Every tool, in detail
One book. Every tool it needs.
Plotiar is a page-based editor with everything a long book needs built around it: a story bible, plot grids, corkboards, flowcharts, maps, family trees, calendars and a second reader. Turn the pages and look around.
Real pages with margins, headers and page numbers, and every part of your book one click away in the sidebar.
The page
Write on real pages.
Not an endless scroll. Plotiar lays your manuscript out on the page it will print on, with real margins, headers and page numbers, so you always know what your book looks like.
The Plotiar editor with Chapter One on an A4 page. The page changes to US Letter and A5 as the text reflows, then Focus mode clears everything but the page.
Pages that print
A4, A5, US Letter, Legal and A3, with headers, footers and page numbers. Export to 6 × 9 and other trim sizes.
Footnotes and citations
Footnotes, endnotes, bookmarks, citations and a bibliography, built into the page.
Comments and suggestions
Leave notes in the margin, suggest edits and track every change your editor makes.
Every version kept
Snapshots you can restore, plus drafts, branches and side-by-side compare on Plus.
Focus and typewriter
Clear the desk away and keep the line you are writing in the middle of the screen.
Sprints and goals
Timed writing sprints, daily goals and streaks that keep a long book moving.
Tables, images and equations
Everything a manuscript or a thesis needs, from tables and images to LaTeX equations.
Spellcheck and right-to-left
Spellcheck in English, Spanish and French, and right-to-left text for Hebrew and Arabic.
The story bible
Write a name once. Plotiar remembers the rest.
Characters, places, factions and objects become entries beside your manuscript. Plotiar finds every mention in every chapter and maps who is tied to whom, so chapter twenty never forgets chapter two.
- Your own entry types, fields and tags
- Mentions counted in every chapter
- Relationships, progressions and what each character knows
- Find entries in what you have written already (Pro)
Chapter One of The Aurora Codex. The names The Lighthouse, Elena, the Ridge and Saltmere light up and become entries in the Lore list. Beside them, mention counts by chapter and a web of relationships between six characters.
The plan
Plan in whatever shape your story takes.
Some books start as a grid, some as a wall of index cards, some as a web of people. Plotiar has all three, linked to the same chapters.
Chapters down, plot lines across. See every thread at once and what still needs writing.
Swipe to see the whole board
The world
Draw the world your book lives in.
Maps you draw yourself, family trees that span generations, and calendars with your own months and days. Every place, person and date stays linked to your story bible.
- Hand-drawn maps with pins, routes and layers
- Family trees with marriages and generations
- Calendars with your own months and weekdays
- Idea boards for everything that does not fit yet
A passage from Chapter One names the Ridge, Saltmere, the harbour, the headland and the lighthouse. The map of Saltmere unrolls and each place drops onto it as a pin, then Elena's path lights up. Beside it, the story calendar and the Vance family tree.
Templates
Never start from a blank page.
Over two hundred templates for novels, series, screenplays, campaigns, memoirs, poetry and theses. Each is a ready-made project with its plot grid, characters and notes already in place.
- Complete project templates
- Plot grids for every structure
- Character and setting sheets
- Flowcharts and task boards
- Templates in your language
- Save your own as a template
The second reader
It reads your book. It never writes it.
On Pro, Plotiar reads like a sharp first reader. It points out pacing, continuity and echoes in the margin, reviews the whole manuscript, and builds planning tools from what you wrote. The words stay yours.
Pro- Inspect a word, phrase or short sentence for tone, clarity and style
- A full manuscript review, section by section
- AI Studio builds character bibles, timelines and maps from your chapters
- Your writing is never used to train AI
A reading light moves down Chapter One and three notes appear in the margin, level with the sentences they are about. Beside the page, a manuscript analysis runs its six sections and AI Studio builds a character bible, a relationship map, a plot grid, a timeline and a continuity bible.
Together
Write with your co-author and your editor.
On Plus, invite people to the project and write on the same page at the same time. Talk in the margin and suggest changes. Read-only links for beta readers are free on every plan.
- Live co-editing with cursors
- Comments and threaded replies
- Suggestions and tracked changes
- Owner, editor and viewer roles
- Public read-only links
- A changelog of every edit
Every version
Rewrite boldly. Nothing is lost.
Plotiar keeps snapshots as you work. Branch a draft to try a different ending, compare it with the original line by line, and merge back only what you want.
- Automatic and named snapshots
- Drafts and branches (Plus)
- Side-by-side compare (Plus)
- Merge the best of both (Plus)
- Restore any version
- Trash you can undo
Habits
Turn a long book into a daily habit.
