I am a director and I have always thought about story in pictures and out of order. I usually know the ending before I know the opening, and I carry two or three versions of a scene in my head at once. A blank page and a straight outline never held that, so I built my own tool. It is called Beat, a free Mac app. It is one visual canvas where you lay your beats or scenes out as cards, connect them into a spine, and branch any beat into alternate versions sitting right beside each other, so you can hold two ways a scene could go without losing either. You can start from classic structures like three act, Save the Cat, the hero's journey or the story circle. When the shape is right, it exports a clean outline to Markdown or Word, and now a real Fountain screenplay too. It just reached 1.5 this week. It runs on Mac, works offline, has no account and no tracking, and it is completely free. I built it for myself and I give it away. The two screenshots show the full board and a story spine. If you want to try it, it is at beatforfree.com. If anything feels off or missing for the way you develop a story, I would really like to hear it. I am Joao, a director represented by Creme Company, part of the Boiler hub. Lived in New York for a while, now back in Sao Paulo. Instagram is @____lutz if you want to say hi.