What's New

Updates for iOS 13

App Description

Save the Cat!® for the iPhone has been rewritten from the ground up so you can carry your screenplay ideas with you wherever you go whether you use an iPod, iPhone, iPhone 5 or an iPad. It’s a single app that adapts to whichever device you’re using. You’ll be ready whenever inspiration strikes.

Even if you don't own the desktop version of Save the Cat!®, you can still use this amazing tool, touted as the "secret weapon" of the working writer, to help build better, more powerful stories, with greater resonance and emotional impact.

Whenever your creative juices start flowing you'll have this revolutionary app, which is based on Blake Snyder's best-selling books and software, at your fingertips. You'll delight in the ability to structure your screenplay, teleplay, stageplay or novel the Save the Cat!® way.

By incorporating the methods, tips and tactics found in the Save the Cat!® series of books on story structure, this application will help you to:

* Develop a powerful Logline and Title
* Choose one of the 10 unique Save the Cat!® Genres
* Complete a Blake Snyder Beat Sheet (BS2)
* Use “the Board” to create cards for each scene and arrange them in the perfect order
* Create Emotional Changes for each and every scene
* Create Set-ups and Payoffs as your protagonist progresses through the story
* Transfer your files to the desktop version of Save the Cat!® Story Structure Software
(*Requires Save the Cat!® for the Desktop Version 3. Transfer to Version 2 is no longer available.)
* If you don’t have the desktop version, you can still share your project file, export the script to Final Draft or share your story elements in a pdf report.

If you want to more fully develop your story with Characters and Locations and gather research data by attaching files to Scenes, Characters and Locations, and to make sure you’ve covered all the elements of a great story by using the Greenlight Checklist, you can upgrade to Save the Cat!® Complete using In-App purchase.

QUESTIONS FOR TECH SUPPORT? Email [email protected].

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 25, 2013 New version 3.1.0
  • July 26, 2013 New version 3.1.2
  • October 05, 2013 New version 3.2.0
  • March 10, 2014 New version 3.2.1
  • May 19, 2014 New version 3.3.0
  • October 12, 2014 New version 3.8.0
  • November 03, 2014 New version 3.8.1
  • September 28, 2015 New version 3.9.0
  • October 23, 2015 New version 3.9.1
  • November 12, 2015 New version 3.9.2
  • March 25, 2016 New version 3.9.3
  • November 08, 2016 New version 3.9.6
  • June 14, 2019 New version 3.10.0
  • June 29, 2019 New version 3.12.0
  • January 22, 2020 New version 3.13.0

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