GNUware makes small apps that sit beside the way you already write, for Macs with Apple silicon or Intel, Windows and Linux. They work on your own files, keep everything on your computer, and are paid for once.
One app ready today, one coming soon, and more to follow.
Word counts and progress for your manuscript
Use code IZMZAZNG at checkout. $4.99 now, $9.99 from December. Every update included.
Point it at your folder of chapters (Markdown, Word, Scrivener and more) and see your total, every chapter against your target, daily challenges, sprints, and where each chapter stands from outline to proofread.
A character tracker for novelists
Keep a card for every character in your novel, joined by their relationships: family, marriages, allies, rivals and secret ties. LoomArras draws the family tree for you, lays every life along a timeline, and turns the whole cast into a character bible you can export.
Private like everything here: no account, no cloud, and your cast never leaves your computer.
Publishing software for finished manuscripts
MintQuoin will take a finished manuscript and prepare it for publication: a print-ready PDF and an EPUB for e-readers, laid out from the same chapter files you wrote in.
A quoin is the wedge printers used to lock type tight in the press before printing.
Further tools for writers are planned. They'll appear here first.
Step-by-step help for getting the most out of GNUware software: setting up a manuscript folder, running a writing challenge, and, when MintQuoin arrives, taking a book from draft to PDF and EPUB.
The first guides live on the WordCairn site. More will be collected here.
Download, install, open your manuscript folder, and find your way around.
Read the guide →Written walkthroughs and short screen videos are being prepared.
Books and video courses on writing, revising and self-publishing will be sold here, straight from the author.
Writing and publishing guides, available as ebooks and in print.
Short, practical videos: organising a manuscript, revision passes, preparing a book for print.
Questions, ideas or a bug to report? Email is the best way to reach GNUware. Each app also has a Feedback link inside it.
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