| What it does | Novel writing software that tracks characters, timelines, and world rules, and catches continuity errors before readers do
| A writing studio for indie authors to plan, write, format and publish books in one place
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| Stage | Startup
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| Founded | 2025
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| Pricing model | Freemium
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| Pricing | Free: editor with one project and starter AI credits. Quill: $8/month with unlimited projects, full editor, World and Planner, no AI. Storyteller: $15/month with continuity checker and monthly AI allowance. Saga: $29/month with higher AI limit for daily drafting and series work.
| Free plan: one book in progress at a time, 100 AI actions per month, all planning, writing, formatting and publishing tools included, no credit card required. Author plan: $18/month or $173/year for unlimited books and series, 2,000 AI actions per month, all features included.
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| Key features | - Continuity checker that identifies contradictions with both passages quoted
- Plot hole checker
- Planner with chapter cards showing intended story purpose
- Shows how story changes ripple through manuscript
- Free editor with no account or card required
- Local-first with manuscript stored on user's machine
- AI-generated prose for scenes as beat sheets requiring approval
- Hand-editable character and world entries that become canon
| - Multiple story structure frameworks: Three-Act, Seven-Point, Hero's Journey, and plain outline with structure conversion preview
- Customizable AI editing lenses for spelling, dialogue, character consistency, emotion, pacing, continuity and worldbuilding
- Eight edition types: ebook, paperback, hardcover, large print, sampler, serial, audiobook script and box set
- 26 trim sizes plus custom, 53 open-licence typefaces, six themes with widow and orphan control
- Guided publishing for ten storefronts with step-by-step checklists and export of metadata
- Launch promotion playbook with 16 promotion channels mapped and advertising copy generation
- Sales tracking, review monitoring and promotion performance analytics
- Series planning with arcs spanning multiple books and shared worlds
- Browser-based editor with autosave, snapshots, word counts and cross-device access
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| What makes it different | - Automatically reads manuscript to populate character, place, and object tracking rather than requiring manual form entry
- Only checks for continuity when you request it, never running in background while typing
- Shows both conflicting passages side by side for every continuity issue found
- Director Mode ensures AI-drafted scenes don't contradict character knowledge before prose is written
- Manuscript never leaves your machine or used for AI training
| - All book stages integrated in one place with no exporting or re-importing between apps
- AI that only suggests without rewriting, helping authors train their own writing style
- Books and work are never deleted; cancelling a subscription does not remove any content
- Free plan with all planning, writing, formatting and publishing tools included
- Professional typesetting automatically applied with widow/orphan control and spine width calculation
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| Free plan | Not given
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| Open source | Not given
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| Platforms | Not given
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| Public API | Not given
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 5 ▼ −1 (down) since last check | 23 ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 11 | 0 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 24 | 22 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 37 | 8 |
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