Scriptation's Settings menu gives you full control over how the app looks and works.

New in v6.0, all of your settings are organized in a central Settings modal with easy-to-navigate tabs.

How to Open Settings

There are two ways to access Settings:

From a Document

Tap the three-dot menu (⋯) at the top right of the screen, then select Settings.

From the File Browser

If you're in the File Browser, tap Settings in the footer at the bottom of the File Browser panel.

iPad & Mac

On iPad and Mac, the Settings modal appears as a center window with a sidebar on the left showing all of the available tabs, and the settings page on the right.

iPhone

On iPhone, Settings opens as a slide-up sheet. Tap any tab to open its settings page, then use the back arrow to return to the main list.

Settings Tabs

The Settings modal is organized into 11 tabs, split into two groups:

App Settings

• General
• Toolbars
• Annotations
• Layers
• Live Layers
• Tagging
• Playback

Information & Account

• What's New
• Help Center
• Account
• About

General

The General tab is where you'll find your core page view and file browser settings. This is the tab that opens by default when you select Settings from the three-dot menu.

Content Settings

• Author name — Tap to edit the name used for your default Layer. Tap Save when you're done.

View Settings

• Page mode — Choose Single, Double, or Automatic (default). Automatic switches based on your device orientation;
• Scroll — Choose Vertical or Horizontal (default);
• Page transition — Choose Jump (default), Continuous, or Curl;
• Page fitting — Choose Fit, Fill, or Adaptive (default). Adaptive uses Fit in Portrait and Fill in Landscape;
• Appearance — Choose Default, Sepia, or Night mode;
• Thumbnails — Choose Floating (default), Docked, or None to control the thumbnail bar at the bottom of the screen;
• Disable cover page — Toggle on to skip the first page in double-page view;
• Extended zoom out — Toggle on to allow zooming out beyond the default minimum;
• Highlight links — Toggle on to highlight clickable links within your scripts.

File Browser

• Save documents on close (mac only)** **— Toggle on to automatically save documents when closing Scriptation;
• Thumbnail icon — Toggle on to show thumbnail previews in the File Browser;
• Hide tutorials — Toggle on to hide tutorial files;
• Hide library — Toggle on to hide the Library section;
• Hide showcase — Toggle on to hide the Showcase section.

Toolbars

The Toolbars tab lets you customize which tools appear on your top toolbar.

Navigation

• Always show top toolbar — Toggle on to keep the toolbar visible at all times. When toggled off, the toolbar will hide and reappear every time you tap on a blank spot on the page.

Centered Tools

Drag and drop to rearrange the tools that appear in the center of your top toolbar (minimum 1, maximum 5). Any additional tools will appear under the More Tools menu.

File Action Tools

Drag and drop to rearrange the tools that appear on the right side of the top toolbar (minimum 1, maximum 3). Additional options like Search can be swapped in from the In Menu section.

Annotations

The Annotations tab controls settings related to your annotation tools, lining, and auto-highlighting.

Annotation Toolbar

• Natural drawing — Toggle on (default) for pressure-sensitive pen strokes that mimic a real pen. Toggle off for uniform line weight;
• Keep text box active — Toggle on to keep the text tool selected after placing a text box;
• Timecode — Tap to open the Timecode settings, where you can change the color, choose between a 12-hour or 24-hour clock, and show or hide the date.

Lining

• Slate numbering — Choose Alphabetical (default), Numerical, or Decimal for your slate number format;
• Lining opacity — Adjust the opacity of your lining marks (default 75%).

Auto-Highlight

• Highlight format — Choose Name and dialogue (default), Name only, or Dialogue only.
• Color presets — Set the 16 preset colors Scriptation uses to auto-highlight elements in the order they're turned on. These same colors also fill the palette in the color slide-out when you change the color on an individual element;
• Saved colors — Lock in a specific color for a character so that character appears in the same color in every script you open going forward.

Layers

The Layers tab controls layer-related display options and Info Layer customization.

• Background layer opacity — Adjust how visible background (inactive) layers are while you're working on the active layer;
• Show layer switcher — Toggle on to display the Layer Switcher label in the Top Toolbar.
• Optimize layers — Tap or click "Start" to improve performance when working with many layers;

Info Layers

Customize how each Info Layer displays. Each Info Layer has its own card with its own settings.

Revision Colors

• Location — Choose Left (margin bar), Sides (left and right margins), or Full (full-page background).

Scene Numbers

• Format — Choose White on Black Box, Black on White Box, or Red.

Scene Dividers

• Color — Choose Black, Red, or Blue.

8th Page Count

• Location — Choose Top or Bottom of the scene;
• Color — Choose Black, Red, or Blue.

Dialogue Numbers

• Location — Choose Left, Above, or Right margin;
• Color — Choose Black, Red, or Blue;
• Format — Choose Numerical (1, 2, 3, …) or Alphabetical (A, B, C, …);
• Order — Choose Restart Each Scene or Full Script.

