Highland Pro3.3.6 - App Store

Highland Pro is a better screenwriting app - one you’ll want to use for everything you write.

Highland’s clean design and innovative writing tools help you focus on your story, not formatting. With full support for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, you can write scripts, screenplays, and novels anytime, anywhere.

“Highland is just a cleaner, purer way to be creative.” - Phil Lord, Writer/Director of The Lego Movie, 21 & 22 Jump Street

. . . . . F E A T U R E S . . . . .

Created by screenwriter and novelist John August, Highland Pro is built by writers, for writers.

Its distraction-free tools help you get things written:

./Lookup. (NEW!) Get quick answers - definitions, rhymes, world facts - without leaving your draft.
.The Shelf. (NEW!) Store snippets, notes, and ideas. Afraid to cut dialogue? Save it while you write.
.Title Page Builder. (NEW!) Build professional title pages that meet script formatting standards.
.Custom Pages. (NEW!) Add prefaces, cast lists, or production breakdowns to any screenplay or script.
.Overview. (NEW!) See your entire screenplay, script, or novel in one view. Highlight characters, scenes, and more.
.Grammar Highlight. (NEW!) Strengthen writing by exploring nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in your document.
.The Navigator. (Improved!) Track your story’s structure - what you’ve written and what’s next.
.Headers and Footers. (Improved!) Add custom headers and footers to your script or draft.
.Templates. (Improved!) Choose from 14 writing templates, including Screenplay, Multi-Cam, and Manuscript.
.Themes. (Improved!) Customize your writing environment with 12 themes or build your own.
.Revision Mode. Track changes with color and margin stars.
.Writing Sprints. Boost output with timed, focused writing sessions.
.Full Screen Mode. Create in a clean, distraction-free environment.
.In-line Notes & Synopses. Keep beats and screenplay notes inside your draft.

. . . . . S C R E E N W R I T E R S . . . . .

Highland Pro is made for screenwriters working on film, TV, or any professional writing project.

.Compatibility. Import/export Fountain, Final Draft (.fdx), and PDFs, perfect for studio workflows.
.Autocomplete. Type faster with smart suggestions for character names and scene headers.
.Character Highlighting. Organize characters visually in the writing interface and exports.
.Gender Analysis. Analyze gender representation across your script or novel.
.Scene Numbering. Automatic scene numbering, including custom ranges, essential for professional scripts.
.PDF Melting. Highland’s exclusive tool “melts” Final Draft and Fountain PDFs for full editing.

. . . . . A D V A N T A G E S . . . . .

Highland Pro is built for today’s professional writers, whether writing a first screenplay or polishing a production draft.

.Excellent Performance. From scrolling to previews, Highland is fast, using native Apple technologies.
.Great Typography. Beautiful, readable fonts optimized for screenwriting and long-form writing.
.Standards-Leading. From the creators of Fountain, Highland speaks Fountain and Markdown fluently.

. . . . . S U B S C R I P T I O N . . . . .

After a free 30-day trial, your subscription unlocks ALL FEATURES and supports Highland’s development.

If your subscription lapses, Highland Pro still opens, prints, and exports documents in compatible formats. You’re never locked in.

. . . . . S U P P O R T . . . . .

The in-app “Welcome to Highland” tutorial walks you through the features. We also have an extensive FAQ available in-app and online: http://quoteunquoteapps.com

Questions? Use the Help menu or email: support@quoteunquoteapps.com

. . . . .P R I V A C Y . . . . .

