Scrin opens in your browser.
No installer, no account, nothing to set up. One click and your first page is there — and from the second visit on, it opens with the network off. Your manuscript stays on your own machine.
Open ScrinChrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox — on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Give it its own window
Installing gives Scrin a window of its own: no tabs, no address bar, an icon in the dock. On Chrome and Edge that is up to you: there, a site's data is cleared only when the disk runs short.
In Safari there is one more thing to know. Safari clears what a site has stored on your device after seven days of Safari use without touching that site. For Scrin, that is the manuscript, its history and its daily copy.
Two things put a book out of any browser's reach: an export on your disk, and a paired second device. On iPhone and iPad, the app on your Home Screen is out of Safari's reach too, once the book is in it.
Chrome, Edge
An install icon appears at the right of the address bar. If you don't see it, open the browser menu and choose to install this page as an app.
Safari on Mac
File → Add to Dock. For the book itself, rely on an export or a paired device.
iPhone, iPad, Android
iPhone and iPad: Share → Add to Home Screen. Android: the browser menu, then install. On iPhone and iPad the installed app keeps a storage of its own, apart from Safari's.
A book begun in a tab is not in it until you bring it across. To do that, pair the two, or export from the tab as Markdown or Word and import it in the app.
If your invitation came with a key
Scrin is free to write in for a month, without anything at all. Open it by November 30 and your month lasts until December 31. If you were sent a key, open the help panel — ⌘ / on Mac, Ctrl / elsewhere — paste it, and editing stays open for the months it covers.
When a key runs out, nothing is taken from you: reading, history and exports stay free. Scrin locks features, never your words.
What it does today — and what it doesn't
You are among the first writers in. That is worth a full inventory rather than a feature list: here is the whole of it, both columns.
It does
- —Bring a manuscript in from Word, Scrivener (pick its .scriv folder), Markdown (a file or a folder), plain text, RTF, ODT, EPUB, HTML, Fountain, Final Draft, yWriter or a PDF that carries text. Scrin reads its chapters, italics and bold. A scanned, damaged or encrypted PDF is refused, so export the original first. From Pages or Google Docs, export a Word copy of the original first, then drop that in.
- —Write with everything off — no network needed after the first visit, nothing to log into.
- —Freeze a scene before you rework it, and travel back through its history when the new version turns out worse.
- —Take your text out whenever you like: Markdown, Word (.docx), EPUB, HTML, or PDF when you print — plus a plain-text copy saved every day.
- —Write on every device you pair. A code from any paired device adds the next, and your text follows you, encrypted before it leaves and readable on them alone. Until you pair, share a link or ask for a map, nothing you write leaves this one.
- —Ask for the map of a manuscript and Scrin draws it: an outline scene by scene, a synopsis, the characters and places with their scenes, the threads that run through it. The text leaves this device for that, and only once you have said yes, every time. Not on phones.
- —Plan on a free board: scene cards sit anywhere, and moving one never changes the manuscript's order. A frame around cards becomes a chapter, a frame of frames a part, and “arrange the manuscript” applies the board's order, with undo. Not on phones.
- —Read it in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese.
- —In a screenplay, number your scenes once and they hold: a scene added between 12 and 13 becomes 12A, and nothing else moves.
- —Let someone read your text: make a link in their name, and they open it in a browser, no account, nothing to install. It is encrypted before it leaves, and the key stays in the link, never on our server. Take a link back, or stop sharing, and the link shows nothing.
- —A reader can select a passage and leave a note, signed with their name. When you open the text again, the note sits on that passage, even if you have changed the text since.
It doesn't, yet
- —There is no program to install from a file. Scrin runs in your browser; a signed application for macOS and Windows is not distributed yet.
- —Images stay behind, and a table arrives as plain lines without its grid. From Final Draft and yWriter, formatting stays behind too. Scrivener and Word bring the text, its chapters and scenes, bold, italics, footnotes and comments; Scrivener snapshots arrive as versions in the scene history.
- —A screenplay is written as plain text. Scrin does not lay it out as you type, count its pages or print it in script format yet.
When something goes wrong, tell us
In the help panel there is a “write to support” button: it opens a message with the technical details already attached — version, browser, storage — and not one line of what you wrote. Or write straight to studio@7hazart.com.
What helps most: what you were doing in the minute before it happened. That single sentence is usually the difference between a bug we can reproduce and one we can't.
Scrin records what you do with the application — opened, imported, exported — never a word of what you write, and never a title or a file name. You can switch it off in the same help panel. The detail is in the privacy policy.