For novelists
Write the novel. Keep track of its world.
Your manuscript, a story bible that links itself to your scenes, and planning views that follow the book as you write it. On your computer and your phone, online or off.
Everything the book needs, in one place
No more manuscript in one app, character notes in another and the timeline in a spreadsheet.
A Lexicon that keeps up
Give your characters, places and objects an entry once. Pilcrow spots their names as you write and links every entry to the scenes that mention it.
Planning that follows the book
Plot your story across chapters on a grid of plotlines. Move a scene in the manuscript and the plan moves with it.
Know when everything happens
Chronology lays every scene out in story order, beside the order you tell it. Subway shows which characters appear in which scenes.
Share across books
Group books into a series and share one Lexicon across all of them, so book three remembers what happened in book one.
And everything around the writing
A manuscript that stays organised
Chapters and scenes in a binder you can rearrange, with research, front matter and back matter alongside. Version history lets you go back to an earlier draft.
Bring it in, take it out
Import a Scrivener project for free. Export to Word or Markdown for submission, or to EPUB and print-ready PDF.
Your manuscript lives on your device
Pilcrow keeps your work on your own computer or phone first, so you can write on a train, on a plane or when the Wi-Fi gives up. It syncs to your other devices when you’re back online.
On everything you write on
- Mac and Windows
- iPhone and iPad
- Android
- Any browser
Our stance
Written by you. Nobody else.
- No generative AI.
- No AI training on your writing.
- We don’t sell your data. It’s yours.
We don’t believe an algorithm predicting the next word in a sentence can replace creativity. Pilcrow helps you keep track of your story. It doesn’t write it for you. Read our stance on AI.
Pricing
A subscription that ends
Pilcrow is free for two projects, with no time limit. When you upgrade to Standard, every payment counts toward owning it. After 24 months, it’s yours to keep and the payments stop.