THE
FORGE SUITE
Write it. Cover it. Bind it.
The only fully integrated, fully offline book production toolkit in the world. From first draft through to print-ready, press-ready, physically bound books — without a browser, a subscription, or a cloud account.
$79 · one-time purchase · lifetime updates · all three apps
From first word to print-ready interior — in one app
ManuscriptForge is a professional writing suite for authors of fiction and non-fiction. It covers the complete interior workflow: writing, outlining, formatting, typesetting, and multi-format export — including a built-in imposition engine no other writing tool offers.
Corkboard & Outliner
Visual synopsis cards and a spreadsheet-style outliner for planning before you write
Writing goals & streaks
Daily targets, contribution heatmap, sprint timer, and per-chapter word count goals
Collaboration & review
Export reviewer packages for your editor. Accept or reject tracked changes individually
Export everywhere
EPUB 3.0, PDF, DOCX, HTML, plain text. Retailer profiles for KDP, IngramSpark, and more
Series Bible
Characters, locations, timelines, and research notebooks — all in one place
Version history
Named snapshots, auto-daily backups, diff compare, and branch restore
Design your cover. Front, spine, back — all at once.
CoverForge is the first offline, book-aware cover designer built specifically for authors. The entire cover spread — back, spine, and front — on one unified canvas, with distributor-correct bleed guides and an automatic spine calculator built in.
Unified spread canvas
Back, spine, and front as one continuous design surface — exactly as the printer sees it
Book-aware canvas
Trim sizes, bleed guides, safe zone, and spine fold lines baked in from the first click
Full layer control
Named layers, visibility toggle, lock, drag to reorder, group and ungroup
Print PDF, JPEG, PNG, SVG
Press-ready PDF with bleed marks, digital JPEG for ebook stores, lossless PNG, and vector SVG
Asset library
My Images, My Fonts, and built-in textures — linen, paper, grunge, geometric patterns
50-step undo history
Full undo/redo persisted inside your .cvr project file — pick up exactly where you left off
Drop your PDF. Forge your book.
Imposition Forge takes the reading-order PDF from ManuscriptForge and rearranges the pages into printing order for physical book production. Every binding format, every fold layout, with miniature book support built in from day one.
Drag-and-drop PDF loading
Drop any PDF onto the zone. Page count and stats appear immediately
9 format cards
One click per format. Sub-options reveal automatically for the selected binding type
Live in-app preview
Full-panel overlay showing the imposed layout before you commit to export
Margins & marks
Head, tail, fore-edge, and binding margins. Crop and cut mark toggles
Folding guides & help built in
Rotation diagrams, fold guides, and a signature length reference table — all inside the app, with a full-size lightbox for every diagram
Everything, compared
All three apps are sold separately. The suite bundle gives you everything at a saving of $28 off individual prices.
| Feature | ManuscriptForge | CoverForge | Imposition Forge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writing & content | |||
| Professional rich-text editor | ✓ | — | — |
| Corkboard, Outliner & Series Bible | ✓ | — | — |
| Writing goals, streaks & sprint timer | ✓ | — | — |
| AI writing assistant (offline & cloud) | ✓ | — | — |
| Non-fiction toolkit (citations, index, glossary) | ✓ | — | — |
| Collaboration & tracked changes review | ✓ | — | — |
| Formatting & design | |||
| 25+ professional book interior themes | ✓ | — | — |
| Full cover spread designer | — | ✓ | — |
| 84 genre cover templates | — | ✓ | — |
| Layers, asset library & texture library | — | ✓ | — |
| Spine & imposition | |||
| Automatic spine width calculator | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Link to .mfx project for live spine data | — | ✓ | — |
| PDF imposition engine (9 binding formats) | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Miniature book imposition layouts | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Export & distribution | |||
| EPUB 3.0 export | ✓ | — | — |
| Print PDF (with bleed & marks) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DOCX export (formatted & submission) | ✓ | — | — |
| JPEG / PNG digital export | — | ✓ | — |
| Distributor presets (KDP, IngramSpark, etc.) | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Pre-export validation | — | ✓ | — |
| Platform | |||
| Fully offline — no internet required | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows 11 only at this stage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| One-time purchase, lifetime updates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Individual price | $59 | $29 | $19 |
| Get app → | Get app → | Get app → | |
One-time purchase. Yours forever.
No subscription. No monthly fee. Buy once, get lifetime updates. Install on up to three machines.
All prices in USD · No VAT added at checkout · Sold direct from this website
Every other book tool wants a monthly fee.
We don’t.
The Forge Suite is built on a simple principle: you paid for the software, it belongs to you. No cloud dependency, no account required to open your own files.
Fully offline
All three apps run entirely on your machine. No internet connection required after installation. Your manuscripts, covers, and imposed files never leave your computer.
One-time purchase
Pay once, use forever. Lifetime updates included. The version you install today will still work in ten years — and every new feature ships free to existing customers.
Your files, your format
Every project is a single portable file: .mfx for manuscripts, .cvr for covers. Standard ZIP containers — open them with any archive tool. You are never locked in.
3 installs per licence
Install on your main machine, your laptop, and a backup — all from one purchase. No dongle, no account, no annual activation. FORGE-XXXX licence codes, validated offline.
“The only toolkit that covers writing, cover design, and physical book production — in standalone desktop apps, working together, with no subscription and no cloud.”
The Forge Suite · Windows only t this stageWRITE IT.
COVER IT.
BIND IT.
Get all three apps for $79 — or start with the one you need most and add the others any time.
One-time purchase · Lifetime updates · Windows Only at this Stage · Fully offline