Three ways to write. One quiet page.
A writing app for Mac and iPad. Screenplays first, novels and articles too.
No account. Nothing collected.
A quiet page
It formats itself as you type.
⌘K
Type what you want. It is done, asked or made.
The panels
Board, people, notes, beside the page.
The page itself never moves.
Three kinds of writing
Screenplay, novel or article. Say which once; the page does the rest.
What only Margin has
The page follows the board
Pick up a card and drop it in another act. The script moves with it.
Act one
Int. bar - night
He is given something he does not want.
plants the lighter
Ext. pier - dawn
May almost lets it go.
pays off the lighter
Int. Tom’s kitchen - morning
The kettle screams and he lets it.
Act two
Int. car - day
Neither of them mentions it.
Ext. pier - night
He waits. She is late.
Int. bar - night
The lighter, finally lit.
The script follows 1 bar · 2 pier · 3 Tom’s kitchen · 4 car · 5 pier · 6 bar
Move a card to another act.
Every draft kept
A new draft off any draft, read beside the last. History puts any moment back.
Draft 3a
Notes on the line
A note sits on the line it is about: red for you, blue for readers. A plant and its payoff draw a thread down the outline.
The Lighter
Apple Pencil on the page
Ink on the printed page stays with its line. Add a scene above; the ink moves down.
A scan becomes a script
Hand it someone else's PDF, even a scan. It comes back as a script, page by page.
Their PDF
The script it read as
⌘K asks and makes
Type under the line you are on; return does it. A ? first asks the reader you choose.
Nothing leaves your Mac unless you choose a reader. Your private notes never go. Everything ⌘K does
Plain files underneath
Each project is a package with a plain .fountain inside. Your notes are plain .md files.
- Export all projects Every script as a .fountain any editor opens.
- Native Built for Mac and iPad.
- iPhone Later.
- The Lighter.marginMargin projectToday, 14:02
- Low water at Skerry.marginMargin projectYesterday, 18:30
- Loose notesFolderToday, 09:12
Get the beta
Mac and iPad. It needs people who will open it, get annoyed and say so.
Mac
Download for Mac- Open the downloaded file. Margin appears beside it.
- Drag Margin into your Applications folder.
- The first time, macOS will stop it. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and press Open Anyway.
iPad
Join on TestFlightInstall TestFlight, then open the link on your iPad.
Ask to be told when it opens.
One purchase, no subscription for the app. Team mode, when it ships, by subscription.
Not in this beta: syncing between your devices, and notes from other people.
- Every download comes over an encrypted connection from GitHub.
- Each build carries its fingerprint, so you can check the file.
No account. Nothing collected.
Margin collects nothing
No analytics, no server of ours. It goes online only where you choose: a reader, a blog, a picture.
Read the full policy
Last updated 8 October 2026. Covers Margin for Mac and iPad.
- Nothing is collected
- Margin has no accounts, no sign-in and no analytics. It does not track you or keep any record of how you use it. No advertising or analytics code is in the app.
- Your writing stays on your device
- Everything you write is a file on the Mac or iPad you wrote it on. Margin has no server. Nothing you write is ever sent to us.
- When Margin goes online
- Only where you choose: a reader, a blog you connect, and a picture you put on a page by its web address. Each talks straight to that service, never through us. Dictation goes to Apple’s speech service only where the device cannot hear.
- Asking about your script
- Nothing leaves your Mac unless you choose a reader. Your private notes never go. The reader is Apple’s on-device model unless you say otherwise, and it sends nothing anywhere. Apple’s model needs macOS 26 or iPadOS 26 with Apple Intelligence. Without it nobody reads until you choose a reader. You can choose Ollama on your own machine instead, or Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or another address you give, with your own key, kept in the keychain. Every request is logged in the project, so you can see what went and when.
- Publishing
- Connect a blog and press Publish, and that piece goes to that service with the key you gave it, kept in the keychain. Nothing is sent until you press Publish.
- A picture by its web address
- Put a picture on a page by its web address and Margin fetches it from there to draw the page.
- Microphone
- Dictation uses the microphone only while you speak, and no recording is kept. Voice memos are heard on the device. So is dictation, where the device can. Where it cannot, Apple’s speech service hears it.
- Tell us
- Tell us sends nothing by itself. It opens your own mail app with a message ready, addressed to hello@writeinmargin.com, and you decide whether to send it.
- Files you export
- PDF, Fountain, Final Draft, Word, ePub, Markdown, HTML or your whole library go wherever you put them. From there they are in your hands.
- Third parties
- The only third party is a reader or a blog you choose. There is no data to sell or share, and none is.
- Children
- Margin collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
- Changes
- If a feature ever sends anything off the device, this policy changes first, in plain words.
- Contact
- hello@writeinmargin.com
Margin is made by Super Deluxe LLC.