Final Draft was the first to market and is the most used, but hardly the most loved. They are the IE of screenwriting software.

The industry standard is .PDF. As long as you can get to .PDF, all is good. All modern screenwriting software supports the Fountain syntax, except Final Draft. Final Draft is the dinosaur of the industry, and they are dying. One man shops are making far superior software at a lower price and that are far less buggy.

One you get into production, Final Draft might be needed, but many places aren't updated their overpriced licenses.

The top "traditional" software packages for screenwriting now are either Fade In Pro ($50) or WriterDuet (free/$99 one time license for all the extras). Both support Fountain.

http://www.fadeinpro.com/page.pl?content=comparison

https://writerduet.com/blog/

If you're only writing in Fountain and then to PDF, Highland and Slugline are the other options. They are both under $30.

http://slugline.co/blog/sushi

I also like afterwriting.com. Bascially it's Highland in a browser that can sync to Google Docs and Dropbox for free.

http://afterwriting.com/#

The great things about Fountain is that you can just use any text editor you want and then import into a Fountain compatible package and that it's very readable.

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