Everything Scriptorium does
The complete list — no tiers, no add-ons. 49 features in one purchase, on macOS, Windows, and Linux, working entirely offline.
Manuscript editor
A rich-text editor built for long-form work, organized as acts, chapters, and scenes (with configurable level names and depth).
Full formatting. Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, super/subscript, font family & size, text and highlight colors, alignment, indent, line height, letter spacing.
Every block a book needs. Headings, blockquotes, bulleted/numbered/todo lists, tables, code blocks with syntax highlighting, footnotes with rich content, callouts, horizontal rules, scene-break dinkuses, full-page images.
Markdown shortcuts. Type # for a heading or > for a quote — converts as you write, hands never leave the keyboard.
Slash commands & floating toolbar. Insert any block with /, format selections in place, drag blocks to reorder.
Block styles (typography system). Set fonts, sizes, spacing, and margins per block type once — every matching block across the whole manuscript updates instantly.
Find & replace. Search across the manuscript with replace support.
Images. Insert with resize handles, alignment, and text-wrap modes.
Table of contents. Auto-generated sidebar navigation from your headings.
Split screen. Two attachments side by side — manuscript beside notes, research, or another chapter, each scrolling independently.
Paste sanitization. Pasted content from the web or Word arrives clean.
World-building & story bible
Characters, locations, and events as structured data — not a folder of loose documents.
Entity templates. Define your own types (characters, factions, artifacts…) with label, icon, color, and custom fields: text, number, checkbox, select.
Entity pages. Each entity gets rich-text content, a cover image, portrait, custom properties, and start/end dates for timeline placement.
Typed relationships. Connect anything to anything — 'appears in', 'located at', 'ally of' — bidirectional or one-way, with custom labels, icons, and colors.
Template evolution. Reassign entities between templates, promote ad-hoc properties into template fields, orphan safely when templates change.
Tables. Every entity type as a sortable, filterable spreadsheet with inline editing — including relationship columns.
Kanban cards. The same data as visual cards with configurable layouts.
Project table. Every entity of every type in a single cross-project view.
Plotting & planning
See the shape of the story before and while you write it.
Zoomable timeline. Place events and entity lifespans on a pannable axis that zooms from 30-second resolution to billion-year scale, with multi-lane layout and a minimap.
Custom & fantasy calendars. Invent months, weekdays, eras, even hours-per-day — the timeline, date pickers, and entity dates all understand your calendar. Gregorian and lunar presets included.
Mindmap canvas. Drag entities, notes, manuscripts, files, and sticky notes onto a visual canvas; drag between nodes to create real relationships, shown as colored edges.
Maps with linked pins. Import any image as a map, drop pins, style them, and link each pin to an entity or note page.
Plot boards. Kanban-style planning views over your story data.
On-device AI & language tools
Every model downloads to and runs on your machine. Your manuscript is never uploaded — these features work with wifi off.
AI writing assistant. Rewrite suggestions from a local language model running entirely on your device.
Dictation (speech-to-text). Push-to-talk dictation with automatic punctuation, filler-word removal, and per-project vocabulary for your characters' names. English or 25 European languages (Apple Silicon).
Read aloud (text-to-speech). 53 natural voices across 9 languages with sentence-level highlighting and speed control — hear your prose to catch what your eyes skip.
Grammar & style checking. A bundled LanguageTool engine checks grammar, style, punctuation, and spelling in 15 languages, locally. Color-coded underlines, suggestion popovers, per-project dictionary.
Dictionary & synonyms. Look up definitions and synonyms without leaving the editor.
Import & export
Get manuscripts in from anywhere and out to anyone. (Scriptorium is a writing app, not typesetting software — for print-ready book interiors, pair it with a formatting tool.)
DOCX import. High-fidelity Word import: headings become chapters, with tables, images, footnotes, lists, colors, and alignment preserved. Import into a new or existing project.
Markdown import. Bring in .md files with structure intact.
PDF export. Styled PDF with table of contents and page numbers, hyphenation, drop caps, embedded custom fonts, footnotes at page bottom, and your block-style typography applied.
DOCX export. Standard manuscript hand-off for agents, editors, and formatting tools — formatting, footnotes, and images preserved.
Markdown export. Clean GFM with tables, footnotes, and scene breaks.
Selective export. Choose and reorder exactly which manuscripts to include; export individual entities and notes too.
Goals, progress & focus
Momentum tools that stay out of the way.
Writing goals. Daily or total word targets, linked to specific manuscripts, with days off, progress bars, and completion notifications.
Session tracking. Words added per manuscript per day, recorded automatically as you write.
Goal history. A calendar view of hit, missed, and ongoing days.
Live word counts. Real-time word and character counts, aggregated across chapters and scenes.
Pomodoro timer. A focus timer in the title bar, with configurable sprints, breaks and cycles that run through on their own.
Never lose a word
Layers of protection between your draft and disaster.
Automatic versioning. A snapshot of each manuscript on the first save of every day, kept on a rolling window.
Manual snapshots. Name and keep point-in-time versions of a manuscript or the whole project — never auto-deleted.
Visual diff & restore. See exactly what changed between now and any snapshot, then restore atomically (with a safety snapshot first).
Trash with restore. Deleting moves to trash, recursively and reversibly. Empty it only when you're sure.
Undo/redo everywhere. Full editor history, plus undo across tables, kanban, mindmap, maps, and timeline.
Backups to your cloud. One-click or scheduled .scriptorium archives written to any folder — iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive. SHA-256 verified, with full or per-project restore. Scriptorium itself never talks to a cloud API.
Platform & ownership
Local-first by architecture, yours by license.
macOS, Windows & Linux. Native desktop apps for all three, in one purchase.
Local-first storage. Your entire library lives in a database on your device and works fully offline.
Pay once. $60 one time — no subscription, no tiers, every feature included, forever.
14-day free trial. Full-featured, no credit card required.
Organized workspace. Projects with nested folders, drag-and-drop sidebar, recents, and per-project settings for language, calendar, and grammar.
All of it, free for 14 days
No credit card. No subscription — pay once, every feature included.