Create a logline that stops agents and producers in seconds - and gets your script read
Type any story idea in your own words. Get back an attention grabbing logline that hooks agents, managers and producers in the first sentence (or two).
$9.99 for 50 loglines · pay as you go · no subscription
Questions before you start? See the FAQ
Generated loglines are tools to help you write — they do not guarantee your script, treatment, or story idea will be chosen, read, selected, or produced.
Stop spending hours trying to find the right words.
A logline can take hours — sometimes days — of rewriting before it finally lands. Explore multiple possibilities from your story idea in minutes instead.
The usual way
Draft. Rewrite. Second-guess. Repeat.
With Perfect Loglines
Type your idea, compare options, pick what fits.
From a rough idea
What you enter — Your idea
"A reclusive lighthouse keeper finds a stranded survivor from a wrecked ship."
What Perfect Loglines does
Suggested goal: keep the stranger alive through the storm. Obstacle: the keeper hasn't spoken to another soul in years — and is hiding why. Stakes: the secret he's protecting, or the stranger's life.
What you get
When a storm strands a dying survivor on his island, a reclusive lighthouse keeper who hasn't spoken to another soul in years must keep the stranger alive through the night — and decide whether the secret he's hiding is worth letting the man die to protect.
From a fully developed story
What you enter — Your idea
"A disgraced astronaut who faked his greatest mission must guide a real rescue when a Mars crew goes missing. Protagonist: a fallen hero seeking redemption. Obstacle: his own lies and a crew that doesn't trust him. Tone: tense thriller."
What Perfect Loglines does
Finds the protagonist, goal, obstacle and stakes — and shapes them into a hook.
What you get
When a Mars crew goes radio-silent, a disgraced ex-astronaut who faked his greatest mission must come out of hiding to guide the real rescue — and prove he was the hero everyone thought he wasn't.
These sample options are free to explore and do not use credits. In the actual generator, each generation or regeneration uses one credit.
Not sure where your story is going yet?
If your story is still taking shape, Perfect Loglines can suggest possible goals, obstacles and story directions when you haven't provided them.
Story idea
"A woman returns to her hometown after her father's death and discovers a secret about her family."
Possible story direction
Suggested: her goal becomes proving what her father hid; the obstacle is a town that profited from the silence; the stakes are the family name — and her own memory of him.
Logline
When a woman returns home to bury her father, the secret she uncovers forces her to choose between protecting his memory and exposing the town that buried the truth with him.
You decide what fits your story. Use the suggestions, change them, or ignore them.
Already know your direction?
Give it the protagonist, conflict or tone you already have, and it builds the logline around that.
Protagonist
Who they are — and why we should root for them.
Obstacle
What stands in their way. The heart of the drama.
Goal
What they must do. The stakes that pull us in.
Why I created Perfect Loglines
After roughly 25 years working in the film industry — developing stories and helping other filmmakers develop and communicate their ideas — I wanted to create a tool that helps writers communicate their story in the strongest possible way, faster.