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Easy-to-use book authoring tools to organize, write, design and publish your book, then make money with your story.
Plans from $9.99 a month. Cancel any time. Your words are always yours.
Write great stories.
Draft in a calm editor that saves as you type, with Chap, your AI writing assistant, one click away when you want a nudge.
Chapterly authors get
- A distraction-free manuscript editor
- Chap, the AI assistant that suggests and never takes over
- A cover designer
- Visual boards for mapping your plot
- Characters and places, right beside the page
- Spelling and grammar checks
- Export for print and ebook
- Real-time collaboration
Chapter One
The Count
Wren had counted the steps to the lamp room four hundred times, and every time the number came out different. Tonight it was one hundred and twelve.
She climbed anyway. The lamp room was cold. The great lens waited in its brass cradle, patient, the way it had waited every night since the storm.
Build your audience.
Publish chapter by chapter and grow a reader base of your own, not an algorithm's.
Here's how
- Invite friends and readers to follow you and hear the moment a new chapter lands.
- Talk with readers in the comments and learn what's working.
- Share your stories on social media to bring new readers in.
- Get found by readers browsing Explore for their next story.
The Second Light
The light came back on the second night.
Wren saw it from the kitchen window: a slow white sweep across the water where there should have been nothing but dark. She counted the turns. Eight seconds. Her father’s light kept eight seconds.
She took the lantern and the key the stranger had given her, and she climbed. One hundred and eleven steps. One fewer again.
At the top, the lamp room door stood open, and someone had laid two cups on the chart table, one of them still warm.
Wren saw it from the kitchen window: a slow white sweep across the water where there should have been nothing but dark. She counted the turns. Eight seconds. Her father’s light kept eight seconds.
She took the lantern and the key the stranger had given her, and she climbed. One hundred and eleven steps. One fewer again.
At the top, the lamp room door stood open, and someone had laid two cups on the chart table, one of them still warm.
Get paid for your work.
Turn readers into patrons. You set the prices, payouts go to your own Stripe account, and Chapterly keeps 10%.
Here's how
- Tips from readers who love your stories, from $1 to $100.
- Membership tiers with early chapters and extras for a monthly price you choose.
- Sell your finished stories and books directly to readers.
- Follow your earnings and payouts from your wallet.
What could you earn?
Move the sliders. Patrons pay you every month, and you keep 90% of what they pay, before Stripe's processing fee.
Start writing →You’d take home about
$540 / month
Your Standard plan pays for itself at 3 patrons.
After Chapterly’s 10%, before Stripe’s processing fee. A sketch, not a promise.
Questions, answered.
Something else on your mind? The help center has the long answers.
Yes. Readers can subscribe to the membership tiers you create, buy your stories and books outright, or send you a tip. Payouts go to your own Stripe account, and Chapterly keeps 10%.
You do, always. Chapterly gives you the tools to write and publish, and never claims ownership of your words.
No, and we won't let it. Chap can suggest, describe a scene, polish a sentence or brainstorm a title, but storytelling is for humans and we want to keep it that way.
Chapterly runs in any modern browser on your computer, tablet or phone, and you can install it to your home screen like an app. Your work syncs everywhere, instantly.
Yes. Bring in a Word document (.docx), OpenDocument, Markdown, plain text or EPUB, and Chapterly splits it into chapters for you.
Everything you write is saved and backed up as you type, and the revision history lets you step back to an earlier version whenever you need to.
As many as you like. Every plan includes unlimited books, chapters, covers and exports.
No. Authors pay a subscription, and Chapterly keeps 10% of what readers pay you through tiers, story sales and tips (Stripe's own processing fee applies too). Reading on Chapterly is free.
Cancel any time with one click. No contracts, ever, and your words stay yours.
Chapter one starts tonight.
Open a blank page, write the first line, and see where it takes you. Your readers are out there.
Plans from $9.99 a month. Cancel any time. Your words are always yours.