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TrameWeaver Start Writing with TrameWeaver Free
Features Pro Cloud Pricing About Start Writing with TrameWeaver Free
Getting Started

Your firstTrameWeaver project.

Sign in, create or import a project, shape it on the Board and start writing in Scenes.

About 5 minutes to get started
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01 — Sign in

First, sign in.

Step 1 · Open TrameWeaver
Web
Start Writing with TrameWeaver Free button
Click Start Writing with TrameWeaver Free.
Desktop
TrameWeaver desktop app icon
Launch the installed TrameWeaver Pro desktop app.
TrameWeaver sign-in screen asking for your email address
Step 2Enter your email address.
Sign-in email showing an eight-digit TrameWeaver code
Steps 3–4Check your email for the sign-in code TrameWeaver sends, and copy it.
TrameWeaver Check your email screen with the code field and Verify and sign in button
Steps 5–6Paste the code into TrameWeaver. You’re in.

The sign-in process works the same way on Web and Desktop.

Desktop requires TrameWeaver Pro.A Free account can use the web app, but the desktop application will not open without an active Pro licence.

02 — Create or import

Start fresh, start with structure, or bring your work with you.

Set up your story.

Choose the basics now and change them later in Project Details. Your Film & TV or Novel format determines how writing is formatted in Scenes.

Start blank, or start with a structure.

Begin with an empty Board and build the structure yourself, or choose a template as a starting framework and adapt it to your story.

Templates are optional starting points, not rules. Change, add or remove anything once you’re in.

Bring an existing project into TrameWeaver.

Already started somewhere else? Import the work and continue inside TrameWeaver.

Compatible formats
Fountain · FDX · Markdown · Word · TXT · EPUB
TrameWeaver New Project window with project title, author, genre, theme, logline, project type and length profile
TrameWeaver Story Structure window with a Blank Board button and screenwriting structure templates
TrameWeaver File menu with the Import submenu open showing JSON, Screenplay and Manuscript
03 — Board

Give the story a shape.

The Board is where you see the structure of the project. Add beats, arrange them and change the order whenever the story changes.

You don’t need to finish the entire plan before writing. Start with what you know.

  1. a
    Add a beat
    Give the story beat a name or description.
  2. b
    Arrange the structure
    Move beats as the story evolves.
  3. c
    Open a beat when you’re ready to write
    It opens in Scenes.
04 — Scenes

Open a beat.
Start writing.

Move from the Board into Scenes to write descriptions, prose and dialogue there.

The writing surface adapts to the form.

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05 — Keep going

Keep writing, or take the work with you.

TrameWeaver Free

Free keeps the project in the web app, within the Free project allowance.

  • —Project export in multiple formats
  • —Watermarked PDF export
TrameWeaver Pro

Pro adds local .trwe project files, desktop and web access, offline work, Cloud Projects and PDF export without the watermark.

ScreenplayPDF · Final Draft · Fountain · TXT NovelPDF · DOCX · EPUB

That’s enough to start.

You don’t need to learn every part of TrameWeaver before using it.
Start with a project, add what you know and begin writing.

Download TrameWeaver Pro Start Writing with TrameWeaver Free