Daily word goals, streaks and a year of writing days at a glance. Timed sprints when you need a push, and statistics that show you how the book is really growing.
- Daily and project word goals (Plus)
- Writing streaks (Plus)
- Timed writing sprints
- Words, pages and reading time
- Achievements as you go
- Statistics for every project (Plus)
Every feature
All 102 features, in one place.
Everything Plotiar does, grouped by where you will use it. Search for the one you need.
Writing & Editor
- Documents (rich text)
- A4 page layout & pagination
- Page sizes (A4, A5, Letter, Legal, A3)
- Continuous scroll mode
- Rich formatting (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough)
- Fonts & font sizes
- Text color & highlighting
- Alignment, indentation & spacing
- Heading levels (H1–H3)
- Lists & checklists (bullet, numbered, to-do)
- Tables with cell formatting
- Block quotes & callouts (5 styles)
- Code blocks
- Equations (LaTeX, block & inline)
- Image uploads (drag & drop, URL)
- Links & hyperlinks
- Citations
- Horizontal rules & page breaks
- Headers & footers (page numbers, title, date)
Editor Tools
- Focus mode (with part-of-speech highlighting)
- Typewriter mode
- Full-screen modes (classic, focus, clean)
- Find & replace (regex, case, whole-word)
- Slash commands (/ menu)
- Spellcheck
- Zoom (25%–300%)
- Writing sprints (timer)
- Word count & read time
- Page navigation
- RTL & bidirectional text
- Context menu
- Selection floating toolbar
- Auto-link between content
Content Types
- Flowcharts
- Ideaboards (freeform canvases)
- Corkboards (index cards)
- Family Trees (genealogy & lineage)
- Interactive Maps (worldbuilding, layers, markers, themes)
- Lore / Story Bible (custom types, relationship graph, AI context)
- Calendars (planning & worldbuilding)
- Taskboards (kanban)
- Plot Grids
- Notes (color-coded)
- Tasks (subtasks, tags, due dates, colors)
- Comments & annotations
- Bookmarks (labeled, colored)
Covers & Book Extras
- Cover Studio: print, ebook and audiobook covers (all plans)
- Table of contents (Plus)
- Bibliography (Plus)
- Dramatis personae in exports (Plus)
- Lore glossary in exports (Plus)
- Plot grid from a document (Plus)
Organization
- Nested folders (unlimited depth)
- Multiple projects
- Multiple content types per project
- Split view
- Drag & drop reordering
- Full-text search
- Trash & recovery
Templates
- Template marketplace (200+)
- Custom templates
AI & Intelligence
- AI Studio - 23 generators (Pro)
- AI Chat / Brainstorm (Pro)
- AI Text Inspection (Pro)
- Manuscript Analysis - 6 AI sections (Pro)
- AI Cover Assistant, no AI-generated art (Pro)
- AI Table of Contents (Pro)
- AI Bibliography (Pro)
- AI Project Creation (Pro)
- Bring Your Own Key - BYOK (Pro)
- AI Credit Packs
Collaboration & Versioning
- Real-time editing - live cursors
- Invite collaborators (Plus)
- Track changes
- Changelog
- Snapshots - version history
- Drafts & branching (Plus)
- Compare & merge (Plus)
Productivity
- Statistics dashboard (Plus)
- Goal tracking (Plus)
- Achievements (Bronze to Platinum)
- Advanced Inspect (Plus)
Export & Import
- Export to PDF (Plus)
- Export to DOCX
- Export to EPUB (Plus)
- Export to TXT and Fountain
- Import - TXT, DOCX, PDF, EPUB, Markdown, Scrivener, Fountain
Customization
- Themes - dark, light, sepia
- Custom themes - 8-color & per-page (Plus)
- Ambient sounds
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Document defaults - fonts, margins, spacing
- Page size selection
- Paginated & continuous scroll toggle
Platform
- Desktop app - Mac, Windows, Linux
- Mobile responsive - iOS & Android via PWA (no native app)
- Offline editing - web and desktop app
- Sharing & publishing - public viewers for 10 content types
- Image storage - 50 MB Free / 500 MB Plus / 5 GB Pro
- Privacy & security
- Auto-save
- Undo / redo
Your book is waiting on the desk.
Open a project, write the first line, and let Plotiar keep track of everything around it.
Free for up to five projects · No card needed · Web, desktop and phone
Now go write the next sentence.