Literature Beyond Words
Read every form of literature.Write in any of them.
A novel told in chapters, a poem, a running blog, a private journal — Scrivenn keeps them as the different things they are, and gives you one reader built for long-form text and one composer that adapts to whichever you are writing.
Covers from the Scrivenn library
One library, four shapes
Most reading apps are built around one kind of writing.
A novel in chapters, a poem, a running blog and a private journal are not the same object, and Scrivenn does not flatten them into one. Each keeps its own structure, its own visibility and its own reading behaviour — while sharing one reader, one composer and one set of reviews, likes and subscriptions.
Books
Publish a chapter at a time and let readers follow along. Each chapter carries its own publish state, so a draft can sit behind a published one.
Poems
A poem is not a short book. It is stored and read as its own form, with the same reviews, likes and subscriptions any other work gets.
Blogs
Write in the open and build an audience over time. Readers can follow you and subscribe to the work itself.
Journals
Journals use the same visibility control every other work has, and private means private — it is filtered out of every discovery surface, not just hidden from a profile.
Also modelled: Essays · Articles · Short stories · Quotes
For readers
A reader built for long-form,not for feeds.
Text is measured and packed into real pages, and the words stay live inside them — which is what makes a definition, a highlight or a note a single tap rather than a different screen.
A reader that paginates, not scrolls
Text is measured and packed into real pages with real page turns, the way a book behaves — not a scroll view with a progress bar bolted on.
Set the page the way you read
Type size from 14 to 30pt and line spacing from 1.25 to 2.2, remembered between sessions. It opens at 19pt and 1.6.
Tap a word for its definition
Words stay live inside the page rather than being flattened into images, so a definition is one tap away without leaving the paragraph.
Listen to it instead
Any work can be read aloud, segmented sentence by sentence, with a voice picker and transport controls.
Highlight and annotate
Mark a paragraph and write against it. Annotations belong to you and travel with the work.
It remembers where you stopped
Reading position is stored per work and per chapter, so picking a book back up does not mean finding your place again.
For writers
Publish a chapter at a time.
Serialised work is the format readers stay with, and Scrivenn is built for it: each chapter has its own publish state, so a finished one can go out while the next is still a draft — and the people following the work hear about it.
Chapters with their own publish state
Add, edit, reorder and delete chapters, and publish them independently — so a finished chapter can go out while the next one is still a draft.
Characters that live with the book
Keep your cast beside the manuscript instead of in another app: a name and a description per character, attached to the work itself.
Covers, cropped in the app
Upload and crop a cover without leaving Scrivenn. The original is retained so it can be replaced or removed cleanly later.
Write with someone else
A work carries a set of authors rather than a single owner, so a co-writer has real access to it.
A streak that counts writing days
Day-based, timezone-aware and counted per activity, with a leaderboard if you want one.
See who is actually reading
An owner-only dashboard with audience breakdowns and profile-view tracking. Nobody else can see your numbers.
What the author declares, the reader sees.
- Declared by the author on the work.
- A work can be marked as AI-generated by the person publishing it. Scrivenn does not guess — it asks.
Discovery
Finding the next one.
Scrivenn surfaces writers as well as works — including the ones who have just started, and the ones with a book open right now. A new writer with three chapters is worth finding before the book is finished, not after.
Top writers
Ranked on published work, reads and followers rather than recency alone.
New writers
People who have just published for the first time, surfaced before they are buried.
Currently writing
Writers with a work in progress right now — the ones worth following before the last chapter.
Trending
Over a day, a week or a month. Computed as a snapshot by a job rather than recalculated per request, so it stays honest and fast.
Because you read
Recommendations drawn from what you have actually finished, alongside the genres you chose.
Search across everything
Works, writers and tags, with typeahead suggestions as you type.
Community
Reading is not a solitary act here.
Clubs with real roles and real membership, competitions with a judged result, and a way to follow a writer that actually changes what you see next.
Book clubs
Public or private, with join requests you can approve, admin and moderator roles, and invite links that can be limited or revoked.
Meetups
Clubs meet online, in person, or both — scheduled on the club, with a summary written up afterwards.
Competitions
Reading competitions, writing competitions, or both, with entry windows and a judged result.
Thoughts
Short posts with an optional image, delivered live. The place for the half-formed idea that is not a blog post yet.
Follow writers
Following someone gives you a feed of their work rather than a number on a profile.
Subscribe to a work
Choose what you hear about on a work you are following: new chapters, announcements, milestones or revisions.
Take it with you.
Scrivenn is on iPhone and Android. Your place in a book, your drafts and your library belong to your account rather than to one device — so you can put a chapter down on one and pick it up on the other.