On Politics of Beat
During the past year, I’ve faced some mild online harassment over my politics, which led to Beat being removed from lists of screenwriting apps,…
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Line Alternatives & Other News
In Beat 2.2.0+, you can add alternative versions of lines. Either right-click on the line and select Add New Alternative for This…
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Finnish Film Award Craziness
About a month ago I made some sort of history. Our film A Light That Never Goes Out (premiered in Cannes in 2025) was…
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All Proceeds from November Donated to Gaza
Dear friends, Instead of doing a Black Friday or Christmas discount, I decided to donate all my proceedings from November to Gaza. I…
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Version Control, Highlight Dialogue & more!
I’ve been finishing my feature in Norway, so the usual release cycle has been slowing down, but Beat for macOS 2.0.6 is out now…
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(beat) for iOS!
The moment many of you have been waiting for is finally here — Beat for iOS is out! iOS version is the perfect…
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Introducing Novel Mode
Beat 1.999.1 is out NOW on App Store, and the long-awaited novel mode is here! Novel mode allows you to write novels inside…
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Beat 1.998.0: Focus mode, character bios, and more
Beat 1.998.0 is out NOW on App Store, and it’s the biggest update to Beat in a while, bringing in a lot of fixes,…
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What’s new in Beat 1.997.6
Beat 1.997.6 is out now on App Store! It includes small quality-of-life improvements for revisions, and an experimental feature for showing page separators. Revision Management…
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Beat 1.997.4 available now
There was a bug in Beat 1.997.3 release which can cause crashes on some systems, and especially when editing title page blocks. Fix is…
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