For novels, short fiction, blogs, screenplays and plays
A room for every frame of mind.
Plan it, research it, write it, revise it, and publish it, all in one place. From a first note to an upload-ready manuscript or ebook.
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Five rooms, in the order you work.
Each stage of a book needs a different frame of mind. Five Rooms gives each one its own space, and the same project moves through them all.
Plan
Cards, an outliner, beat sheets, characters and the shape of the story.
Research
Clippings, sources, pictures and notes, beside the manuscript.
Write
A page that gets out of the way, with targets, sprints and a composition mode.
Revise
Checkpoints, comments, revision marks and checks for a draft's slips.
Publish
Manuscript, ebook, print interior, audiobook or submission pack.
Plan
Lay the book out on cards, in an outline, or against a beat sheet, and see where every scene falls. Characters, places and the story's timeline live here too, so the plan and the people stay together.
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Research
Clip a web page, import your citations, keep a study page for each character, and write notes next to the chapters they feed. Everything is one project, not five apps and a folder of files.
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Write
Write chapter by chapter or the whole book as one scroll, on a warm page in a face made for reading. Word targets, sprints and a composition mode for when it's just you and the page.
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Revise
Take a checkpoint before a big change and compare any two. Mark a revision pass so new words show in their own colour. Run the checks every draft needs: repeated words, dialogue tags, quotation marks, the slips you stop seeing.
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Publish
A standard manuscript, an ebook, a print interior with running heads and page numbers, an audiobook, or a submission pack with the synopsis and query letter: previewed before it's built, checked after, ready to upload.
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Your work, everywhere.
The same project on your Mac, iPad and iPhone through your own iCloud, encrypted on the way. Daily backups you can open. Nothing to sign up for.
Bring your book with you
Import a Scrivener project with its history, a Word manuscript, a Fountain or Final Draft script, or a Substack publication.
Keep your own copies
Every project is a package you can export, back up and open again. A plain-text mirror keeps the words in files you can read anywhere.
Readers and co-writers
Send beta readers a reading copy and get their notes back in the margin. Share a project with a co-writer or an editor, end to end encrypted.
An assistant, on your terms
Connect an AI assistant to a project through MCP and let it read, comment and suggest. It never edits your text, and it's off until you turn it on.
Write the thing.
Five Rooms is coming to the Mac App Store and the App Store. Until then, read about the rooms, or ask for an invitation to the web version.