Everything a long manuscript needs, in one workspace.

Source documents

Upload the material the book is built on; it is indexed and searched while drafting. Reference files, EPUB upload and Scrivener import bring existing work in whole.

Target audience

The Brief says what the book is about and the writing style says how it sounds - the audience says who it is for. Describe the reader, not the topic: prior knowledge and reading level matter more than demographics.

• Reaches prose, synopses, research answers and the Words tab
• Blog posts, decks and both chats as well
• Leaving it empty is a valid setting - there is no default audience

The Story Bible

Characters, locations, objects, organisations and themes, each with aliases, an AI summary and a photo. Only the elements a section actually mentions are sent, so a large cast costs nothing.

• Aliases matched, so "Bob" and "Mr Vale" are one person
• Have the elements read out of the manuscript itself
• Private notes never reach the AI and never export

The Plan

One page per book: conclusion, audience, style, story structure, canon, and what the brainstorm settled - including its open questions. Every generator writes from it.

• Canon is what keeps chapter 14 consistent with chapter 3
• Merge a new brainstorm in rather than overwriting
• A private part the AI never reads

Words to avoid

Two lists - single words and whole turns of phrase - that the AI is forbidden to use in this book, however well they would fit. The cure for prose that reads machine-written.

• A new book starts with the em dash already banned

Book & knowledge chat

Ask questions about the manuscript itself, synced to the current draft, or about the source material behind it. Conversations are kept and shared with everyone on the book.

Style profiles

Every new book used to begin with you writing the writing-style instruction again, from memory. Upload work you own instead and let Scribith describe your voice - register, sentence rhythm, diction, point of view and tense, imagery, dialogue, structural habits, and the habits to watch.

• Example sentences are shown only where they were found verbatim in your uploads
• The page states how much it will read - about 25,000 words, spread through the documents - before the paid run
• Apply a profile to a book or to your defaults; changing it later never restyles a book behind your back
• Adapt takes a new book's goal and audience and separates what to keep, change and drop

Your goal & the reader outcome

The brief says what the book is about, the writing style how it sounds, the audience who it is for. What the book could not say was what it was for. Two fields above the audience do that, and they work in opposite directions. Your goal - to persuade, to explain, to be found as an expert, to sell something - chooses where the emphasis falls and what stance the text takes, and is never named in the text itself. The reader outcome is the measure the AI weighs every page against, so material that does not serve it is cut.

• Write the outcome carefully: a vague outcome cuts vaguely
• Both optional, up to 2,000 characters each - leave them empty and the book is written exactly as it was before they existed
• They reach everything that writes: structure, titles, prose, revisions, the plan, blog posts, presentations and the Amazon listing
• They are deliberately kept away from the passes that promise fidelity to prose you already have - Correct all, translation, the make-it-native rewrite and element extraction

Look profiles

Describing a consistent visual style in words is the hard direction: the pictures that show what you want already exist. Upload up to eight reference images - covers, illustrations, mood boards - and Scribith reads each one once and in full into a description you can edit: medium, palette, light, composition, each its own field rather than a paragraph.

• There is no sampling here, unlike a manuscript, because an image is already the whole thing
• Anything it recognises - an artist, a studio, a named style - is listed separately and is never used to generate anything
• Applying it is a copy, not a link, so improving a profile later never quietly restyles a book already illustrated
• Paste it straight into a book's Image style field from the picker beside it

Analyse a book

Upload a finished manuscript and ask what it is doing before you decide what to rewrite. Nothing is imported - and if you want, you can then create a new book cast in the same mould.

Research from sources

Upload up to eight books you have read on a subject, say in one sentence what your book should do, and Scribith distils where they agree, where they contradict each other and what none of them covers.

• The goal is the lens: change it and the sources are read again
• Out comes a knowledge map you can edit yourself
• Then one press turns it into a book with a profile and an outline

Import a manuscript

Four formats go into the binder: Word, PDF, EPUB and a zipped Scrivener project. Chapters are found, not guessed - and a four-step wizard shows you the structure it found before anything is created, so a bad split is something you reject rather than discover in a book you now have to delete.

