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A brushed-steel typewriter with softly lit indigo keys on a glass desk, a page titled Chapter One feeding onto a manuscript stack

Desktop app for novelists

Your story has been waiting long enough.

Plan your manuscript, draft it without distraction, and get the craft feedback to make it genuinely good. And when you're happy with its shape, export to create a visually stunning book that rivals traditional publishing houses.

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One application—the entire book lifecycle.

No longer are multiple apps, folders, and spreadsheets needed. Bookshaper replaces them all with a single interface that does it all.

  1. Stage 01

    Write

    A focused page with sprints, daily goals, and a live momentum readout.

  2. Stage 02

    Organize

    Characters, scenes, places, and timelines in one living story bible.

  3. Stage 03

    Refine

    Propose edits to your own prose and accept or reject them as a clean diff.

  4. Stage 04

    Proofread

    Detect continuity slips, repeated words, and broken timelines.

  5. Stage 05

    Visualize

    Beat boards and thread health map the shape of the whole book.

  6. Stage 06

    Publish

    Output EPUB and print-ready PDF with professional typesetting.

Cover Studio

Render the cover before the final page.

Generate genre-aware cover proofs and export them alongside your manuscript.

Thriller cover proof
Fantasy cover proof
Literary fiction cover proof
Romance cover proof

Offline core

Your voice stays on your machine.

Manuscripts are stored locally on your computer. When cloud sync is enabled, they're fully encrypted in the cloud.

Storage
Local disk
Cloud sync
Opt-in only, strong encryption
Model training
Never

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