People find ScriptLix two ways. They search for something like "free script coverage" and land on the tool, or a writer they know sends them a link with a number in it. Either way, the first question is the same: what is this score, and should I trust it? This is the plain answer.
What ScriptLix is
ScriptLix is a home for screenwriters. There are three parts, and they are meant to be used in order.
Coverage reads your screenplay and scores it from 1 to 100. It is free, it takes under a minute, and it does not ask for an account.
Studio is a screenplay editor that runs in your browser. It formats as you type, so a slugline is a slugline and dialogue sits where dialogue sits, and Script Buddy waits at the caret instead of in a chat window.
The leaderboard is where scored scripts get ranked. You publish your number when you are proud of it, and it sits next to every other writer's number.
We also publish our own screenplays. You can read the first act of any of them free. That part of the site is older than the rest, and it is not why most people are here.
How coverage reads your script
Free coverage
How would your own script score?
Upload a draft and get a score, five craft dimensions, comps and a verdict back in under a minute. No account needed.
Or run it now without an emailPaste the text or drop the file. Fountain, Final Draft, PDF, Word and plain text all work, up to 8 MB. A scanned PDF with no text layer will be sent back with a note asking for the text instead.
The script is split at scene headings into chunks, each chunk is read and condensed into notes, and then one final read turns the notes into the report. Under 40,000 characters that takes seven to nine seconds. A full feature takes closer to twenty.
The reader is told to write like a seasoned script reader: specific, honest, plain. It is banned from the words amazing, incredible, revolutionary and game-changing. If you have read real coverage, the tone will be familiar.
If you paste something that is not a screenplay, a short story, a treatment, a novel chapter, you still get a report. It comes with a warning that the format did not read as a script, so treat the numbers as a rough steer.
What the score means
The headline number is a 1 to 100 score for craft and producibility, the same two things a reader at a production company is paid to judge.
Behind it sit five dimension scores, each on the same scale:
- Structure. Does the story turn when it should, and does every act earn the next one.
- Character. Do people want things, change, and sound like themselves.
- Dialogue. Is it doing work, or is it explaining the plot to the audience.
- Pacing. Where it drags, where it rushes, whether the reader wants the next page.
- Originality. Whether we have seen this exact film before, and whether that matters here.
You also get a logline written from the script, a genre call, two to four comparable produced films or shows, and a one word verdict: pass, consider, or recommend. That verdict scale is the one readers use in the industry, and the meaning is the same. Consider is a good result. Recommend is rare.
Two notes close the free read. Protect this is the single strongest thing in the script, the thing a rewrite should not touch. Fix this first is the one flaw that matters most, because a list of twenty notes is how writers freeze.
The score bands on the page are Strong at 85 and above, Promising from 70 to 84, Developing from 55 to 69, and Early below 55. Most real scripts land between 50 and 84. Scores above 85 are unusual, on purpose. If the number surprises you, read the two notes before you argue with it.
Score your writing
What the email unlocks
The free read is the dashboard above. If you leave an email, you get the full one page coverage: logline, synopsis, three strengths, three weaknesses, marketability, and the verdict with the score. It renders on the page and lands in your inbox.
The email also turns on score history. Every time you rescore the same script, the new number plots against the last one. The heaviest user of the tool so far ran one historical drama through it fifty times over nine days and watched the score climb from the fifties into the seventies. That graph is the point.
What the $29 deep report adds
The free coverage is one page. The deep report is the long read: every scene covered, a character study for each named character, structural notes tied to page numbers, and a written assessment of what the script needs before it goes out. It is ordered from the coverage page and delivered as a PDF by email when it finishes.
If the free score is enough for you, you never need to buy it. It exists for the moment you have done three rewrites and want someone to go through the whole thing.
Then Studio, then the board
Once the notes are in front of you, the rewrite is the job. Studio opens the script already formatted with the scene list built, and Script Buddy has read every scene. Drafts live in your browser until you sign in, at which point they follow you across devices.
When the number is one you want people to see, publish it. The leaderboard lists the script, the score and your name, and links back to the coverage. Writers use it as a public draft counter. Nobody has to know how many rescores it took.
Where to start
Free coverage
How would your own script score?
Upload a draft and get a score, five craft dimensions, comps and a verdict back in under a minute. No account needed.
Or run it now without an emailGo to scriptlix.com/coverage, paste a script, and read the two notes. Everything else on the site is downstream of that minute.
