Scriptorium

Schäfer GmbH

About this app

Scriptorium is your calm, beautiful writing studio — for novels, screenplays, fanfiction, short stories and poetry. No account, no ads, no internet needed.

STRUCTURE THAT THINKS WITH YOU
• Arrange, move and collapse chapters and scenes
• A corkboard of index cards for the big picture
• Scene cards with status, colour label, point of view, characters, tags, word target and story time
• Templates: three-act structure, Hero's Journey, Save the Cat, Kishōtenketsu, multi-chapter fic

WRITING YOU'LL ENJOY
• Four paper themes (paper, sepia, night, midnight), three fonts, size and line spacing
• Focus mode, typographic quotes, live formatting, dialogue highlighting
• Undo/redo, find & replace, automatic versions you can restore
• Screenplay mode in Fountain format with its own toolbar

MADE FOR FANFICTION
• Fandom, ships, rating, warnings, tags and summary
• Export as AO3-ready HTML

CHARACTERS & WORLDS
• Character profiles with goal, fear, arc and voice
• A world codex for places, objects, lore, factions and events
• Project notes and an idea inbox for sudden inspiration

READ & EXPORT
• Reading mode with book typography, drop caps and hyphenation
• Export to Markdown, plain text, HTML, Fountain and AO3

MOTIVATION & INSIGHT
• Daily goal, writing streaks, calendar, statistics and records
• Style analysis: readability, sentence length, dialogue share, frequent words, adverbs
• Writing sprints, story prompts, name generator, character interview, manuscript calculator

Global search, trash, backup & restore, light and dark theme, five accent colours, English and German.