Quillborne
Quillborne: a lightning-fast Scrivener on steroids.
The all-in-one writing studio for novelists. Built-in offline spelling & grammar, native AI, Claude, Codex, Gemini, or your own local models, and one-click publishing make the busywork disappear, so you can focus on the one thing that matters: creative writing.
Quillborne for Windows
$29/month · cancel anytime
Secure payment via Stripe. The free trial needs no payment.
Writing on a Mac? Mac standalone and App Store coming soon
Everything a manuscript needs, in one app
Blazing-fast editor
Pages or seamless flow, typewriter scrolling, focus mode, and instant whole-manuscript search, book-quality typography with zero lag, even at novel length.
Scrivener on steroids
Acts, chapters, scenes, research, and images in a drag-and-drop manuscript tree with metadata on every node. Restructure a whole book in seconds.
One workspace for everything
Keep your wiki, characters, locations, and notes right beside every series and book, all in one workspace. No second app for your story bible, no collections to maintain, no syncing tools to wrangle.
Page-perfect preview
Flip between seamless flow and a live paged preview that shows real page breaks, headers, and margins, so you see exactly how the finished book will look while you write.
Spelling & grammar, built in
Fast, private, offline spelling and grammar checking right in the editor. Cancel Grammarly and ProWritingAid, it's already included.
Native AI, your choice
Claude, Codex, and Gemini built right in, or run local models with LM Studio and Ollama. Ask it to line-edit a chapter, draft a scene from your beats, or generate a synopsis for every scene, always with your review before a single word changes.
Write together
Point Google Drive, Dropbox, or any sync app at your workspace and share it with beta readers, editors, and artists. A built-in activity log and chat keep everyone in sync.
Nothing is ever lost
Per-document history with visual compare, snapshots, and one-click restore, plus accept/reject review workflows for editors and beta readers.
Publish in a click
Right-click any folder to compile everything beneath it into submission-ready DOCX, PDF, and EPUB, with headers, front matter, and house styles. No collections or compile lists to maintain.
Plain markdown, yours forever
Everything is stored as clean markdown files that humans and AI can both read, never a proprietary format. Open your work anywhere, hand it to any AI, and keep it long after, no lock-in.
One subscription to write and sell your book
Most novelists stitch together a grammar checker, an organizer, an AI assistant, a formatter, and a fistful of delivery and marketing services — then hand Amazon 30% on top. Quillborne does it in one. Here's the math.
| What writers usually pay for | Popular tool | Typical price | In Quillborne |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spelling & grammar, style reports | Grammarly Premium | $12–$30/mo | ✓ included |
| Deep grammar & readability reports | ProWritingAid | $10–$12/mo | ✓ included |
| Manuscript organization (acts, chapters, scenes) | Scrivener | $69one-time | ✓ included |
| AI drafting, rewriting & line edits | Claude / Codex / Gemini / Cursor | $20/mo | ✓ included(bring your own via lm studio or ollama) |
| Book formatting & export (EPUB, print, DOCX) | Vellum / Atticus | $147–$249one-time | ✓ included |
| ARC & beta-reader copy delivery | BookFunnel / StoryOrigin | $5–$9/mo | ✓ included |
| Selling your book (platform cut + delivery fees) | Amazon KDP | 30%+ delivery fees | 15% flathalf Amazon's cut, no delivery fees |
| A typical writer's stack | $60+/mo+ hundreds one-time | $29/mo | |
Prices reflect each vendor's published 2026 plans and can change; one-time apps like Scrivener and Vellum are paid up front, then again for major upgrades. Quillborne rolls grammar, organization, AI, and one-click publishing into a single $29/month subscription, with every update included.
One plan. Everything included.
$29/month · all features · updates included · cancel anytime from inside the app.