Frequently asked questions.

Panelogue is a comic script writing app for macOS, built from the ground up for how comics actually work: pages, panels, dialogue, captions, SFX, and artist handoff. It's not a repurposed screenplay tool. Every feature was designed around the comic production pipeline.

macOS is where Panelogue starts: a native desktop app built for Mac, launching first. A Windows version is actively in the works and will follow, and an iOS app is planned further down the road. We're making the macOS experience exceptional first, but bringing Panelogue to more platforms is very much part of the plan.

Final Draft and Highland are screenplay tools. They have no concept of panels as production units, no artist handoff modes, no letterer formatting, and no page-level health tracking. Panelogue is purpose-built for comics: the structure, the vocabulary, and the workflow are all native to the medium. You can import from Final Draft, but you're writing in a tool that actually understands what you're making.

Pricing hasn't been announced yet. Early access members will be the first to know and will receive founding member perks at launch.

Scripts in Panelogue are organized by pages and panels, which renumber automatically as you add, remove, or reorder them. Inside each panel you write panel descriptions, character dialogue, captions, SFX, and transitions, each as its own typed block. The structure enforces good comic script format without forcing you to think about it.

You can reorder pages via the page navigator sidebar. Panel reordering within a page is on the roadmap and coming soon.

Focus mode dims all paragraph blocks except the one you're currently writing in, so the rest of the script fades into the background. Combined with typewriter scroll (which keeps your writing position anchored at roughly 38% of the viewport), it creates a distraction-free writing zone even in a complex document.

Panel Notes let you attach a note to any individual panel, tagged as Urgent, Character, Direction, or General. The Threads Dock collects all tagged notes across your entire script into a live checklist so nothing slips through. It's how you track open questions, continuity flags, and reminders to your future self without polluting the script itself.

A freetext scratchpad that lives alongside your script, for brainstorming, rough dialogue, ideas you're not ready to commit to the page. It's saved with your project file.

Cast automatically scans your script for every character name block as you write. The moment you add a character, they appear in the Cast panel with their word count and a slot for reference images and notes. You don't fill out a form. They're just there. Character descriptions you write in Cast sync bidirectionally with World Building.

Page Map is a bird's-eye view of your entire issue: every page laid out as a card with its status (Pencils, Inks, Complete), panel count, and optional pinned reference art. You can zoom in and out with a slider, open a full lightbox for any pinned image, and navigate directly to any page in the script from the map.

World Building is a structured reference database inside Panelogue: categories include Locations, Characters, Factions, Objects, Lore, and Rules, plus any custom category you define. Each entry type has purpose-built fields. Characters in World Building sync their descriptions with the Cast panel automatically.

Writer's Notes are per-page plain text notes, a place for your thinking about each page that stays attached to that page. They're separate from Panel Notes, which are per-panel and tag-based.

Panelogue exports to nine formats: Writer Script (PDF), Editable Copy (DOCX), Artist Reference (PDF), Letterer Script (PDF), Fountain, Final Draft (FDX), Character Sheets (PDF), World Bible (PDF), and Rich Text (RTF). Each is tailored to its audience: the Artist Reference strips dialogue and shows only panel descriptions and production notes. Notes you tag for specific team members (Artist, Letterer, Colorist, Editor) appear only in the matching export.

Yes. Panelogue imports .fdx files from Final Draft and detects your page and panel structure automatically across three format styles. Title-case and abbreviations are preserved. Your existing script arrives ready to continue writing in Panelogue.

The World Bible PDF pulls your entire World Building database (every location, character, faction, object, and lore entry) into a formatted document your whole creative team can reference. It exports directly from the data you've already built inside Panelogue.

We're currently in internal testing. Waitlist members will be invited first, in small batches so we can support each writer properly. We'll email you before anything goes wider.

Early access before the public launch, behind-the-scenes product updates, a direct line to shape what gets built next, and founding member perks at launch.

Email us at support@getpanelogue.com. We read everything.

On your machine. Panelogue saves scripts to wherever you choose on your local filesystem. Nothing is uploaded to any server. Your work is yours, on your hardware.

No. Panelogue does not collect telemetry, does not phone home, and does not require an account to use. The waitlist collects only your email address, used exclusively for early access communication. Read the full Privacy Policy.