The writing app that works
in your own voice.

bookmoth is a writing app that learns your voice and keeps your whole story in context to help you plan, draft, and edit,
with as much or as little AI as you want.

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bookmoth manuscript editor

“Every AI writing tool I tried produced text that sounded like AI. Competent, clean, utterly lifeless. I built bookmoth because I wanted a writing app that learns how I actually write, stays in my voice, and only helps when I ask it to.”

Stu, founder

Four steps, and an assistant
that never forgets

Brief. Voice. Plan. Draft.

Step 1

Build your brief

Talk it through in a guided conversation: premise, characters, tone, the emotional arc. bookmoth keeps all of it in one place and remembers it, so the foundation of your book never ends up scattered across notebooks and stray documents.

Step 2

Teach it your voice

Paste in your own prose and bookmoth learns how you write: your sentence rhythms, your dialogue patterns, the words you reach for. It keeps that profile close, so anything it helps with sounds like you and not like AI. Works across major European and Asian languages too.

Step 3

Plan it out, scene by scene

See your whole book at a glance: chapters, scenes, acts. Plan from your brief, paste in an outline you already have, or import a finished manuscript. Change the plan and the manuscript keeps up; change the manuscript and the plan stays in sync, so the two never drift apart on you.

Step 4

Draft, revise, lose nothing

When you want a hand, bookmoth can draft a scene or suggest a revision, always in your voice and aware of everything around it. Every version is kept, so you can try a bolder pass, change your mind, and never lose a word. Choose your model: Anthropic, OpenRouter, or a local LLM.

Same model. Same prompt.
Completely different prose.

Both written by Claude Opus 4.6. The only difference is that the right one was governed by the writer's own voice profile.

Chapter drafted without a writing profile
Without a writing profile
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Chapter drafted with your writing profile
Governed by your writing profile
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The codex

Big stories need a second brain

Characters, places, history: all remembered and kept straight for you, whether the AI writes a word or not.

Builds itself

It keeps the bible, so you don't have to

As the book grows, bookmoth keeps track of who's who, where things happened, and what's already true, building your story bible as you write instead of making you do it by hand. It proposes new characters, places, and lore for your approval, and flags contradictions before they reach the page, so you never have to hold the whole world in your head or scroll back through forty chapters to check the colour of someone's eyes.

bookmoth codex review queue proposing new entries scanned from drafted chapters
Your whole cast, straight

Every character, kept consistent

Aliases keep one person together however you name them across the book. Relationships map who knows whom, so your world holds together as it grows. And if you ever want a hand with a line of dialogue, give a character a few example lines and bookmoth will match their voice, the same way it matches yours.

A bookmoth codex character entry with a Voice field of example dialogue lines

The editor

An editor that has read your chapter

A conversation inside your manuscript, always reading your live prose.

In the manuscript

Talk it through, edit in place

Highlight a sentence and say what you want, and the editor proposes a change to just that selection, shown as a diff you accept or dismiss. Ask for a structural read and it answers like a colleague who already knows your book. It can even reshape your chapter cards and scenes through the conversation.

The bookmoth manuscript page with a highlighted passage and the editor chat open alongside

Edit by conversation

Tighten a passage, raise the tension, or check continuity, all in plain language with the whole book in context.

Highlight to edit

Select a passage, describe the change, and it lands only there, shown as a reviewable diff.

Nothing written silently

Every change goes through a diff you review and saves as a version you can roll back.

Themes

Make the room your own

Three colourways, each with a light and a dark, and a live picker that reskins the whole app as you flip between them. bookmoth, Paradice, and Mithril.

Curious what bookmoth
sees in your writing?

Paste a few paragraphs. Get a free voice portrait by email. No account needed, no strings. Just an honest editorial read of your prose. Works in most major languages.

Get your voice portrait

See it work

From first conversation to first chapter

Write without distraction

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Editorial feedback

Ask the Editor reads your chapter in the context of your entire manuscript, your brief, and your voice profile. Structural, tonal, and craft-level notes.

Version history

Every chapter carries its own versions. Draft, revise, start fresh. Your earlier work is always there. Nothing is overwritten, nothing is lost.

Everything local

No account. No cloud. No analytics. Your manuscript, your brief, your writing profile: all stored on your machine.

Simple pricing

One fee. No subscription. Ever.

bookmoth
$99
one-time purchase, no subscription
  • Full app for macOS and Windows
  • Free updates forever
  • Voice profile from your own prose
  • Self-building codex with character voices
  • Scene-by-scene drafting with version history
  • Document-aware editor you can talk to
  • Paste your own outline or generate one
  • Import your existing manuscript
  • Everything stays on your own computer
Get bookmoth

Bring your own API key (Anthropic, OpenRouter, or a local model). You pay your provider only for the AI you use, and you choose the models. You control your spend.

How the costs work

You buy bookmoth once. Updates are free, forever. No tiers, no usage caps.

