Frequently asked questions

It's a writing app and a worldbuilding app that refuse to be separated: a full word processor next to a codex of your characters and places, a timeline that validates your chronology, maps, spreadsheets, screenplay tools, and research tools — in one local Windows program. The point is that your prose and the world behind it stay in sync: names link themselves, contradictions get flagged, and everything lives in files you own.

The early-access preview is free while Easy Writer is in development. Pricing for the full release hasn't been decided yet — plans, tiers, and what lands in each are still being worked out, and we'd rather say nothing than promise something we might have to walk back. Two things are true today: the preview costs nothing, and your projects live in files you can open without us. When pricing is settled, it will be announced plainly here.

Windows 10/11 (64-bit) today. The core of the app is built platform-neutral, and macOS, Linux, mobile, and web clients are on the roadmap — Windows is simply where development happens first.

On your disk, in formats made to outlive the app. A project is either a single .ewriter file — which is just a ZIP of plain text files (Markdown and JSON); rename it and look inside — or a plain folder of those same files, which diffs and merges beautifully under Git or Perforce. The two forms convert back and forth freely.

Exports today: Word (.docx), EPUB 3, typeset PDF, standard manuscript RTF, Markdown, HTML, Fountain and Final Draft (.fdx) for scripts, and a full static website of your manuscript and world. And whatever the business model looks like at release, your project files themselves stay plain and readable — the format is never a hostage.

Easy Writer has no AI service of its own and we never see your text. The AI features are bring-your-own-provider: you point the app at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — a commercial API with your own key, or a fully local model via tools like Ollama or llama.cpp — and requests go directly from your machine to that provider, nowhere else.

Everything is opt-in and controllable: AI features do nothing until you configure a provider; any codex entry or document can be excluded from AI entirely; an optional redaction mode masks your invented names before a request to a cloud endpoint and restores them in the reply; and a session token budget keeps costs visible.

Yes — File ▸ Import handles Word documents, Scrivener projects, yWriter, Obsidian vaults, Notion exports, Manuskript projects, and plain text, each mapped into the manuscript and codex structure rather than dumped as one blob.

The preview installer is not yet code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen shows its generic warning for unrecognised downloads. First confirm you downloaded it from easywriter.site and that it matches the SHA-256 checksum on the download page; if it does, click More info → Run anyway. Code signing for LoomWright Games is in progress and a signed installer will ship as soon as the certificate is issued.

Fully offline, and no. There's no account, no sign-in, and no analytics. The app makes only two kinds of network request, both under your control: the AI calls you explicitly configure (sent to the provider you chose), and an optional once-a-day update check that asks our download host for the newest version number — it sends nothing about you or your projects, and you can turn it off in Preferences ▸ General. This website carries no analytics or trackers either, and sets no cookies of its own.

Both, deliberately. Alongside the novelist's tools there's a whole game-master kit: dice and random tables, stat blocks (D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e, or your own system), encounter balancing, an initiative tracker, conlang tools with a working translator, battle-map grids with tokens, and per-region map reveal for a player-safe view. Campaign and screenplay project templates ship in the box.

Almost certainly not. The app autosaves, snapshots your project every time it opens, keeps per-document version history with visual diffs, and writes single-file projects atomically — a save can never half-write your file. If the app dies between the internal save and the file write, the next open finishes the save automatically and tells you it did.

Email support@easywriter.site — a human reads it. Include the version number from Help ▸ About and, if it's about a specific project, whatever you can share.