Penwright: Fanfiction & Novels
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About this app
Penwright is an offline writing app for fanfiction and novels (plus short stories, poetry, zines and essays). Everything stays on your phone; there’s no AI assistant and no ads anywhere. Bring in the book you’ve already started, build a story bible that links itself, and export for AO3, literary agents or self-publishing.
Write and post fanfic:
Write your fanfiction in chapters, keep canon straight in the Codex, and post to AO3 when it’s ready. The AO3 compile function prepares your project details (tags, archive warnings, genres, summaries) and every chapter as a HTML file, each with its own copy button and counters that follow AO3’s own limits.
A worldbuilding wiki that fills itself in:
The Codex holds cards for your characters, places, factions, objects and events. Type [[Mara]] in a scene and Penwright links it to her card, and her card lists every scene she's in. Forty chapters in, you can still find out what her brother's ship was called.
Every scene organised and filtered:
The Binder holds your chapters and scenes. Drag them into order and give each scene a POV, tags, a draft status and a date on your story's timeline. Split a scene in two or join two into one, and read your whole manuscript in one scroll from the Binder.
Export for literary agents, AO3 or self-publishing:
Querying agents? Pick one of eight manuscript styles, including Shunn Modern, Standard Agent, literary journal and poetry submissions. Your legal name, pen name and contact details go on the title page where an editor looks for them. Publishing it yourself? Export to Markdown or plain text for free, or to EPUB, Word, PDF and RTF with Pro, with a dedication, epigraph and author bio if you want them.
Made for all types of writers:
Start a novel, novella, short story collection, flash fiction, poetry collection, zine, or essays and nonfiction. Novel writing gets chapters and scenes. Short pieces go on a corkboard, poems get verse layout, zines get page spreads, and essays get citations in APA, MLA, Chicago or Harvard.
Bring your book with you:
Import a manuscript, outline or story bible from Word (.docx), EPUB, RTF, HTML, Markdown or plain text. Penwright splits it into chapters and scenes and shows you the result before it saves anything. Prologues, epilogues and part dividers stay unnumbered.
Calendars for your worlds:
Date scenes with a normal calendar, a relative one ("Act 2, Week 3, Day 2"), or one you build for a fantasy, sci-fi or historical setting, with your own month names, weekdays and holidays. The calendar opens on your story's dates, and you can type a year to jump straight to it.
An editor that stays out of the way:
Focus mode, typewriter scrolling, smart quotes, read-aloud and Markdown formatting, with the format bar sitting on top of the keyboard. You can turn pages with the volume keys.
Write on your own e-ink tablet:
Penwright recognises Boox, Bigme, Moaan, Meebook, PocketBook and Hisense devices and switches to a black-and-white mode with no animations, so the screen doesn't ghost.
Track your writing:
Daily streaks, writing reminders, your best day and your writing pace.
Private by design:
Penwright works fully offline. Every scene is saved as a plain .md file in a folder you choose, so your writing opens in other apps too. Snapshots and a one-tap backup keep older versions safe. You don't need an account, and there's no cloud sync, no ads and no analytics. The only network call is a check that confirms the purchase.
Free to write, PRO when you want more:
You can write, import, build a Codex and export to Markdown, plain text or AO3 for free, with 3 projects and 12 Codex cards. Pro, as a monthly plan or a one-time purchase, unlocks Word, EPUB, PDF and RTF export, every calendar, unlimited projects and cards, and more editor typefaces.
No ads. No chatbot. No fuss. Nothing in Penwright writes or suggests for you.
Write and post fanfic:
Write your fanfiction in chapters, keep canon straight in the Codex, and post to AO3 when it’s ready. The AO3 compile function prepares your project details (tags, archive warnings, genres, summaries) and every chapter as a HTML file, each with its own copy button and counters that follow AO3’s own limits.
A worldbuilding wiki that fills itself in:
The Codex holds cards for your characters, places, factions, objects and events. Type [[Mara]] in a scene and Penwright links it to her card, and her card lists every scene she's in. Forty chapters in, you can still find out what her brother's ship was called.
