From first word to print-ready in one app
ManuscriptForge is the professional writing suite for authors who take publication seriously — with a built-in imposition engine no other writing tool offers.
Fully offline · One-time purchase · No subscription
Built for the whole journey,
not just the first draft
From outlining through typesetting and physical book production — ManuscriptForge is the only tool that covers it all in a single offline app.
Professional rich-text editor
Full heading hierarchy, tables, footnotes, endnotes, poetry, text message bubbles, redacted text, and every fiction special block. Built on TipTap — the editor behind Notion and Linear.
Corkboard, Outliner & Series Bible
Visual synopsis cards, a spreadsheet-style outliner, and a structured Series Bible for characters, locations, and timelines. Plan the whole story before a word is written.
25+ professional themes
Classic, Elegant, Academic, Textbook, Romance, Fantasy, Large Print, Miniature — all fully customisable. Set body font, heading font, leading, drop caps, ornaments, and running headers. Save themes across your whole series.
Writing goals & streaks
Daily word targets, contribution heatmaps, sprint timers, and per-chapter goals. History chart and streak tracking to keep momentum over months, not just days.
Full non-fiction toolkit
Numbered headings, auto-numbered figures and tables, cross-references that update automatically, citation manager (APA, Chicago, MLA, Harvard, SBL), index builder, and glossary panel.
Collaboration & review
Export a Reviewer Package for your editor. They open it in the free companion Reviewer app, leave tracked changes and comments, and send it back. Accept or reject each change individually.
Import from anything
Bring in manuscripts from Word, LibreOffice, plain text, EPUB, Markdown, RTF, and Fountain. Preserves formatting, headings, footnotes, and images wherever possible.
Version history & backup
Named snapshots, automatic daily backups, diff comparison, and branch restore. Auto-backup to any local folder — no cloud account, no subscription, no strings.
A professional imposition engine. In a writing app.
No other writing tool can take your manuscript from first draft to physically imposed, press-ready pages. ManuscriptForge can — because it has the complete Imposition Forge engine built in.
Signature imposition — traditional sewn-binding layouts with configurable signature sizes and sheet counts.
Perfect bind, booklet, and wacky miniature layouts — including Lilliput, Square Mini, and Compact Gift formats.
Japanese Stab, Coptic, and Long Stitch — binding layouts for hand-binders and artist’s book makers.
Creep compensation — automatic page shift calculation for thick signatures. Registration and signature marks included.
Configure signature size, sheet count, grain direction, and folding order. Exports press-ready imposed PDF with marks.
Industry-standard perfect-bind imposition with spine width calculator.
A6, A7, A8, Lilliput, 3×3 Square, and more — with proportional margin scaling.
Japanese Stab, Coptic, Long Stitch — with fold and cut diagrams.
Every format every platform wants
Export profiles for KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Direct Sales, and custom. One manuscript, every destination.
Ebook
Fully accessible EPUB 3 with hyperlinked cross-references, index, and bibliography. Accessible alt text throughout.
Print & screen PDF
300 DPI print-ready PDF rendered by Puppeteer. Plus imposed PDF direct from the imposition engine.
Word document
Formatted DOCX for publishers, or clean submission DOCX stripped of formatting for agents and journals.
Web
Clean, semantic HTML export with your book’s styling intact — for websites, serialisation, or further processing.
Plain text
UTF-8 plain text with configurable scene break and chapter break markers. Clean and portable.
Citation library
Export your full citation library as BibTeX for use in other tools, LaTeX documents, or reference managers.
AI that assists. Not one that writes for you.
Every AI suggestion appears as a tracked change you must explicitly accept or reject. The AI never silently modifies your manuscript.
Runs entirely on your machine
Powered by Ollama — your local AI. No data leaves your computer. Works without an internet connection.
Your API key, your data
Connect your own OpenAI or Anthropic key for more powerful models. ManuscriptForge’s servers are never in the data path. Full disclosure before any text is sent externally.
Fiction
Non-fiction
Editing & proofreading
Truly offline. Fully yours.
No subscription
One-time purchase, lifetime updates. The app you buy today works in ten years without a monthly fee.
No cloud dependency
Your manuscripts stay on your machine. No sync, no login, no outage that takes your work with it.
Single portable file
Every project is one .mfx file — a ZIP containing your whole book. Copy it, back it up, share it.
40+ languages
Fully offline spell-check in over 40 languages via nspell. No dictionaries downloaded at runtime.
Start from wherever you are
Bring in manuscripts from your existing tools. ManuscriptForge handles the conversion — you keep the formatting.
The writing app that takes you all the way to print
Fiction, non-fiction, miniature books, physical binding — one app, one purchase, fully offline.
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