Writing & Editing
Everything you need to craft your manuscript from first word to final polish
Distraction-Free Composition
An immersive drafting environment that eliminates visual clutter so you can focus on putting words on the page, paired with a paginated manuscript editor for precision revision work.
Auto-Save & Version History
Configurable auto-save with a last-saved indicator. Every save creates a recoverable snapshot for comparing drafts or rolling back changes.
Composition Mode
Strips away all interface chrome, leaving only your prose and a blinking cursor for deep, uninterrupted drafting sessions.
Rich Text Editor
Draft in a single or multi-scene view with full manuscript formatting: styles, alignment, breaks, and inline images.
Typewriter Mode
Keeps your current line centered on screen as you type, eliminating the need to scroll and maintaining focus on the sentence you're crafting.
Manuscripts & Scenes
Organize your work the way stories actually unfold. A Manuscript holds your Scenes, each one a discrete unit of narrative that can be a chapter, prologue, epilogue, interlude, part, act, or anything your story demands.
Tabs & Pop-Out Windows
Open multiple scenes in parallel tabs, or detach them into floating windows for cross-referencing continuity and narrative flow.
Inline Annotations & Margin Notes
Embed revision notes directly in your prose, tagged by category: Character, Plot, World, or general editorial comments.
Style Ribbon & Formatting Presets
Define reusable paragraph and character styles that persist across your entire manuscript for typographic consistency.
Suggestions Tile
Save text snippets for characters, locations, and plot points as quick-reference notes while writing.
Multi-Scene View
Load your entire manuscript into a single continuous editor, all scenes, end to end, so you can read, revise, and move between them without switching context.
Live Scene Reordering
Drag scenes into any sequence directly from the panel and watch the editor update in real time, restructure your narrative without touching a single file.
Drafts & Diff Comparison
Maintain parallel drafts of any scene, each with independent version history. Compare revisions side-by-side to track line-level changes.
Scene Elements
Capture the full context of every scene without ever leaving the page. Story Elements lets you attach structured metadata to each scene, location, time, mood, point of view, and as many narrative beats as your story needs, then selectively pull any of it into your Story Arc.
Per-Scene Metadata
Attach location, time of day, POV character, mood, and any other fields you define to each scene for a complete at-a-glance record of what happens where.
Narrative Beats
Add as many beats as a scene demands, inciting moments, reversals, reveals, emotional shifts. Structure each scene's internal arc on your own terms.
Characters in Scene
Tag which characters appear in each scene, drawn directly from your character profiles, for instant continuity reference.
Story Arc Integration
Select any combination of scenes, characters, beats, and metadata to populate your Story Arc, you decide what gets mapped and how.
LLM Scene Scan, You Stay in Control
Ask Alistair to scan a scene for missing Story Elements and receive a checklist of suggestions. Review each one and add only what you want, nothing is inserted automatically. You always have the final word.
Chapbooks
A dedicated project type designed specifically for poets. Create poetry collections with specialized folders for Poems, Tales, and Notes, with real-time guidance for crafting perfectly metered verse.
Specialized Poetry Folders
Organize your collection with dedicated folders for Poems, Tales (narrative poetry and prose poems), and Notes.
Six Poetic Forms
Support for Free Verse, Haiku, Tanka, Sonnet, Limerick, and Villanelle with form-specific structure guidance.
Real-Time Helper Sidebar
Count syllables per line, track your structure, and receive form-specific guidance as you write.
Prosody Tile
Real-time poetry analysis showing the current line, syllable counts, meter patterns (iambic, trochaic, etc.), and rhyme scheme tracking (A-B-A-B).
Focus on Your Art
Whether you're writing a traditional sonnet or experimenting with free verse, Chapbook gives you the tools to craft your poetry with precision.
World-Building & Templates
Build rich worlds and compelling characters with dedicated planning tools
Characters & Story Development
Build detailed character pages with customizable templates. Track arcs, relationships, and character growth across your narrative with visual planning tools.
Character Profiles
Structured templates for physical description, voice, backstory, goals, and fatal flaws. Pin character cards alongside your draft for quick reference.
Relationship Mapping
Visualize character connections, alliances, and conflicts with an interactive relationship graph that updates as you write.
Storyboard & Arc Tracking
Plot your narrative with draggable scene cards. Track inciting incidents, turning points, and climax beats across your story structure.
