On your machine
Your story.
Your files.
Plain JSON .storystate files. Atomic saves, autosave and rotating backups. No account to create, no cloud to depend on.
How your work is stored →A place for the story taking shape
Plant a seed.
Grow a story.
Never lose
the thread.
A story is more than words in order. Keep track of who knows what, what changed, and what comes next.
One-time purchase · Windows & Linux · Steam Deck
The writer’s workbench / No. 01
For novels, screenplays, stage plays, short stories and comics.
Local-first. No account. No cloud.
Just you and the work.
See the whole story.
Stay with this moment.
Your story is a state machine. Scrub the timeline to see every character at that exact beat.
From the first spark
to the last loose end.
Explore every feature →01
Find your shape.
Grow one sentence into five parts, character charts and scenes with the Snowflake Method.
02Make room to write.
Focus on the page. Live prose rails underline weak words, repetition and voice drift as you draft.
03Keep your promises.
Follow setups through to payoffs. Catch the character in two places, the missing key, the thread left hanging.
The words are still yours
A little structure.
A lot of possibility.
Write with character names tinted in their colors, inline prose checks and your cast close by. Switch to focus mode when you need the page to yourself.
Meet the writing tools →
Your story.
Only when you ask
A second opinion,
if you want one.
Bring your own AI for plot-hole reviews, scene feedback and more. It proposes; you decide. The workbench works fully without it.
Understand optional AI →Writing Workbench