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Start free, upgrade to Plus for advanced writing tools and collaboration, or go Pro for AI-powered analysis and creation.
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$5/month
For serious writers and teams
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Unlimited projects
- 500 MB image storage
- Real-time collaboration
- Drafts (branching)
- Goal tracking and achievements
- Advanced statistics and insights
- Export to PDF and EPUB
- Advanced Inspect: verb strength, prose rhythm and genre lens
- Smart Content
- Priority support
Try Plus Free14-day free trial · No credit card required. Reverts to Free after trial unless you add a payment method.
Why Plus?
Plus Unlocks Your Full Potential
Power features designed for writers who are serious about their craft.
Unlimited Projects
Working on multiple books? Never hit a wall. Create as many projects as you need, each with its own structure.
Statistics Dashboard
Writing streaks, velocity charts, activity heatmaps. Know your habits like a pro.
Professional Export
Produce print-ready manuscripts and ebook files directly. No extra software needed.
Goal Tracking
Set word count targets, track streaks, earn achievements. Stay motivated every step of the way.
Smart Content
Auto-generate tables of contents and bibliographies for your exported manuscripts. Plus includes non-AI generation; Pro adds AI-powered variants (semantic TOC, AI-augmented bibliography).
Why Pro?
Pro Supercharges Your Writing with AI
Intelligent tools that help you write faster, think deeper, and stay consistent.
AI Chat Assistant
Brainstorm ideas, overcome writer's block, and explore plot directions with a hosted AI chat. Pro includes ~250 credits/week (~$2.50), reset every Monday at 00:00 UTC.
AI Text Inspection
Select a word, phrase or short sentence (up to 200 characters) and get instant AI-powered analysis - tone, clarity, feedback notes and more.
AI Manuscript Analysis
Get 6 AI analysis sections: overall summary, opening hook, character analysis, reading level, lore consistency and improvement tips. Plus and Pro also include 4 non-AI style checks.
Bring Your Own AI
Connect your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google API key to use AI features with your own credits instead of the included Pro credit pool.
Pro · AI credits
What your weekly credits cover
Pro includes about 250 AI credits every week. Credits are spent on the real work each tool does - so light, fast tools go a long way, while a full manuscript analysis costs more the longer your text is. Here's roughly what 250 credits gets you.
Billed monthly, but credits refresh every week - so a month of Pro is over 1,000 credits of AI, in four fresh batches of 250.
On their own, 250 credits a week is about…
Text Inspection
~1 credit each≈ 250 a week
Highlight a word, phrase or short sentence (up to 200 characters) for instant feedback. Selections are short, so it's almost always ~1 credit.
Brainstorm Chat
~1–3 credits per message≈ 150–250 a week
A quick question is ~1 credit; a long message or a detailed reply runs ~2–3. Attaching a long manuscript to the chat costs a little more on the first message, then stays cheap for the rest of that conversation.
AI Studio
~2–15 credits per run≈ 25–80 a week
Generate character bibles, relationship maps, plot grids and more. A small output from a short source is ~2–3 credits; a large artifact built from a whole novel runs ~10–15.
Lore Extraction
~8–40 credits per chapter≈ 7–30 chapters
Auto-build your story bible. A short chapter is ~8–12 credits; a long, character-dense chapter that turns up lots of people, places and events runs ~20–40.
Manuscript Analysis
Scales with length≈ 1 novel a weekSix AI analysis sections read across your whole manuscript, so the longer the text, the more it costs:
- A chapter or short story (~5,000 words): ~30–45 credits
- A novella (~30,000 words): ~80–90 credits
- A full novel (~80,000 words): ~150–200 credits - most of a week
So that's roughly 5–8 chapters, 2–3 novellas, or 1 full novel a week.
Or mix and match - a single week of 250 credits could be…
The Brainstormer
About 250 back-and-forth brainstorming chats - pure ideation, all week long.
The Reviser
One full-novel analysis (~180), plus ~70 quick brainstorm chats to work through what it finds.
The Worldbuilder
A story bible built from ~6 chapters of lore (~90), ~20 AI Studio runs (~80), and ~80 text inspections.
A Balanced Week
One novella analysis (~85), 50 brainstorm chats (~50), 10 AI Studio runs (~50), lore on 4 chapters (~50), and 15 inspections.
These are guidance ranges - the exact cost depends on your text and how much the AI generates. Need more in a given week? Top up with a credit pack (purchased credits never expire) or connect your own AI key with BYOK to run at your provider's own rates. Weekly credits reset every Monday at 00:00 UTC.
Everything You Get
A detailed look at what's included in each plan.
