Your account

A tour of the everyday things around your writing: where you're signed in, the optional nudges that keep you going, how the app looks, and how to reach a human. Open all of it from your profile picture in the top corner.

Signing in on your devices

You can be signed in on up to three devices at once: your laptop, your desktop, wherever you write. Sign in on a fourth and Galley quietly signs out whichever one you haven't used in the longest, so you never have to manage it by hand. Open your profile picture → Account & devices to see the list.

The device list: Everywhere you're signed in, labelled by browser and computer, with when each was last active.
Sign out one: Remove any single device from the list.
Sign out the rest: Sign out everywhere except where you are right now.

💡 "Device" really means a browser. Chrome and Safari on one computer count as two, and a private window counts as another. So if you hit the limit sooner than expected, the list shows you exactly what's signed in. This is licence enforcement for your own devices, separate from sharing a book with a translator, which is a different feature.

Your home base: the dashboard

The screen you land on when you sign in. It greets you, puts the book you were last writing front and centre with a one-click Resume straight back into that chapter, and lays out your other books and any ideas you've parked. The full tour is in Your first book.

Goals and momentum (only if you want them)

Under Book Settings you can set two targets per book: a total word count for the finished manuscript, and a daily number to aim for. These are entirely yours: an ambitious daily goal on the novel, none at all on the side project.

If you set them, the dashboard turns them into a filling ring for today, a two-week chart, and a running streak. Just enough of a friendly nudge to hit your number before you wander off to check your phone. If you'd rather not, ignore them. Nothing forces a goal on you, and nothing nags.

Choosing your colour

Galley's writing room is dark and calm, but you can pick the accent colour that runs through it, from the palette icon in the top bar:

PapayaPineapplePineberry (default)PlumPomegranateWatermelon

That's separate from the page you write on, which can be light or dark on its own. See The editor.

Your author profile

Under Edit profile you can set your display name, a username, an author bio (which Galley uses in the submission package), and a profile picture. When you create a translation from an authorless original, this display name is what Galley uses as the author.

Getting help & asking for things

Stuck, or have an idea? Profile picture → Help & feedback reaches a real person: the one who made Galley and writes in it daily. The same window has a tab for suggesting features, and your suggestions steer what comes next.