Features
Everything Author Sweets does, by stage of the book
The complete list of what the app does today, grouped the way a book gets written. Where a feature needs a paid plan, it says which one; everything else is on every plan, the free one included.
Write
A quiet manuscript editor that saves as you type and keeps you moving.
Parts, chapters and scenes
One manuscript per book, as a tree of parts, chapters and scenes. Each scene has a status, a point of view, a synopsis and a word target of its own.
Saves as you type, online or off
Every word saves as you type and keeps saving when the connection drops; it syncs when you are back.
Focus mode and typewriter scrolling
Clear the screen down to the page for the long sittings, and keep the line you are writing steady as the scene grows.
Find and replace
In the open scene with Ctrl+F, or across the whole book with Ctrl+Shift+F.
Writing sprints
A sprint timer in the manuscript header counts the words you add and keeps your best sprint.
Goals, targets and streaks
A daily goal and your streak, and for each book a word target and a finish date, with the words a day that keep it on time.
Try the word goal calculatorYour writing year
A calendar of every day you wrote in the last twelve months, and book statistics: reading time, pages in print, scenes by status and words by chapter.
Style check, on your device
Reading grade, passive voice, adverbs, filler words, clichés, long sentences, the words you repeat and your own words to watch, with marks in the text when you want them. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Highlights and notes on a passage
Four highlight colours and notes on a selection, listed under the scene details and kept out of every export and every shared copy.
Read aloud
Hear the open scene in your device’s own voices, with a speed control, pause and stop. Hearing a scene catches what the eye skips.
Dictation
Dictate into this scene with your browser’s own speech recognition, at the cursor, in Chrome, Edge and Safari.
A prompt a day
A writing prompt waits in the Library each day, and one click starts a scene with it.
Browse the writing promptsJump to, and keyboard shortcuts
Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac) goes to any scene, chapter, character, place, note, book or screen by name; Ctrl+/ lists every key.
Sweet Fifty in November
Our November challenge: 50,000 words of a new draft between 1 and 30 November, counted across every book you write in, with a finisher badge.
Read the challenge rulesOn your phone, and offline
Install it from the browser on a phone, tablet or desktop. Books you have opened keep working with no connection.
Plan
The outline, the cast and the research, in the same book as the draft.
Nine kinds of project
A new library opens on a choice of project, from a novel or a memoir to a workbook or an illustrated children’s book, and the new book is laid out to suit it.
See the nine kindsSix story structures
Three acts, fifteen beats, the hero’s journey, romance beats, nonfiction and memoir, laid out as chapters with a scene that says what each one is for.
See every structure and its beatsA sample book
A short book with chapters, scenes, characters, places and notes already in place, to look around, keep, rewrite or delete.
Outline board
A column for each chapter and a card for each scene, with its synopsis, status, point of view and word count. Drag them into order, and add chapters and scenes on the board.
Plot grid
The same scenes by chapter and by point of view, character, place or status, so you can see who carries which chapters and where a thread goes quiet.
Timeline
The scenes in the order they happen in the story, each with a story date in your own words, and flashbacks and flash-forwards marked.
Characters and places
A page for each, with facts as label and value pairs, the other names the text uses for them, templates to start from, and how often the open scene names them.
Relations
Relations link two characters or places both ways, and the Relations tab draws every pair as a map.
World
A World tab for items, factions, lore, creatures, events or a kind of your own, each with the same page as a character.
Notes with sources
Notes with tags, pinned beside the draft while you write, each with its sources: the title, a link, what it says there and a citation to copy.
Outline export
Every chapter and scene with its point of view, status, length and synopsis, copied as text or saved as Markdown.
Revise and versions
Try the bold cut. Every draft is kept, and you can always go back.
Automatic versions
Snapshots taken as you write, on every plan, each with its scene, time and word count.
Compare any two versions
Side by side, word by word, on every plan.
Save and restore versionsScribe and above
Save a version yourself before a big change, and restore any version in one click.
Trash you can come back from
A deleted book goes to the trash, where you can restore it for 30 days.
Beta readers
Send chapters out and see what comes back, without email chains or attachments.
Read-only links
A link to a book or a set of chapters that opens in any browser with no account. Set an expiry, turn comments on or off, and revoke it any time.
