For students
Your papers deserve
a real desk.
Real pages with footnotes, citations, equations and a bibliography, your notes and sources beside the draft, and versions you can always go back to.
Free for up to five projects · No card needed · Web, desktop and phone
The Plotiar editor showing Chapter One of The Aurora Codex. Elena Vance's story bible card, the plot grid and the map of Saltmere lift out of the page around it.
Inside a Plotiar book
Everything your book needs, layered around the page.
Plotiar is one editor with your whole project inside it. Pull it apart and this is what you find, every layer built around the manuscript.
- 01The pageReal A4 or Letter pages, with the margins and breaks your book will print with.
- 02The deskParts, chapters and every tool in one sidebar, with word counts and goals.
- 03The story bibleEvery character, place and object you name, counted in every chapter.
- 04The planPlot grid, corkboard and flowcharts, linked to your chapters.
- 05The worldMaps, family trees and calendars with your own months and days.
- 06The second readerNotes in the margin on pacing, continuity and echoes. It reads. It never writes.
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.
And everything else
Everything a long book needs.
The quiet things that matter on page three hundred.
Write togetherPlus
Invite a co-author or an editor. Everyone on the same page, live, with comments in the margin.
Every draft kept
Snapshots, drafts and branches, so you can rewrite boldly and always find your way back.
200+ templates
Novels, series bibles, screenplays, campaigns, beat sheets and theses, ready to start from.
In and out
Bring in Word, Scrivener, Markdown, PDF, EPUB and Fountain. Export to PDF, EPUB, Word and more.
Goals and streaksPlus
Daily word goals, writing statistics and streaks that turn a long project into a habit.
In your language
Plotiar speaks English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese.
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
- 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 Studio builds a character bible, a relationship map, a plot grid, a timeline and a continuity bible.
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
Anywhere
Every desk you write at.
In the browser, as an app on Mac, Windows and Linux, and on your phone. Your book saves as you type and is waiting wherever you sit down next.
Chapter One open in the Plotiar desktop app on a laptop, on a tablet and on a phone.
- Any browser
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone and Android
The Mac download is for Apple Silicon. Intel Mac version
The end
Then, one day, it's a book.
When the last chapter is done, export a print-ready PDF or an EPUB with a cover, a table of contents and your front matter. Or send a Word file to your editor.
- EPUB
- Word
- Fountain
- Plain text
- 6 × 9 in
- 5 × 8 in
- A5
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 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.
Pricing
Start free. Stay as long as you like.
The whole editor and every planning tool are free. Upgrade when you want co-authors, print exports or a second reader.
Free
Enough for a whole novel.
$0/ month
Start writing, freeNo card needed
- Up to 5 projects
- The page-based editor on web, desktop and phone
- Lore story bible with mentions and relationships
- Plot grid, corkboard, flowcharts, maps, family trees and calendars
- Comments, notes and tasks
- 200+ templates
- Export to Word, Fountain and plain text
- Most writers
Plus
For co-authors and finished books.
$5/ month
Try Plus free for 14 daysNo card needed for the trial
- Everything in Free, and:
- Unlimited projects
- Co-authors and editors, live on the same page
- Print-ready PDF and EPUB with covers and contents
- Drafts and branches
- Goals, streaks and writing statistics
- Custom themes
Pro AI
For a second reader in the margin.
$12/ month
Try Pro free for 14 daysNo card needed for the trial
- Everything in Plus, and:
- Inspect, manuscript analysis and Studio
- Chat and brainstorm about your book
- Find Lore entries in what you have written
- About 250 AI credits every week
- Bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key
Plus costs less each month than a paperback. Compare every feature
Questions
Before you start.
Yes. Real A4 pages match submission format expectations. Nested folders let you organize chapters, appendices, literature review, and methodology as separate documents in one project. Flowcharts help you map your research methodology or literature relationships. LaTeX equations let you include mathematical notation directly in your documents. Bibliography support on Plus generates formatted reference sections for your exports.
Absolutely. Each assignment can be its own document within a project, or give each course its own project. The free plan supports 5 projects with unlimited documents - enough for an entire semester.
Yes. On the Plus plan, invite your advisor by email. They see the same real pages with live cursors, can leave inline comments on any paragraph, and edits sync instantly. Only your account needs Plus - your advisor joins free.
Yes. The free plan includes up to five projects with unlimited documents, flowcharts, ideaboards, notes, tasks, and comments. You can write an entire thesis without paying a cent. Plus ($5/month) adds unlimited projects, collaboration, advanced exports, and bibliography support.
Free plan includes TXT, DOCX and Fountain. Plus adds PDF and EPUB. Plus also includes Smart Content: auto-generated tables of contents and bibliographies for your exports.
Google Docs is great for simple documents but has no project organization, no real page layout, and no planning tools. Plotiar gives you real A4 pages, nested folders for chapter structure, flowcharts for methodology mapping, and ideaboards for visual brainstorming - with the same real-time collaboration.
LaTeX and Overleaf excel at typesetting mathematical and scientific documents with precise formatting control. Plotiar supports LaTeX equations within its visual editor - you get real pages and inline math notation without learning a full markup language. For documents that are primarily equations and mathematical proofs, Overleaf may still be the better fit. But if you need a workspace to organize, plan, write, and collaborate on research that includes some math, Plotiar covers more ground.
Free and Plus give you everything you need to write papers and a thesis - real pages, LaTeX equations, chapter folders, advisor collaboration, and PDF/EPUB export with auto-generated bibliographies. Pro ($12/month) is optional and adds AI tools that help with academic writing: Brainstorm Chat to think through arguments, AI Studio generators (Argument Structure Map, Citation & Evidence Index), and AI Bibliography to assist with paper assembly. AI helps you structure and pressure-test ideas - it does not write the paper for you. Includes roughly $2.50/week of AI usage.
Yes. Cancel from your account settings whenever you want. Your projects remain accessible on the free plan (limited to five projects). No lock-in, no penalties.
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.