Every book you're writing, on one shelf.
The offline writing suite for novelists. Draft, plan and revise on your phone, tablet or PC, with your characters and places a tap away, then typeset the finished book for print and ebook.
Early Access · Free to start · The Archmage License CA$29.99 once, a price that never goes up
Every book you're writing, on one shelf.
Peace of mind
Write offline
On a train, in a cabin, on a plane. Iron Bind needs no connection and no account to open your book.
Saved twice
Every change is written to two separate stores on your device, so one going wrong never takes your book with it.
Safe in a crash
If the app or the device stops mid-sentence, the next launch brings back what you typed. At most the last second or two is lost.
Yours alone
Your manuscript stays on your device. Backups and sync go to your own Google Drive or OneDrive, only if you turn them on.
The writing room
Phone, tablet, PC
Link your own Google Drive or OneDrive and a project stays in step between your devices. Sync is free, chosen per project (each project picks its cloud), and if you change the same scene in two places, the other copy is kept as a version, never thrown away.
Writing a book with someone? Switch on Co-writing: you both link one account, or pass the book back and forth as a file with no cloud in common; the book's authors live in the project, each of you keeps your own words today and settings, and the app says who changed what.
No cloud? Every project still backs up to a file you keep, and the Windows app can copy your work to a folder of your choice each day.
Bring your book with you
Open a Scrivener 2 or 3 project and Iron Bind shows you what it found before anything is added: parts, chapters and scenes, synopses, notes, comments, snapshots, labels, keywords and your research.
Word (DOCX) and OpenDocument files come in with their chapters too.
From draft to shelf
Typeset your book as a print-ready PDF and an EPUB, with drop caps, a contents page and a copyright page, in ten built-in looks or your own, at the trim sizes Amazon KDP prints.
Submitting? Export a standard manuscript as PDF, Word or OpenDocument, with your contact details and word count, or send one chapter to a beta reader straight from the binder.
On AI
Iron Bind never writes your story. There is no button that drafts a scene, finishes a sentence or rewrites your prose, and there never will be. Your Codex links the names you've written as you type, with no AI at all.
Lore Scan is optional, and off until you add your own Google Gemini key. When you run it, it reads your manuscript to list the names you haven't filed yet and notes only the facts you wrote, with the scene each came from.
Lore Scan sends text to Google only when you run it: the scenes it reads go to Gemini under your key's terms. On Google's free tier, Google may use what you send to improve its products; Google says data sent with a paid key is not used that way. Everything else in Iron Bind works without it. Privacy Policy →
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Not only for novelists
Early Access is open
Early Access means the app is complete enough for real work and still being tested and improved. What you pay now is the price for good. Questions answered →
