Build your universe
Characters, locations, organizations, and devices with relationships, phases, and a sourcebook to hold your lore. Create many different universes or keep it to just one.
For novelists · screenwriters · playwrights
Where worlds become stories.
Build your story universe once. Write every novel, screenplay, television series, and stage play that belongs inside it — with a voice-driven assistant that helps you think, and never writes a word for you.
Writing one novel or short story? Start with only what you need — the deeper universe tools stay out of the way until you want them.
Free U.S. open beta · Desktop or laptop only for now · No invitation code or credit card · Usable with or without AI assistance.
Registration closes when the beta reaches capacity; and when the beta ends, your account and everything you’ve written will stay available on the account after the full release.
A whole new universe of fiction writing at your command.
The Verse Draft workspace — your universe, your manuscript, and your tools in one view.
See it in motion
Take the guided tour.
An in-depth walkthrough of the studio — building a universe, writing the manuscript, and the assistant that helps you think and never writes for you.
One studio, end to end
Everything your story needs, in one place.
From the first spark to the published work — worldbuilding, writing, and revision under one roof.
Write in multiple formats
Novels / short stories, Movies, season-by-season TV series, and stage plays — each with proper, industry-aware formatting built in.
An assistant, not an author
Ask for feedback, transcribe by voice, or dictate your words to the assistant. It helps you explore ideas and think things through — never writing for you, and always optional.
Worldbuilding
Worlds as deep — or as simple — as you like.
Give every character, location, organization, and device its own entry — with images, aliases, notes, and the phases they move through across your story. Then map how it all connects on a visual relationship canvas.
Run an epic spanning a dozen distinct universes, or write a single short story in one tidy space. Verse Draft scales to your ambition and never gets in your way.
- Characters, locations, organizations & devices
- Visual relationship maps
- A name generator for characters, places, factions & worlds
- Invent constructed languages — with translation and a living dictionary
- A universe-wide sourcebook for your lore and systems
- Notes everywhere to keep track of your thoughts and ideas
- As many varied universes as you want for your stories to live in — or just a single one
The manuscript
A writing surface that respects the craft.
Write on a continuous page that spans an entire chapter or act so you are not distracted by managing individual pages while writing — with custom margins, fonts, and paragraph styles for novels / stories and notes. Leave comments, link passages to the characters, places, organizations and devices they mention — check spelling and grammar, and place virtual sticky notes attached to a page or the screen for quick reminders.
- A page-accurate manuscript editor
- Import an existing draft in any of eleven formats
- Comments & resource references in your text
- Spelling, grammar & whole-manuscript find/replace
- Plan Boards — to storyboard before or while you write your story
- Plot Builder — to track every plot line and character arc across your chapters
- Writing goals & stats — daily words, streaks, and targets with deadline pace
An assistant, never an author.
Verse Draft's AI assistant can provide you feedback and answer your questions. The assistant will never write your prose, your dialogue, or your story — your words are always your own.
Prefer to work entirely on your own? Turn the AI assistance off completely and every writing tool except voice interaction, image generation, name generation, and constructed languages stands on its own.
Dictate
Speak your story and let your assistant format it for you.
Talk to Verse Draft the way you'd talk to a typist taking dictation. It transcribes your spoken words — dropping the "ums" and asides — and applies the proper manuscript or screenplay formatting for the project you're in.
It transcribes and formats your words; it never invents content. No new sentences, no embellished detail — the story stays entirely yours, you just don't have to type out every word of it.
- Dictate straight into your manuscript
- Auto-formats for novels and scripts
- Your words transcribed — never invented
- Hands-free drafting for less wrist strain
Capture & assist
With AI assistance — capture ideas by voice, then ask for a second read.
Record a burst of inspiration and let Transcribe turn it into clean, searchable notes — no typing required unless you want it. When you want perspective, ask the assistant for feedback on a passage — out loud or in writing — and have its reply read back to you.
- Voice capture for notes & research
- Ask the assistant for unbiased feedback
- Talk it through by speaking into your microphone and have replies read aloud
- Always optional, always on your terms
Every kind of story
From a short story to a whole season.
Verse Draft knows the difference between a manuscript and a script — and gives each its proper shape.
Novels & short stories
Chapters, scenes, and a clean manuscript page. Write a quick short or a sprawling multi-book saga.
Movies
Industry-standard screenplay formatting — scene headings, action, character, dialogue — handled as you write.
TV series
Build a show season by season and episode by episode, with the structure a writers' room expects.
Stage plays
Proper playscript layout for the page and the stage — ready for the table read and the spotlight.
Your writing remains yours.
- You own everything you write — Verse Draft claims no rights to your work.
- Your manuscripts are never sold and never used to train AI models.
- No ads, no cross-site tracking. Export your work whenever you choose.
These commitments are written into our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Ready to build your universe?
Free U.S. open beta — no invitation code or credit card required. Claim your spot and start writing the worlds in your head. Registration closes when the beta reaches capacity.
You won’t be automatically enrolled in or charged for a paid plan; any future pricing will be announced before the beta ends. When the beta ends, your account and everything you’ve written will stay available on the account after the full release.
Your story begins here: