Features

Everything between the first idea and the finished book.

MechaSquid takes care of the planning, the keeping track, the checking and the collecting of notes, so that the hours you have go into the writing.

Plan

Know what comes next before you sit down.

An outline you can move: Plan chapters and scenes long before they are written, each with a line about what should happen in it. Drag scenes and chapters to reorder them.
The plot at a glance: See the book left to right in reading order: how long each scene runs, how intense it is, and which plot threads it carries.
Index cards: Spread the book out as cards, one per scene. Accept each scene for this round, say how you feel about it with a face, and see where to spend your next session.
Goals without guilt: Set a deadline and milestones for plotting, drafting and revising. Each writing day gets a fair share, a missed day is spread over the days ahead, and you can pause at any time.
The book's overview: Open a book and see where you stand: words written, the next planned scene, and everything that is waiting for you.
Ideas: A place for the fragments that do not belong anywhere yet, so they are still there when they do.
Rounds and accepted scenes: Work on the book in rounds, such as a first draft, a revision and a beta read. Accept each scene when it is ready for this round, and see which ones changed since.
Your own labels: Put labels such as “needs research” on any page, scene or idea, and filter the outline, the cards and the wiki by them.
Point of view and tense: Say how the book, a chapter or a scene is told, from first person to the camera's eye, through whose eyes, and in which tense.
Suggested pacing scores: When you ask, MechaSquid's built-in AI scores each written scene for tension, pace and the senses, shown beside the intensity you set. The scores describe a scene and never judge it.

Write

A page that stays out of your way.

The whole book on one page: Scroll back to reread a chapter, fix a line, and return to where you were. It opens where you left off.
Chapters and scenes as you type: Three asterisks end a scene and a heading starts a chapter. Delete the break between two scenes and they become one.
Look things up beside the text: Open a character or a place next to your writing and keep typing. Its description, its picture and the scenes it appears in are right there.
Find the right word: Synonyms, definitions, related words and rhymes, and a search that finds a word from its meaning, such as “a fear of open spaces”.
A comfortable page: Choose the text size and line width, keep your line in view as you type, dim everything but the paragraph you are in, and work in light or dark.
Nothing lost: Your text saves as you write and keeps a copy on your device, so a dropped connection never costs you a paragraph.
For this sentence: Ask MechaSquid's built-in AI which synonyms fit the sentence you are writing and the character it is seen through, each with a short reason.
Verse: Select lines of a poem to see their syllables, stresses and rhymes, and check them against a form such as a sonnet, a haiku or a limerick.
Read aloud: Hear your text read sentence by sentence in your device's own voice, with the sentence being read marked on the page.
Writing sprints: Set a timer for 15, 25 or 45 minutes and see how many words you typed in it.
Find and rename everywhere: Find words in every scene and page and replace them in one go, with one Undo. Rename a character and change the name wherever it is written.
History you can put back: Every page keeps its earlier versions. Compare one with the text as it is now, and put it back if you liked it better.

Keep it straight

Your world, written down once.

A page for everything: Characters, places, groups, things, events, lore and plot threads, each with its own page and picture, linked to every scene it appears in.
Links that make themselves: Names in your text become links to their pages, and MechaSquid suggests the ones you missed. A character can have other names, and all of them are found.
Maps with travel times: Put your places on a map: one you drew, or the real Earth for a book set in a real place. MechaSquid works out how far it is between them and about how many days it takes, on foot, on horseback or by cart.
A timeline in story order: See your scenes in the order they happen, which is not always the order you wrote them, and follow one character through the book.
Contradictions caught early: MechaSquid notices when someone is in two places at once, when a name has no page, or when two facts disagree, and tells you what to fix.
See how it all connects: Who knows whom, what causes what, one character's path through the book, and your world as it stood at any moment of the story.
Search by meaning: Ask for “the argument at the docks” and find the scene, even if those words never appear in it.
A trash with Restore: A page you remove goes to the trash for 30 days, with its relationships and comments, and comes back as it was.
Merge two pages: Two pages about the same thing become one, keeping both names, and every link to the other page follows.
Not a problem: Tell the health check that a finding is not a problem, and it stays quiet until something changes.

Review

Every note on the words it is about.

Comments in the margin: Anchor a note to a sentence and give it a color. It stays with those words even when the text around them changes.
Beta readers: Share a private copy of the whole book or a few chapters, as a link or as a personal invitation. Readers comment on the text itself, and each sees only their own notes.
Revisions, word by word: Every suggested change shows before and after. Accept it, edit it or turn it down.
What needs your attention: Open comments, suggested changes, continuity questions, scenes to tidy and scenes you are unhappy with are gathered on the book's overview.
Questions for readers: Ask your readers up to three questions after any chapter of a shared copy, and read their answers beside the text.
Readers' suggested changes: A reader can suggest a change to the words themselves, which you accept or turn down like any other proposed change.
An email when readers respond: If you like, MechaSquid emails you at most once a day or once a week when your readers have left comments, answers or suggestions.
MechaSquid's beta reader: Turn it on, and MechaSquid's built-in AI reads a chapter as a reader would and leaves its reactions as comments on the words. Reactions, never grades.
Checks as you tidy: When you tidy new scenes, MechaSquid can look for contradictions with the rest of the book, suggest copyedits and flag lines that do not sound like the character who speaks them. You choose which checks run.

Publish

Ready when your book is.

EPUB: An e-book with your cover and illustrations in place, ready for a reader or a store.
Markdown: The manuscript as plain text, with its pictures in a folder beside it.
Pictures: Upload portraits, places and covers, or generate them from the page's own description. Put illustrations straight into the text.
Your whole world as an Obsidian vault: Every page, link, relationship and picture, in files you can open anywhere.
A paperback, ready to print: The interior and the cover as print-ready PDFs, made for Amazon KDP, with the spine worked out from the page count.
The cover studio: Set your title and name over your cover picture in one of eight layouts, see how it reads at the size a store shows it, and give a series one look.
A Word manuscript: A Word file in standard manuscript format for literary agents and editors, with your contact details on the title page. The Submission card says what agents usually ask for.
The store checklist: Everything the stores ask for, grouped as their own forms are, ready to copy.
Editions: Mark the book as published to keep that edition's files, and start a new edition when you revise it.
Maps before the story: Put your maps in front of chapter one, in the ebook and the paperback.

Beyond the novel

Any story that needs a world and a plan.

Game writers: Plan a main story with side quests and factions, follow each quest line as a thread, and see what leads to what.
Game masters: Keep a campaign's places, people and secrets together, with a map, travel times and the world as it stood at any session.
Screenwriters and playwrights: Work scene by scene with cards, beats, intensity and the voice of every character.
Non-fiction writers: Keep chapters, research notes, people, places and dates in one place, with pictures and diagrams in the text.

Your assistant

Optional, and only if you want one.

Claude, ChatGPT and more: Connect the assistant you already use, on your computer and on your phone, and it will know your book.
Your voice, not its own: Show it passages that sound like you and write rules in plain words. Your assistant reads them before it suggests a single sentence.
Every change on the record: You decide how much your assistant may do. Changes it makes to your text are recorded and can be undone, and everything else it does is listed for you.

Yours to keep

No lock-in, by design.

Many books, one world: Write a series, a prequel or a spin-off in the same world, sharing its characters and places.
Many languages: Write in your own language, with spelling, quotation marks and search to match.
Private by default: Your books are stored in the EU, nobody sees them unless you share them, and we train no models on them.
Export everything: Take one book or everything you have written, at any time, free.
Bring your book in: Import a Scrivener project or a Word, EPUB or text file, with its chapters and scenes. From Scrivener come its synopses, notes, comments and character pages too.
Weekly backups: Connect your Google Drive and a copy of everything goes there once a week, whenever something has changed.
Two-step sign-in: Protect a password sign-in with a code from an authenticator app.
MechaSquid in your language: MechaSquid itself speaks English, Spanish and Norwegian.

See it with your own book.

Import what you have written, or start planning something new.

Start your book

Early access is by invitation. Export everything whenever you like.