• Word follows your heading styles; an EPUB is already one file per chapter
• In a PDF, running heads, feet and page numbers are stripped
• It then reads the text for title, premise, brief, template, structure, voice and image style - all editable before you commit
• This is the one route that copies your prose in and indexes it, and the page says so in plain words

Translate a book

Translation creates a second book in the language you choose and leaves the original exactly as it is. Section by section, with progress reported, and you can stop it.

• The glossary of names and terms comes first, from your Story Bible
• Keep as is, translate, or your own wording - per term
• Resuming never pays twice for what is already translated

Translate a manuscript

For a manuscript that is not a Scribith book yet: upload it, check the import, optionally have the names and terms pulled out first, and translate. Four steps, two books.

Restore a backup

One backup file becomes a working book again, in any Scribith installation - binder, prose, images, story bible, comments, plan and colophon included.

Template from document

If you write the same kind of document over and over, hand Scribith one finished example. It separates the recurring headings and purposes from the one-off names, numbers and conclusions, and proposes a reusable structure.

• Any author can do it; no book needs to be open
• The uploaded bytes exist for that one analysis and are not stored
• The result is a draft: rename, reorder, add and remove sections before you save it
• Saved, it joins the structures offered when a new book is created

Ready-made outlines

A hundred and forty story arcs - the list grew from 42 to 140, ten new ones per template, so every kind of book has a real shelf to choose from rather than three. For working documents the required sections and their order are fixed before any AI writes the outline, so methodology, evidence, risks and review do not vanish because a prompt happened not to ask for them.

• Screenplay goes from three to seventeen: the eight-sequence method, a TV pilot, a sitcom A/B story, a stage play, a short film, a documentary. Children goes from three to fifteen, board books through young adult
• Novels gain the Fichtean curve, kishotenketsu, dual timelines and multiple points of view; academic gains the doctoral monograph, the article-based thesis, the PRISMA-ordered systematic review, the research proposal and the methodology chapter
• Business, government and documentation too: business plan and market research, green paper and environmental impact statement, API reference, quickstart, runbook and release notes
• The list is filtered by your template, so a longer catalogue is not a longer dropdown - and the form already suggests a matching template and structure while you type the title, subtitle, brief or audience, locally and with no paid AI call
• Or paste a structure you already have, and no model is involved at all

Book from a repository

Point Scribith at a GitHub repository in owner/repo form, give the project a name and a goal, and its commits, pull requests and issues are worked up into a book. It does not read your source files, and the page says so where you start rather than in a footnote.

• What it finds becomes a knowledge map over five sections - themes, arcs, decisions, turning points and gaps - which you edit before anything is written
• Cost is stated before it is spent: the exact batches, groups and summary calls, a ceiling, and how many batches were already read and so will not be paid for twice
• You choose whether the book keeps only the summary or also the commit, pull request and issue text as reference documents - with no default in either direction, because it is your decision
• Store your own GitHub token in Settings → Secrets and it reads a private repository too, raising GitHub's ceiling from sixty shared requests an hour to five thousand on your own account

Visual Binder

The book as a graph rather than a list. Several views of the same structure, and dragging that rewires it.

Planning Board

Chapters as columns and sections as cards. Move things, create and edit without opening the editor. A card's description is the synopsis the AI later writes from.

The Book Graph

The Story Bible knows what your characters are; the Book Graph knows how they relate. Every element a node, connected as soon as they share a scene.

• Who never meets whom, and what is never mentioned after chapter 2
• An element that made the Story Bible but never the page
• Graph, list and manage, in three tabs

Brainstorm

Sessions you can return to, with reference files attached - and a Merge into plan that folds what a session settled into the plan you already have.

