Plain text → Fountain
Free, anonymous conversion from Plain text (.txt) to Fountain (.fountain, .spmd). Your file is destroyed automatically after the download window.
Drop a screenplay here, or choose a file. Fountain, Final Draft FDX, plain text, DOCX and text-layer PDF.
Free limits: one file per conversion, 15 MB max, about 200 pages, 5 conversions per day. Files are processed on the server and destroyed automatically — nothing is kept.
What survives this conversion
- scene headings, action, character cues, dialogue and transitions in classic layout
- universal readability — opens everywhere, forever
What can be lost
- no revision colors or production metadata (those live in FDX)
- plain text means layout is conventional, not absolute
Every conversion includes an honest report listing anything that could not translate — you see it before downloading.
How this pair works
Your Plain text file is parsed into a canonical screenplay model (by verified content, not just the file extension), then rendered as Fountain. Fountain background: Created in 2012 by John August and Stu Maschwitz as a common denominator syntax so screenwriters could write in any text editor and move between tools without lock-in.