celtx script App Reviews

At first I didn’t like the new stream line look. Where was my scene navigator, where was my font changer, where was my master catalog ??? But I soon found most of what I was looking for. It was a bit of a learning curve, but eventually things made sense. I still don’t know where to find my master catalog or how to set up the auto save. But everytime I use it, I feel more comfortable with the new look. Saving to the cloud is definately an asset, once I figured out how to recall for my iPad and laptop. More good than bad with this change and the importing from the Celtx of old was a God send.

How do I get a refund? How is it possible that this actually has 0 functionality when a few years ago there was an amazing complete studio-type app. This app is horribly broken and actually detrimental to any writing.

Formatting is weird. I think it overwrote the web version my partner was using, so we had to revert to a previous save. Not what I was expecting, even the phone version works better. Still, Celtx is a great thing to have. They will eventually work out the bugs and maybe put everything into one app. Maybe wait until they fix it before spending 20 bucks, and just work off the web app which works fine.

There are big problems for the page numbers and cond tools when you save as pdf. Page numbers arent shown and cond are shown big puntos in the different pages. Saving pdf is changing your script. There are same problems for new version: Page numbers are not on the pages as pdf

I dont get it! I dowloaded an earlier version and tried it. It was very nice. Even though i finished my play, i try to pay you, so u will keep the good work; BUT! BUT! This new version is crap… Its slow, i cant find features, i cant use mouse i used to.. I send a mail to ask few things; no come back? -Please fix it.

Now, full functionally to scene and page numbers; but dual dialogue is not available. Can anyone find that?

I loved that app. But it has many problems. It closes itself many times. I wrote a script for my short movie. Last night and today i updated my script and i saved many times. I few minutes ago it closed itself and when i opeden my script again, i shocked. Because it didn’t saved my script. I got very angry. Now i am updating my script again. That app. is good. But don’t trust it. I don’t understand this. We are paying that app. Why don’t you fix it. Why we still have problems.

App is good but has a lot of formatting problems. Expecialy when you open a document on iPad or iPhone: between the first and the sacond page there are fifteen blank pages that are not visible on the Mac app.

What happened Celtx? You used to be the best thing since sliced bread? It looks like greed got the best.

As a Mac user I bought the app for $10 instead of the free desktop software because the signup email points you at the paid version and not the free. I wouldnt really mind if this app actually worked. The hotkeys within the app dont work, specifically the most used ones (switching between characters and dialogue), but they work in the free version. This leads to nonstop tedious unnecessary clicking from dropdown menus and is infuriating as that alone makes the whole process last 5-10x as long as it should. Also, the first and only script I wrote and edited with it did export properly as a pdf after saving as a celtx file, but will only re-open with completely broken formatting. Total waste of time. I want a refund.

Celtx Guys. this is basics. dont save every one of my keystrokes. the lag is absolutely inexcusable. If youre going to make a simple formatting-centric script writing app like this, you need to emphasize speed and quality in your development process. get your stuff together, Im about ready to shift over to Final Draft, but would love to stay with you if you can step up and start offering quality.

It has gotten better with the past update, and for that I commend the developers. It is almost exactly what I am looking for in a screenwriting app. If the developers could please clean up the user interface, then the application (stability pending) will be my go to application. Mainly the ability to disable the ruler (and improve the look when on in full-screen mode). Retina icons and elements are a must. The ability to disable the box surrounding the text area. The ability to change icons to text buttons. The ability to customize the toolbar. Also, I sometimes have a mouse attached to my laptop, and because of this, I am forced to have scroll bars on my page that is sitting in the center of my 15 inch screen. Could scroll bars be moved the edges of the window instead of the edges of the page? All of these things would greatly improve the user experience with the application. That said, good work so far.

I was working for days on my script and all of the sudden my file was corrupt. I started from zero working on my project again thinking it was a one time bug. Weeks later my project file one third complete got corrupted. That is unacceptable.

My complaints echo most everyone elses here: this is a script editing app for Mac (apparently written for 64bit OS X) and most certainly NOT Celtx Desktop, which includes a script editor, location manager, etc, etc. If Celtx updates this app to include Mac native versions of the other tools in Celtx Desktop, or if it even offers Mac-native modules for pre-production, then Ill happily buy those and use them. But what theyve released here is essentially a third-party app that mimics functionality of the real desktop suite, and that certainly isnt worth the price.

Just updated to the latest version. It kept changing the format every time I opened and closed and would often just skip multiple pages. The purpose of this sort softare is to help make your formatting look more professional. Now, I cant reliably send off a script without being afraid that text has somehow changed to being in the character typeface, or that it went from a 90 page play to a 175 page play to a 60 page play in the span of 20 minutes. All of this has happened to me. Completely not worth the money. I spent the evening trying to fix formatting errors from when I copy and pasted from another format into the text format, which is understandable, but ALL OF MY WORK WAS UNDONE as soon as I saved, closed, and reopened trying to convert it to Celtx Desktop. It might now just be time to retype all 90 pages from the start.

It does what it says it does. I can write comic, or screenplays and sync them with my iPad, or iPhone using Celtx cloud. Cloud is not automatic like iCloud, however. You need to refresh it to get it to work. A small hiccup compared to Pages, yet the auto-formatting for screenplays makes it valuable.

This app is ok for writing but isnt worth it for the money. You should look for other options. The only reason I bought this is because I have it on my ipad and I wanted to work with the cloud. Dont get it! YOU ARE WAISTING MONEY!!!!!!!!!!! I want my money back!

Picked this up because I liked the program on the home website. After migrating my original work over, I noticed a few issues. First, I noticed that it continuosly number my panels. In essence, instead of labeling the panels 1 ~ 9 and then starting over at 1 when a new page started, it would just keep going. Nothing too big, but something I figured would go away once I stayed in the program and didnt import anything. Well this turned out to be not the case. It would still do that for new files, even ones that I saved locally. So I figured this was something I would have to live with. Of course that was just the first of my problems. When I go up to edit, I find that this program has removed spaces between paragraphs leading the format to go from <End sentence> Paragraph <Panel X> to <End sentencePanel X>. This is frustrating because this isnt contained to just the start of a new panel. It does this with characters and catptions as well. Futhermore, I have found that this program regularly deletes parts of sentences. This wouldnt be so bad if not for the fact that I like to list the size of the panel right after the panel number. This so happens to be one of the spaces that happens to be deleted, making me waste more time trying to figure out how big the panel was. Overall, Im switching to a different program. Now. Not when Im finished, but now. At first I thought this was gonna be a half way decent program, but no. It does things without permission and its also a fairly bare bones program as is. Just avoid this program unless you wanna end up disapointed. The one positive in all this is that is cloud enabled, which is pretty nice. But outside of this, its a waste of money

I have a CELT script I was working on that I needed to edit. Nope. Does not open "this kind of file."

Every time I write for an hour or more, it slows to a crawl. Otherwise, no complaints.