About
About Scriptease
Scriptease is a macOS screenwriting and production app made by EgeTech, a small software company in Toronto. It was built by a working cinematographer for the people who write a film and then have to shoot it.
The company: EgeTech
EgeTech (EGETECH LTD) is a Toronto software company, founded in 2018, that makes offline-first, one-time-purchase software for film professionals. Scriptease is its flagship. The same team makes smaller tools for specific jobs on set: Scripty for script-supervisor logging on iPad and iPhone, Olycen for checksum-verified camera card offloads on the Mac, Wrap Clock for crew time and meal penalties, and DOPro, a cinematography toolkit.
Every one of them follows the same rules: your work stays on your own device, you pay once rather than renting the tool, and the app keeps working when there is no signal on location.
The founder: Onur Thornfield
Onur Thornfield is a Turkish-Canadian director of photography based in Toronto, with more than fifteen years on set across narrative films, commercials, music videos and documentaries. He won Best Cinematography at the New Jersey Film Awards 2026 for Till Death Do Us Part. He holds a degree in Radio, Television and Cinema from Ege University and graduated with honours in Film Production from the Toronto Film School. His work and full credits are at onurthornfield.com and on IMDb.
Alongside cinematography he has a software development background, and EgeTech is where the two meet: tools for filmmakers, written by someone who uses them on real productions.
Why Scriptease exists
On an independent production the person who wrote the scene is often the same person working out how many days it takes, what it costs and what goes on tomorrow's call sheet. The usual answer is a stack of separate tools — a writing app, a subscription production suite and a folder of spreadsheets — each holding its own copy of the same information, all drifting apart the moment the script changes.
Scriptease puts that whole chain in one project file on your Mac: write or import the script, break it down, board the schedule, build the budget and generate the paperwork, all from the same source. It works offline day to day, it costs $99.99 once, and the project file is yours.
How we write this site
The guides on the blog and the free on-set templates come from how productions actually run. When we compare Scriptease with other software, we use only the other company's own public pages, say when we checked them, and say plainly when another tool is the better choice for you. Corrections are welcome at support@scriptease.app.