Score your script
before you hit record.
Story Lint reviews your video script's structure, pacing, and beat format against styles modeled on the creators you admire — and never rewrites a word of your voice.
Free to start · 3 analyses a month · no credit card — compare plans
Free to start — really.
3 analyses every month, scripts up to 500 words, no credit card. Upgrade only when you outgrow it.
Create your free accountBuilt for people who script before they shoot.
A script can read fine in your head and still leak viewers — a flat open, a beat that runs long, a section that quietly drifts off-topic. Those are hard to feel while you are the one writing them. Story Lint reads your draft like a tough, supportive editor and shows you the soft spots while they are still cheap to fix — before the camera is on.
How it works
Three steps, about a minute.
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Paste your script
Drop in your draft, formatted in beats — one complete thought per blank-line-separated block, the way you would breathe it on camera.
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Pick a style
Score against a style template modeled on a creator whose pacing you admire — or just against the universal fundamentals of structure and flow.
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Get a structural read
An overall score, a per-goal breakdown, and beat-by-beat notes on what is dragging or drifting. Coaching on structure — never a rewrite of your words.
Score against the styles you already study.
Each template captures the structural DNA of a creator known for it — the pacing, the beat shape, the way they earn attention. Pick the one you are reaching for and see how close your draft lands.
Cosmic Absurdism
Inspired by Exurb1a
Philosophy smuggled in through jokes. Big melancholy ideas delivered sideways and undercut by absurdist humor right before they land — leaving viewers amused and quietly devastated.
The Retention Monster
Inspired by MrBeast
Zero throat-clearing, relentless forward motion. Every beat is a new stake, a new movement, a new reason not to click away. Engineered for watch-time.
The Video Game Autopsy
Inspired by Noah Caldwell-Gervais
Long-form, literary, unhurried. Treats a game like a novel worth dissecting — rhythmic prose, deep atmosphere, and what it all meant. The anti-TikTok essay.
The Curiosity Sandbox
Inspired by Vsauce
Starts with a question a child could ask, then refuses to answer it the easy way. Each beat cracks open a new door — linking the mundane to math, physics, and what it means to be a person asking at all.
The Curated Deep-Dive
Inspired by Johnny Harris
Visual-first investigative journalism. Opens on one human flashpoint, zooms out to map the system behind it, then lands the real-world cost. Every beat is built to be seen — show me on the map.
The Video Essay
Inspired by Nerdwriter1
Academic but accessible analysis. Isolates one frame or scene, expands it into a thesis about a body of work, then turns it back on you. Every beat earns its insight by showing the evidence first.
The Micro-Doc
Inspired by Jon Bois
Finds operatic drama in a forgotten niche — a 1970s runner, a dead world record, an internet feud. Establishes a normal world, tips it into chaos, and lands the moral. Single-sentence beats hit like cliffhangers.
The Cozy Tech Review
Inspired by MKBHD
Crisp, lifestyle-integrated product reviews from a trusted friend. Opens on the problem it solves, weighs the specs against real life, and ends with who it is actually for. Every judgment carries its counterweight.
Templates are inspired by these creators' publicly visible work. Story Lint is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any creator named here.
This is the feedback you get.
An overall score, a fingerprint across every goal, and a note on each beat — colored by how much it needs your attention.
We all carry a quiet list of the people we were supposed to become.
And the list only gets longer with every year that passes, heavier somehow.
Which is, more or less, a working definition of entropy.
We coach. We never ghostwrite.
Story Lint will never hand you replacement sentences. It points at structure, pacing, and momentum and leaves the writing — your phrasing, your jokes, your voice — entirely to you. Every note is a nudge ("this may be losing momentum"), never a verdict. Voice preservation is the whole point.
Plans that scale with how much you write.
Every plan gets the full style library. You pay for volume, not features.
Free
$0
3 analyses / mo · 500 words · 1 saved script
Creator
$19.99/mo
30 analyses / mo · 4,000 words · unlimited scripts
Studio
$49.99/mo
150 analyses / mo · 8,000 words · unlimited scripts
Questions
Is Story Lint free?
Yes — the free plan gives you 3 analyses every month on scripts up to 500 words, with no credit card required. Paid plans raise the limits when you outgrow it.
Does it rewrite my script?
Never. Story Lint is a coach, not a ghostwriter. It points at structure, pacing, and momentum and leaves every word of the writing to you. It does not suggest replacement text.
Who is it for?
YouTubers, video essayists, and explainer-channel creators who write a script before they record — anyone who wants to catch a flat open or a section that drifts before the camera is on.
What styles can I score against?
A growing library of templates, each modeled on the structural approach of a well-known creator — from relentless retention pacing to long-form literary essays — plus the universal fundamentals every script shares.
How does the scoring work?
Each style defines a handful of goals (structure, beat format, flow, and more). Story Lint reads your script beat by beat, scores each goal out of 10, and flags the specific beats that pull a score down.