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Version History - Pin items to the top of the Shelf, rearrange your pins, and unpin to send an item back to where it was
- Number paragraphs on macOS, shown both in the editor margin and in exported PDFs. Choose All Paragraphs, Dialogue Blocks (one number per block, on the character cue), or None. The setting is saved with each document.
- In the Characters list, hide a character's highlight without losing its color. Click the eye button on any row to toggle it back, or use the new Show All and Hide All buttons
- When iCloud downloads a newer version of an open document, Highland now backs up your unsaved edits and asks whether to keep or discard them, instead of silently reloading
- Your revision colors now show up when you Fling a document for others to read
- Fling comment cards now work fully with VoiceOver, including the Delete, Resolve, and jump-to-quote buttons
- PDFs exported on iOS now have working links. In the Table of Contents, in endnotes, and to external web pages
- Fixed two rare sync conflict bugs that could discard your edits. One on iOS when a conflicting version failed to open, and one on macOS that stopped the app from noticing later iCloud changes
- Fixed a freeze caused by very high-resolution title-page images when viewing, previewing, exporting, or deleting the title page
- Fixed the editor's page break indicator landing in the wrong spot when a dialogue block splits across pages
- Fixed the text cursor on blank lines sitting to the left of the margin after reopening a document or resizing the editor
- Fixed custom-page boxes, headers, and footers ignoring left-align and blockquote formatting
- Fixed iPad exports using a generic file name, or an old name after the document was renamed, instead of the document's current name
- Fixed undo history being lost after entering Preview on iPad
- Fixed the Revisions and Sprint toolbar icons not lighting up on macOS 26, including when opening a document that already has revisions or a running sprint
- Fixed revision colors and toolbar icons not updating when switching between Light and Dark modes on macOS
- Fixed the toolbar sometimes disappearing with no way to bring it back
- Fixed the toolbar reverting to Icon and Text in every new window after setting it to Icon Only on macOS
- Fixed display glitches in the Navigator when using window tabs or full screen
- Fixed the launch window opening at the wrong size and off-center on macOS 26
- Lined up the utility toolbar item widths on macOS 26
- Crash fixes 3.3.6 Jul 28 - Export to Microsoft Word (.docx) with proper formatting, page margins, and revision colors that match the PDF
- Added a dismiss keyboard button above the keyboard on iPhone, and swipe-down-to-dismiss in the editor on iOS
- Faster opening of long documents
- Reduced typing lag in long documents
- Type a second period at the start of a forced scene header to revert the line back to its original casing
- Fixed inline prediction ghost text appearing bold on action lines
- Fixed text corruption when composing with input methods (Pinyin, Japanese, etc.) on macOS
- Improved iCloud sync reliability on iOS, particularly for documents stored in Dropbox
- Fixed the sync status icon getting stuck red on iOS after resolving a document conflict
- Fixed undo/redo for Navigator scene moves and Shelf bin drops on iOS
- Fixed undo after uppercasing a line with Cmd+Return
- Fixed undo after turning off bold, italic, and other formatting
- Fixed turning off bold and other formatting on a selection spanning multiple paragraphs, or on text at the very end of a document
- Fixed undo after indenting or unindenting list items with Tab or Shift-Tab
- Fixed undo after clearing lookup answers with /clear
- Fixed undo after Clear Markers, Insert Scene Numbers, and Remove Scene Numbers menu commands
- Fixed undo after inserting a page break or converting lines to lyrics
- Fixed undo after typing or deleting next to an image attachment on macOS — what was two undo presses (the keystroke, then the auto-inserted line break) is now one
- Pressing Cmd+B (or any formatting shortcut) on a selection that mixes already-bold and plain paragraphs now adds bold to the plain paragraphs, instead of stripping the outer markers and leaving inner ones orphaned
- Edit → Clear Markers now keeps the cursor at the same logical position instead of jumping to the end of the document
- Fixed Backups list selection getting lost when the list refreshes on iOS
- Fixed custom scene header and transition prefixes not being auto-uppercased after editing them in Settings
- Crash fixes 3.3.5 May 27 Crash fixes & performance improvements 3.3.4 Apr 22 - Fixed subscription status when there's no internet connection available
- Fixed Navigator scrolling when tapping a row on iOS
- Fixed an issue where moving sections in the Navigator caused text to lose its formatting
- Improved VoiceOver support for Themes, Templates, Revisions, Fling, and Sprints popovers
- Added View > Themes... menu command to open the Themes popover
- Added Format > Change Template... menu command to open the Templates popover
- Fixed revision coloring not updating immediately when toggling with Cmd-R
- Fixed auto-uppercase not applying to the INT./EXT. prefix on scene header lines
- Crash fixes 3.3.3 Apr 13 - Fixed an issue where documents saved with 3.3.1 might not open in older versions of Highland Pro

