Relationship maps
Connect characters, places, and factions on a visual canvas and see your story's web at a glance.
Features
Everything your story needs.
Worldbuilding, writing, voice, and publishing — the whole craft of fiction in one studio. As deep as an epic, as simple as a short story.
Worldbuilding
A home for every character, place, and idea.
Build your universe out of Resources — characters, locations, organizations, and devices — each with its own entry of images, aliases, tags, and notes. Track how a character changes across your story with phases, and keep your canon straight in a universe-wide sourcebook.
Want more than one world? Spin up as many universes as you like and switch between them in a click. Want just one tidy space for a single short story? That works too. Verse Draft never forces structure you don't need.
Plan boards
Storyboard scenes, beats, and arcs on a board of cards before you commit a word to the page.
Sourcebook & notes
A universe-wide notebook plus per-project notes keep your lore, research, and loose ideas in reach.
Universes
One world — or a whole multiverse.
Every universe holds its own cast, places, lore, and projects. Keep a separate universe for each world you're building — or gather everything into one — and switch between them in a single click.
- As many universes as you want — or just one
- Switch between worlds in a click
- Each keeps its own cast, lore & projects
Plan boards
Visualize your story structure before — or as — you create it.
Lay scenes, beats, and arcs out as cards on a visual plan board and drag them into shape — the whiteboard wall of index cards, without the wall. Find the structure of your story before you commit a word to the page or explore possible changes along the way.
- Cards for scenes, beats & arcs
- Drag to reorder, group & rethink
- As loose or as detailed as you like — there are no hard links to your prose
From series to episode. A TV show can keep one plan board for the whole season's arc, and give every episode a board of its own — so you can zoom from the big picture down to a single beat.
Plot builder
Follow every plot line across your whole story.
Where the plan board asks "what happens in this chapter?", the plot builder asks "where does this plot go?". Lay out the main plot, each subplot, and every character arc as its own color-coded line, then place story beats where each one advances along a timeline of chapters or acts. Every line draws a continuous thread from its first beat to its last — so a subplot that's gone quiet for three chapters is visible at a glance as a bare stretch of thread.
- Color-coded plot lines for the main plot, subplots & character arcs
- Story beats on a chapter-by-chapter timeline, connected by visible threads
- Link the characters, places & factions each plot line and beat involves
- Focus one plot line to read its thread across the whole story
Made to pair with the plan board. A TV show can track its season-long threads on a series plot builder and give every episode its own — the same two levels the plan board offers.
Naming & languages
Name your world and give it a tongue.
Two worldbuilding aids for the hardest, most delightful parts of invention: what everything is called, and how its peoples speak. Both are optional AI tools — switch the AI off and your saved names, languages, and dictionaries stay yours to browse.
Name generator
The right name, on demand.
Describe the kind of name you're after — a character, a city, a faction, an artifact, a whole world — with the tone, cultural flavor, structure, and sounds you want, and get a batch of original candidates, each with a one-line note on why it fits. Turn any favorite into a Character, Location, Organization, or Device in a single step.
- Names for characters, places, factions, devices & whole worlds
- Tune tone, cultural flavor, structure & length
- Ban letters, pin the opening sounds, and never repeat a name
- Every batch saved to a searchable, per-universe history
Languages
Invent a language your story can actually speak.
Describe how a tongue should sound and Verse Draft constructs its sound system, grammar, and a starter dictionary of a hundred-plus words — then translates English into it, and back, whenever your story needs an inscription, an oath, or a whispered curse. New words are coined to fit the rules and remembered forever, so what you write today still reads the same next year.
- A full language built from a few plain-language hints
- Translate to and from it, with a word-by-word gloss
- Coined words are saved — the tongue stays consistent
- Your characters' and places' names always pass through untouched
Writing
A manuscript editor built for efficient draft construction.
Write on a continuous page per chapter or act, with paragraph styles and a ruler for margins and indents — for Novels / Stories and Notes. Anchor comments to a passage, link references to the characters and places mentioned, and rely on spelling and grammar checking as you go.
