Does Edda work offline?

Yes, completely. Edda runs fully offline. Your manuscript, characters and notes live on your own device and never touch a server or cloud account unless you choose to back them up.

Which platforms does Edda support?

Windows 10 and 11, macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 or later), Linux, and Android phones and tablets. The iPhone and iPad app is built and in beta testing, and is coming to the App Store. The Complete Bundle includes a key for every platform, including iPhone and iPad.

Can I publish a book directly from Edda?

Yes. Edda compiles professional EPUB, PDF and DOCX files with six trim sizes, 22 themes, front and back matter, an ISBN checker and print checks that follow KDP or IngramSpark rules.

Edda: Novel Writing Software You Buy Once, From $39

Everything, in one workspace

An entire writing studio,
in one quiet desk.

Most authors stitch together a word processor, a wiki, a spreadsheet and three subscriptions. Edda replaces all of it, and none of it phones home.

Manuscript

A focused rich-text editor with parts, chapters and scenes, drag-and-drop reordering, auto-save, crash recovery and a typewriter focus mode. Twelve writing modes, from novel and screenplay to comics and poetry.

Explore writing

Worldbuilding

Characters, a relationship web, locations, maps, custom calendars, family trees and a searchable encyclopedia, with a continuity engine that flags contradictions.

Explore worlds

Structure & Plot

Ten story-structure templates or your own, beats you place on scenes, and a visual timeline that shows tension across every plot thread.

Explore plotting

The Skald

A deterministic assistant: prompts, spell check, style flags and readability. Fully offline, no AI model, no network.

Meet the Skald

Beta Readers

Share drafts through an online reading portal or as fingerprinted files, track NDAs, and collect comments and questionnaire answers without losing control of your manuscript.

Explore beta tools

Publishing

Compile real EPUB, PDF and DOCX with 22 themes, six trim sizes, front matter, ISBN checks and print checks for KDP and IngramSpark.

Explore publishing

Analytics & Goals

Daily word-count goals, streak heatmaps, sprints from 5 to 180 minutes with records, and a challenge mode to keep the pages turning.

Explore analytics

Research & Trope Bible

Research folders with attachments, web clips and mood boards, full-text search, tags everywhere and a trope bible of more than 1,000 tropes with offline keyword tooling.

Explore research

Offline & Private

No accounts. No subscription. Your words never leave your device unless you decide they should, and optional sync can be end-to-end encrypted with your own passphrase.

Why offline

The manuscript

An editor that gets out of the way.

Write in a clean, fast canvas built for long-form fiction, then organise it without ever leaving the page.

Parts, chapters and scenes in a drag-and-drop tree, each with its own synopsis and status, and parts that fold away
Typewriter focus mode that fades the interface until only your words remain
Twelve writing modes, automatic saving a few seconds after you stop typing, crash recovery, and voice dictation (offline on desktop)
Export a scene, a chapter or the whole book to PDF, DOCX, Markdown, HTML or plain text

Edda project overview with character and location sidebar, scene tree and writing goals — Your whole book at a glance: scenes, cast, goals.

Worldbuilding

Worlds worth getting lost in.

Keep your entire universe consistent, and one click from the sentence you're writing.

Rich character profiles with arc stages, flaws, motivations and a visual relationship web
Locations, maps, lore articles and a searchable encyclopedia by category
Custom calendar systems: invent eras, months and festivals, then place every event on a timeline
Multi-generational family trees, image galleries for reference art, and a continuity engine that catches contradictions

Edda worldbuilding link library connecting characters, locations and lore entities — Everything links to everything, and stays consistent.

Focus

When the world needs to go away.

Blindwrite mode strips the screen to a single line of text and a blinking cursor. No deleting, no second-guessing. Just forward.

Typewriter-scrolled, distraction-free drafting that fills the window
Writing sprints from 5 to 180 minutes, with live word counts, saved history and personal records
Daily goals, streak heatmaps and a 30-day novel challenge mode

Edda Blindwrite distraction-free writing mode with a single centred line of text — Just you and the next sentence.

The Skald · your writing assistant

Not artificial intelligence.
Your intelligence, sharpened.

The Skald is built from craft, not models. It reads your chapter and hands back facts in under two seconds: readability, rhythm, repetition, clichés, passive voice. It runs entirely on your machine. No language model. No network. No prose generated in your name, ever.

