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, no trial. See what’s free. Coming from Scrivener? Bring your project.
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.
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.
A companion that grows with your streak
Campfire sits beside your page, flares when you save, cheers when you reach your goal, and dozes when you step away.
- EmbersWhen you start
- Campfire3 days in a row
- Bonfire7 days in a row
“Kindling’s ready.”“5 days in a row. I’m growing.”“Burning the midnight oil?”
Campfire comes in the Hearth pack, with a firelit theme, drifting embers and a crackling fire to write beside.
Themes, fonts and the sound of the room
Six themes for day and night, six page fonts from Newsreader to Atkinson Hyperlegible, and weather, ambience and keys you switch on when you want them. Sounds never play until you choose.
- Behind the page
- Rainfall
- Snowfall
- Embers
- Fireflies
- Sunbeam
- Ambience
- Crackling fire
- Rain
- Wind
- Crickets
- Soft hush
- Keys
- Typewriter
- Mechanical
- Pencil
Keepsakes for showing up
29 keepsakes for milestones, habits, community and helping other writers, three of them secret. Word keepsakes count words you type in Ascrivia, not paste, so revising never takes one away, and habit keepsakes count days you wrote, not days in a row.
- First Words
- Seven Sittings
- Off the Blocks
- Beta Reader
- The End
- In Print
Writing is lonely. It doesn’t have to be.
Write with the friends you already have, or find new ones here. Your drafts are only ever read by the people you pick.
Bring your own friends
Add the people you already write with by their handle. Share a manuscript with the ones you choose, as readers or commenters, for every chapter or just a few.
Find writing partners
Post progress, a win, or a question in the community feed. Meet writers through their posts, profiles and the books they recommend, and add the ones you click with.
Join groups
Groups gather writers around a genre or a habit, like morning pages. Some are open to anyone; others ask the host first. Each has its own posts and challenges.
Sprint and take on challenges
Start a timed sprint from the editor and share how it went. Join a challenge: a word goal between two dates, shared with other writers, 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
- Download any project as a .quill backup whenever you like
- Snapshots of every scene, so no draft is ever lost
- Your profile never shows your manuscript’s text
Free to start. No card, no trial.
Everything on this page is free today:
- Your projects, and every writing, planning and export tool
- 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 Campfire
What might cost money later
Some packs from the Stationer, where Ascrivia’s studio puts new themes, companions and sounds. Today the new ones cost ink you earn by writing, never money. They’d only ever be extras for the room, on top of everything above.
Ascrivia is a passion project. If you’d like to help with the server bill now, you can buy me a coffee.