Every scene organised and filtered:
The Binder holds your chapters and scenes. Drag them into order and give each scene a POV, tags, a draft status and a date on your story's timeline. Split a scene in two or join two into one, and read your whole manuscript in one scroll from the Binder.
Export for literary agents, AO3 or self-publishing:
Querying agents? Pick one of eight manuscript styles, including Shunn Modern, Standard Agent, literary journal and poetry submissions. Your legal name, pen name and contact details go on the title page where an editor looks for them. Publishing it yourself? Export to Markdown or plain text for free, or to EPUB, Word, PDF and RTF with Pro, with a dedication, epigraph and author bio if you want them.
Made for all types of writers:
Start a novel, novella, short story collection, flash fiction, poetry collection, zine, or essays and nonfiction. Novel writing gets chapters and scenes. Short pieces go on a corkboard, poems get verse layout, zines get page spreads, and essays get citations in APA, MLA, Chicago or Harvard.
Bring your book with you:
Import a manuscript, outline or story bible from Word (.docx), EPUB, RTF, HTML, Markdown or plain text. Penwright splits it into chapters and scenes and shows you the result before it saves anything. Prologues, epilogues and part dividers stay unnumbered.
Calendars for your worlds:
Date scenes with a normal calendar, a relative one ("Act 2, Week 3, Day 2"), or one you build for a fantasy, sci-fi or historical setting, with your own month names, weekdays and holidays. The calendar opens on your story's dates, and you can type a year to jump straight to it.
An editor that stays out of the way:
Focus mode, typewriter scrolling, smart quotes, read-aloud and Markdown formatting, with the format bar sitting on top of the keyboard. You can turn pages with the volume keys.
Write on your own e-ink tablet:
Penwright recognises Boox, Bigme, Moaan, Meebook, PocketBook and Hisense devices and switches to a black-and-white mode with no animations, so the screen doesn't ghost.
Track your writing:
Daily streaks, writing reminders, your best day and your writing pace.
Private by design:
Penwright works fully offline. Every scene is saved as a plain .md file in a folder you choose, so your writing opens in other apps too. Snapshots and a one-tap backup keep older versions safe. You don't need an account, and there's no cloud sync, no ads and no analytics. The only network call is a check that confirms the purchase.
Free to write, PRO when you want more:
You can write, import, build a Codex and export to Markdown, plain text or AO3 for free, with 3 projects and 12 Codex cards. Pro, as a monthly plan or a one-time purchase, unlocks Word, EPUB, PDF and RTF export, every calendar, unlimited projects and cards, and more editor typefaces.
No ads. No chatbot. No fuss. Nothing in Penwright writes or suggests for you.
Fanfic & novel writing, offline. Linked lore, AO3-ready export. No AI, no login.
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What’s new
Penwright's first release.
A writing app for novels, stories, fan fiction and poetry. It works offline, with no account, no AI assistant and no tracking.
Every scene is saved as plain Markdown. Link a folder (e.g., Syncthing, cloud storage) to keep files where you like.
Plan chapters/scenes in the Binder, keep characters/places in the Codex and [[link]] them as you write. Works on E-Ink too.
Free: Markdown, text, AO3 exports. Pro: Word, EPUB, PDF, more fonts, genre calendars, series lore.
A writing app for novels, stories, fan fiction and poetry. It works offline, with no account, no AI assistant and no tracking.
Every scene is saved as plain Markdown. Link a folder (e.g., Syncthing, cloud storage) to keep files where you like.
Plan chapters/scenes in the Binder, keep characters/places in the Codex and [[link]] them as you write. Works on E-Ink too.
Free: Markdown, text, AO3 exports. Pro: Word, EPUB, PDF, more fonts, genre calendars, series lore.
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About the developer
Christopher Alex Todaro
writingstudioapps@gmail.com
2/432 Moreland Rd
Brunswick West VIC 3055
Australia