The Corkboard

The planning board shows the whole arc. The Corkboard answers the narrower question - what belongs in this chapter - by opening one container as index cards.

• Edit a title or synopsis in place; drag to resequence, or move up and down
• Freeform lays cards out anywhere, and Commit order turns that arrangement into real binder order
• Fill empty synopses is the one paid action, and never overwrites one you wrote

Reader

Book Chat answers from your side of the desk. Reader is the other side: a beta reader speaking in the first person about reading your book - where interest dropped, where they were confused, what they expected next, who they cared about.

• Told only the title, subtitle and language - it cannot explain away confusion using your plan
• Ask for advice and it still answers as a reader: what it wanted, not what you should change
• Its own thread list, separate from Book Chat

Mindmap views

Several diagrams of one structure, and an administrator can describe a new one in plain language for every writer's picker.

Story Bible & Plan

The cast, places and terminology, and the one page that fixes where the book lands - both read by every generator.

The route

Everything needed to get from a conversation to a binder was already here, spread across six menu entries with nothing joining them - you had to know that the brainstorm feeds the plan, that the plan builds the binder, and that doing any of it out of order wastes the step before. The route puts seven steps in sequence on one page: brainstorm, plan, draft binder, critic, revised binder, make it natural, then the editor - each handing its result to the next.

• It adds no new way to write: every step is the page you already had, and all of them still work on their own
• Every step is also listed individually in the menu, numbered, with a frame saying what it works from and which step follows
• It remembers per book where you stopped, stamped with the binder's shape rather than its prose - writing a chapter never marks a step out of date, renaming or re-ordering one does
• Step 3 replaces the binder already there and asks first, against the real number of sections and synopsis words at stake; the two steps after it change the binder instead of replacing it

Structure critic

A prose critic can only speak once there is prose, which is the point at which a structural problem is most expensive to fix. The structure critic reads the binder instead - every section, its synopsis and its place in the order - and judges the shape of the book against your brief, your plan and your audience. One small model call, seconds rather than minutes, so it can be run whenever the shape changes.

• Below the verdict there may be a second reading: a model from a different maker judging the same binder independently, with the first verdict withheld from it - where they disagree is the genuinely arguable part of your structure
• It expires when you re-title, re-order, indent or rewrite a synopsis - deliberately not when you sit down and write the chapter it told you to write
• Honest about a thin plan: if most sections are titles with no synopsis it says so instead of delivering a confident verdict on material it cannot see
• Revise the binder produces a proposal you may reshape first - rename, retype, move, add, remove, and put back anything the revision dropped, along with that section's prose, pictures and comments

The plan proposes chapters

The plan no longer closes its story structure with one line per movement, but with a proposed chapter list: one line each saying what that chapter has to deliver for the book to reach its conclusion. The binder is built from that list, so how finely it is drawn decides how much the next step has to invent.

• The open questions a plan ends on each get an answer box; one button works your answers into the section they belong to and strikes the question off
• Answers are matched to the text of a question, never to its position, so re-ordering the list cannot re-point an answer at the wrong question
• A structure you asked for in the brainstorm arrives as its own labelled input rather than as another line of conversation
• A plan with a lot behind it gets more room to think: past a size threshold the reasoning effort and the output ceiling rise together - a slower, dearer run on a book with a lot of material

Which route is mine?

Scribith can start a book from an idea, from other people's books, from a repository, from a manuscript you already own, or from a file you only want checked - and until you know which of those you are doing, the menu is ten plausible doors. That first choice is the expensive one to get wrong: two of the routes create a book, one deliberately creates nothing. The picker asks the one question that separates them: what do you have?

• Each answer opens a card naming the route, the page it starts on and its phases in order - the paid AI steps marked as such, so the cost of a route is visible before you take it
• A filter narrows the page to one stage - start, plan, write, improve or finish - and lists the pages inside a book you can open directly
• The routes are read out of the shipped user manual itself, so they cannot drift from it, and Read the full chapter opens the manual at the right heading

Editorial Desk

Six passes in the order an editor keeps - assess, develop, line, copyedit, proof and produce - each with its own status.

