Free studio for novels & research

Two desks, one lamplit studio.

Choose your desk each time you sit down: a calm chapter editor for the novel, or a full research desk for the thesis — with citations, tables, charts and formulas that behave like a proper academic tool.

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No card, no trial limits. Your manuscripts stay yours.

The novel desk

Chapters, beats, cast and world — plus grammar, style and formatting help that never gets in the way of the sentence you’re writing.

Distraction-free chapters. Autosave, focus mode, page themes, seven novel typefaces, live word counts and reading time.
Outline board. Plan three acts as beat cards you can rewrite and re-status as the draft evolves.
Story bible. Characters with arcs, wants and voice, plus world entries for places, factions and lore.
Goals & streaks. Daily word goals, 30-day charts, writing streaks and an honest finish-date estimate.

The research desk

Theses, dissertations, papers and reports live in their own space — never mixed in with your fiction.

Structured papers. Abstract, chapters and sections with their own word targets, kept entirely separate from your novels.
Citations that follow you. Import sources by DOI, ISBN, arXiv id or link, drop in-text citations with page numbers, and switch APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard or IEEE to reformat everything at once.
Tables & captions. Build real tables in the editor with automatic table and figure numbering.
Charts & diagrams. Bar, line, area and pie figures plus simple flow diagrams rendered straight from your document.
Formulas. Inline and block equations with fractions, roots, sums, integrals and Greek symbols — numbered automatically.

Shared by both desks

Live side-by-side preview

Write on the left, watch the typeset page update on the right — or go full-width edit or preview, on any screen size.

Live spelling help

Misspellings are flagged as you type with one-click corrections and your own personal dictionary.

Images & inserts you can resize

Drop in images, lists, tables, dividers, page breaks and links, then drag or nudge any insert to the width you want.

Light or dark, your call

Switch themes any time — or invert a single section to white-on-black for late-night passes.

Notes & margin comments

Attach private notes and comment threads to selected text. The manuscript itself never changes.

Advanced find & replace

Regex patterns with capture groups, case sensitivity, whole-word matching and search inside a selection.

Version history

Every autosave keeps a snapshot you can compare word-by-word and restore in one click.

Works offline

Keep writing without a connection — drafts save locally, sync back automatically, and conflicts are yours to resolve.

Serious account security

Two-factor sign-in with recovery codes, trusted-device tracking and one-tap sign-out everywhere.

Export the way you submit

PDF, Word, ODT, Markdown and plain text with saved cover-page and layout templates you can preview first.

Tonight is a good night to begin.

Chapter one or literature review — either way, the studio is already warm.

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