The editor
A word processor for real manuscripts. Draft in a clean page, drop into focus and time your sprints, find anything and leave yourself notes, read your work back the way a reader will, and bring existing manuscripts in without reformatting.
Claim your deskThe Editor
Write a poem and you get stanzas and line breaks; write a screenplay and you get scene headings and dialogue; write fiction, an essay, or an article and you get the formatting and the prose metrics calibrated for that form. A formatting bar sits above the page the whole time you write, carrying headings, alignment (including justify), lists, tables, a highlighter, superscript and subscript, links, drop caps, and footnotes. The page itself stays a clean, single column you can lose yourself in. It is free for every writer, and it is built to hold a novel rather than a chapter. We do not promise that, we measure it: the editor is tested against a 200,000 word manuscript, 5,000 paragraphs kept in a single piece, and a keystroke typed into the middle of it costs about 2 milliseconds of work, with no dropped frames. A short story costs about 0.7. So a book fifty times longer asks about three times as much per key, and both are a small fraction of a single frame. You never have to chop a book into little files to keep the app happy.
A word processor
Pick from a serif, Georgia, Times, Garamond, a sans-serif, Arial, or a monospace face, then set line spacing, the space before and after a paragraph, and independent left and right page margins. A ruler above the page lets you drag those margins and each paragraph’s first-line, left, right, and hanging indents, with eighth-inch snapping and arrow-key nudges. Want one passage in a different face? Select it and change just that range. Whatever you choose travels into the published view and into your Word, PDF, and HTML exports, with Garamond embedded in the PDF, so a double-spaced manuscript reads the same everywhere, and Print is right there when you need a hard copy. Word, PDF, HTML, Markdown, and JSON exports are free for everyone. Two premium formats, Word Online and EPUB, come with a paid Pro plan and carry the same formatting.
Focus, spotlight, and sprints
Press the focus shortcut and the room goes quiet, the toolbar and chrome step back, and only the page remains. Turn on the paragraph spotlight and every block but the one your cursor sits in dims, the way iA Writer reads, so your eye never wanders up the page. Start a sprint of five, ten, fifteen, or twenty-five minutes, with an optional word target, and a small pill counts down your time and the words you have written, then sums up your words, your pace, and whether you hit the goal. And you can set a word goal on a piece that the progress meter greens the moment you reach it. Focus mode and the spotlight are free for everyone. Timed sprints come with Pro, and your free trial counts.
InkBreaker Radio
Fifteen stations cover the range from silence to cinematic, built from Creative Commons instrumentals plus brown, pink, and white noise that runs on your device. The radio always shows what is playing and who made it, with links to the artist, the source, and the license. In a Chapter sprint, one Pro writer can share their station with the whole room for the session; everyone chooses whether to listen.
Find, replace, and notes to yourself
Open find and replace and you get a live match count, next and previous, match case, whole word, regular expressions, and replace all, in a bar that overlays the toolbar without pushing your page around. Whole word is the one that matters when you rename a character: a search for Ann finds Ann and leaves Anne, announced, and the Annals of the Second Age exactly as they were. There is also a revision pass for editing yourself, the way you would track changes with an editor: turn it on and each edit is proposed rather than applied, so you can read back what you did and keep or drop each change one at a time, with your base draft untouched until you accept it. Notes to yourself are private margin annotations: select a span, write a note, and it anchors to those words; a side panel lists every note so you can jump to it, edit it, mark it resolved, or delete it. The notes are yours alone and never enter the piece, so they never publish and never export. Find and replace and the revision pass are free for everyone. Margin notes come with Pro, and your free trial counts.
Built to be read comfortably
Choose OpenDyslexic, designed to make letters easier to tell apart for dyslexic readers, or Atkinson Hyperlegible, the high-legibility face from the Braille Institute built for low vision. It is free for every writer, it sits alongside adjustable size, spacing, and margins and pairs with focus mode, and you can turn it on or off whenever you like. Because it lives in your view alone, your manuscript and your exports keep the typeface you chose for them.
Your whole notebook, one tap away
Star the pieces you keep coming back to and they gather in one place, free for everyone. Jump from one piece to another and the editor changes in place without a full reload, saving your work as it goes, so you never lose your spot. When the backlog grows, a full-screen file manager lets you drag pieces between folders and move many at once. Opening the notebook panel inside the editor is a Pro convenience, and your free trial counts. Folders and series organization are free for everyone; worlds come with Pro.
EPUB formatter
Pick from a set of book themes, drop in your cover, and let it set drop caps, justified text, and running chapter pages for you. When it looks right, export a formatted EPUB for stores and e-readers, or Word and Markdown to carry your work anywhere. Plain exports are free for everyone. The formatted book layouts are part of Inkbreaker Pro, and your free trial counts.
Bring in everything you’ve written
Drop in a single manuscript or a whole backlog and Inkbreaker reads it: Word, ODT, EPUB, PDF, RTF, Markdown, plain text, HTML, spreadsheets, or a zip of all of it at once. It also opens the formats writers switch over from: Scrivener, Final Draft, Fountain, yWriter, Plottr, and AO3. A long document splits into chapters on its headings, and you choose where each piece lands. When it finds characters, places, and factions in the text, it offers to file them into a world. Fields it does not recognize are kept with the piece, so nothing is flattened on the way in.
Write from anywhere
The editor and your whole notebook work on a phone, a tablet, and a desktop, and stay in sync across them. Draft on the train, revise on the couch, publish at the desk. Formatting you write on one travels to the others, so a highlight, a table, a drop cap, or a footnote you set at the desk still reads right in your hand. There is a real desktop app too, from the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store, signed by Apple and Microsoft so it installs without a scary warning.