- Chapters, acts, scenes, and novel paragraph styles
- Comments & resource references inline
- Spelling, grammar & whole chapter or act find/replace
- Virtual sticky notes wherever you want to jot something down
Goals & stats
See your momentum. Keep your streak.
Verse Draft quietly counts your words as you write — every day, every project, no setup — so your progress is always there when you want to see it: today and this session in the status bar, and a day-by-day chart on the Goals & Stats dashboard.
When a finish line matters, make it a goal: a word target for a manuscript, with a deadline that tells you the daily pace to hit it — or a daily writing habit that builds a streak, one met day at a time. Cross the line and Verse Draft celebrates with you.
- Automatic daily word counts — nothing to set up, nothing to remember
- Manuscript targets with deadlines & a words-per-day pace
- Daily writing goals with streaks that make showing up addictive
- Today & session counts right in the status bar as you write
- Not a numbers person? Switch the whole thing off in Settings
Every format, done right
One studio. Four kinds of story.
Verse Draft applies the right structure and formatting for what you're writing — automatically, as you type.
Novels & shorts
Chapters and scenes on a clean manuscript page — from flash fiction to a multi-book saga.
Movies
Scene headings, action, character, and dialogue laid out to screenplay standard as you write.
TV series
Seasons, episodes, and acts — structure a whole show the way a writers' room does.
Stage plays
Proper playscript layout for the page and the stage, ready for the table read.
The assistant
A second reader. Never a ghostwriter.
Someone to think out loud with — without ever handing your story to a machine.
Ask & assist
Ask for a second read.
Highlight a section of text and ask the assistant for feedback, or just converse with the context of your characters, locations, organizations, and devices — as well as your story synopsis. It can also tell you how any part of the application works, in plain language.
It will read text back to you, too, using the voices built into your own browser. Hearing a paragraph aloud is one of the quickest ways to catch a line that reads badly on the page.
- Discuss possibilities with your assistant — without it taking over the writing for you
- Ask how the application works and get the actual steps
- Have replies, or your own prose, read aloud
An assistant, never an author.
The AI assistant gives feedback and answers your questions. It will never write your prose, your dialogue, or your story. And it's entirely optional — turn it off and every writing tool except the AI-powered ones (the assistant, image generation, name generation, and constructed languages) still works.
Import
Bring your manuscript with you.
Already have a draft somewhere else? Import it straight into a project — from Word, OpenDocument, Rich Text, plain text, Markdown, HTML, EPUB, and PDF, plus the screenwriting formats Final Draft, Fountain, and Fade In. Verse Draft parses the file in the background and adds it to your project, always as new sections, so nothing you've already written is ever changed.
- Eleven formats — word-processor, e-book, and screenplay alike
- Chapters and acts detected for you, however the file is structured
- Import across worlds — a screenplay arrives as readable prose, and back
- Always additive — your existing work is never overwritten
Imagery
Picture your world without leaving your draft.
Generate artwork for your characters and locations, or bring in your own, and keep it all organized in a media library tied to your account. Seeing a face or a skyline has a way of unlocking the next scene.
Publishing
From first draft to finished file.
When your manuscript is ready, export it to a polished, share-ready file — PDF, EPUB (E-Book), DOCX (Microsoft Word), ODT (OpenDocument Text), HTML (Single page), or plain text — with formatting that respects whatever you've written, whether that's a paperback-ready novel or an industry-standard script.
Share for review
Send your draft to a trusted reader — no account needed.
When a draft is ready for another set of eyes, send an editor, beta reader, or writing partner a private review link. They open it and read your pages in a clean, read-only view — no sign-up, no account — and can never change a word of your writing.
They comment on any passage, drop a sticky note against a chapter, and leave one big-picture note on the whole piece. When they're done, their feedback comes back to you as its own tidy, frozen copy — sitting right on the pages — that you work through and mark resolved at your own pace.
- Private links for a whole project or a single TV episode
- Read-only for your reviewer — your writing is never at risk
- Inline comments, chapter sticky notes & overall feedback
- Set how long a link lasts, or lock it with a passcode
- Returned reviews live under the project, resolved one note at a time
A closer look
See it in action.
Click any screen to take a closer look.
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