From first word to print-ready interior in one app
ManuscriptForge is the professional writing suite for authors of fiction and non-fiction. Write, format, typeset, and export — with a built-in imposition engine no other writing tool offers.
Fully offline · One-time purchase · No subscription
Built for the whole journey,
not just the first draft
From outlining through typesetting, export, and physical binding — ManuscriptForge is the only writing tool that covers it all in a single offline app.
Professional rich-text editor
Full heading hierarchy, tables, footnotes, endnotes, poetry, text message bubbles, and every fiction special block. Built on TipTap — the editor behind Notion and Linear.
Corkboard, Outliner & Series Bible
Visual synopsis cards, a spreadsheet-style outliner, and a structured Series Bible for characters, locations, and timelines. Plan the whole story before writing.
25+ professional themes
Classic, Elegant, Textbook, Romance, Fantasy, Large Print, Miniature — all fully customisable. Save themes across your whole series.
Writing goals & streaks
Daily word targets, contribution heatmaps, sprint timers, and per-chapter goals. Streak tracking to keep momentum over months.
Full non-fiction toolkit
Numbered headings, auto-numbered figures, cross-references, citation manager (APA, Chicago, MLA, Harvard, SBL), index builder, and glossary panel.
Collaboration & review
Export reviewer packages for your editor. They use the free Reviewer companion app. Accept or reject tracked changes individually.
Export everywhere
EPUB 3.0, print PDF, DOCX (formatted and submission), HTML, and plain text. Retailer profiles for KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, and more.
Version history & backup
Named snapshots, automatic daily backups, diff comparison, and branch restore. Auto-backup to any local folder — no cloud, no subscription.
A professional imposition engine. In a writing app.
No other writing tool can take your manuscript from first draft to physically imposed, press-ready pages. ManuscriptForge can — because it has the complete imposition engine built in.
Signature imposition — traditional sewn-binding layouts with configurable signature sizes and sheet counts.
Perfect bind, booklet, pamphlet — plus Coptic stitch and long stitch for hand-binders.
Miniature book layouts — 2-up, stab binding, and Sextodecimo fold for sub-76mm books.
Creep compensation — automatic page shift for thick signatures. Registration and signature marks included.
Configure signature size, sheet count, grain direction, and folding order. Exports press-ready imposed PDF with crop marks.
Industry-standard perfect-bind imposition with spine width calculator.
A6, A7, A8, Lilliput, 3×3 Square — with proportional margin scaling.
AI that assists. Not one that writes for you.
Every AI suggestion appears as a tracked change you must explicitly accept or reject. The AI never silently modifies your manuscript.
Runs entirely on your machine
Powered by Ollama. No data leaves your computer. Works without an internet connection.
Your API key, your data
Run a LLM with Ollama, or Connect your own OpenAI or Anthropic key. ManuscriptForge’s servers are never in the data path.
Every format every platform wants
Export profiles for KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and custom. One manuscript, every destination.
Ebook
Fully accessible EPUB 3 with hyperlinked cross-references and index.
Print & screen
300 DPI print-ready PDF. Plus imposed PDF from the imposition engine.
Word document
Formatted DOCX for publishers, or clean submission DOCX for agents.
Web
Clean semantic HTML with your book styling intact.
Plain text
UTF-8 plain text with configurable scene and chapter break markers.
Citations
Export your citation library for LaTeX and reference managers.
Truly offline.
Fully yours.
No subscription
One-time purchase, lifetime updates. The app you buy today works in ten years.
No cloud dependency
Your manuscripts stay on your machine. No sync, no login, no outages.
Single portable file
Every project is one .mfx file — a ZIP containing your whole book.
40+ languages
Fully offline spell-check in over 40 languages via nspell.
The Forge Suite
Eight apps. One complete book creation and publishing ecosystem. All offline, all one-time purchase.
The writing app that takes you all the way to print
Fiction, non-fiction, miniature books, physical binding — one app, one purchase, fully offline.
Windows 11 only at this stage · One-time purchase · No subscription
Also in The Forge Suite bundle →