WordCairn
Word counts and progress for your manuscript
Available now 50% off, extended to Mon, Nov 30
The launch discount has been extended to Monday, November 30. Use code IZMZAZNG at checkout and pay $2.50. This offer is good through the end of November, after which the price returns to $4.99. Every update included.
Point it at your folder of chapters (Markdown, Word, Scrivener and more) and see your total, every chapter against your target, daily challenges, sprints, and where each chapter stands from outline to proofread.
LoomArras
A character tracker for novelists
Coming soon
Keep a card for every character in your novel, joined by their relationships: family, marriages, allies, rivals and secret ties. LoomArras draws the family tree for you, lays every life along a timeline, and turns the whole cast into a character bible you can export.
Private like everything here: no account, no cloud, and your cast never leaves your computer.
MintQuoin
Publishing software for finished manuscripts
In development
MintQuoin will take a finished manuscript and prepare it for publication: a print-ready PDF and an EPUB for e-readers, laid out from the same chapter files you wrote in.
A quoin is the wedge printers used to lock type tight in the press before printing.
LectorTome
An audiobook player for iPhone and iPad
New for readers Coming soon to the App Store
For the hours away from the desk, a reader's companion for listening. Bring the DRM-free audiobooks you own and LectorTome sets them on handsome oak, walnut or listening-room shelves, remembers your place in every one, and steps back a few seconds after each pause so you never lose the thread.
- A sleep timer that fades you out gently, and gives you five more minutes when you shake your phone
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri, CarPlay and AirPlay
- Wi-Fi Transfer: drop books in from any browser on your computer
Private like everything here: no account, no ads, no tracking, and your books never leave your device.
More to come
Further tools for writers are planned. They'll appear here first.
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