• "Not automated yet" is deliberately not a green tick
• New The Line pass now also stands on Natural writing, so it finally works on books that are not in English
• Your book's style sheet, the one you hand a copyeditor
• A pre-publication checklist: must fix, and check

Manuscript Health

Reads the whole book and reports on pacing, point of view, continuity and tone.

• Findings grouped by section
• Fix all findings, one section at a time - or fix all automatically, which accepts and saves each rewrite as it arrives
• New A second AI reviewer from a different maker reads the findings back and marks only the ones it disagrees with
• One overall score, with a line across recent runs

Scenes

Your book scene by scene, out of the last health report: length, tension, who is named, point of view. It costs nothing - no AI runs.

• Three thousand-word scenes followed by six of two hundred: visible
• A timeline of every time marker the check found
• Open in the editor from any row

Spelling & consistency

Spelling, punctuation, grammar - and the names, spellings and facts that have to match across the book.

• Proofread the whole book or just what you revised
• Correct all, or one section at a time
• Catches a character renamed between chapters

Style report

A line-level style check that runs instantly and costs nothing, because no AI model is involved.

• Adverbs propping up weak verbs, passive voice, filter verbs
• Filler words and clichés, each quoted in place
• Advice, not law - every rule here has good exceptions

Review & comments

Every comment thread in the book in one list, so feedback is worked through without opening each chapter.

• Assign a thread to a member
• Filter by open, resolved, mine, assigned to me
• Flags a passage that has since been edited

Check a document

The same checks run against a file you upload - no book required, nothing imported.

• PDF, DOCX, EPUB, TXT or MD, up to 25 MB
• Works on someone else's manuscript
• Report stored and re-readable

A score, and whether it moves

Manuscript Health, Spelling & consistency and the Style report each carry one overall score, beside the same number for the runs before it.

• Forty findings say what is wrong; the line says whether it is improving
• Density counts, so a long book is not punished
• Directional, not a grade - chasing 100 takes your voice out

The editorial letter

Sixty anchored findings can be twelve problems. A list cannot say that; a letter can. The letter gathers the findings into a handful of named problems and orders the work by dependency rather than by severity - because repairing the structure underneath dissolves half the notes sitting on top of it.

• Written only from findings still open, so triaging first changes what you get
• Press a theme and the findings below filter to exactly those
• Downloads as Markdown for a co-author

Guided revision plan

The letter turned into an ordered, trackable set of revision packages - each keeping its reason, location, priority and linked findings. No extra AI call.

• To do, In progress, Done, Deferred, with working notes and a completion bar
• The book's strengths are listed separately, so revision does not erase what works
• Change the manuscript and the plan is marked stale rather than quietly pretending

Brief & decision log

The agreement that defines what the edit is, kept beside the passes it governs: edit level, deadline, language, medium, audience, what is in and out of scope, reference guide, deliverable, feedback style, non-negotiables and budget.

• Global queries for what applies across the manuscript, not to one passage
• Question, instruction, author decision, fact check, permissions, production, consistency ruling
• Open → Answered → Resolved, with an owner. Records, not AI runs

A proof you can sign off

A checkbox that says "checked" without naming what was checked is worth nothing. Choose the printer and trim, and Scribith renders the real print interior once, keeps that exact file, and checks its geometry, fonts, page furniture and composition before offering it to you.

• A wrong trim or an unembedded font blocks sign-off; composition concerns stay warnings
• The approval belongs to the PDF you downloaded, not to the abstract book
• Change the manuscript, images, printer or interior afterwards and the proof goes stale

A governing style

Start the style sheet from the writing language's own defaults, or from Chicago, Oxford or AP - then record only where this book departs from it.

