Place
Stills from a title, walking videos, or a location photo from Photos. Up to 6 pins. A still can be the notebook cover.
iPhone writing desk
A writing desk for one scene at a time.
Open a manuscript, not a film library. You write the pages, then pin place, face, voice, and rhythm beside this scene. Stills and interviews stay on the scene. The pages stay yours.
Write
The page comes first.
Desk holds only the notebook you are writing now. Every manuscript lives under Notebooks. Research is pinned to the scene in front of you — not to a catalog of films.
- Scenes. Split a notebook into scenes. Each one has a heading and a body. Start a heading with INT., EXT., INT./EXT., or INT/EXT. if you want SceneUp to treat a new line as a scene heading.
- Characters. Keep a list on the notebook. When you pin a face, you can add that person to the list at the same time.
- Focus. Hide the extra chrome so the page is larger. Tap Exit Focus at the top to come back.
- Export. Text, Fountain, or a PDF of the pages with research grouped by Place / Face / Voice / Rhythm. Export the manuscript, selected scenes, or this scene’s research. SceneUp writes the file on the device, then opens the share sheet. You choose where it goes.
Pin to this scene
Research serves the scene.
Open Place, Face, Voice, or Rhythm under the page. Nothing is requested until you tap Search. If you already have a YouTube URL, paste it. You can reuse a pin from another scene in the same notebook.
Face
Search an actor, or search a film and pick from the credits. Pin the look to the person in this scene.
Voice
An interview, a pasted YouTube link, or a line you record yourself. Voice memos never go through YouTube. Up to 3 voice pins.
Rhythm
Official trailers, or a YouTube search for pace. Watch in the official player. SceneUp does not download finished films.
Your pages stay here
No account. No SceneUp server.
Manuscripts live on this device, with iCloud when you are signed in. Writing still works offline. Search only runs when you tap Search. Video plays in the official YouTube player. SceneUp does not capture frames from the player.
The manuscript stays local
Notebooks, scenes, characters, location photos, and voice memos stay on the phone unless you turn on iCloud.
There is no Discover page
SceneUp is not a movie browser. Place, Face, Voice, and Rhythm exist to serve the scene you are writing.
Deny, clear, or delete
Deny Photos or Microphone and you can still write. Clear search caches in Settings. Delete a notebook to remove that manuscript from SceneUp on this device.
iPhone
Write the first scene.
Get SceneUp on the App Store. Pin place, face, voice, and rhythm beside the page — then export when the draft is ready to leave the desk.
Get SceneUp on the App Store