Calm the chaos of writers’ rooms

Arc Studio Showrunner Edition is screenwriting software built for professional writers’ rooms: Industry standard screenplay formatting, a digital whiteboard for collaboratively outlining single episodes and full seasons, script management tools, and the collaborative ease of Google Docs.

An episode script with its outline and drafts organized in Arc Studio.
Christian Linke

Running a writer’s room is all about efficiency. Arc Studio lets us collaborate across the entire season and manage incoming notes or changes without ever losing track of a single thing. Can’t imagine ever going back.

Christian Linke

Showrunner, Arcane (Netflix)

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Collaboration

Work together without the back-and-forth

Collaborate seamlessly in real-time with screenwriters in the same room or across the world. Color-coded text clearly shows each writer’s work.

Feedback

Advanced script comments

@ your writing staff to notify them you’ve left a comment, and use custom script tags to make the comments easy to find.

A tagged script comment with an @ mention and a reply from a collaborator.
Alex Yee

Getting notes from collaborators, executives, studios and distribution partners can quickly become overwhelming. With Arc Studio, our feedback loop has become streamlined and super easy to track.

Alex Yee

Head Writer, Arcane (Netflix)

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Outlining

Your digital whiteboard

Break your entire season and outline individual episodes with ease. Keep notes on characters, storylines, and locations side-by-side with all episode scripts. Reference your story outline and notes as you write, conveniently in your script.

A season overview with episode columns, story beats, and color-coded storylines.

Safe & Sound

Arc Studio keeps your work secure and accessible

Automatic backups save copies of your work to your device and the cloud.

We keep your data safe with industry-standard encryption in transit and at rest.

The cloud done right: work offline or online seamlessly, and access your script from multiple devices.

Enterprise ready: run Arc Studio on your own infrastructure with full control over your IP.

Stress free draft management

Never search for a draft

Every draft of every script is in Arc Studio and accessible with a click. Easily see what changed between drafts, and even bring back work you cut in an old draft.

Change tracking and approvals

Arc Studio lets showrunners track and approve all changes to scripts

Writers edit the script privately

Each writer can work in their own copy – privately – and share their changes when they feel ready.

Showrunners approve changes

Changes are tracked automatically, showrunners review the edits and approve or reject them.

Tracked script changes with controls to approve or reject edits.

Room management

Never miss a deadline

Manage your team in one place, with centralized access control. See the status for each script on a simple dashboard. Assign writers, set deadlines, stay on top of things.

An episode dashboard showing assigned writers and each script’s status.