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Arqo runs in its own window on Mac and Windows again, this time as the live app rather than a frozen build. Dual dialogue became a real two-column block, comments learned who they are addressed to, and three weeks of broken real-time co-writing on the web got found and fixed.

• NewThe desktop app is the live Arqo in a window, signed for both Mac and Windows. It replaces a build that had been frozen since April, and it updates when the app does.
• NewDual dialogue is a real two-column block now. Both columns start on the same row, and comments, pins, suggestions, Scene Surgeon and speaker colours all reach the lines inside it.
• NewComments know who they are addressed to. Mention a co-writer by name and the thread reaches them, on the web and on iPhone, and the comment gutter can be read at a glance.
• FixedReal-time co-writing had been dead in the web editor for three weeks. Two copies of the collaboration library were loading at once, so no room ever connected. Rooms are live again.
• FixedA brand new script could open read-only and stay that way for good, and one co-writer could show up in the room as two carets. Both are fixed.
• ImprovedEditor handling: Arqo mode formats as you write, the SmartType and element menus land under the caret at any zoom, the character dropdown fills the highlighted name when you press Return, and page sheets follow the page breaks wherever the paginator puts them.
• FixedExports stop printing private scene notes, count the script that is actually open, and preview the one you asked for.
• FixedCharacter Hub: the interview questions have somewhere to write the answer, roster rows hold their columns still, and a character whose cue carried a stray colour marker counts every line again.
• ImprovedMy Shelf and Browse are two tabs in the Library instead of one long scroll, and the home page says what Arqo does instead of listing what it has.

The assistive layer has one name across the whole product now, with credits instead of tokens and a daily allowance on every tier. Plus public profiles, analytics that is off until you say yes, and a long week of stability work on iPhone and Mac.

• ImprovedThe assistive layer is called Arqo Assist everywhere: in the app, in billing, in email and on the public pages. Credits replaced tokens, and the claims the product could not back up are gone.
• AssistEvery tier gets a daily Arqo Assist allowance you can feel, with a switch per feature so you decide where it goes.
• NewPublic profiles live at arqo.pro and your username, so there is one page to point people at.
• NewAnalytics is opt in. A banner asks first, and nothing is collected until you say yes.
• MobileLive carets on iPhone go both ways: you can see a co-writer and they can see you. A co-writer edit now lands without moving your page, your caret or your undo stack.
• MobileThree separate freezes on iPhone are gone: the Projects list, the navigation bar at the bottom of a long list, and opening a project.
• FixedTwo Mac sync faults that cost work: a push that clobbered newer edits and still reported Synced, and a save that emptied five tables it had just written.
• FixedMac catches up on detail: Final Draft export keeps dual dialogue, the page count counts words the way the web does, and Replace All can be undone.
• NewLocations gets a dashboard and a page for each place, and the Story Graph joins Structure as a board that lays itself out.

• NewWriting goals, and one streak that counts everything you write no matter which surface you wrote it on.
• FixedBeat Boards: a beat stays in the act you filed it under, a scene lands in the beat you dropped it on, and beat images upload for the first time.
• FixedThe Mind Map opens with your board on it, draws a real circle, and puts new cards where you are looking.
• MobileOn iPhone, Save reaches the editor toolbar, a failed save says what went wrong, and coming back online offers to clear a stuck sync instead of retrying it in silence.
• MobileTwo cursor jumps in the phone editor are gone, one in Classic pagination and one in Arqo mode.
• FixedA script opened from the Mac Library could push empty collections over your work and delete rows. It cannot any more.
• ImprovedThe submissions tracker is called Opportunities everywhere a writer can see it, and the Reference Shelf keeps what you put on it instead of dropping a pasted link.
• AssistCraft level changes what Arqo Assist tells you and which prompts you are offered, and the daily pick is the same on the phone, the Mac and the web.
• NewSecond Read grows: a table read pass, submissions readiness, the six instruments, and a production read.

The biggest week of the year. Characters moved from a seven step wizard to a single sheet that reads the script beside the cast, Inspire was redesigned end to end, and Second Read started telling you what your own draft is doing.

