Creating your account

Go to inkbreaker.com. The top of the page has two buttons: Join to make a new account, and Log In to get back into one you already have. Both pages let you use Google, Discord, or an email address and password.

Every new account gets a free 7-day Pro trial. No credit card required.

Join and Log In are separate pages

New writers and returning writers go to different pages, so you land in the right place from the start. The Join page is set up to create an account. The Log In page is set up to sign back in. Each page links to the other, so if you picked the wrong one, the right one is one click away.

If you signed up one way, use that same way to get back in. Created your account with Google? Use Log In and continue with Google. The same goes for Discord and for email and password.

If you forget your password

On the sign-in form, choose Forgot your password? and enter your email. We send you a link to set a new one. The link is good for an hour. Open it, choose a new password, and sign in with it.

Adding a password to an SSO account

If you signed up with Google or Discord and later want to sign in by email too, open Preferences → Account and choose Add a password. From then on, either way gets you in. If your account already has a password, the same place lets you change it.

Verifying your email

If you sign up with an email and password, we send a verification link to that address. Open it before your first sign-in so we know the address is yours. Accounts created with Google or Discord are already verified through them.

During onboarding

Setup is a short series of steps. Each step has a “use recommended defaults” option if you just want to get writing, and you can change every answer later. The phone app asks the same questions as the website, so it does not matter which one you sign up on. You will be asked:

• A face and a few words. Pick a free avatar (a colour with an icon or doodle, or your initials) and write a short bio for your profile. Uploading a custom photo is part of Pro; the free identities are for everyone.
• Which writing types you work in (fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and others), with your experience level in each. Pick as many as apply. These shape your exercise recommendations and skill focus.
• What you want to get out of the platform, your writing goals.
• How you want to write here. Start with the community around you, or start in Solo mode, a quiet workspace with the social surfaces tucked away. You can switch any time with the globe button in the navigation bar. See Solo mode.
• Whether you want company. Join an open chapter with one tap, start your own with just a name, or skip and decide later. Nothing about this is required, and chapters work fine alongside Solo mode.
• What you want to hear about. Turn on only the things that are useful to you: the feedback exchange, Exquisite Corpse invitations, direct messages, competition announcements, the email digest and its cadence, writing reminders, and push notifications (browser push on the web, phone notifications in the app). Nothing here is forced on you. See Managing notifications.
• Your starting defaults. How new pieces behave (whether they require sign-in to read, are listed in the Library, and allow comments), whether your profile shows up in search, who can see your profile, your text size, and reduced motion. Every piece can still override these later.

You can change all of this any time in Preferences. The feedback exchange is reciprocal: turning it on lets you request reads and also makes you available to review others. See Peer feedback.

Your username

Your username becomes part of your public profile URL and your published piece URLs (inkbreaker.com/username/piece-slug). You can change it later. When you do, Inkbreaker remembers your old username and forwards anyone who follows an old link to your current page, so shared links keep working.

Inkbreaker is an 18+ platform.