Create a fresh project — a new book, from a blank manuscript or a structure template. Your current project is saved and closed first; each project is its own self-contained book.
Create or import a manuscript
Open Bookshaper and create a new project, or import an existing manuscript from Markdown, Word (DOCX), EPUB, HTML, or plain text, or from an unzipped EPUB or Kindle package folder. Your work is stored locally on your device.
Write and organize
Write scene by scene in the focused editor. Use the Outline view or the sidebar to rearrange parts, chapters, and scenes. Add character profiles, locations, and research notes as you go. Bookshaper opens straight onto the page — the first time you visit an area of the app, it offers a short walkthrough of what that area does, and you can reopen it anytime from that area or from Guide.
Revise and publish
Revise scene by scene with proofread and refine. When you’re ready, style your book with the built-in typography tools and export to EPUB or PDF.
Creating a project
Each manuscript is a project. Create a new project or import an existing manuscript file to get started.
Import
Bring an existing manuscript in from Markdown (including Ulysses exports), Word (DOCX), EPUB, HTML, or plain text, or point Bookshaper at an unzipped EPUB or Kindle package folder.
Area walkthroughs
Each area of the app — Write, Structure, Notebook, Analyze, Lume, Format, Package, and Market — offers a short walkthrough of what it does, offered once, the first time you open that area. It’s a dismissible card, not a blocker: skip it and keep working, or take it and reopen it anytime from that area or from Guide. Nothing is required to start writing.
AI features and Writing only
Settings › AI Configuration › AI features switches each AI tool on or off on its own — manuscript analysis, Editorial Read, Refine & Dialogue, Proofread & style, Lume chat, cover and interior design, narration, Package materials, and marketing copy — and Writing only turns them all off at once. A tool that's off leaves the app rather than sitting greyed out, and switching it back on picks up where you left off.