== 3.3.1 ==
- Reduced cases where text lags while typing
- Improved PDF preview performance and reduced UI flickering
- Added PDF front matter pages, stored inside document bundles as custom page resources
- Exclude notes, boneyards, and synopses from word counting
- Fixed uppercasing in Multi-Cam templates
- Improved exporting notes to Final Draft .fdx files
- Added forced page breaks and horizontal rules to the Navigator
- The Comments button in the toolbar control is hidden if the document hasn't been flung
- Crash fixes 3.3.2 Mar 21 - Reduced cases where text lags while typing
- Improved PDF preview performance and reduced UI flickering
- Added PDF front matter pages, stored inside document bundles as custom page resources
- Exclude notes, boneyards, and synopses from word counting
- Fixed uppercasing in Multi-Cam templates
- Improved exporting notes to Final Draft .fdx files
- Added forced page breaks and horizontal rules to the Navigator
- The Comments button in the toolbar control is hidden if the document hasn't been flung
- Crash fixes 3.3.1 Mar 20 Introducing a brand new feature: Highland Fling!

Fling is a private web version of your document that you can share with your friends, colleagues, or teammates. With a Fling, you can get comments from multiple readers simultaneously, and those comments show up immediately in Highland Pro, in the new Comments View, for you to edit locally. 3.3 Mar 10 - Added Backups to iOS
- Right-click on the Status Bar to customize it
- Improved resetting General settings to defaults
- Fixed undo/redo of deleting Snippets and Notes from the Shelf
- Added an option to turn off first-line drop caps in the Novel template
- Added custom font selection to template options
- Font panel now shows only font family names
- Improved autocomplete for custom parentheticals
- Fixed editor's dash (--) substitution setting
- Revision marks now use the theme's text color
- Unused images are removed from documents on close to reduce file sizes
- Removed Share/Export button from toolbar
- Fixed crash when applying markup to text containing emoji
- Fixed syntax highlighting of checklists in dark themes
- Fixed insertion point placement for empty wrapped markup
- Fixed toolbar icons scaling down when the Shelf sidebar is narrowed
- Fixed panel directive numbering to reset on page breaks
- Fixed front matter modals not dismissing consistently
- Fixed changing character highlighting
- Disallowed lowercased letters on Transition lines
- Added a Preview option to hide End Note backlinks in PDFs
- Improved End Note formatting in non-Screenplay templates
- Change labels of pages in Overview to match their printed page number 3.2.9 Feb 25 - Fixed incorrect display of units in the Goals item on the iOS Shelf
- Fixed issue where notes in PDFs had incorrect background color
- Fixed stats and goals not calculating correctly when opening a document on iOS
- Improved character name autocomplete behavior
- Stability improvements

Join us on the Team Highland Discord (Help > Join the Discord) for a first look at new features and quick answers from your developers and fellow users. 3.2.8 12/29/2025 - Fixed justified text alignment in PDF export
- Fixed lyrics + bold styling
- Added a pinned "Quick Notes" box to the Shelf (hideable from the Shelf Options popover)
- Renamed Shelf "Comments" to "Notes"
- Fixed front matter sheets not appearing on new empty documents
- Added search functionality to filter Shelf items by title and content
- Added search button to the Navigator header to filter outline items
- Fixed Grammar Highlights not being removed when toggled off
- Stability improvements

Join us on the Team Highland Discord (Help > Join the Discord) for a first look at new features and quick answers from your developers and fellow users. 3.2.7 12/09/2025 - Page Setup paper size is now remembered for new documents and persisted per-document
- Separated the Cancel and Delete buttons in the Front Matter page editors
- Added a Preview option to hide all to do lists items (in the Advanced Options section)
- Improve line breaking in PDFs (you'll be FLABBERGASTED by the result)
- Fixed revision markup appearing when pasting into external apps
- Improved Shelf card dragging - cards can now be dragged from anywhere on the card
- Added support for Fountain styling on Preface pages
- Fixed issues saving Title Pages 3.2.6 12/03/2025 - Improved syntax highlighter
- Improved line break consistency between Editor and Preview for A4 documents
- Improved handling of document markers ({{%m}} directives) in the Navigator
- Copy/pasting text maintains revision marks and colors
- Fixed file compatibility with Highland 2
- Fixed Boneyard syntax highlighting
- [macOS 26] Fixed drag and dropping Snippets from the Shelf to the Editor
- [iOS] New cloud background update icon
- [iOS] Improved revealing hidden markup in the Editor
- Preview automatically updates after the Print Setup (paper size, orientation, etc) changes