• Manual, dictionary and spelling locale; punctuation, numbers, dates, times
• Heading and title case, hyphenation, abbreviations, dialogue, inclusive language, widows and orphans
• Every effective value shows its source, so an inherited rule never poses as a decision an editor made
• Clearing a decision returns to the inherited value rather than leaving the rule undefined

Long runs that survive

Reading a whole manuscript is the most expensive thing Scribith does, and the longest. Both whole-book passes now keep their state on the server.

• A dropped connection reconnects to the run that is already going, not a second billed one
• Manuscript Health checkpoints as it reads, so a failed run resumes instead of re-reading what you paid for
• Keep working shrinks the progress window to a corner control and lets you carry on elsewhere
• New That now covers the long runs outside the edit too: generate whole book, illustrate the book, the all-synopses pass, and translating a book

Scene grid & timeline

See Scenes above - it costs nothing, because it reads the health report you already paid for.

Ready to publish?

The checklist a production editor would run: title and subtitle, prose everywhere, unresolved high-severity findings, reports that still match the manuscript, orphaned comments, open threads, undecided style entries, cover art, alt text, copyright page, title page, and the print proof.

• Advisory throughout - nothing here blocks an export

External critic

Manuscript Health tells you what is wrong; nothing told you whether the book was any good. The external critic reads every word of the manuscript - not a sample - and answers with a verdict, what works, what should change and what could change. It is deliberately not blind: it holds your brief, your plan, your target audience and your intended style, which is what lets it say that you promised a thriller pace and act two reads like a memoir.

• That separates it from the Reader, which is deliberately kept ignorant so it can report confusion honestly - both useful, not interchangeable
• You argue with it in the chat beside the critique: it concedes to an argument, but not merely because you keep pushing
• Build the list turns the critique plus the discussion into improvements - a point you argued down does not become an item, a problem that surfaced only in conversation does
• Each item carries why it matters, roughly what the book gains and roughly what the work is, ordered so what has to be decided first comes first - rewriting prose you are about to cut is wasted work
• The most expensive single action in Scribith, because it reads the entire book; the critique is saved, and the page says when the manuscript has changed enough to be worth re-reading

Natural writing

Prose composed by a model in Dutch, German or Italian can be grammatically perfect and still unmistakably foreign: the word order defensible, the rhythm not. This report reads for exactly that, across six dimensions - translationese, AI tells, idiom, register, repetition and rhythm - in the book's own language, never against English.

• The first four section by section; repetition and rhythm from a pass over what that read recorded, because a phrase used twice is a habit and the same phrase opening fourteen chapters is a tic
• A construction that would be clumsy in English but is entirely ordinary in your language is not a finding
• Each finding quotes the passage and suggests how a native writer would put it; a passage Scribith could not find word for word in your prose is never shown to you as your own sentence
• Rewrite all section by section with a preview, or automatically - except where a rewrite ran out of room, which is refused outright rather than saved with its ending missing

A second reader on the findings

A health report was one model's judgement about your book, and nothing on the page distinguished a real structural problem from a confident invention. That costs you either way: acting on a bad finding rewrites prose that was fine, dismissing a good one leaves the problem in the book. A second reviewer - a model from a different maker, so a genuinely separate reading - goes back over the findings with the passages they are about.

• Agreement is silent: only disagreement is marked, because a badge on nine findings in ten would be noise rather than information
• A tick takes the disputed findings off the page entirely, and the Markdown download follows what is on screen and says so in its own count line
• A separate paid call, so a new book starts with it switched off - you turn it on per book on the book's AI tab
• With the key missing or the reviewer unreachable the report is still produced in full, and says which of the two happened

Automatic runs that carry on

An automatic run through a report used to end at the first thing it did not expect, leaving a dialog that looked alive and had gone quiet. It now works through the whole report.