Projects & Content
- ProjectsFreeUp to 5PlusUnlimitedProUnlimited
- Documents (rich text editor)FreePlusPro
- FlowchartsFreePlusPro
- Idea BoardsFreePlusPro
- CorkboardsFreePlusPro
- Family TreesFreePlusPro
- Interactive MapsFreePlusPro
- Lore (Story Bible)FreePlusPro
- CalendarsFreePlusPro
- TaskboardsFreePlusPro
- Plot GridsFreePlusPro
- Template marketplaceFreePlusPro
- Image uploadsFree50 MBPlus500 MBPro5 GB
- Notes & CommentsFreePlusPro
- Nested folder organizationFreePlusPro
- SnapshotsFreePlusPro
- Drafts (branching)FreePlusPro
- Projects
Collaboration
- Real-time editing (live cursors)FreePlusPro
- Invite collaboratorsFreePlusPro
- Real-time editing (live cursors)
Writing Tools
- Task managementFreePlusPro
- Focus / distraction-free modeFreePlusPro
- Goal tracking & achievementsFreePlusPro
- Statistics dashboardFreePlusPro
- Built-in spellcheckFreePlusPro
- Advanced Inspect (verb strength, prose rhythm, genre lens)FreePlusPro
- Task management
Export
- TXTFreePlusPro
- DOCXFreePlusPro
- PDFFreePlusPro
- EPUBFreePlusPro
- Smart Content (non-AI TOC and bibliography; AI variants in Pro)FreePlusPro
- Cover Studio (print, ebook and audiobook covers)FreePlusPro
- Cover Studio automations (one-click print fixes, colors from your art, page count from your manuscript)FreePlusPro
- TXT
AI Tools
- Word count & basic manuscript statsFreePlusPro
- AI chat (hosted)FreePlusPro
- AI Text Inspection (AI-powered analysis)FreePlusPro
- AI Manuscript Analysis (characters, reading level, lore consistency and more)FreePlusPro
- AI Studio (23 generators)FreePlusPro
- AI cover assistant (design and blurb help; never generates cover art)FreePlusPro
- Bring your own AI keys (BYOK)FreePlusPro
- Buy additional AI creditsFreePlusPro
- Word count & basic manuscript stats
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How Plotiar Compares
See how we stack up against other writing tools.
Plotiar includes:
- Real A4 page layout
- Real-time collaboration
- Visual planning (flowcharts)
- Idea Boards / whiteboards
- Nested project organization
- Web-based (no install)
- Free tier available
- Focus / distraction-free mode
- Export (PDF, DOCX, EPUB)
- Corkboard / index card view
- Family tree / genealogy view
- Custom calendars / worldbuilding
- Interactive maps (worldbuilding)
- Lore / Story Bible (codex)
- Built for long-form writing
- Built-in spellcheck
- Image uploads & visual references
- AI reading & inspection tools
- Smart export (TOC, bibliography)
- Snapshots & branching
Compared against Google Docs, Scrivener, and Notion
- No credit card required
- Cancel anytime
- Your data stays yours
- Free forever - not a trial
Pricing Questions
Everything you need to know about Plotiar.
Yes. The free plan includes up to five projects with unlimited documents, flowcharts, idea boards, notes, tasks, comments, built-in spellcheck, and snapshots. You can write an entire novel without paying a cent. Plus ($5/month or $50/year) adds unlimited projects, drafts and branching, goals, statistics, advanced Inspect, Smart Content, and more export formats. Pro ($12/month or $120/year) adds AI-powered tools like chat, manuscript analysis, text inspection, and BYOK (Bring Your Own Key).
You can keep using all your existing projects - nothing gets locked or deleted. To create a sixth project, upgrade to Plus or move a project you no longer need to the trash.
Pro ($12/month or $120/year) is our most powerful tier. It includes everything in Plus, plus AI-powered tools: a hosted AI chat assistant with credits for brainstorming and ideation, AI text inspection for analyzing a word, phrase or short sentence (up to 200 characters), AI manuscript analysis with six sections (including lore consistency across characters, settings, and timeline), and the option to buy additional AI credit packages anytime.
Both Plus and Pro are available monthly or annually. Plus is $5/month or $50/year, and Pro is $12/month or $120/year - annual plans save you 17%. You can upgrade from your account settings. Payment is handled securely through Stripe - we never see your card details.
BYOK lets Pro users connect their own AI API keys from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google. Instead of using Plotiar's hosted AI credits, you use your own API account directly. This gives you unlimited AI usage at your own API rates - great for power users who want full control over their AI costs.
Yes - Pro plan users can purchase additional AI credit packages anytime from Account Settings. Three packages are available: Boost (500 credits for $3), Power (1,500 credits for $8), and Ultra (4,000 credits for $18). Credits are added to your balance instantly and never expire.
Yes - cancel from your account settings whenever you want. Your projects stay accessible on the free plan (limited to five projects). No lock-in, no penalties.
No. All your projects and content remain intact. You'll keep read and write access to everything. The only change is that tier-specific features (like goals, statistics, PDF/EPUB export for Plus, and AI tools for Pro) become unavailable until you upgrade again.
Free plan includes TXT, DOCX and Fountain. Plus adds PDF and EPUB, so you can produce print-ready manuscripts and ebook files directly.
Plotiar combines the best of all three: project organization like Scrivener, real-time collaboration like Google Docs, and real pages like a word processor - plus flowcharts and idea boards that none of them offer. Check out our comparison page for a detailed breakdown.
Not yet, but we're working on it. If you're a student or have a team, reach out through our contact page - we'd love to hear what you need.
AI in Pro helps you work on what you have already written. You can talk through a plot problem, ask questions about your book, get notes on a line, review a full draft, and build reference notes such as timelines and character bibles from your chapters. It never writes in your manuscript, it only runs when you start it, and Plotiar never uses your writing to train AI. Each project also has a switch that turns AI off.
Real-time editing displays live cursors and presence for everyone in a shared project, and is available on all tiers (including Free). Actually inviting collaborators to your projects requires Plus. So a Free user can join a Plus user's project and see live cursors, but cannot send invites of their own.
Credits are spent on the real AI work each tool does, so it depends on the tool and how much text it processes. As a guide, 250 credits covers roughly 250 text inspections, or 150–250 brainstorm chats, or 25–80 AI Studio runs, or building your story bible from 7–30 chapters of lore - or any mix of those. Manuscript Analysis is the heaviest because it reads your whole manuscript: a chapter is ~30–45 credits, a novella ~80–90, and a full novel ~150–200, so you'd typically run about one full novel, two to three novellas, or five to eight chapters per week. If you need more, buy a credit pack (purchased credits never expire) or use BYOK to bill against your own AI key.
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