Story Arc Timeline Builder
Build a visual timeline of your narrative arc, pulling from your scene metadata: locations, characters, beats, and mood. Select exactly which story elements get mapped and how they connect.
Create Sheets While Writing
Select a character name or location in your scene, right-click, and instantly create a character or location sheet with the name pre-filled. The dropdowns update live without breaking your flow.
World-Building & Templates
Develop immersive fictional worlds with structured templates for geography, cultures, history, and lore. Create custom document schemas when the built-in templates don't fit your genre.
World Building Templates
Document multiple worlds, continents, factions, religions, magic systems, and social hierarchies with structured, cross-referenced entries.
Notes & Research Repository
Capture inspiration, track subplot threads, and organize reference materials. Notes support the same version control and styling as chapters.
Location Tracking & Mapping
Create dedicated location sheets for every place in your story, then tag scenes with multiple locations using a live chip interface. An interactive relationship graph links locations together visually.
Custom Template Builder
Design bespoke document schemas with a visual drag-and-drop builder. Tailor the structure to your story's unique requirements.
Import/Export Templates
Share your custom templates with other authors, or import community-created schemas to jumpstart your next project.
ML-Powered Interface
Optional offline tools that run on your hardware and stay out of your way until you need them
LLM Chat Interface
A conversational LLM chat interface that knows your actual manuscript. Ask about specific chapters, characters, or plot points and it retrieves real text from your prose, linking back to the source scene.
Creative Brainstorming
Generate scene ideas, character names, dialogue variations, and world-building concepts through natural conversation.
Manuscript-Aware Context
Indexes your actual manuscript text so responses reference your real characters, locations, and story content. Never invents details that aren't on the page.
Chapter-Targeted Queries
Ask about "Chapter 1" or any chapter by name and it retrieves that specific chapter's content directly, not just semantically similar passages.
Source Links & Scene References
Responses include clickable scene references with real text excerpts from your manuscript. Click any source to open that scene directly.
Plot Hole Detection
Surface continuity issues and get suggestions for resolving narrative inconsistencies while preserving story logic.
Story Elements Extraction
Run a scan on any scene to extract location, time, characters, and mood into structured metadata. Review the results and keep what fits.
Text-to-Speech
A fully local and bleeding-edge text-to-speech engine. Hear your manuscript read back to you to catch errors your eyes miss, with 26 built-in voices, voice blending, and GPU-accelerated playback.
26 Built-In Voices
Choose from American and British male and female voices. Mix any two at a custom blend ratio to create unique character voices you can save and reuse.
Voice Blending
Blend two voices at any ratio to craft a sound unique to your project. Named blends like Alistair Female and Alistair Male ship ready to use out of the box.
Full Playback Controls
Play, pause, stop, seek, skip chunks, and adjust playback speed from 0.5× to 2.0×. Right-click any selection to read it aloud instantly.
Export as WAV
Export your entire document as a single WAV audio file. Recordings save to a configurable local folder, never uploaded anywhere.
Analysis by Alistair
A revision tool that scans your manuscript and surfaces inline suggestions directly in your document. You decide what to accept, dismiss, or discuss further. The prose stays yours.
Inline Suggestions
Suggestions appear as highlighted text with action buttons: Accept to apply, Dismiss to remove, or Discuss to open a conversation about the recommendation.
Comprehensive Feedback
From grammar corrections and style improvements to "show don't tell" recommendations, Analysis helps you refine every aspect of your writing.
Comments Panel
Review all suggestions in the Comments panel. Click to navigate to each one and refine your work at your own pace.
Bring Your Own Model
Import any GGUF-quantized model. Inference runs locally via llama.cpp with optional CUDA/Metal GPU acceleration.
Export & Publishing
Compile your chapters into a formatted manuscript ready for submission or self-publishing
Manuscript Compiler
Merge chapters, front matter, and back matter into a single typeset document with one click. Export print-ready PDFs or editable DOCX files for agent submissions.
One-Click Compile
Assemble your full manuscript from chapters, title page, copyright, dedication, and acknowledgments into a single submission-ready file.
Style Presets with Manual Override
The compiler applies industry-standard formatting by default. Override margins, fonts, and headers when you need precise typographic control.
Live Word & Page Count
Track word counts per chapter and across your full manuscript. Estimated page counts update in real-time as you write.