• A section that fails is tried twice more and then skipped; a rewrite that may have been truncated is skipped and never saved with its ending missing
• Each attempt is another paid request, so a run with failures in it can cost more than the number in the confirmation
• If several fail in a row the run ends early rather than rediscovering the same fault per remaining section - and whatever it skipped is listed when it finishes
• The same queue serves Manuscript Health, Spelling & consistency and Natural writing

Print-ready paperback

Two printers with their own specifications: Amazon KDP with six trim sizes from 5 × 8 in to A5, and Pumbo (NL) with A5, Medium and A4.

• Binding gutter that grows with the page count
• Chapters open on a right-hand page
• With Pumbo, a cover wrap PDF too: back, spine and front on one press-ready page

Interior design

The typography your book is typeset in - chosen by looking at it. A gallery of miniature pages shows each design's type family, chapter alignment and sink, numbering, ornament, paragraph shape, opening initial and page furniture.

• Ten designs ship: Classic, Literary, Modern, Manuscript, Accessible, Romance, Suspense, Fantasy, Practical nonfiction and Academic
• Around thirty controls under them: size, leading, indents, chapter openings, scene marks, running heads - each resettable to the design's own value
• A preview that redraws as you change it - a real typeset page of your book, not a mockup
• Choosing a design keeps this book's own overrides, and a book written before interior styles existed is never restyled behind your back

Covers & details page

A front cover, a back cover and a details page, carried into the Word, EPUB, PDF and Markdown exports.

• Portrait or landscape, one shape per book
• Cover text spell-checked before it is drawn
• Adjust an existing cover in your own words

The colophon

Everything that belongs on a copyright page, in five sets of fields. Nothing is required; what you leave blank is left out.

• Rights, including Creative Commons licences
• Imprint, edition and three ISBNs
• Credits and trade data

Backup & restore

Every other export produces a manuscript to read. This one produces a book you can get back - binder, prose, images, story bible, comments, plan and colophon in a single file.

• Restore always creates a new book
• Never merges, never overwrites
• Moves a book to another Scribith installation

Whole-book chatbot

Book Chat searches your book; this chatbot has the entire manuscript in front of it. For the questions you ask at the end, which no search can answer.

• Does the ending deliver what the opening promised?
• The price of your question sits above the box before you ask it
• Answers in the language the book is written in

Blog posts & documents

Derive posts from the manuscript, written inside Scribith or built externally, with your own blog prompts - or a document at a real page size.

• A post also exports as an editable .docx: real Word headings, and emphasis, lists, quotes, code and tables that stay document structure
• Preview and Markdown are two views of the same saved post, never two diverging copies

Presentations

Turn the book, or part of it, into a deck.

What this book has cost

AI use has a real cost, and it used to be visible only in an administrator-wide table that could not be shown to an author. Support Scribith reads only the open book's recorded requests.

• Input tokens, cached tokens, output tokens, request count and an estimated euro cost
• Where a deployment has configured them, optional iDEAL and PayPal links - an invitation, not a charge
• With no link configured, the usage and cost stay visible and there is nothing to pay

Where the references go

Numbered citations only work if the list they point at is where the reader expects it, and that differs by field.

• One numbered reference list at the end of the document, or one at the end of every chapter
• A book setting, so the sources stay a single catalogue however they are laid out

The listing copy Amazon asks for

Publishing on Amazon means filling in a form Scribith knew nothing about: seven keyword fields of fifty characters each, and a product-page description of up to four thousand. The Amazon (KDP) tab writes both, in the language the book is written in, from the book's own metadata - title, subtitle, genre, brief, plan, audience and chapter titles.

• From the plan, not the manuscript: sending the prose would multiply the cost for material the model does not use
• Seven separate fields, the shape of KDP's own form, each with its own copy button and always padded to seven - an empty slot reads as empty rather than as a slot that does not exist
• Amazon's own rules are part of the instruction - no title or author name inside a keyword, no bestseller claims, no review quotes or links - and the character limits are enforced when the text is generated rather than left to the model
• Nothing is saved: leaving the tab discards it, so there is no draft to go stale against a book that has moved on