A digital record-keeping tool for film crews
Script coverage, per-take records,
and deliverables someone can check
Let information from the set stop depending on people to tidy it and start being structured in the data itself. Let order stay in the data, and give attention back to the set.
SlateX is a digital script supervision app built natively for iPhone, iPad and Mac — for the person on set who is responsible for the day’s record.
On-set recording and handoff method →
Whether a handoff file goes straight to the edit is for the receiving side to verify. We do not claim it conforms on their bench.
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Script · coverage
Coverage follows the script’s own structure
Import FDX and read each scene’s length to the eighth of a page. On the script page the two tracks separate the master shot from its coverage, and the pair is told apart by the shot number itself: a coverage take adds a letter to the number. Double-tap a track cell and the coverage marks for a whole dialogue block change at once.
Take · rating
Circle / Keep / Hold / N/G — the words the set actually uses
Rate each take as it happens; the take number is the highest number already in that shot, plus one.
We do not invent a fifth word.
Continuity · reference
Attach continuity references to the take they belong to
Continuity assets are linked to a specific take; across takes they are grouped by shot, and a reference image is picked by rating and take number. After image alignment on the comparison screen you can flicker through the takes one by one.
Grouping only offers candidates — the judgement stays yours, and ordering is a starting point for finding things, not a continuity call.
On set · offline
Hand material to the right machine with no network
A Mac has no camera: start the take from the Mac, an iPhone or iPad shoots it and sends it back. The receiver only acknowledges once the file and its record are both stored, and anything unacknowledged is resent.
This path goes over a short-range link between iPhone, iPad and Mac, and it does not resume interrupted transfers.
Handoff
Export a per-camera ALE, with reel and clip numbers auto-numbered by camera
Takes are logged on set; at wrap the day’s report goes out as PDF, ALE, itemized CSV and reconciliation CSV — the script travels separately, as FDX.
Per-camera detail stops at ALE and CSV — the PDF carries the first camera only. A receiving editor still checks the exchange file field by field.
Project → (Episode) → Scene → Shot → Take
├ camera
└ continuity refs
↓
FDX · ALE · CSV · PDFBefore wrap, you should be able to check it yourself
You do not have to take our word for it. The order is fixed: keep what was already recorded, place every object in an explicit relation, then make the deliverable checkable.
Grab a take without committing anything: it captures the current timecode and duration, and becomes a take only once you confirm. Close it and nothing happened. What you did record stays on the device you use by default; only after this device is allowed to put projects into iCloud and an iCloud account is available on it are newly created projects saved to the iCloud private database under your own Apple Account.
Coverage is anchored to the script lines, each take to a shot and its cameras, each continuity reference to a take — so the record does not collapse into one flat list.
Fields and naming all come from the same record, so the recipient can check it field by field.
Design positions
Four things we do not trade away
You can check all four against the app itself.
No dirty data
If it is not certain it does not become a take — stopping, rolling back, or quarantining beats half a record.
Fail rather than overwrite your setup
If a preset cannot be resolved, the whole import fails instead of quietly replacing it with empty values.
Quarantine rather than pretend it worked
A transfer that cannot finish is quarantined, never reported as delivered.
Export never touches the original
Every deliverable is a read-only copy of the record.
Data, timecode and the workspace
Two things we can state plainly: which account the data lives under, and how timecode is counted. Everything else is interface.
Ownership
Project records stay on the device you use by default; only after this device is allowed to put projects into iCloud and an iCloud account is available on it are newly created projects saved to the iCloud private database under your own Apple Account.
The part that is never gated
Cancel and you still own the log: open it, edit it, delete it, delete the account.
Timecode
29.97 counted at 29.97, shown at 30. Bluetooth timecode hardware sync — one device at a time.
Mac workspace
A multi-window workflow rewritten natively for Mac: separate windows split by function page, not a phone layout enlarged.
Monthly or annual.
SlateX Opus comes in monthly and annual plans. Without a subscription you can still open, edit and delete existing records, and export PDF, ALE, CSV and FDX; deleting your account is self-service inside the app.
Monthly subscriptionUS$9.99 Annual subscriptionUS$89.99
The amounts above are US list prices; the price and any tax you actually pay depend on your App Store account region, and are displayed and charged by Apple under that region’s price schedule.
- An Opus subscription opens creating and continuing to record for as long as your entitlement is active; without it, what you have already recorded can still be opened, edited, deleted and exported, and the app’s own free recording window of two weeks (14 days) applies as set out in the Terms.
- Subscribe now to keep creating. Record every shoot, on every device, anywhere.
- Annual Subscription: made for long-term professional projects.
- Monthly Subscription: a flexible choice for short-term projects; cancel any time as your shoot schedule changes.
- Your existing script reports, scripts and shoot records are not deleted; you can still view, edit, sync and export them.
- SlateX’s project material is saved on the current device by default; only after this device is allowed to put projects into iCloud and an iCloud account is available on it are eligible new projects saved to the iCloud private database under your account. Projects that have already entered iCloud are not deleted automatically because you turn that allowance off; please use the viewing and deletion features the App provides, according to where each project is located.
Plans and billing are managed by Apple. Purchases follow your Apple account, so after switching devices you can restore them inside the app. Without a subscription you can still export PDF, ALE, CSV and FDX.
What a set needs is not convenience. It is reliability.
One record chain: script coverage, takes and continuity references — and at wrap something a receiver can check.