— InkSpine · A WRITING APP
The writing tool
One desktop app for the whole novel — the manuscript, the characters and world behind it, and the finished EPUB, DOCX, or PDF at the end. Windows, macOS, and Linux. No account, no internet needed, and your work stays in plain files you keep.
One email, at launch. Nothing else.
InkSpine is in active development — the interface is still being refined and some features are in progress. These screenshots show a real project, not the finished product.
§ 01 — THE SHAPE OF THE PROBLEM
Scrivener is powerful. And exhausting.
Google Docs is simple. And limiting.
InkSpine is powerful & simple.
§ 02 — WHAT IT DOES
Three tools, one room.
Nothing you have to hold together.
InkSpine is not a Swiss Army knife. It is a fountain pen, sharpened.
I.
Write
Open InkSpine and you are looking at your manuscript, nothing else. Panels fold away until you ask for them, and Flow hides even those — just the page, a typewriter-steady cursor, and the words.
II.
Build the world
Characters, locations, and lore live beside your prose — not in a separate app or a spreadsheet. Link a name and jump straight to its page. Search answers before you finish typing, across a 200,000-word project.
III.
See the whole thing
A corkboard and plot overview for when the manuscript gets long — shuffle scenes like index cards on a desk. And when an idea arrives mid-sentence, one keystroke catches it without leaving the line.
§ 03 — LOCAL FIRST
Local first.
Your story. Your files. Always.
InkSpine keeps your work on your machine, in real files you can inspect, back up, move, and keep. No browser tab pretending to be a desk. No hostage situation if a service changes its mind.
§ 04 — EXPORT
A finished book.
Not a scavenger hunt.
When the draft is ready to leave the room, it should just go. InkSpine exports validated EPUB 3 and DOCX — KDP-ready, properly formatted — plus a proof-copy PDF to send an agent or a beta reader. Part of the tool, not a hunt through plugins, converters, and broken output.
§ 05 — HISTORY
Every draft, kept.
You never think about it.
InkSpine quietly versions your whole project as you write — every chapter, character, and note. Open an earlier version of a chapter beside your draft, find the paragraph you cut last week, and bring it back. No manual saves, no folders full of “final-v7”.
§ 06 — FAST, EVERYWHERE
Fast at 200,000 words.
On whatever you write on.
A long manuscript should not punish you for finishing it. InkSpine opens a full novel in a moment and keeps typing crisp at any length, because the heavy lifting is compiled, not crammed into a browser tab. Windows, macOS, and Linux — the same app, no second-class platform. There is no account to make: install it and write.
§ 07 — WHAT WE BELIEVE
A tool with a spine.
These are the parts we won’t bend.
i.
Your words are yours
Plain Markdown in a folder you own. No database you can’t read.
ii.
Local first, always
The cloud is optional. Your desk is not.
iii.
Nothing gets lost
History runs itself, so you never have to think about it.
iv.
We don’t watch you write
Your prose is never read, tracked, or sent anywhere. It stays on your disk.
v.
Built by a writer, in the open
One developer, writing my own novel in it. If it annoys me, it gets fixed.
§ 08 — JOIN
One note at launch.
Or come write with us now.
Leave your email and we’ll let you know at launch, no nagging in between. Add beta if you want in now — access today, rough edges and all, a direct line to me building it.