Write
A real page, a quiet toolbar and your scene’s card and notes in the margin. Focus mode when you need the world to go away.
A warm room for the long work of writing.
Ascrivia is a free novel writing app for the whole book, from first scene to finished draft. Organize it as you go, invite friends to read along as you write and leave you private notes, then export it or publish it here.
- Chapters, scenes, index cards and goals in one binder
- Friends read your newest draft as soon as you save it
- Private notes and reactions, right on the line
- Export to Word, PDF, EPUB, Markdown or a web page
Free to start. No card needed. See what’s free. Already have a draft? Bring it in from Scrivener or Word.
Four rooms, one book. Move between them without losing your place.
Plan
Index cards for every scene, rows when you want an outline, and goals that keep the book moving.
Review
Friends read along and leave notes right on the line. You see what they loved, not just what snagged.
Publish
Export to Word, PDF or EPUB, or put it in the Ascrivia Library: the whole book, an excerpt, or by link only.
Writing is lonely. It doesn’t have to be.
Bring the readers you already trust, and find more in groups when you’re ready. Your drafts are only ever read by the people you pick.
Bring your own readers
Add the people you already trust by their handle, and share a manuscript with the ones you choose, as readers or commenters, for every chapter or just a few. Reading is free for them, and they see only what you share.
Swap critiques in groups
Groups gather writers around a genre or a habit. Trade critiques on a few pages, or ask for beta readers when a draft is ready.
Sprint and take on challenges
Start a timed sprint from the editor, or join a challenge: a word goal between two dates that counts itself as you write.
Your words stay yours.
Every project belongs to your account and stays private until you share it with friends you choose or publish it.
- Private by default, shared one friend at a time
- Never sold, no ads, and never used to train AI
- Download any project as a .quill backup whenever you like
- Snapshots of every scene, so an earlier draft is always there to go back to
- Deleted pages, unpublished books and closed accounts wait 30 days, in case you change your mind
Make the room yours, and watch it grow with you.
A book takes hundreds of sittings, so the room should be one you want to come back to. All of this comes with Ascrivia, and the Stationer, Ascrivia’s own shop, adds new packs you get with ink you earn by writing.
- Embers
- Campfire
- Bonfire
A companion that grows with your streak
Hearth, a little fire, sits beside your page, flares when you save, and dozes when you step away.
Themes, fonts and the sound of the room
Six themes for day and night, page fonts from Garamond to a typewriter face, and rain or embers behind the page. Sounds never play until you choose.
- First Words
- Seven Sittings
- The End
Keepsakes for showing up
For milestones, habits and helping other writers. Habit keepsakes count the days you wrote, not days in a row, so a missed day never sets you back to zero.
Free to start. No card needed.
Free is enough to write a whole book:
- One manuscript, with no limit on words, and everything you need to write, plan and export it
- Sharing drafts with friends, and their notes and reactions
- Friends, groups, posts, sprints, challenges and keepsakes
- Publishing your book to the Ascrivia Library
- Every built-in theme, font, sound, atmosphere and the Hearth companion
Plus, $8 a month or $72 a year
For more than one book, and for getting one ready to go out. Try it free for 30 days. No card, and it starts when you sign up.
- More than one book. As many manuscripts as you like, a series bible shared across them, and pen names.
- Revising. A revision pass with no AI, read aloud, frozen drafts compared side by side, and a year of history.
- Getting it out. Book design in print-ready PDFs and a styled EPUB, serials on the days you choose, a submission tracker, and reader insights.
- Writing together. Live co-writing, with editors who suggest changes and co-writers who never pay.