• NewThe character sheet is one page, not seven steps. Identity, drive, backstory, voice, arc and relationships sit on the same chrome, with a portrait you choose.
• NewThe Cast X-ray reads the script beside the roster: who is present when, who shares scenes with whom, and which two voices sound alike.
• AssistArqo Assist drafts a first pass at the blanks on a character sheet. Nothing lands until you accept it.
• NewSecond Read: your draft reads itself back. Beat coverage and sag, cast against beats, what a rewrite actually changed, and where a character drifts.
• ImprovedInspire, redesigned: the daily prompt has a form, a reroll swaps it without moving your day, craft level is a band you pick rather than a score out of a hundred, and the daily craft tip is real. The phone, the Mac and the web finally agree on what today is.
• FixedA stale write that could overwrite thousands of characters of newer work is refused outright now, and imports stop rostering page footers, title cards and date stamps as members of your cast.
• ImprovedThe Mind Map becomes the Constellation board: card kinds, tidy by branch, connections you can name, and a version that works on a phone.
• ImprovedBeat Boards rethought, with the diagnosis as the card type and the Studio tools in a drawer. Everything on the old board came across, losing nothing.
• MobileCollaboration reaches iPhone: the friend graph, sharing per script, an invite you can accept without leaving the app, and a collaborator inbox that is actually wired up.

• NewEvery scene heading is a door into that scene history. The rail filters down to one scene, and you can take back a single scene without touching the rest of the draft.
• NewCompare a scene against an earlier take, side by side, in the rail.
• ImprovedChanges are described in screenwriter units: page eighths, dialogue share, words per character. No percentages.
• ImprovedHover the save pill and it previews what this session actually changed.
• ImprovedSaving writes only the scenes that changed instead of rewriting the whole script, so a long script saves faster.
• FixedA shared room that had fallen behind the database gets rebuilt when you join. That was what sat behind edits made on a phone not showing up on the web.
• ImprovedFinal Draft export stays on the free tier. The pricing rows that said otherwise were wrong, and are fixed.
• MobileThe Story Memory add-fact form on iPhone was unusable. It has real inputs, focus, and a way out of the keyboard. The reclassify swipe also stops firing while you scroll.
• NewMac gets its dashboard cards: where you left off, recent scenes, pinned notes, and the work you did today.

• ImprovedThe Versions page is one timeline with one truth, and it previews the take you are pointing at as you scrub.
• NewThe Timeline Rail puts history over the page you are writing on, so taking something back never means leaving Write.
• ImprovedLive cursors are a Studio feature, and Pro keeps async co-writers. The room says which one you have instead of selling you something you already own.
• FixedCo-writers can use Beat Boards, Locations and the Mind Map, and can see and save location overlays. A permissions rule had locked them out of all of it.
• FixedArchived scenes were leaking back onto surfaces they had no business on, and restoring a single scene could leave a husk behind.
• FixedA reference photo on a location updates when you re-upload it instead of showing the old picture forever, and the phone renders it too.
• FixedWith a co-writer in the room, the editor could flip between Saving and Not saved forever. A remote edit no longer triggers a save of its own.
• FixedComment threads show who actually wrote them, and replies render.
• ImprovedThe tier tables on the public pages derive from the same source as billing, so the copy cannot contradict the price.

Versions became real this week. Every script has restore points, restoring no longer empties what it restores, and you can take back a single scene. Real-time co-writing opened up across the web, and a run of save-loss faults got closed.

• NewTime Machine: every script has restore points now, restoring actually persists, and you can take back one scene instead of the whole draft.
• NewReal-time co-writing is on across the web: a shared document, live cursors, and co-writers who can autosave like anyone else.
• FixedA deploy used to strand every editor tab you had open and quietly stop it saving. Arqo detects that now, parks your draft, and offers it back.
• FixedDeleting a beat could take its scenes and their pages with it. It cannot any more.
• NewA Text Format menu in the editor, with capitalization, a highlight mark, and dual dialogue that fires.
• FixedFinal Draft export writes styled runs instead of leaking mark syntax into the file as stray asterisks, on web and on Mac.
• NewNotifications: friend requests and accepts arrive in the app and by email, in Arqo branding.
• ImprovedA new editor top bar: bold, italic, underline, strike and colour stay put, Save is always visible, and you can rename a script by clicking its title.
• MobileArqo mode is a permanent third editor mode on iPhone and iPad, beside Flow and Classic.