Comments in the margin
Readers leave comments beside the text when you allow them, and the page keeps each reader’s chapter and text size for their next visit.
Reader codesArtisan and above
Codes for a beta round, each with a label and a use limit, so you can see which reader said what and close the round when you have enough. Artisan includes 10.
Questions for every reader
Ask up to three questions and readers answer them at the end of every chapter, grouped by reader and by question, ready to copy as text.
How far each reader got
The furthest chapter each reader opened and the chapter they are at, and, for each code, the chapter after which most readers went no further.
Running a beta round
Publish and export
Files for agents, e-book stores and print services, from the book you already wrote.
Word, EPUB and PDFArtisan and above
The whole book or a selection of chapters, with the title page, copyright page, dedication and back matter you fill in once.
Standard manuscript formatArtisan and above
A Word file in Times New Roman 12, double spaced, with your surname, the title and the page number on every page, for agents, editors and contests.
Print-ready PDFArtisan and above
Made for KDP, IngramSpark and other print services: the trim size on every page, embedded fonts and an inside margin that widens with the page count.
Bleed and paperArtisan and above
Tick Add bleed when a print service asks for it, choose cream or white paper, and each PDF lists its trim, margins and the spine width your cover designer needs.
Rich Text and OpenDocumentArtisan and above
For Word, Pages, Scrivener, LibreOffice and Google Docs, with headings, bold, italics and a page break before each chapter.
Preview before you exportArtisan and above
The opening of the book as print pages and as e-reader pages, with the settings on the screen, so you can try a trim size or a font first.
Front and back matter
An epigraph, a foreword, a preface, acknowledgements, an About the Author page and an Also by page, each set the way a printed book sets it.
Chapter openings
Classic, Romance or Modern openings for the print PDF and the EPUB, with drop caps and small capitals.
A check before it leaves
Publish lists what the book still needs, from a missing author name to a page count too short for a paperback.
Markdown, plain text and a web page
On every plan, made on your device and saved straight to your downloads, plus Copy as text for an email or a form. Each one can be imported back.
Import
Bring a book you started somewhere else. The file is read on your device, and nothing is saved until you check the preview.
Word, OpenDocument, Rich Text and web pages
Headings become chapters and the text between them becomes scenes, with bold, italic, lists and block quotes kept.
Scrivener projects
Zip the .scriv folder and the binder becomes the outline, with parts kept and synopses carried over. Scrivener 2 and 3 both work.
EPUB
Chapter by chapter, with headings kept. Unprotected files only, such as the one your own publishing tool exports.
Markdown, plain text and zipped folders
Headings or “Chapter One” lines become chapters; a zipped Obsidian vault, Notion export, Ulysses, Bear or iA Writer folder imports one file per chapter.
Screenplays
Fountain and Final Draft scripts, one scene per scene heading, with acts as chapters.
Google Docs
Download the document as Word, OpenDocument or a zipped web page, and import that.
How each format imports
AI
A writing tool should be quiet about your work.
No AI inside
Nothing in the app rewrites, summarises or suggests, and nothing sends your words to a language model. Every word on the page is one you typed.
Never used for training
Your manuscripts will never train an AI model, ours or anyone else’s. That is a pledge in our privacy notice, which the terms adopt.
Read the AI pledge
Account and your data
Your library, on every device, and always yours to take or to delete.
BooksScribe and above
One book on the free plan with as many chapters and scenes as it needs; as many books as you like on a paid plan.
Storage for covers and files
250 MB on the free plan and 10 GB on a paid plan.
On all your devices
Your books are stored with your account, so they reach every device you sign in on.
Download my data
Every book as JSON plus the files you uploaded, from Account, on every plan, whenever you like.
Delete your account
From Account, after signing in again. It removes your books, files and account record and cancels any subscription at once.
How your data is kept and deletedSigning in
With an email address and a password, or with Google. No card is needed for the free plan.
Light, dark and four palettes
Light, dark or your device’s setting, and four workspace palettes for the light theme.
Billing in your account
Change plan, update the card or cancel from the billing page in Account.
See the plans
Plan labels name the smallest plan a feature comes with. Everything without one is on every plan, free included. The plan comparison has the same list, plan by plan, and the release notes say what changed and when.
Start your book today
One book is free for as long as you need, with no card. Upgrade when there is a second one, or when it is time to send the first one out.