How to Write Video Scripts with AI

The most well-known AI writer, ChatGPT is highly versatile for scriptwriting. You can use it to brainstorm video topics, generate outlines, or write full scripts based on your prompts. It excels at producing conversational dialogue and can adapt to many tones or genres with the right instructions.

Best for: Many creators use ChatGPT to draft YouTube video scripts or get ideas for hooks and titles. The base ChatGPT is free, making it a great starting point for AI-assisted scripting. Similar conversational AI chatbots like Google Bard or Microsoft Bing Chat can also perform these tasks if you prefer those platforms.

Jasper is a popular AI writing platform originally geared toward marketing copy, and it offers specific templates for video scripts. Jasper has a YouTube Video Script Writer mode designed to create engaging YouTube scripts, including catchy intros and product demo scripts. Jasper is known for generating persuasive, well-structured content quickly, and it supports multiple languages.

Best for: Content marketers and agencies. For video creators, Jasper can help craft compelling hooks, outlines, and call-to-action phrases tailored for your target audience. It's a paid tool, but favored for its reliability.

Copy.ai is another AI writing assistant that comes with a variety of templates – including ones for video content. It has a video script template that can generate scripts for social media videos, explainers, or ads. You input some details about the video and Copy.ai will produce a rough script which you can refine.

Best for: Users often praise Copy.ai for its user-friendly interface and the fact that it often provides multiple versions to choose from. There's a free tier to try it out, making it a handy option for quick inspiration or a first draft.

Writesonic is an AI content platform similar to the above, which also includes a dedicated AI Video Script Generator. It's designed to create scripts for YouTube, Instagram reels, TikTok, and more, based on a brief description you provide. Writesonic allows you to specify the tone and length, and it will generate a full script complete with an introduction, key points, and conclusion.

Best for: In a trial by HubSpot, Writesonic successfully produced a coherent video script when given clear inputs, though some tweaking was needed for the final output. It's a powerful tool if you want structured scripts quickly, and it offers other content creation features (like titles, descriptions, etc.) to complement your video script.

Sudowrite is an AI writing assistant originally built for fiction authors, but it has features that scriptwriters find very useful. It's particularly good for creative storytelling, dialogue, and overcoming writer's block. Sudowrite's interface lets you brainstorm plot points or ask for descriptive rewrites (their "Describe" feature can add vivid sensory details to a scene).

Best for: For video scripts, especially narrative or storytelling ones, Sudowrite can help flesh out character dialogues or suggest imaginative scenarios. It even rolled out a "screenplay mode" that understands script formatting and elements like INT./EXT. scene headings. While Sudowrite won't format the whole script for you, it's a superb creative partner to generate ideas and rich content that you can then format into your screenplay or video outline. It's a paid service, often praised by novelists and screenwriters alike for its ability to write in your own voice and keep the creative juices flowing.

Synthesia is best known as an AI video generator with lifelike avatars, but it's also a powerful script tool. You can input a short brief or even a URL, and Synthesia's AI will generate a video script automatically. It's designed for corporate and marketing videos – for example, turning a product page or blog post into a concise script for a video.

Best for: After you have the script, Synthesia lets you choose an AI avatar and voice to speak that script in a video. This makes it a one-stop solution: you get a written script and a produced video from it. It's especially useful for training videos, explainers, or multilingual content (it supports 120+ languages). If you need to churn out lots of scripted videos quickly, Synthesia can be a game-changer.

Pictory is an AI tool that turns text into videos, and it works great for creators repurposing written content. With Pictory, you can feed in a script (or even a full blog article) and it will automatically generate a video with stock footage, images, and a voiceover.

Best for: Essentially, Pictory converts your script into a finished video, matching scenes to your narration. It's very beginner-friendly: for example, marketers use it to turn blog posts into engaging short videos for YouTube or social media. While Pictory itself is focused on video creation, one of its steps includes offering a summarized script or highlights from your text, which is effectively an AI-edited script. If you have a rough script draft, Pictory can refine the wording to better sync with visuals, then produce the video. You can see how the script plays out in a video format and tweak the text within Pictory's editor for flow.

Lumen5 is another popular platform that transforms text into videos. It uses AI to help create storyboard-style videos for marketing, complete with stock imagery and animations. When it comes to script support, Lumen5 can take a blog or article and automatically generate a video script and storyboard from it. It highlights the important sentences (like an automatic summarization) which become your video's "script," and then suggests visuals or footage to go along.