The only running cost is the AI itself, billed by your provider, not us. What you spend depends on what you ask for. Drafting a chapter is the big one, from a couple of cents to around 30 cents depending on the model. Lighter jobs cost less each time, but they add up across a long book: editor chat, and scanning your chapters to build the codex.

You stay in control. Claude gives the best prose, but you can point bulk jobs like codex scanning at a cheaper model, a smaller Claude, a budget model on OpenRouter, or a free local one, and keep Claude for the writing. Every cent shows up in your provider's dashboard.

Most AI writing subscriptions charge $19 to $29 a month. In a few months you have paid more than bookmoth costs once, and that never stops.

Questions

Does it actually write in my voice?
This is the entire point. bookmoth analyses your prose at the sentence level and builds a writing profile from your actual patterns: your rhythms, your dialogue instincts, where you're lyrical and where you're blunt. That profile sits at the core of every chapter draft. The output won't be indistinguishable from what you'd write by hand, but it will be recognisably in your voice rather than the generic literary register most AI tools reach for by default. For the full picture, see how the main AI writing tools compare on preserving your voice.
What is the codex?
The codex is bookmoth's built-in reference for your world: characters, places, lore and items, with aliases, per-character voices, and relationships. It builds itself as you draft, scanning your chapters, proposing entries for your approval, and flagging contradictions before they become canon. You control exactly what the AI sees, per entry and even per detail.
What can the editor do?
The editor is a conversation that lives inside your manuscript and reads your live prose, your brief, your voice profile, the plan, and the codex entries that matter. Ask it to tighten a passage, raise the tension, or check continuity, highlight a sentence and have it edit just that selection, or have it reshape your chapter cards and scenes. Nothing reaches your manuscript without you approving a diff, and every change saves as a version you can roll back.
What do I need to get started?
A Mac (macOS 10.15+) or Windows PC, and an Anthropic API key from console.anthropic.com. Takes two minutes to set up. No account, no subscription, no cloud storage.
How much does the AI cost to run?
It depends on what you do and which model you use, because you pay your AI provider directly, not us. Drafting a chapter is the main cost, from a couple of cents on a budget model up to around 30 cents on Claude. Lighter jobs cost less each, but they add up over a long book, especially scanning chapters to build your codex. The fix is to mix models: keep Claude for the prose and point bulk jobs like codex scanning at a cheaper model, a smaller Claude, an OpenRouter budget option, or a free local one. You see every cent in your provider's dashboard.
Is it a subscription?
No. bookmoth is $99 once, with no subscription and no usage caps on the app. Every future update is free, including everything in 2.1 and whatever comes after. The only ongoing cost is the AI usage you choose, billed by your provider rather than us.
Will it write my whole book for me?
It drafts scene by scene from your brief, your voice profile, and your plan. Each scene is aware of what came before it. You steer the creative direction, edit individual scenes or whole chapters, run another pass, or start a new version. Think of it as a collaborator who sounds like you, not an autopilot.
Can I bring in an existing manuscript?
Yes. Import a .docx or .txt file with chapter markers, or paste in an existing outline and bookmoth will structure it into scenes for you. Either way, the editor picks up where you left off. Your existing work becomes the foundation.
Is my work private?
Completely. Everything is stored locally on your machine. No bookmoth account, no cloud, no analytics, no telemetry. Your prose is only ever sent to the AI provider you choose, under your own API key. bookmoth itself never sees your work, never stores it, and never trains on it. The voice profile is built and used on your machine.
Do you train AI on my writing?
No. Never. bookmoth doesn't have a model of its own. Your prose goes to the AI provider you choose (Anthropic, OpenRouter, or a local LLM via Ollama or LM Studio), via your own API key. Anthropic doesn't train on API traffic by default. Local models train on nothing. Your work stays yours.
How is this different from Sudowrite?
Sudowrite treats AI as a co-writer with style options like "formal" or "casual." bookmoth reverse-engineers your actual voice from your own prose and enforces it structurally on every sentence. It's also a one-time $99 purchase, not a monthly subscription.
How does it compare to NovelCrafter?
NovelCrafter is strong on planning and structure. bookmoth goes deeper on the AI drafting side. The voice profile system, where the app analyses your prose and constrains every chapter to match your patterns, is something NovelCrafter does not do.
Can I use it for non-fiction?
Absolutely. Memoirs, narrative non-fiction, guidebooks, any long-form prose project. The voice system works the same way regardless of genre.
Can I write mature or explicit content?
Yes. bookmoth itself doesn't filter anything. How explicit the output actually is depends on the model you send it to. Claude (the default) will soften explicit scenes, that's Anthropic's product rather than ours. Uncensored models on OpenRouter, or local models via Ollama and LM Studio, will render whatever your brief calls for. Advanced Routing lets you mix: Claude for editorial feedback and light tasks, an uncensored model for the scenes that need it.
Does it work in languages other than English?
It does. The prose mechanics bookmoth analyses (sentence rhythm, repetition, specificity, interiority) work across languages. We've tested with Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese. The voice portrait and the app itself respond in the language you write in. If you try it in a language we haven't tested yet, we'd love to hear how it goes.
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