135

Hand-curated prompts

160,000

Premise combinations

Readability scores

Style-flag categories

How the Skald works

The Skald deterministic writing assistant panel showing prompts and a chapter readability and style report — Click the feather. Get a report. Keep your voice.

Beta readers

Share your draft without losing it.

Send your manuscript to readers with confidence. Every copy is fingerprinted to its reader.

An online reading portal with your formatting, per-paragraph comments and questionnaires
Visible and invisible fingerprints in PDF, DOCX and EPUB copies, and leak tracing from a pasted excerpt
Per-reader NDAs, a status pipeline, versions and batch export for a whole group

Edda beta reader management interface with watermarked exports and reader status tracking — Every copy knows whose it is.

Publishing

From last draft to bookstore-ready.

Edda compiles the real thing: professional files you can upload to any retailer, generated locally on your machine.

True EPUB 3, print-ready PDF and DOCX with 22 themes, six trim sizes and front/back matter
Print checks that follow KDP or IngramSpark rules, with ISBN-10/13 checksum validation
A retailer link library for Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and more

Edda compile screen with EPUB, PDF and Word export formats, front and back matter, theme, layout and preview steps — Compile EPUB, PDF and DOCX locally.

Own your tools · own your words

Buy it once. Keep it forever.

Edda is a deliberate stand against rented software and harvested manuscripts. The most personal thing you'll ever make should not live on someone else's computer.

No subscription

One price, lifetime updates

Pay once, from $39. Every update is free, for good. No renewal email will ever interrupt your draft.

Fully offline

Your machine, your manuscript

Edda needs no internet to write, organise or publish. No account, no telemetry. Optional sync to a folder or your own Google Drive is yours to switch on, end-to-end encrypted if you set a passphrase, or never touch.

No AI ghostwriter

The words stay yours

Nothing you write trains a model. The Skald is rule-based and local. Your book is written by you, and only you.

Simple, honest pricing

One purchase. No catch.

Buy the platform you write on, or all of them. Every edition includes every feature and free lifetime updates. Each licence key works on the platform it was bought for, on up to three devices.

Windows + Linux

$39 once

Windows 10/11 and Linux (AppImage & .deb).

The complete desktop app
All features included
Free updates for life
3 devices

Get Windows + Linux

macOS

$39 once

macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 or later).

The complete Mac app
All features included
Free updates for life
3 devices

Get macOS

Android

$39 once

Android phone & tablet.

The full Android app
All features included
Free updates for life
3 devices

Get Android

Complete bundle

$79.99 once

Save $37 vs buying separately

Every platform: Windows, Linux, macOS and Android, plus iPhone and iPad when that app launches.

One licence key per platform
All features, everywhere
Free updates for life
Priority support · 3 devices per key

Get the bundle

Try the live demo first, right in your browser. Nothing to install.

One-time purchase · Lifetime updates · No subscription, ever · Refund policy

Questions, answered

The honest FAQ.

Is Edda a subscription?

No. Edda is a one-time purchase from $39. You own your licence and receive free updates for life. There are no monthly fees, ever.

Does Edda really work offline?

Completely. Edda runs fully offline. Writing, worldbuilding, the Skald and publishing all work with no internet. Your manuscript lives on your own device and never touches a server unless you switch on optional backup.

Is Edda a good Scrivener alternative?

Yes. Edda gives you the manuscript organisation writers love about Scrivener, plus built-in worldbuilding, story-structure templates, the offline Skald assistant and professional publishing, all in one modern workspace you buy once instead of renting.

Does Edda use AI to write my book?

Never. The Skald is deterministic and rule-based. It offers prompts, spell check, style flags and readability scores, all computed locally with no language model and no network. It does not generate prose. You are always the author.

Which platforms are supported?

Windows 10 and 11, macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 or later), Linux, and Android phones and tablets. Each platform is its own $39 licence: Windows and Linux together, macOS, or Android. The Complete Bundle ($79.99) covers all of them, with one key per platform. The iPhone and iPad app is built and in beta testing, and the bundle includes a key for it, ready for the App Store release. Keys bought before 19 October 2026 keep working on every platform.

Can I publish straight from Edda?

Yes. Edda compiles professional EPUB, PDF and DOCX files with six trim sizes, 22 themes, front and back matter, ISBN validation and print checks that follow KDP or IngramSpark rules.

Novel writing software you buy once.