• MobileA long list of freezes on iPhone and iPad is gone. Importing, exporting, searching, merging Final Draft files and drawing the home-screen widgets all moved off the main thread.
• FixedThe sync error storm is over. Work that had landed is recognised as landed, a failure that can never succeed is parked instead of retried forever, and a stranded scene can be recovered rather than lost.
• NewThe Library becomes a place to read each other: publish a script, see what your friends are reading, leave margin notes on a page, and keep a public review board.
• ImprovedMac catches up to the web: one editor band, icon rails, routing that stays in the shell, and modals that are no longer constricted.
• FixedScenes created in the phone editor persist in the order you typed them, not the order they happened to drain in.
• ImprovedA stuck sync retry tells you what it actually did.
• FixedText importers stop reading a line as a scene heading or a transition unless a blank line comes before it, matching Fountain.

• FixedPast a certain length, a script was loading and exporting truncated. Every read is paged now, on web, Mac and iPhone, however long the script runs.
• ImprovedClassic paginates from the real engine: breaks mid block, MORE and CONT'D, widow control. Web, Mac and phone count pages on the same basis, so a page number means the same thing wherever you read it.
• NewTrash: deleting a script asks first, and a deleted script can be restored or purged, on iPhone as well as the web. Deleted scripts also stop counting against your plan.
• NewCollaboration is friends first: share with someone you are connected to, add read-only friends, and collect reviews.
• FixedScenes and lines could come back in the wrong order after an insert. Reads have a total order now, and an insert renumbers in one step.
• ImprovedReopening a script is instant. It is cached in the browser and kept coherent across tabs.
• ImprovedAccessibility: the editor menus are keyboard operable, modals trap focus, and there is a skip-to-content link.
• ImprovedOpportunities lists only the markets that are actually open, refreshed weekly.
• NewEach script can carry its own language.

Classic is an editable print preview now, real page sheets and all, with your title page as page one. Plus Courier Arqo, self-tape recording behind the teleprompter, and an import pass that stops turning your scene headings into action.

• NewClassic mode is the printed page, and you can type on it: real per-page sheets, cream paper, page zoom, a two-page overview when you zoom out, and your title page as page one.
• ImprovedTypewriter-style input in Classic keeps the line you are writing in the same place on the screen.
• NewCourier Arqo Pro and Studio: a screenplay face you pick in Settings, used in the editor and in Reading Mode, and embedded in the PDF you export.
• NewSelf-tape recording: the front camera records you while the teleprompter runs, on iPhone, iPad, Mac and web.
• FixedImports stop misreading your script. Scene headings, transitions and character cues written with accented or unusual characters no longer land as action, whether the file is a PDF, plain text or Fountain.
• FixedExported PDFs and Word files set scene headings the way the industry does.
• FixedThe Character Hub stopped overwriting a saved roster with an empty one, Save is always visible, and a save that fails says so instead of flashing.
• FixedThe editor offers Save now when an autosave fails, and a script with no scenes yet no longer loses what you typed into it.
• NewScript folders in the Projects sidebar, Story Memory gets its own place in the rail, and the Mind Map is on for everyone.

The headline this week is Table Read: add your own voice key and hear a scene read back to you, a distinct voice per character, on web, Mac, and iPad. Plus share-by-link from any device, a Library you can actually organise, clearer plans, and the editor now recovers your work after a crash.

• AssistTable Read: out of beta and open to every tier. Cast a voice to each character from a voice catalog and hear a scene read aloud, on web, Mac, and any iPad. It runs on your own ElevenLabs voice key, so there is no extra charge to press play.
• NewShare a script by link: mint a read-only share link straight from the Share Manager on web, Mac, or iOS and hand someone a clean view of your script, no account needed on their end.
• NewA Library you can organise, sort your saved lines and clips into folders and categories, and tie a saved line to the character who said it. Now on iOS and Mac, matching the web.
• NewStart a series from your desk: a New Series entry lands you straight into building an episodic project, on web and iOS.
• ImprovedPlans read clearly now, the Free tier is spelled out as AI-free, a public side-by-side comparison shows exactly what each tier includes, and a plain-language feature glossary sits under the plan grid.
• ImprovedImporting a long script shows real progress, scenes seed in batches behind a progress overlay, and mixed typed-and-scanned PDFs are detected and handled instead of stalling.
• FixedCrash recovery: if the editor goes down, reopen and Arqo restores where you were instead of losing the session.
• FixedSign-in fixed: social login broke for some accounts when a cookie keyed off the wrong domain, and single sign-on from Green Room now round-trips cleanly. There is a proper error page instead of a dead end when auth fails.

