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The Writing Experience

The Canvas.

A clean, spacious writing surface designed to disappear while you work. Everything you need is one gesture away. Nothing you don't need is ever in sight.

A block editor built for prose

Every paragraph, every heading, every scene break lives in its own block. Move them, rearrange them, label them. Your manuscript is made of pieces you can see and shape.

Slash commands & floating toolbar

Type a forward slash to summon any block type instantly. Select text and a quiet formatting bar appears right where you need it. No hunting through menus.

Fifteen block types for every kind of writing

Prose, Chapter, Part, Section, Scene, Dialogue, Transition, Note, Source — plus screenplay types like Character Name, Parenthetical, Act, Scene Heading, and Scene Break. Each has its own visual treatment.

Status badges that track your progress

Every block carries a status: Draft, Revision, Final, or Archived. At a glance, you can see which passages still need work and which are polished and ready.

Auto-save, always

Your work is saved continuously as you type. No manual saves, no anxious key-commands. Close the lid, open it tomorrow, and everything is exactly where you left it.

Typewriter scrolling

The line you're writing stays in the center of the screen. Your eyes stay in one place. The page moves beneath your words, the way a typewriter carriage returns.

Perspectives

Five ways to see your story.

The same manuscript, seen from five different angles. Each view reveals something the others can't. Switch between them freely as your work demands.

Canvas

The writing surface. Where words happen.

Graph

Characters and relationships, mapped visually.

Timeline

Events in order. See your story's chronology.

Corkboard

Index cards you can arrange and rearrange.

Outline

The skeleton of your manuscript, laid bare.

Distraction-Free

Silence everything but the writing.

When you need to disappear into the work, Loomwork disappears with you. Two modes designed for the kind of deep concentration that produces your best pages.

Focus Mode

Everything dims except the paragraph you're writing. The rest of your manuscript fades to a whisper. You see only the sentence that matters right now. When you move on, the next paragraph gently comes into focus.

Zen Mode

The toolbar vanishes. The sidebar vanishes. The status bar vanishes. All that remains is your text on an empty page, and the steady rhythm of your thoughts becoming sentences. Pure, uninterrupted writing.

Project Types

Ten forms. One application.

Choose your form and the entire application adapts — layout, structure, templates, and tools all shift to fit the way you work. Every project type is a different writing desk.

Novel

Chapters, parts, and long arcs

Short Story

Tight structure, single sitting

Screenplay

Scenes, acts, and dialogue

Essay

Argument, evidence, and voice

Blog

Quick drafts, ready to publish

Poetry

Line breaks, stanzas, and rhythm

Memoir

Memory, reflection, and truth

Journalism

Facts, sources, and deadlines

Technical

Clear explanation, step by step

General

A blank desk for anything

Intelligence

Like a brilliant editor
who's read every page.

Loomwork's intelligence 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. Available with Pro.

Pro

Writing Assistant

Six modes to help you revise: rewrite, expand, condense, continue, brainstorm, or adjust tone. Every suggestion reads the surrounding context, so it sounds like you wrote it.

Pro

Continuity Checker

Blue eyes in chapter three, brown eyes in chapter twelve? A name that changes spelling? Loomwork flags contradictions, timeline errors, and inconsistencies across your entire manuscript.

Pro

Entity Extraction

Every character, location, and significant detail is automatically identified and organized into a living reference you can consult while you write.

Pro

Relationship Mapping

See how your characters connect to one another — allies, rivals, family, strangers who meet in chapter nine. A visual web of every relationship in your story.

Pro

Thread Tracking

Identifies your plot lines, character arcs, and thematic promises. Shows which threads are active, dormant, or resolved — and alerts you when one has been left hanging.

Pro

Timeline Extraction

Automatically builds a chronological map of events in your manuscript. See the order things happen, spot gaps in your timeline, and keep your story's clock consistent.

Pro

Syllabic Flow

Analyzes the rhythm and cadence of your prose — stress patterns, tempo changes, smoothness. Find the passages that sing and the ones that stumble.

Pro

Style Analysis

Deep insight into your writing patterns: vocabulary richness, sentence variety, dialogue balance, description density. Understand your strengths and the habits you might want to break.

Pro

Character Arc Visualization

See your characters’ emotional journeys mapped across the manuscript as a line chart. Positive and negative intensity, chapter by chapter. Identify flat stretches, dramatic peaks, and arcs that lose momentum.

Pro

Publishing Calendar

Set milestones, track your writing velocity, and project your draft completion date based on actual output. Built for indie authors managing their own publishing schedule across multiple books.

Pro

Series Bible

Structured character profiles — appearance, personality, backstory, relationships, arc — that sync automatically from the intelligence engine. Track characters, locations, and lore across multiple books in a series.

