A desktop application for Mac
Where stories
take shape.
Loomwork is a writing desk built for novelists, screenwriters, and memoirists. Distraction-free when you need to focus. Deeply intelligent when you need a second pair of eyes. And completely private — your words never leave your computer.
Free forever · No account required · Under 10 MB
The Writing Experience
A room of one's own.
Loomwork gives you a clean, quiet space to write — and powerful tools when you need them. Nothing between you and the page.
Write without distraction
A clean block editor that stays out of your way. Focus Mode dims everything except the paragraph you're writing. Zen Mode strips away every element — just you and your words on an empty page.
Five ways to see your story
Write in the Canvas. Map characters and relationships in the Graph. Lay out events on a Timeline. Arrange scenes on a Corkboard. See the structure in an Outline. Same manuscript, five perspectives.
Built for your kind of writing
Choose Novel, Screenplay, Memoir, Poetry, Essay, or any of ten project types — and the entire interface adapts. The right tools appear. The right templates load. The column width, font, and structure all adjust to fit your form.
Revision as a practice
Six guided revision passes — Structure, Dialogue, Description, Pacing, Continuity, and Polish — each with a checklist to keep you focused. Track every block from Draft through Revision to Final.
Export exactly what publishers want
Export to Word (properly formatted — Times New Roman, double-spaced, the whole thing), PDF, Markdown, or plain text. Import existing Word documents and Loomwork detects your chapter structure automatically.
Know your writing habits
Daily word goals, writing streaks, session tracking, and a full analytics dashboard. See how fast you write, when you're most productive, and which days you show up. Build the habit that finishes books.
Read Aloud
Hear your prose breathe.
Every experienced author knows: reading your work aloud reveals what the eye misses. Awkward rhythms, stilted dialogue, sentences that trip over themselves — you hear them instantly.
Loomwork reads your manuscript back to you with natural, lifelike voices. Listen to your chapters while you walk. Catch the cadence problems that only the ear can find.
Free tier includes built-in voices. Pro users can connect premium voice services for studio-quality narration.
Intelligence
Like a brilliant editor
who's read every page.
Loomwork's intelligence layer reads your entire manuscript — not just the sentence you're working on. It knows your characters by name. It remembers that the café was on Maple Street in chapter three. It notices when a subplot goes quiet for too long.
Catches what you miss.
Blue eyes in chapter 3, brown eyes in chapter 12? A character at two places at once? A name that changes spelling halfway through? Loomwork reads your entire manuscript and flags contradictions, timeline errors, and inconsistencies — classified by severity so you fix what matters first.
Rewrites that sound like you.
Select any passage and ask Loomwork to rewrite, expand, condense, or continue it. The assistant reads the surrounding context, so suggestions match your voice, your tense, and your characters — not generic "AI writing."
Every character, tracked.
Automatically extracts every character, location, and significant detail from your manuscript. Builds a living reference you can consult while you write — relationships, first appearances, mention counts.
No loose ends.
Identifies your plot lines, character arcs, and thematic promises. Shows which threads are active, dormant, or resolved — and alerts you to threads that may have been abandoned.
A built-in line editor.
Flags passive voice, weak adverbs, clichés, and repetitive sentence openings — instantly, without an internet connection. Like having a sharp-eyed copyeditor reading over your shoulder.
The music of your prose.
Analyzes the rhythm and cadence of your writing — stress patterns, tempo changes, smoothness. See your prose as a waveform. Find the passages that sing and the ones that stumble.
Hear every sentence.
Listen to your manuscript read back in a natural, lifelike voice. Catch awkward rhythms, stilted dialogue, and clumsy phrasing that only the ear can find. Because prose is meant to be heard.
Your words stay on your computer.
Your manuscript is stored on your machine and nowhere else. No cloud sync. No server copies. No account required to write. When you do use the intelligence features, requests are stateless — nothing is stored, logged, or used for training. Your unpublished novel stays unpublished until you decide otherwise.
The Writer's Toolkit
Everything you reach for, built in.
Writing Prompts
30 curated prompts across character, scene, conflict, dialogue, and sensory categories. When you're stuck, they're a door.