Every Final Draft file now round-trips losslessly without you turning anything on. You can drag a script straight onto your desk to import it, Arqo for Mac filled in the last of its workspace, and the iOS editor got another deep pass at typing comfort.

• ImprovedLossless Final Draft is now the default for everyone, the conformance-tested round-trip we shipped last month graduated from opt-in to on-by-default. Locked scene numbers, A-pages, and title-page fields survive the trip without a setting to flip.
• NewDrag to import: drop an FDX, Fountain, or document file straight onto your desk on web or Mac and Arqo imports it in place, no upload dialog.
• ImprovedArqo for Mac filled in the rest of its workspace, Threads, Coverage, Receipts, Research, Versions, Story Memory, Pinned Notes, and your cross-project Library are now full inline surfaces, and the Mac dashboard matches the web section for section.
• MobileAnother pass at iOS typing comfort: the editor scroll was rebuilt on native text APIs and the old per-keystroke solver is gone, so the caret holds its place when you change an element type or the keyboard appears. Typewriter mode keeps your active line centred.
• NewProduction reports export to PDF: hand a producer the character breakdown, scene list, and continuity flags as one clean file.
• NewBuild scenes from your beat board: turn a beat straight into an INT/EXT scene with a guided tour, and iOS now carries all the same beat-sheet templates as the web.
• FixedFormatting stays formatting, bold, italics, and coloured revision text no longer leak as raw code into Reading Mode, shared read-only links, or PDF exports.
• ImprovedTheming got consistent across surfaces, changing your accent keeps your base theme instead of snapping back, the active line follows your accent colour, and a dark-mode contrast sweep cleaned up hard-to-read text on the auth and editor screens.

Two ways to get your existing material into Arqo this week: connect Notion or Google Drive and pull it straight in, or paste any draft and let Arqo structure it into a screenplay. Plus a People feed, a free FDX checker, and the biggest iOS typing-comfort fix yet.

• NewImport from Notion: connect your workspace and pull pages in as notes, characters, locations, or beats. Arqo routes each page to the right place and you review everything before it lands.
• NewImport from Google Drive: bring in Google Docs and PDFs straight from the Drive picker, no download-and-re-upload.
• NewBring-your-script intake: paste raw text or drop an FDX, Fountain, or Google Doc and Arqo structures it into a real screenplay with scenes, characters, and dialogue. Review the plan before you commit a thing.
• NewNotes: a dedicated notes surface for each script, reachable from the script rail and ⌘K. Pin the ones you keep coming back to.
• NewPeople: follow other writers and see what they're shipping in a Following feed, on web and Mac.
• NewFree FDX checker: a public tool that tells you whether any app's Final Draft export survives a round-trip intact. No account needed.
• MobileThe iOS editor no longer jumps while you type. We rebuilt the editor's scrolling on native text APIs and removed the old per-keystroke solver, the caret stays put and the page follows you smoothly, even in long scripts.
• MobileFeature-length and international scripts now import cleanly on iOS, PDF parsing is chunked so long page counts and non-Latin scripts no longer time out.

A craft-and-trust week. Revisions get the colored marks and asterisks the industry expects, Final Draft files round-trip across our whole test corpus, and you can now prove exactly what you wrote versus what AI touched.

• NewRevisions: track production revisions the way a working set does: colored revision marks, change asterisks in the margin, and a revision header carried through to PDF export. Available on web, Mac, and iOS.
• ImprovedFinal Draft round-trip is now lossless across our full conformance corpus, locked scene numbers, A-pages, title-page fields, headers, footers, and watermarks all survive the trip in both directions.
• AssistAuthorship receipts: a verifiable, exportable record of which lines you wrote and which an AI touched, with the exact context every suggestion leaned on. Built for WGA registration and your own peace of mind.
• ImprovedBeat Boards: group beats into storyline lanes, switch to an outline view, and link one beat to several scenes at once.
• ImprovedCharacter Hub and Library redesign: a cleaner cast roster, a single-scroll character editor, and a continue-reading hero that drops you back where you left off.
• FixedA wide testing pass cleaned up the small stuff, cursor landing in the wrong spot while typing, notes not loading when you switched scenes, theme cascade glitches, and a batch of editor reliability fixes.

