Built for writers who mean it.
Everything you need to take a book from first note to finished file — and nothing that gets between you and the page.
Write
A real rich-text editor
Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript and subscript; three heading levels, block quotes, alignment, line spacing, lists, font and highlight colour.
Footnotes and inline notes
Add footnotes as you go, and leave yourself inline comments that never end up in the exported book.
Pick up where you left off
Drop a resume note at the exact spot you stopped, and Ravenburst takes you straight back to it next time.
Tables and images
Insert tables and resizable images, page breaks, scene breaks, special characters, and the current date or time in US or European style.
Spelling, your way
Spellcheck with a custom dictionary for every invented name and place, plus cleanup tools for double spaces, stray empty lines and struck-through text.
Find in the whole project
Find and replace that keeps your formatting, and a project-wide search across every document.
Organise
Everything in its place
Manuscript (parts, chapters and scenes), front and back matter, characters, places, notes, reference and template sheets — all in the navigator, all in one file.
Reference tables
Keep timelines, family trees and research in tables, several to a page, with your own cell colours and borders.
Corkboard and outline
See every scene as a card and drag to reorder, or scan the whole book in outline.
Split view and a second window
Write in one document while reading another side by side — or pull it into its own window on a second screen.
Chapters, named your way
Call them chapters, acts, tomes or anything else; choose the separator and an ornament for chapter titles, and Ravenburst numbers them for you.
Bookmarks and history
Bookmark the places you return to, and step back and forward through where you’ve been, like a browser.
Stay on track
Word counts everywhere
For the document and the whole project in the status bar, with a per-chapter breakdown when you want the detail.
Targets
Set a target for the project and see your progress toward it as you write.
Writing history
A day-by-day record of how much you wrote, so you can see your streaks and slumps.
Statistics
Words, characters, sentences and paragraphs, average sentence length, estimated pages and reading time.
Keep it safe
Snapshots
Save a named snapshot of any document with Ctrl+Shift+S, then preview and restore any of them whenever you like.
Automatic Git backup
Backs up the whole project every 30 minutes (or 15, 60 or 120) and whenever you quit — to a folder, a drive, or a Git host such as GitHub. Restore any earlier version as a new file.
Trash, not delete
Deleted documents go to the project’s trash first, so a slip of the mouse is never the end of a chapter.
Google Drive (test feature)
Back up to your own Google Drive with version history. It’s an early test feature: you sync by hand, and we recommend keeping another backup alongside it.
Publish
Start from the right template
Fifteen project templates set up the structure and formatting for you: novel, non-fiction, short story, three picture-book shapes, APA, MLA and Chicago papers, screenplay, TV script, documentary, US and UK stage plays — or start blank.
Compile to every format
Manuscript (PDF or Word), paperback in 5×7 and 6×9 with matching proofs (crop marks and bleed), screenplay and documentary (PDF or Fountain), US and UK stage plays, EPUB, three picture-book shapes, and APA, MLA and Chicago papers (PDF or Word).
Front and back matter
Title page, copyright and the rest, written once and placed correctly in every format.
Bring your work with you
Import from Word (.docx), Markdown, plain text and Fountain screenplays.
Academic styles that stay current
When a new edition of APA or MLA ships, check for format updates from the Help menu and apply them in one step.
Make it yours
Light, dark and high contrast
Or follow your system. High contrast is built for low-vision writers, not bolted on.
Text size for the interface
Scale every menu, panel and label to 115%, 130% or 150% — separately from your writing’s own font size.
Fullscreen composition
Hide everything but the page when it’s time to write.
Keyboard first
Shortcuts for everything you do often, and a full list one keystroke away (Ctrl+Shift+/).
Want it first?
We’ll email you when the Kickstarter launches.