An infinite canvas for filmmakers who think in scenes, not sentences. Drag story blocks along a timeline, overlay beat structures, and shape your screenplay visually.
Start Building Your Story →Screenwriting software forces you into a document. But when you're breaking a story, you think in shapes, sequences, and rhythm. You need to see the whole thing at once and move pieces until it clicks.
BeatCanvas gives you a scrollable infinite canvas where scenes are physical blocks you can grab, drag, resize, and rearrange. Snap them to a timeline. Watch your runtime update in real time. Overlay proven story frameworks and see exactly where your beats should land.
Setup, confrontation, resolution. The backbone of every Hollywood screenplay, with beat markers for inciting incident, act turns, midpoint, and climax.
Campbell's 12-stage monomyth. From the ordinary world through the ordeal to the return. Overlay it on your timeline to see where your hero should be at any moment.
Blake Snyder's 15-beat sheet, page-mapped. Opening image, theme stated, catalyst, break into two, fun and games, all dark night of the soul, finale.
Start from the structure of films you admire. Classic plots, genre blueprints, and proven story shapes as starting points for your own original work.
Every block is a scene. Every scene is roughly 2 pages. The math is built in.
Pan, zoom, scroll. A Miro-like workspace where your entire story lives. See the big picture or zoom into a single scene. No page limits, no boundaries.
Scene blocks snap to your timeline with magnetic precision. Rearrange your second act in seconds. Move your climax earlier. Swap subplots. Just drag.
Layer story structures on top of your timeline. See exactly where the midpoint should fall, where the low point hits, where Act III begins. Multiple frameworks at once.
Add descriptions, characters, locations, and duration to each block. Click into any scene and flesh it out. The canvas remembers everything.
Every scene has a page count. BeatCanvas adds them up and shows your total runtime live. Resize a scene and watch the numbers shift instantly.
When your structure is locked, export a clean outline document. Scene-by-scene, with descriptions, characters, and beat annotations. Ready for the next draft.
Built for the way filmmakers actually think. Not a writing tool. Not a production app. A canvas for the most important phase of filmmaking: figuring out the story.