Join us on the Team Highland Discord (Help > Join the Discord) for a first look at new features and quick answers from your developers and fellow users. 3.2.4 11/20/2025 Improved typing performance in long documents, including Revision mode 3.2.3 10/30/2025 - Added a menu command to convert lines into a check list (Format > Convert Lines To > To Do List)
- Fixed clickability of empty Character Highlighting color pickers
- Fixed issue where Footers could overlap with page content in some templates
- Fixed issue where Headers and Footers using the older {{directive}} markup weren’t respecting the setting for not printing on the first page
- Fixed revision coloring when doing a Find and Replace
- Fixed revision marks placement in Preview/PDFs
- Adjusted dialogue line lengths in the Editor to better match Preview
- Fixed hiding style markup on iOS
- Fixed updating the Editor after syntax highlighting changes

Join us on the Team Highland Discord (Help > Join the Discord) for a first look at new features and quick answers from your developers and fellow users. 3.2.2 10/28/2025 - Fixed crashes on startup for some configurations. 3.2.1 10/01/2025 - Major improvements to iCloud syncing
- [New!] Image scaling and alignment controls on Mac
- Fixed transparent PNG handling
- Fixed font size slider issues on iOS
- Fixed duplicate View > Go to Editor commands after switching to Preview or Overview
- Fixed hiding style markup after using keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Cmd-B for bold)
- Word count stats no longer include Boneyards
- Fixed line breaks in Editor to better match line breaks in Preview
- Fixed the font used on Custom Pages

Join us on the Team Highland Discord (Help > Join the Discord) for a first look at new features and quick answers from your developers and fellow users. 3.2.0 09/29/2025 - Improved Getting Started workflow
- Added "Restore Purchases" to unlock screen
- Other bug fixes 3.1.5 08/06/2025 - Updated Getting Started (including setting preferences) 3.1.4 07/18/2025 == New ==

- Grammar Highlights: Color different parts of speech (e.g. nouns, verbs, etc) using the new Shelf widget

== Fixes & Improvements ==

- Improved performance
- Fixed counter processing for SERIES, CHAPTER, and other elements
- Auto-generating Locations lists are more reliable
- Added button to suppress warnings about auto-generating Location lists
- Fixed Novel template cutting off text
- Fixed an issue where scene numbers weren’t removed when Scene Headers had a note at the end
- Improved drag and dropping of Front Matter rows 3.1.3 06/07/2025 - Fixed subscription problems. (Sorry about that!) 3.1.2 05/22/2025 - Bug fixes 3.1.1 05/21/2025 == New ==
- Overview! A new way to get a high-level view of your document.

== Fixes & Improvements ==
- Across-device synchronization improvements
- Stability improvements 3.1.0 05/08/2025 === New ===
- Added folding to the Navigator
- Added Quick Find to iOS (under the [...] toolbar menu)

=== Fixes ===
- Updated the Quick Find UI on macOS
- Fixed Editor/Preview linkage on iOS
- Fixed opening documents to where you last left off
- Fixed export codes for Dark themes
- Improved stability and reduced crashes 3.0.3 04/29/2025 - Fixed drag and dropping of Navigator items
- Adjusted the Shelf comment editor to allow return key to input line breaks, rather than save and end editing
- Updated the Stageplay template to match the Dramatist Guild's modern format more closely
- Fixed Revisions menu items not matching the document's revision status/color
- Re-grouped items in the General settings panel
- Added Dark Mode app icons for iOS
- Re-fixed showing markers in the Navigator (hopefully for real this time)
- Improved conflict resolution of changes across iCloud devices
- Fixed bug preventing character highlight color changes from being saved
- Ensured title page contact info is exported to Final Draft .fdx files
- Removed Settings that don't work on iOS
- Improved performance of PDF building
- Improved opening Fountain files on macOS
- Added the ability to import Fountain files on iOS
- Fixed auto-uppercasing scene headers on iOS 3.0.2 04/21/2025 - Added a "Default Template" setting to General settings
- Added an Accessibilty section to Settings
- Added a setting to match Editor and Preview scroll positions
- Fixed the "Jump to Page" command
- Fixed inconsistency when mixing bold and underline markup
- Improved the "Copy as Rich Text" command when using the Novel template
- Ignore boneyarded content when building the Navigator's document outline
- Updated some support URLs to point to the right pages
- Fixed showing named markers in the Navigator (e.g. `{{m: Look here}}`)
- Theme editor text is updated on the Tab key (in addition to the Return key) 3.0.1 03/12/2025