Name Generator
Character names, place names, tavern names, ship names — in classic, literary, modern, and fantasy styles. One click to copy.
Snippet Library
Save your favorite descriptions, dialogue patterns, and transitions. Insert them anywhere with a click. Your personal phrasebook.
Submission Tracker
Track every query letter and submission — agent, publisher, status, dates, response times. Keep a professional record without leaving your writing.
Series Manager
Writing a trilogy? Track characters, locations, and lore that span multiple books. Know which elements appear in which installment.
Command Palette
Press one shortcut to search everything — every command, every chapter title, every line of your manuscript. The fastest way to navigate a 300-page novel.
“I used to keep a separate spreadsheet for character details, a Word doc for my outline, and a notes app for continuity. Loomwork replaced all three — and it actually catches my mistakes.”
Pricing
Start writing today. Pay only if you want more.
The free version isn't a trial. It's a complete, professional writing application. Pro adds an intelligent layer for writers who want deeper manuscript analysis.
Free
Everything you need to write, revise, and export a manuscript.
- Full rich text editor with formatting
- Five views — Canvas, Graph, Timeline, Corkboard, Outline
- Export to Word, PDF, Markdown, Plain Text
- Import existing Word documents
- Built-in prose linter (passive voice, clichés, weak adverbs)
- Six guided revision passes
- Focus Mode and Zen Mode
- Writing goals and streak tracking
- Analytics dashboard
- Writing prompts, name generator, snippet library
- Submission tracker and series manager
- 10 project types with templates
- Dark and light themes
- Unlimited projects. Unlimited words.
Pro
Everything in Free, plus an intelligent editorial layer that knows your story.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Writing Assistant — rewrite, expand, condense, or continue any passage in your voice
- Continuity Checker — catches contradictions, timeline errors, and plot holes
- Continuous background watching — issues surface as you write
- Character and entity extraction — automatic character bible
- Relationship mapping — visualize how characters connect
- Thread tracking — plot lines, arcs, and promises never go unnoticed
- Timeline extraction — chronological event mapping
- Syllabic Flow analysis — see the rhythm and music of your prose
- Deep style analysis — vocabulary, sentence variety, dialogue patterns
- Read Aloud with premium voice options
Common questions.
Completely. Your manuscript lives on your computer in a local file — it's never uploaded to any server. When you use the AI-powered features (Pro), your text is sent for analysis but nothing is stored, logged, or used for training. The requests are stateless. Once you get the result, the data is gone.
Not for writing. The editor, all five views, export, prose linter, revision tools, analytics — everything works offline. You only need internet for the Pro AI features (writing assistant, continuity checking, entity extraction). But the core writing experience is fully offline.
Scrivener is a powerful tool and we have deep respect for it. Loomwork differs in a few key ways: it has a modern, clean interface designed for the way writers work today. It includes an AI intelligence layer that understands your characters and plot. And it's lightweight — under 10 MB, starts in under a second. Think of it as the writing tool you'd design if you started from scratch today, with everything we've learned about what writers need.
Yes. Upload any Word document (.docx) and Loomwork will intelligently detect your chapter structure, sections, and scene breaks. Your headings become chapters, your paragraphs become prose blocks, and your formatting is preserved. It takes seconds.
Word (.docx). Loomwork exports in standard manuscript format — Times New Roman, 12 point, double-spaced, with proper heading styles and an optional title page. It's exactly what agents and publishers expect to receive.
Not yet, but soon. Loomwork is currently available for Mac (both Apple Silicon and Intel). A Windows version is in active development and will use the same codebase, so every feature will be identical.
No — and it's not designed to. Loomwork's AI is an editorial tool, not a ghostwriter. It reads what you've written and helps you make it better: catching continuity errors, suggesting tighter phrasing, identifying dropped plot threads. The words are always yours.
Yes, instantly. No questions asked, no phone calls, no retention flow. And when you cancel, everything you've written is still right there on your computer. You keep the free version with all its features — you just lose the AI intelligence layer.
Your next chapter starts here.
Download Loomwork for free. No account required.
Just open it and start writing.