Build the book only you can write.
- Write and organise manuscripts
- Preview chapters beautifully
- Design book interiors
- Enter Focus Mode
- Build characters and worlds
- Keep projects stored locally
Coming soon to macOS and Windows
Your stories deserve better than another blank document.
QuillTide is a playful, offline-first creative workspace for authors and readers who want better tools — without another permanent subscription.
Interested in beta testing? Apply through the waitlist
Chapter Three — The Harbour
still writing…
Authors & readers
Two experiences, one app
Works offline
Your work stays with you
macOS & Windows
A proper desktop app
Buy-to-own
Planned, not rented
No subscription
No permanent monthly fee
What is QuillTide?
One playful desk for the whole book-loving brain.
QuillTide brings writing, book design, reading tools, creative planning, and promotional content into one playful desktop workspace. It's being built for people who love books but are tired of clunky software, scattered tools, and endless subscriptions.
Choose your path
Whichever side of the book you're on.
Make reading feel like an adventure again.
- Build a personal reading library
- Track reading progress
- Collect stamps and rewards
- Customise reading companions
- Organise favourite books
- Make reading feel more playful
For Authors
Tools that get out of your way.
Everything a manuscript needs, laid out like a proper writing desk — not a spreadsheet.
Manuscript Studio
A focused home for drafting, organising, and reviewing your manuscript without fighting your software.
Book Designer
Preview and customise how chapters, headings, ornaments, messages, and interior elements will appear.
Focus Mode
Write with calming visuals, optional lo-fi playlists, timers, goals, and fewer distractions.
Character & World Tools
Keep characters, relationships, locations, notes, and story details organised beside your manuscript.
Offline-First Projects
Your creative work stays on your device unless you choose to move or share it.
For Readers
Reading, but make it delightful.
A cosier way to keep, track, and celebrate the books you love.
Personal Library
Organise books you own, want to read, are currently reading, or have completed.
Reading Progress
Track sessions, goals, streaks, notes, and milestones without turning reading into homework.
Companions Planned feature
Earn and customise playful companions that grow alongside your reading habits.
Collectibles & Stamps Planned feature
Create a visual record of the books you have read through stamps, rewards, and themed collections.
Reader Creativity
Make reading journals, book graphics, reviews, and personal collections in your own style.
Offline-first
Your manuscript is not content for somebody else's server.
QuillTide is designed as an offline-first desktop workspace. Your manuscripts and personal library remain on your device unless you choose to export, back them up, or share them.
Note: some optional external services — such as links, updates, or third-party integrations — may require an internet connection.
Pricing philosophy
Buy the software. Keep the software. Revolutionary, apparently.
QuillTide is planned as a buy-to-own product rather than another permanent monthly subscription. Final pricing and licence details will be announced closer to launch.
Planned model
- One-time purchase planned
- macOS and Windows
- Updates & licence details to be confirmed
No price yet — join the waitlist to hear it first.
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The journey so far
Where QuillTide is right now.
Building
Core tools
Beta testing
Real hands, real feedback
You are hereRefining
Polish & fixes
Preparing for launch
Final touches
Public release
Doors open
Join the waitlist
Come aboard before QuillTide leaves the harbour.
Join the waitlist for development updates, beta opportunities, launch news, and the occasional unhinged feature announcement.
We'll only use your details to send QuillTide updates. No spam, no selling your data — unsubscribe anytime.
The story behind it
Made by one very determined book person.
QuillTide is being made by a single developer whose love for writing — and quiet frustration with clunky, subscription-hungry tools — slowly turned into a whole app.
It's being shaped through real writing, reading, testing, breaking things, fixing them, and occasionally adding features simply because they sounded too fun not to try.
— building QuillTide, one feature at a time.
Questions & answers
The bits people usually ask.
QuillTide is a desktop creative workspace being developed for authors and readers.
QuillTide is currently in beta development and is not yet publicly available.
QuillTide is being developed for macOS and Windows.
The current plan is to offer QuillTide as buy-to-own software. Final pricing and licence terms will be announced before launch.
Many core features are being designed to work offline. Some optional services, links, updates, or external tools may require internet access.
Distribution details, including where you'll be able to buy QuillTide, will be announced closer to launch.
Beta spaces may be limited. You can register your interest through the waitlist and let us know you'd like to test.
No. QuillTide doesn't use AI — it's designed to run offline, and no AI was used in developing the software.
No. QuillTide is being built with separate tools and experiences for both authors and readers.
There's no final public release date yet. Join the waitlist and you'll be among the first to know.
Your next writing obsession is currently being debugged.
Coming soon to macOS and Windows.