Narraloom
Write the novel. Then typeset it, in the same app.
Everywhere else this takes two programs and a file passed between them, and the structure you built while writing does not survive the trip.
The same words, both ways
On the left, what you are writing. On the right, the page it becomes — set by a typesetting engine built for this, not exported to something else and hoped over.
Hold the whole book in view
Every scene as a card, with its synopsis, its status and whose point of view it is. Then filter, and the rest falls away — here, the four scenes that follow one character through a twenty-eight scene novel.
Every scene as a row
The outline gives you a line per scene, with the fields you track as columns. Sort or filter on any of them.
Everything you invented, in one place
People, places and things, with whatever fields you decide they need. Relationships read both ways — write it on one sheet and it appears on the other. Mention a name in a scene and the two are linked.
What happens when
Events in story order rather than in the order you wrote them, each carrying the people it involves and the scene that shows it — and the ones you have not written yet, marked as such.
A printed book, not an exported document
Drop capitals, flourishes, plates, prose that flows around a picture. Margins worked out from the page count, so the gutter is right for the thickness of the spine.
See the ebook as an ebook
A page at a time, the way a device will show it, with the contents a reader actually gets. Change the text size and the screen and watch the book hold.
Nothing but your words
Enter Focus mode and put your concentration where it belongs.
Out to wherever it needs to go
A Word manuscript for an agent, Markdown for anywhere else, synopses instead of prose for a pitch. Skip the scenes that are not ready.
The manuscript is a folder on your disk
Not a database, not an account, not a service that can close. Copy it to a memory stick, open it in ten years.
Everything else
Snapshots
Keep a copy of any scene before you change it, and read the two side by side.
Rotating backups
Written beside the project, every save, without being asked.
Writing history
What you wrote each day, over the life of the book.
Sprints
A timer and a target, for the days that need one.
Split and merge
Break a scene in two or join it back, with undo that understands both.
Search and replace
Across the whole book or one chapter, with every match in context.
Import
Bring in a Word file or a Markdown draft and keep its chapters.
Front and back matter
Dedication, epigraph, copyright, acknowledgements — typed, and each knowing where it belongs.
Per-chapter settings
One chapter can have its own opener, artwork or flourish without disturbing the rest.
Seven print themes
Chosen for prose, with the settings that matter and none that do not.
Spell check
A dictionary that learns the names in your book.
Windows and Linux
A real desktop application on both, installed like any other.
Free to try for thirty days. Download it and see.