Celtx was the very first screenwriting software I used. Back in 2014, Celtx was the golden standard for screenwriting. And in some ways, it retains those features. It's free to make an account, free to work on any screenplay of your choice from start to finish, and free to export your screenplay. Celtx makes formatting easy—and because of the daunting formatting behind screenplays, I imagine the ease of which one can format will be welcoming to any and all beginners. Celtx also lets users physically make a group in-application using the name of the studio, which allows other users to work under that same group. There's also a myriad of data to measure one own's productivity in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately, the major gripe many have with Celtx is its tendency to limit its users. Again, as I have been a member since 2014, I recall when Celtx had a great many more features available to users. Some of my colleagues have made newer free accounts and have surprisingly found themselves limited to only three projects, whereas its competitors—such as WriterDuet—do not have such a limit. And while Celtx may be free, free users may find its functionality severely lacking, to the point where exported scripts have a watermark, making them essentially worthless and unusable in any truly professional setting.

The edits available to the title page is also severely lacking, in what makes Celtx seem years behind competitors. Personally, I love to bolden the title on my screenplays, as do many other produced screenwriters, but this is simply not an option on Celtx for some reason—at least, not to free users. And while competitors may routinely ask free users to subscribe, Celtx makes it a point to beg for the user's subscription every time you sign in. In fact, the pop up the follows after logging it makes it slightly difficult to find the "no thanks" button, as it is almost identical in color to the background it finds itself laid upon.

As I said before, Celtx was once the gold standard for free screenwriting. Now, however, there is nothing in Cetlx you simply won't find in WriterDuet—which, if I may add, does everything better anyway. Consider this: WriterDuet has many, many more features than Cetlx—for $11.99 a month. And that's if one chooses to subscribe to WriterDuet Pro (the free version has more features than Cetlx by default as well). Celtx's pro subscription is $19.99 a month. Choose wisely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When my company and I were looking to expand into screenplays, we decided to go with the software my husband has always used--Celtx. It has been all we have needed thus far. We are beginners in this field, obviously, so we are not advanced users. But the software has been so easy to use, even us beginners have had no trouble. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because we are new to screenplays, we do not have the most advanced opinion. So there are negative aspects we may miss as novices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about this software is it’s new and updated version to write up comedy shorts and sketch writing in. Quick but precise manner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike is that it lacks the advanced user interface of its competitors final draft and movie magic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a screenwriting teacher, I use Celtx to have my students work collaboratively on film scripts. Celtx makes it easy to create and share projects. Using Celtx, students can work in real time as they make adjustments to different parts of the script. Formatting is easy to do and intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As our school has a limited budget, we are only able to use the free tools on the Celtx site. This is not really a fault with Celtx, but I wish there were a complete suite available for free for academic use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So simple and yet so useful. This program helps you to write scripts easily and quickly, since it puts at your hand a really high amount of interesting tools that make writing more easy. I would say that it even makes ideas come more fluently to your head. You can do several things that makes the script look like if it had been written by a professional. For example, I like how easy it makes to go from one scene to the other as well as inserting new scenes in the middle without any problem. Also, it allows you to save some specifically scenes in order to use them again later, saving time and efforts. There are some different formats of scripts. Actually, I like this software so much that I even have the phone version, so I can write wherever I am and the inspiration comes. I like how it works and specially how it is organized (the final look that the script has at the end). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like that in the storyboard format you have only one section for the description of each shot and can only add one image and one sketch. Also, I would like to be able to export the documents into word format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the Script formatting options that ensure that I complied with established script standards. All of my characters, props, scenes, music, A/V and many other elements of production are organized in one place as I create them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have a stand alone version. I dont like the subscription model they are on now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm not a big cloud fan, but its great. It is really useful having a script you're writing on accessed in this way. I 've genuinely loved it. It's easy to use and looks super nice. However... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The list is too long - but basically, if you want your script held hostage, for them not to care or take the issues seriously. Use Celtx. There are glitches in the programme too that have not been ironed out - which are super annoying. Not as bad as not being able to download your work - but frustrating all the same. Sadly, their idea of a Helpdesk is a joke. It takes them 24 hours to even get back to you and even then they don't do anything. Customer service is everything -they haven't worked that out yet. Honestly, I've had an absolute nightmare of a week - I missed two really, really important deadlines and had work wiped off. A disaster. Have I had a call? Do they care? No. They work at the pace of a snail and clearly do not think wasting someones entire work week a big deal. I'm going back to final draft - they answered the phone really quickly and called me back. If you rely on your work and don't want to get it lost and need problems to be dealt with quickly and taken seriously use this programme at your peril. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I LOVED Celtx for starting out. I had it before it switched to Cloud. The feature I really enjoyed was the color-ordinating of notes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would crash on me a lot, and not save my work. It happened so much that I switched over to Final Draft. I did use the Cloud version once and really enjoyed it. If I was able to I'd switch back to Celtx for the Cloud services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

All the tools needed for pre-production, as screenplay, budget, story, slugline, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They doesn't add the standard fonts from screenplays Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the ability you have to write in different types of scripts (theatrical, film, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a little hard to get used to at first. I am sure there are a lot of features I am not using simply because it is not as user friendly as I believe it could be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.