Features

Every step of the journey in one app.

Vellerune is shaped around the writing process. Build your world, plot your story, craft your prose, track your progress, and export to any publishing format you need.

ACT 01

Build your world.

Every project lives inside a world — a home for the characters, places, magic, and lore that any of your books can draw on.

Characters that shape to your story.

The default character template ships with Portrait, Aliases, Role, Appearance, Personality, Backstory, and Motivations. Then you reshape it. Add a Birthsign field, a Relationship-to-the-throne dropdown, a list of tagged scars — any of seven field types, in any order. Save the result as your template for every new character.

Text input
Text area
Rich text
Dropdowns
Tags
Toggles
Images

Locations as deep as your map goes.

Continents contain kingdoms, kingdoms contain cities, cities contain districts. Drag-and-drop, expand-and-collapse, climates and landmarks and atmospheres. Customize the template to fit your needs.

Flexible magic systems.

Document the rules, limits, and origins of every magic system in your world. The default template gives you Summary, Rules, Limitations, Abilities, Source, and Origin — reshape any of them, add new fields, or save your own layout for every new system. Quick Lookup surfaces it all while you write.

A glossary for your world's terms.

Define every invented word, proper noun, or piece of regional dialect with a consistent dictionary-style entry — word, definition, etymology, usage, language, part of speech, pronunciation. Quick Lookup pulls definitions into your prose as you write, and self-publish exports can include the full glossary as back matter.

A name for everything.

Generate names for characters, cities, fjords, mythical creatures, weapons, even constellations — invented fantasy names across five harshness levels (soft and elven down to guttural and demonic), or grounded real-world names across nearly 60 styles spanning cultures, mythology, and natural-world categories. Tune length, pair a surname, and star any you want to save for later.

ACT 02

Plot your story.

Plot a single book or a whole series. Storylines hold the long arcs that span multiple books, plots break those arcs into individual narrative units, and events are the beats inside each plot. Every level lives at the world, so the arc you started in book one is still right there when you sit down for book three.

List the beats.

Outline each plot as an ordered list of events you can drag to reorder. Pick a name, an archetype, the books it appears in, and a summary — twelve archetypes are built in (Hero's Journey, Heist, Quest, Tragedy, Rebirth, and more), plus room for your own if none of them fits.

Map your story's threads.

Pull events from any plot in the storyline onto a 2D canvas, drag them where they fit, and draw connections between them to show how threads relate. Pan, zoom, snap-to-grid, mini-map, filters by plot or by book, and PNG export of a single screen or the entire canvas.

The same events as the list view — a different way to see them.

ACT 03

Write your book.

A rich-text editor with everything you need for long-form prose. Spell check, font and line-height controls, full text formatting, and word count are all here — alongside writer-specific tools like Quick Lookup, sentence swap, automatic snapshots, and a distraction-free focus mode.

Quick lookup.

Hit L on any word in your prose. The side panel surfaces matching characters, locations, magic systems, glossary terms, plus a built-in dictionary and thesaurus. Aliases match, so nicknames find the right person.

Focus mode.

Click the focus button in the editor toolbar to put the prose front and center. The chapter and scene tree and navigation step aside — while the formatting toolbar, footer, and tools panel stay right where they are, so you keep your toolkit while you write.

Built for writers, not just text.

A handful of small features that make all the difference.

Drafts (book-level)

Snapshots are scene-level. Drafts are whole-book alternates. Try a structural revision on a copy without disturbing the original. Keep your beta-reader version preserved while the polish continues.

Sentence swap

Move whole sentences up or down with a hotkey. Revising flow becomes a tactile and fast — no select, no cut, no paste.

Snapshot diffs (with formatting)

Every scene quietly maintains a rolling revision history. Compare any past snapshot to the current scene with a rich-text diff.

Notes

A wiki for all your thoughts and ideas that don't fit a fixed schema — research, brainstorming, lore that spans entities. Each note gets a full rich text editor.

ACT 04

Track your progress.

Track your writing days on the dashboard — daily writing time, words written, and net words, with optional daily targets and per-scene word goals.

Words vs. net words.

On a heavy revision day you might type several thousand words but the manuscript only grows by two hundred. Both are useful to see. Vellerune tracks them separately so you know whether the day was “I wrote a lot” or “the book got longer.”

Per-scene targets.

Set a word goal on a scene from the footer, next to the word count. The percentage updates live as you write, and clicking opens a progress bar with X of Y words. Useful for pacing a scene, or for breaking a chapter target into smaller pieces.

Continue where you left off.

One click from the dashboard returns you to the last scene you edited, with the cursor exactly where you stopped writing.

ACT 05

Publish your work.

Vellerune turns your manuscript into a finished, properly formatted file — submission-ready or shelf-ready, without a needing another tool. Each layout choice renders into a live preview of formatted export, so nothing about the final file is a surprise.

Manuscript format

The industry-standard manuscript format agents and editors expect: a standard cover page, 12pt double-spaced body, indented paragraphs, scene-break markers, and a header with title and author. DOCX or PDF.

Self-publish format

Polished, print-ready books with control over every part — custom cover and front matter, typography (fonts, line heights, drop caps, scene-break ornaments), print layout (page size, automatic gutters, right-hand chapter starts), automatic table of contents, and your glossary as back matter. PDF, DOCX, or EPUB.