Best for: You can also input your own script text, and Lumen5 will break it into scenes and recommend corresponding visuals. This is a great way to visualize your script and ensure it's optimized for viewer engagement. Lumen5 is especially favored for social media videos and corporate content – it keeps the wording concise and pairs each line of script with compelling visuals, which can guide you in writing scripts that show as well as tell. If you're a one-person content team, Lumen5's AI can accelerate going from a script outline to a polished video in minutes.

InVideo (a video editing platform) has integrated AI features that include script generation for videos. You can choose a template and ask the AI to write a video script for a given topic or concept. InVideo's AI will produce a script and even create a slideshow-style video out of it automatically.

Best for: This is useful for quick social videos or if you need some inspiration on how to structure your content. The tool allows further manual editing, so you can refine the AI-generated script and design before finalizing the video. InVideo AI is geared towards marketing content, offering stylistic templates (e.g., for a listicle, how-to, promo, etc.) and then filling in text via AI. It's a handy aid if you want both script and visuals done in one go.

WriterDuet is a professional screenwriting software, and it has begun adding AI-assisted tools to help scriptwriters. One feature, ScreenplayProof, acts as an AI proofreader for scripts, catching formatting or grammar issues specific to screenwriting. Another, ScreenplayIQ, provides analysis like identifying plot points or suggesting improvements (somewhat like a script consultant).

Best for: While WriterDuet firmly positions AI as a helper (not a writer) – "AI cannot write a better screenplay than you, but it can help you write a better screenplay," – these features are valuable for polishing your scripts. AI-driven suggestions in WriterDuet can help overcome writer's block and enhance your script's quality, all within industry-standard formatting. For example, the AI might suggest alternative dialogue if it notices a cliché, or highlight inconsistent character tone. If you're writing narrative films or web series, WriterDuet's AI tools keep your script sharp while you maintain creative control.

ScriptBook is an AI platform that doesn't write scripts, but analyzes screenplays to predict performance and provide feedback. It's used in the film industry to evaluate scripts for things like commercial viability, emotional arcs, and character development. As a scriptwriter, you could use ScriptBook's analysis to identify weaknesses in your story or get an objective "second opinion."

Best for: For instance, it might predict audience engagement levels for different scenes, or flag if your script's genre elements are off-balance. While this is more for long-form screenplays than short marketing videos, it's worth noting how AI can support the script review process. Tools like ScriptBook essentially serve as AI script consultants – they won't create content, but they can save you from going down a wrong path by giving data-driven insights. Studios have used such tools to inform greenlighting decisions, but individual writers can also use them to refine drafts before pitching.

Saga is an application that helps you brainstorm and outline screenplays; it can turn basic ideas into storyboards and even suggest camera shots for your script. It's like having an AI assistant throughout the storytelling process – from initial idea to final script polish.

NolanAI offers a full suite covering concept development, collaborative writing, and even scheduling, with AI features embedded at each step. One emphasis of NolanAI is ethical and secure AI usage – it encrypts your scripts and respects your privacy while giving AI-driven feedback and suggestions.

Best for: For independent filmmakers or YouTubers creating narrative content, Saga and NolanAI can accelerate script development and planning. They won't replace your storytelling, but they provide a supportive framework (plot suggestions, automated formatting, etc.) to turn your ideas into a polished script and beyond.

AI Screenwriter (built by film industry veterans) acts like a smart co-writer that gives pro-level suggestions as you develop your screenplay. It can brainstorm plot ideas, help structure your story, and ensure your script follows best practices, drawing on a database of successful films.

Melies (named after the filmmaker Georges Méliès) is another innovative tool aiming to empower indie creators – it not only helps write and expand your script (offering outlines, scenes, even dialogue ideas), but also includes AI image and video generation for a one-stop filmmaking solution. Melies can take a high-level concept and propose story treatments across genres, inspiring you to push your creativity.

Best for: These tools are still emerging, but they represent how AI is entering the domain of creative screenwriting. They won't magically produce an award-winning script at the push of a button (no AI can do that), but they are powerful aides to iterate scripts faster, explore multiple versions of a scene, and handle tedious parts of formatting or research.