The Mac app went from a fast native shell to a full studio. Every surface you know from the web is now on Mac, plus a set of craft tools that only exist on the desktop.

• NewArqo for Mac now matches the web surface-for-surface, editor, Beat Boards, Cast, Library, Inspire, Story Map, Reports, Scene Report, Story Memory, Submissions, Versions, Title Page, Reading Mode, and the writer dashboard.
• NewMac-only craft tools, Dictation (speak your scene), Scene Surgeon (diagnose a single scene), Coverage (a reader's report), Continuity Scan, Pitch Kit and Series Bible one-pagers, and Actor Sides export.
• ImprovedA native Mac editor: continuous cream page, one element picker, typewriter scroll, slugline predictions, and live Fountain emphasis as you type.
• New⌘L to go anywhere: a command palette that jumps to any surface, tool, or script without lifting your hands from the keyboard.
• ImprovedA workspace rail that groups 28 features into tidy categories, so the deeper tools are one click away instead of buried.
• AssistCross-project Story Memory: search characters, beats, and scenes across every script you've written, not just the one open.

A week after iOS shipped, we went back through every screen and rebuilt it to feel like a real iOS app, native sheets, gestures, haptics, and an editor that gets out of your way.

• MobileEvery iOS surface was rebuilt on a native foundation kit, bottom sheets, segmented controls, large titles, swipe actions, pull-to-refresh, and haptics throughout. The app finally feels like it belongs on the phone.
• MobileA full-screen, immersive editor on iPhone: the tab bar steps aside while you write so the page and keyboard own the screen.
• MobileiPad gets first-class treatment, a kebab actions menu, orientation-aware navigation rails, on-script Apple Pencil ink, and a new-script starter.
• MobileNew scripts open straight into the editor instead of a dashboard, so you can start typing immediately.
• MobileThe Library remembers where you stopped: a Resume card on the Browse screen drops you back at your last-read page.
• MobileAuth, onboarding, account settings, and every hub (Beats, Characters, Locations, Inspire, Reports, Submissions, You) were refit to native patterns end to end.

This week's release is dominated by the iOS app reaching feature parity with the web: a full screenplay editor, Character and Locations hubs, Sprint mode, Find & Replace, and the complete Inspire experience. On the web, FDX exports now preserve header, footer, and watermark data through a round-trip, and a string of password-reset failures have been fixed.

• MobileThe iOS app now has a full screenplay editor matching the web, Courier 16pt paper card, undo across element changes, Find & Replace, inline rewrite from the selection menu, on-screen page count with page-break hairlines, and a long-press type picker for changing element kinds.
• MobileInspire is fully live on iOS: the Shape radar, daily prompt card, drill flow, streak tracking, and the paywall sheet for AI-scored sessions are all available from the Inspire tab.
• MobileCharacter Hub and Locations Hub are now on iOS, browse your per-script cast roster with editable bios, and see every INT/EXT location with day/night breakdown.
• MobileSprint mode is on iOS: set a word goal, start the writing timer, and track your session from within the editor.
• MobileiPad hardware-keyboard shortcuts now work (⌘⇧N, ⌘W, ⌘[, ⌘⇧Z), and the app passes a full accessibility audit, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, 44pt hit targets, and Reduce Motion support are all in.
• MobileJust-in-time coaching toasts now appear when the app quietly applies a formatting rule you might not have noticed (auto-caps on sluglines, lowercase on parentheticals, and similar). Spell-check is also suppressed on sluglines, character cues, transitions, and parentheticals so it stops fighting screenplay convention.
• ImprovedFDX exports now carry header, footer, page layout, and watermark data through a full round-trip, what Final Draft stored in those fields comes back out intact when you re-import.
• FixedPassword reset was broken for a number of users, links landed on the wrong page, tokens were consumed before the app could read them, and already-signed-in accounts hit a dead end. All of these are resolved; the reset flow now works reliably from any email client.
• AssistThe daily Inspire writing prompt is now generated fresh each day on the web as well as iOS, open Inspire and a new prompt is waiting above your Shape radar.

