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In Beat 2.2.0+, you can add alternative versions of lines. Either right-click on the line and select Add New Alternative for This Line, or press ⌃⇧⌘A . You can quickyl switch between line versions using ⌃⇧⌘ and left/right arrow keys, or using the same right-click context menu. Note that line alternatives are NOT supported by [ ]
About a month ago I made some sort of history. Our film A Light That Never Goes Out (premiered in Cannes in 2025) was nominated for ten Finnish Film Awards (Jussi), and won SEVEN of them, and three of them were personally handed to me: best direction, best screenplay and best music. The other awards [ ]
Dear friends, Instead of doing a Black Friday or Christmas discount, I decided to donate all my proceedings from November to Gaza. I received about 1000 USD (roughly 850 euros) from App Store sales, and today I donated 500 euros to both Doctors Without Borders and Save The Children. I will donate additional 200 euros [ ]
I ve been finishing my feature in Norway, so the usual release cycle has been slowing down, but Beat for macOS 2.0.6 is out now on App Store! It brings along some new, well-cooked features as well as bug fixes. Version Control Already built into the app back in as early as 2020, version control finally [ ]
The moment many of you have been waiting for is finally here — Beat for iOS is out! iOS version is the perfect on-the-go companion app for the classic, desktop Beat. Some advanced features are missing, but everything you ve added to your file on desktop will be there even after the roundtrip, including character genders, [ ]
Beat 1.999.1 is out NOW on App Store, and the long-awaited novel mode is here! Novel mode allows you to write novels inside Beat using the familiar outline elements. A section (#) begins a chapter, while scene headings can be used to divide your story, but won t actually be printed as anything other than a [ ]
Beat 1.998.0 is out NOW on App Store, and it s the biggest update to Beat in a while, bringing in a lot of fixes, optimization and new features. Here s a quick look at everything that was added: Focus Mode Focus mode highlights the current sentence you are working on. You can toggle it on/off via [ ]
Beat 1.997.6 is out now on App Store! It includes small quality-of-life improvements for revisions, and an experimental feature for showing page separators. Revision Management I m currently working on a highly revised screenplay, which has been in development for several years, and it s obviously splattered with revision markers. You can now both convert, remove and downgrade [ ]
There was a bug in Beat 1.997.3 release which can cause crashes on some systems, and especially when editing title page blocks. Fix is available now on App Store. I added some pretty big optimizations to the previous release, but in the process, I then managed to break other stuff. Some of the broken things [ ]
The new release of Beat is filled with little improvements and changes. It s the single biggest update to Beat in almost a year, and includes a lot of behind-the-scenes overhaul. To celebrate the WGA strike ending, this version also fixes multiple issues with US letter layout for our US-based friends. Because I m working in the [ ]