Pro

Manuscript Preparation

A guided seven-step workflow for editors: run style sheet, validate manuscript, review track changes, check continuity, review comments, final proofread, export for client. Track your progress with a completion bar.

Pro

Read Aloud

Hear your manuscript spoken back to you with natural, lifelike voices. Catch awkward rhythms, stilted dialogue, and clumsy phrasing that only the ear can find.

The Free Toolkit

Everything included. No subscription required.

The free version of Loomwork is not a trial. It is a complete, professional writing application — every tool listed here is yours from day one.

Free

Prose Linter

Flags passive voice, weak adverbs, clichés, and repetitive sentence openings. Like a sharp-eyed copyeditor, always on. Works without an internet connection.

Free

Revision Passes

Six guided revision passes — Structure, Dialogue, Description, Pacing, Continuity, and Polish — each with a checklist to keep you focused on one layer at a time.

Free

Writing Goals

Daily word targets, session goals, and writing streaks. Set the pace that works for you and build the habit that finishes manuscripts.

Free

Analytics Dashboard

See how fast you write, when you're most productive, which days you show up, and how your word count grows over time. Your writing life, measured honestly.

Free

Writing Prompts

Thirty curated prompts across character, scene, conflict, dialogue, and sensory categories. When you're stuck, they're a door.

Free

Name Generator

Character names, place names, tavern names, ship names — in classic, literary, modern, and fantasy styles. One click to copy.

Free

Snippet Library

Save your favorite descriptions, dialogue patterns, and transitions. Insert them anywhere with a click. Your personal phrasebook, always at hand.

Free

Submission Tracker

Track every query letter and submission — agent, publisher, status, dates, response times. Keep a professional record without leaving your writing desk.

Free

Series Manager

Writing a trilogy? Track characters, locations, and lore that span multiple books. Know which elements appear in which installment.

Free

Find & Replace

Search your entire manuscript in an instant. Rename a character, fix a recurring typo, or find every mention of a place name across three hundred pages.

Free

Command Palette

Press one shortcut to search everything — every command, every chapter title, every line. The fastest way to navigate a long manuscript.

Free

Export

Word, ePub, PDF, Fountain, Final Draft (FDX), Markdown, or plain text. Word exports include running headers and page breaks. ePub includes cover images, series metadata, and ISBN. Screenplay exports in industry-standard Fountain and FDX formats.

Free

Import

Bring in existing work from Word (.docx), Markdown (.md), or RTF files. Loomwork detects chapter structure, preserves formatting, and converts everything into blocks you can shape.

Free

Track Changes

Accept or reject edits with a click. Insertions and deletions are highlighted inline. Bulk accept or reject all changes when you’re ready. The same editorial workflow you know from Word, built for manuscripts.

Free

Inline Comments

Highlight any passage and leave a comment anchored to the exact text. Comments float beside the relevant prose, not in a disconnected sidebar. Resolve them when you’re done.

Free

Style Sheet

Define your house rules — “theater” not “theatre,” “okay” not “OK.” Check your entire manuscript against your style sheet in one click and apply all fixes instantly. Import and export rules to share with editors.

Free

Manuscript Validation

Ten automated checks: orphan chapters, empty blocks, inconsistent character names, excessive adverbs, long paragraphs, repeated words, missing scene breaks, dialogue attribution gaps, passive voice density, and incomplete sentences. Click any issue to jump to it.

Free

Chapter Goals & Heatmap

Set per-chapter word targets and see your entire manuscript as a color-coded heatmap. Spot which chapters are lean, which are bloated, and where the balance needs work.

Free

Compile System

Choose which chapters to include, set the order, pick your font and line spacing, and add front and back matter — title page, copyright, dedication, also by, about the author. Export a publish-ready manuscript in one click.

Free

Screenplay Formatting

Character names, parentheticals, dual dialogue, scene numbering, revision colors, and automatic element flow — press Enter after a character name and Loomwork switches to dialogue automatically. Export to Fountain or Final Draft (FDX).

Free

Cast List & Page Count

Auto-generate a cast list from your screenplay — every character, line count, and first appearance. Calculate page count and estimated runtime using industry-standard timing (one page per minute).

Privacy by design.

Your manuscript lives on your computer and nowhere else. There are no cloud servers holding copies of your novel. No accounts required to start writing. When you do use the intelligence features, requests are stateless — nothing is stored, logged, or used for training. Your unpublished work stays unpublished until you decide otherwise.

Your manuscript stays on your computer
Intelligence requests are stateless — nothing is stored or logged
No tracking. No ads. No data monetization. Ever.
Works fully offline — no internet required to write

Start writing.

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Just open it and begin.

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