Live Layers

The Live Layers tab contains settings for Scriptation's real-time collaboration feature.

• Received name header — Toggle on to include the author's layer name as a header at the top of any received Live Layer;
• Auto Live Layers — Toggle on to automatically join the public group for every document you open;
• Private key — Tap to set a password applied to all auto-generated Live Layers groups.

Tagging

The Tagging tab contains settings related to script breakdowns and tagging tools, including category management.

• Add new category — Tap to add a custom category to your Tagging category list;
• Export Tagging customizations — Send your current category and color customizations to another device or collaborator. See How do I share Tagging Customizations with other devices? for the full walkthrough.

Category List

Manage every category in your main category picker from one place. Recolor any category by tapping its color dot, or reorder categories by dragging the handles on the right side of each row.

Tap Edit in the top-right of the list to access additional options:

• Hide or show a category from your main category picker — hidden categories appear under a separate Hidden section in this list;
• Rename any custom category you've created;
• Delete any custom category you've created.

Playback

The Playback tab is only accessible in Playback mode and controls how Scriptation reads and displays your script.

Display

• Font type — Choose the font Scriptation uses for playback (default: Courier Prime);
• Font size — Set the playback font size (default: 20);
• Overlay — Choose how the line being read is visually emphasized. Choose Highlight (grey highlight around the line), Fade (default — slightly dims everything except the current line), or None (no emphasis).

Auto-Highlight

• Characters — Tap to choose which character(s) to auto-highlight for the active script;
• Highlight format — Choose Name and dialogue (default), Name only, or Dialogue only;
• Color presets — Set the 16 preset colors Scriptation uses to auto-highlight elements in the order they're turned on. These same colors fill the palette in the color slide-out when you change the color on an individual element;
• Saved colors — Lock in a specific color for a character so that character appears in the same color in every script you open going forward.

Playback

• Language for voices — Tap to change the default language for narrator and character voices (default: the language set for your device);
• Saved voices — Tap to manage saved voice assignments for your characters;
• Loop — Choose how playback repeats. Options: Off (default), Scene (repeats the current scene), Script (repeats the entire script).

Rehearse

• Cue mode — Choose how Scriptation decides when to resume after your line. Options: On voice (default — Scriptation listens for you to finish your line and resumes when you do) and Automatic gap (Scriptation pauses for as long as it would take to read your line aloud, then resumes — adjust the pacing with Gap length below);
• Gap length — When Cue mode is set to Automatic gap, this controls the reading speed used to calculate the pause (default: 1x). Higher values (e.g., 1.5x, 2x) shorten the pause; lower values (e.g., 0.5x) lengthen it.
• Line reminders — Choose whether to hear your line read aloud as a reminder. Options: Off (default), Before (hear your line before the pause), After (hear your line after the pause).

Record

• Video preview — Choose where the video preview displays during recording. Options: None (hides the preview), Corner (default — draggable thumbnail), Full (fills the screen with the script overlaid);
• Camera — Choose Front (default) or Back;
• Slate countdown — Set the countdown duration before the slate appears. Range: 0s (default — no countdown) to 30s;
• Record countdown — Set the countdown duration before recording starts. Range: 0s (default — no countdown) to 15s.

What's New

The What's New tab displays the latest updates and announcements pulled from your in-app Notification Center.

Help Center

The Help Center tab gives you quick access to our most popular help articles, video tutorials, troubleshooting tips, and a way to contact us directly.

Account

The Account tab is home to your subscription, sign-in, Team login, education options, and device identifiers.

Subscriptions

• Industry Pro — Tap Upgrade to start or upgrade your Industry Pro subscription;
• AI add-on — Tap Upgrade to subscribe to AI Voices, Scriptation's premium voice add-on used in Playback.

Subscription Actions

• Restore purchases — Tap to restore an existing subscription on this device. See I purchased Industry Pro. How do I activate it on all of my devices? for the full walkthrough.

Your Account

• Sign in — Tap to sign in to your Scriptation account. This is used to sync your AI Voices usage across devices.

Team

• Log in — Tap to activate your Team or Team Studio license on this device.

Education

• Educational discount — Tap for 50% off Industry Pro for anyone with a valid .edu or .k12 email address. See Are there educational discounts for students or school groups? for details;
• On Campus program — Tap to learn about Scriptation's free On Campus access for students and faculty at participating partner schools.

Identifier

• Device ID — Tap to view and copy your device identifier. See How do I find my Device ID? for when to share this with our Support team;
• User ID — Tap to view and copy your user identifier. See How do I find my User ID? for when to share this with our Support team.

About

The About tab shows Scriptation's links to leave feedback or rate the app, social media links, and legal information.

What's Next

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Updated on: 29/05/2026