own storage on that computer. In the desktop app, in the app's own folder. Either way they are files on your disk, and nowhere else.
• Your preferences — theme, layout, which script was open — in the same place.
• A backup copy, if you choose a file for one: skript rewrites that file every thirty seconds. You chose the file; you can delete it.
• The old-font converter (/convert/) reads a PDF inside your browser. The page is served with a rule that forbids it from making any network request at all, so it cannot upload the file even by mistake.
• Manglish typing. Each word is turned into Malayalam on your device, using a list of common Malayalam words that the app fetches from skript's own server the first time you switch Manglish on (the desktop and phone apps carry it inside). Fetching the list sends nothing about you, and what you type is never sent anywhere.

what leaves your machine

Two small things, both to skript's own server and nothing else.

• A daily count of which look you use. Once a day, the app sends five short words: the theme, the mode, the frame, the platform, and the app version — each chosen from a fixed list. No name, no identifier, no script, no title, no word count. The server keeps only the totals per day, so it cannot tell one writer from another. You can turn this off in the History panel (Turn that off), and it stays off.
• An update check, on the web and on Windows. The app fetches a small public file that says what the newest version is. The request carries nothing about you or your work. The Mac, iPad and iPhone apps make no such check; the App Store updates them.

Like any web request, these reach our host (Netlify), which keeps ordinary server logs for a short time. We do not use those logs to identify anyone, and we have no way to connect them to a script.

this website

This site, not the app, counts its visits on the server. For each day it keeps how many times each page was opened, which site linked here, the country, and whether it was a phone or a computer. It sets no cookie, adds no script, and keeps no IP address or anything else that could tell one visitor from another.

what is never collected

• The text of your screenplay, its title, or anything about its contents.
• Your name, email, precise location, contacts, or any identifier for you or your device.
• Anything for advertising. There are no ads, no trackers, and no third-party analytics — on the app or on this site.

sharing

skript once had a link-sharing feature. It is switched off, and the server answers any old share link with "gone". Nothing from it is kept.

the desktop app

The macOS and Windows apps are the same program in a window of their own. They keep your scripts in the app's own folder, and make the same two requests described above. On macOS the app runs in Apple's sandbox: it reaches only the files you open or choose, and the folder it is given.

credits

The Malayalam word list behind Manglish typing is adapted from FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave, counted from subtitles at OpenSubtitles.org, and is shared under the same licence, CC BY-SA 4.0.

changes

If what the app sends ever changes, this page changes in the same release — it is kept to match the code, not the other way round. Last updated 29 October 2026.