Chronicle

THE TAKE

Chronicle is a writing studio for novelists that covers the whole road from first draft to finished book. Write chapters in a focused editor with a typewriter-style Zen mode, leave color-coded margin notes, and take snapshots of your manuscript that you can compare side by side and restore down to a single paragraph or word.

Plot your story on visual timelines with separate tracks for subplots and points of view, see which characters appear in which chapters on a presence heatmap, and keep character and location profiles in a world codex. Listen to your chapters read aloud by an on-device voice to catch awkward lines, with nothing sent to a server.

When the book is ready, design a cover and export a print-ready PDF with drop caps and running headers, an EPUB 3 ebook, or a standard manuscript for agents and editors. Chronicle is free and open source under AGPL-3.0, with no AI writing features. Projects are open ZIP files you can sync through your own WebDAV server. Use it in the browser or download the desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, paying what you like from $0.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Zen mode & margin notes
• Story timelines & cast heatmap
• World codex
• Snapshots with side-by-side diffs
• Print PDF, EPUB 3 & manuscript export
• Open source (AGPL-3.0)