Our pricing found its final shape this week: three tiers, monthly or yearly, with a two-week trial. We also made it easier to bring your work over from the tools you are leaving behind.

• NewPricing in three tiers: Free forever, Pro at $9/month (or $90/year) for unlimited scripts and full Final Draft round-trip, and Studio at $24/month (or $200/year) for the power tools and bring-your-own key. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial, billed through Paddle.
• NewBring your own key: add your own model key for $2/month, or get it bundled free with Studio.
• ImprovedSwitch-from guides for Scrivener and StudioBinder join the WriterDuet one, each with a side-by-side comparison so you can see exactly what carries over.
• NewA comparison hub at /vs: head-to-head pages against the tools writers ask about most, with the FDX and data-ownership details spelled out.

Arqo now remembers your script (characters, beats, and voice) and uses it when you ask for a suggestion. Drop a PDF and we'll turn it into a real screenplay. The marketing site got a moving editor in the hero.

• AssistStory Memory: Arqo indexes your script as you write and pulls the right beats, character voice, and prior scenes into every Suggest, Character Voice, and Inspire request. No retraining, no copy-paste context.
• Assist"What Arqo consulted" pane: every AI response shows the exact lines from your script it leaned on. If it pulled the wrong beat, you can see why.
• NewPDF import: drop a script PDF (typed or scanned) and we'll parse it into Arqo's editor with scenes, characters, dialogue, and action intact. Preview the parse before committing. Vision fallback for tricky pages.
• NewSide-by-side version diff with one-click restore, compare any two points in your script's history without leaving the editor.
• NewRight-rail stats panel: live page count, word count, and dialogue distribution per character while you write.
• ImprovedVoice notes now use Whisper instead of the browser's transcription, accurate dictation in any browser, including Safari.
• ImprovedEditor focus mode polished: chrome auto-hides, typewriter mode keeps the active line centred, one keyboard shortcut to toggle.
• ImprovedNew marketing hero: the editor types itself in front of you. Six-card "Overpowered" grid replaces the old pillars. Mobile chrome cleaned up.
• FixedFountain round-trip now preserves sections and synopses, your outline survives the export.

First public pricing day. Daily writing practice ships, the editor gets a quieter dark mode, and the brand-trust pages get a writer-first rewrite.

• NewPricing: Free forever, Pro at $9.99/mo for unlimited scripts and full FDX round-trip, Team coming soon. Cancel any time, full export on demand.
• NewThe Path: daily writing drills with streaks, streak-freeze for missed days, and a multi-track picker. Lives at /inspire on web and mobile.
• NewTime Machine: scrub through point-in-time versions of your script and restore any moment.
• NewSprint timer, writing goals, and typewriter mode, keep the active line centred while you draft.
• NewBeat-sheet templates (Save the Cat, Hero’s Journey, three-act) and an inline research panel for fact-checks without leaving the script.
• ImprovedWriter-first rewrite of /, /pricing, /manifesto, /values, /trust, /data-policy, /press, /download, /switch-from-writerduet, every page now has its own meta and OG card.
• FixedMulti-line copy and paste in the editor finally behaves the way you’d expect, across scenes, characters, and dialogue blocks.

First Friday since public beta. Native desktop apps go live, Final Draft round-trip lands, and a standalone FDX merge tool ships at /app/merge.

• NewNative desktop app for macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows. Grab the installer at /download, opens in under a second, works offline.
• NewFDX round-trip with Final Draft 12: import a .fdx, write, export it back without format drift. Locked scene numbers and A/B insertion survive the trip.
• NewStandalone FDX merge tool at /app/merge: resolve conflicts between two writers’ versions of the same script, scene by scene.
• NewFriends: live presence, ask cursors, and sprint rooms so you can write together without leaving the script.
• NewProduction reports: character mentions, scene breakdown, dialogue distribution, location list, and continuity flags. One-click from the script dashboard.
• NewBrand-trust pages live: /manifesto, /values, /data-policy, /press, /trust. The four vows, the no-list, and a deletion certificate emailed when you delete a script.