Centerdraft is a story-structuring tool for creators. Plan, structure, and write any podcast, video, film, book, or speech as a visual rundown of blocks — your script, research, and talking points inside each one, ready to record, present, or export.
Every project moves through the same three stages — whatever you're making.
Break your project into blocks — the hook, the segments, the chapters, the outro. Name them, colour them, and drag them until the order feels right. Start from a blank canvas, or pick one of fifty proven structures — the guest interview, the video essay, the three-act drama, the chapter outline — and bend it to your story. You're shaping, not staring at a blank page.
For anything timed — a podcast, a keynote, a film — a live runtime keeps the total in view as you plan. Set a target and you always know where you stand, to the second, not the vibe. Writing a book? The same coloured timeline shows how your chapters and acts are balanced, so you can spread the story deliberately and keep the pacing even from the first page to the last.
Your plan is your script. Tap Preview and the rundown becomes clean cue cards — big type, one block at a time, with your notes right where you need them. Read your podcast script, stand-up set, or speech straight from your phone — or export the finished thing as a PDF, Word, or Excel rundown to record from or hand off. You walk away with a ready-to-use script, not just a plan.
Anyone whose work has a structure that matters before execution.
Centerdraft is built for focus. It helps creators get the structure right before they start. So it's deliberately not:
Every kind of story, grouped into four categories, with around fifty templates.
Centerdraft started from a simple frustration: every creative project — a podcast, a film, a keynote, a book — lives or dies on its structure, yet most of us jump straight to recording or to a blank document. The shape gets figured out by accident, halfway through, when it's expensive to change.
So we built the missing step before that — a calm, visual place to get the structure right first. It's made for creators, by people who make things, and it's deliberately small and fast, so the planning never gets in the way of the work.
SpeechDraft and PodcastDraft are dedicated apps — one format each, done properly. Centerdraft is the full studio: everything in both apps, plus every other format.
SpeechDraft, our speech app, is coming soon to the App Store and Google Play. You write your speech block by block, just like in Centerdraft, then deliver it as cue cards with a stage clock that keeps you on time. There's a 60-second demo on the SpeechDraft page if you'd rather see it than read about it. PodcastDraft, our podcast app for Mac, iPhone and iPad, is on its way.
The contact form below covers all our apps — questions about any of them are just as welcome here.
See SpeechDraft →Plain definitions for the terms you'll see across the app.
The ordered list of blocks that make up your project — for example Intro → Segment → Sponsor break → Outro. Building a rundown is the core of what you do in Centerdraft.
One unit of your content — a segment, scene, chapter, act, or slide — with a label, a colour, optional notes, an optional image, and an optional duration. You stack blocks in order to form a rundown.
A clean, large-type view of one block at a time that you can present or record from on a phone or tablet. Your plan becomes the script you read from.
The live running total of every block's duration, shown against an optional target, so a timed project — a podcast, a keynote, a film — stays to length to the second.
A proven starting structure for a format — a guest interview, a video essay, a three-act drama, a chapter outline. Around fifty are built in; you can start from one or from a blank canvas.
A free-floating coloured bar that runs across the block list to mark a cross-cutting thread — a music bed, an act structure, or a character arc — independent of the blocks beneath it.
A classic story shape — setup, confrontation, resolution — available as a film template and a useful frame for videos, speeches, and pitch decks alike.
Centerdraft is a story-structuring tool for creators. You plan any podcast, video, film, book, or speech as a visual rundown of blocks — each with a label, colour, note, and duration — and drag them into the right order before you record or write. A live runtime keeps timed projects to length, cue-card mode lets you present from your phone, and you can export the finished plan as a PDF, Word document, or Excel rundown.
Anyone who plans before they create — podcasters, YouTubers and short-form video makers, public speakers and presenters, screenwriters and filmmakers, authors, and documentary makers. If your work has a shape — segments, scenes, chapters, or talking points — Centerdraft helps you order it before you record or write.
No. Centerdraft doesn't schedule or publish posts. It structures a single piece of content — one episode, one video, one speech, one film — in depth, before you make it. It's the planning step that comes before recording, writing, or filming.
Yes. The free plan covers one project, every format, all templates, and PDF export (with a small Centerdraft mark) — no credit card required, and your work is backed up to your account. Pro ($8.99/month or $69.99/year) adds unlimited projects, cue cards for presenting, and clean Word, Excel and PDF export without the mark.
Podcast & Audio, Video & Social (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Stories, Snapchat, carousels), Speeches & Presentations (keynotes, weddings, eulogies, pitch decks, webinars), and Scripts & Stories (film, TV, screenplays, stage plays, books, documentaries, and stand-up sets). Each format comes with its own block types and around fifty templates tailored to that medium.
Yes — that's what the live runtime is for. Give each block a duration and Centerdraft adds them up against your target, so you can tell at a glance whether your episode, video, or keynote runs long before you record. Change a block and the total updates instantly.
Yes. You can export any project as a PDF (ready to print or read from), a Word document (.docx), or an Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx). The PDF layout matches what you see on screen.
Projects are stored locally in your browser by default, so no one else can see them. When you're signed in, your projects are backed up to our cloud (hosted by Supabase in the EU) so you can reach them from any device. We don't share or sell your data.
Yes. Once you've planned your project block by block, open cue-card mode on a phone or tablet: the screen goes clean white with large, readable text — one block at a time — so you can present a speech or read a podcast rundown without a separate teleprompter or cue-card app. You can also export a PDF to read from a second screen.
Yes. Centerdraft installs straight from your browser — no app store needed — and once installed it works fully offline on Mac, Windows, iPhone, or Android. Projects are always stored locally first; when you're signed in, cloud sync happens in the background when you're connected.
Centerdraft is a structure planning tool, not a scriptwriting app. You use it before Final Draft, Celtx, Arc Studio, or Highland — to get the shape of the project right first: where each scene goes, how long Act 2 runs, what comes after the midpoint. Think of it as the planning layer that sits above the writing layer.
No — by design. Centerdraft is the step before writing. Once your structure is solid, export your rundown to Word and write from there. The exported document includes your block labels and durations as a ready-made outline. Centerdraft is what makes the blank page less blank.
Those give you a blank page or a general workspace. Centerdraft gives you a visual rundown built specifically for content structure — block types, colours, durations, a live runtime, and format-specific templates. Your questions, research, and talking points live right inside each block; the finished long-form prose (a novel, a screenplay) you still write in your own tool. Centerdraft replaces just the planning layer with something purpose-built.
Open your account settings (your avatar in the top-right corner) and choose Manage subscription. You can cancel any time and keep Pro access until the end of your current billing period.
SpeechDraft is Centerdraft's speech app — a dedicated app for one format. You write your speech block by block, then deliver it as cue cards on your phone with a stage clock that keeps you on time. Centerdraft on the web is the full studio: everything in SpeechDraft, plus every other format. A podcast app, PodcastDraft, is on its way too. Support and contact for all our apps go through the contact form on this page.
Questions, feedback, or press — about Centerdraft or any of our apps, like SpeechDraft — we read everything and reply quickly. One form, one team, all our apps.
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