A Complete Writing Studio.
No AI Required.
GrimoireScribe is a full-featured novel writing environment that runs entirely offline, entirely on your machine. AI features exist and they are completely optional. Turn them off and you still have one of the most capable writing tools available.
No subscriptions. No cloud. No one reading your drafts. Ever. Your stories stay on your hardware, whether you use AI or not.
Your Manuscriptstructure, characters, planning
Your book, organized the way a book actually works.
Not a folder full of documents. A living hierarchy of books, acts, chapters, and scenes that you can reshape at any point without losing anything. Drag a chapter between acts. Reorder scenes in a chapter. The structure adapts to you.
Series support groups multiple books together with aggregate word counts and statistics. Plan a trilogy from day one, or add later. The hierarchy scales with your ambition.
- Book - Act - Chapter - Scene hierarchy, fully reorderable
- Drag-and-drop reordering at every level
- Scene status tracking: Draft, In Progress, Final
- Scene synopsis and private notes per scene
- Word count at scene, chapter, act, and book level
- Series grouping with aggregate stats across volumes
- Book creation wizard for structured setup
- Permanent delete with double confirmation - no accidental loss
Profiles that go beyond a name and a description.
GrimoireScribe gives each character a structured profile with dedicated sections for core identity, physical traits, psychology, voice patterns, and inner life. Create characters manually and fill in exactly what you know. The profile grows as the character does.
Character relationships are bidirectional. Define how Clara sees the mayor, and how the mayor sees Clara. The web of relationships is yours to manage, as densely or as sparsely as your story demands.
- Expanded profiles: core, physical, psychology, voice, inner life
- Bidirectional relationship mapping
- Alias tracking: multiple names for the same character
- Scene appearance heatmap: see where each character lives in your book
- Manual character creation gives you full creative control
- AI scanning is available if you want it, never required
See the shape of your story before you write it.
The Visual Plot Board gives you three perspectives on your manuscript: Corkboard for index card overviews, Timeline for chronological layout, and Character view for tracking who is in each scene. Switch between them freely as your thinking changes.
The Manuscript Outline is a spreadsheet-style overview of every scene with sortable columns: status, word count, POV, scene purpose, and synopsis. The Read-only Preview lets you read your entire manuscript as flowing prose, not as a tree of scene files.
- Corkboard: index card view with scene synopsis
- Timeline: chronological layout across acts
- Character view: who appears in each scene at a glance
- Outline: spreadsheet-style with sortable columns
- Read-only Preview: your whole manuscript as flowing prose
- POV designation per scene
- Scene purpose tags: Action, Dialogue, Exposition, Transition, Turning Point
Your Writing Environmenteditor, zen mode, world notes
A clean page. Nothing between you and the story.
The prose editor is built for writers who write long-form fiction. Auto-save fires every 1.5 seconds. A dead words filter flags overused filler. Scene status and purpose tags keep your outline accurate without interrupting your flow.
Zen Mode strips away everything except the page. No sidebar, no toolbar, no distractions. Focus Mode narrows attention to the current paragraph. Split-Screen Editor lets you write one scene while referencing another. Nine prose fonts. UI scale from 90 to 120 percent. The environment adapts to how you work, not the other way around.
- Rich text formatting: bold, italic, alignment, indent
- Auto-save every 1.5 seconds - never lose a word
- Zen Mode: nothing visible except the prose
- Focus Mode: dim everything outside the active paragraph
- Split-Screen Editor: two scenes side by side
- Dead words filter: flag adverbs and overused filler
- Scene purpose tags: Action, Dialogue, Exposition, Transition, Turning Point
- Nine prose fonts, UI scale 90-120%, dark and light theme
Your lore bible, alongside your manuscript.
World notes live inside your project, not in a separate folder or application. Write rich text entries for any world topic: magic systems, geography, history, factions, timelines. Upload supporting documents in any format.
Everything is stored locally. Nothing leaves your machine. Keyword search works fully offline, built in. Optional semantic search is available through cloud or local embedding models if you want it later. Either way, your lore stays yours.
- Rich text world notes, one entry per topic
- Upload .pdf, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .md supporting documents
- Keyword search built in, works fully offline
- All notes stored locally - nothing on any server
- Organized alongside your manuscript, not in a separate app
Output & Productivityexport, goals, customization
Your manuscript, in any format you need.
Compile to EPUB 3 for direct upload to publishing platforms. Export to DOCX for editors and beta readers. Generate a print-optimized PDF for print-on-demand services. Every format is produced from the same source: your manuscript hierarchy.
Scrivener import and export with live resync means you are never locked in. Bring your existing projects over from Scrivener, work in GrimoireScribe, and sync changes back at any point. Your work belongs to you in every direction.
- EPUB 3 - ready for KDP, Draft2Digital, Smashwords
- DOCX - for editors, agents, and beta readers
- Print-optimized PDF for print-on-demand
- Scrivener .scriv import and export with live resync
- Markdown and plain text for future-proof archiving
- Full project backup export
Track your progress. Build your habit.
Writing consistently is a practice, not an accident. GrimoireScribe gives you the tools to measure your output and understand your pace without turning your creative work into a performance metric.
Word Count Goals
Set a daily target. An SVG progress ring tracks where you are in real time. No gamification, just honest numbers.
- Daily word count goal with progress ring
- Per-session word count
- Live count per scene and per book
Writing Streak Tracker
See how many consecutive days you have written. A useful signal, not a punitive score. Miss a day: the streak resets, and you start again.
- Daily writing streak counter
- Historical daily word count log
- Chapter pacing with reading time estimate
Appearance Control
The interface should feel like a tool you made yourself. Dark and light themes, nine prose fonts, and UI scale from 90 to 120 percent cover most preferences.
- Dark and light theme
- Nine prose font choices
- UI scale 90-120% in 5% steps
Privacy, Pricing & AIlocal-first, $79, optional AI
Your hardware. Your files. Your rules.
GrimoireScribe installs on your machine and stays there. No account required. No cloud sync. No usage telemetry. No subscription to lapse. Your manuscripts are SQLite files on your own disk - open them with any tool, back them up yourself, move them wherever you want.
We cannot read your drafts because they are never sent anywhere. This is not a privacy policy. It is an architectural fact.
- All data stored locally as SQLite - readable without GrimoireScribe
- No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reports to external servers
- No internet connection required to write
- Works on aircraft, in remote locations, behind any firewall
- License verified once at first launch, then stored locally
One-time. No subscription. Ever.
- Windows app, Mac coming soon
- 3 simultaneous activations
- V1 + all V1 updates included
- V2 upgrade included free
- All future major versions included
- 14-day free trial, no card required
- 30-day money-back guarantee
AI is there if you ever want it.
Some writers use AI for every draft. Others never touch it. Both are completely valid. GrimoireScribe does not push AI features at you or require an API key to unlock the software. The writing studio described on this page is the full product.
If you ever want to try the AI modes, they are there: five writing modes (Write, Edit, Chapter, New Scene, Discuss), five providers (Claude, GPT, Grok, Gemini, Mistral), and a local offline option. You bring your own API keys. GrimoireScribe adds no markup and charges no credits. Your keys go directly to the provider.
AI is off by default. It stays off until you configure a key. You never need to.
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