Features

Everything in Galley

Galley has 60+ features aimed towards making it easier to write a novel.

The writing room

The page you type on is the page they will hold.

The story bible

Everything the book has to remember, beside the book.

Revision

After chapter 14 you can’t see your own book. Galley can.

Exports & toolkit

The back half of self-publishing, in one menu.

Safe & yours

Private, backed up, never trained on, never locked in.
The full inventory

No tiers. No add-ons.

Nothing is held back behind a "pro" plan. No cheeky upsells. If it's a part of the software, you're getting all of it.

If you're curious to check what I'm working on, the roadmap shows what's queued and what's refused, and product updates shows a chronological list of everything added to Galley.

The pageThe writing roomStructureStory bibleRevisionMomentumPublishingSeries & editionsSafe & yours

The page

The book you are actually making, set before the first sentence.

True book pages Six trim sizes, mass market to Royal 35 book typefaces Latin, Arabic, Devanagari, Japanese and more, all licensed for commercial publishing Chapter openings Five conventions, bare title to full dress Scene breaks Type --- and it typesets itself Running heads Your name and title across the top, the way books do it House style British or American, justified, properly hyphenated Your own ornaments Upload the flourish that opens a chapter or breaks a scene

The writing room

The screen you sit at for a year.

Focus mode Nothing on screen but the page Typewriter scroll The line you are writing stays at eye level Light & dark paper Switch the page, keep the room dark Accent themes Six colours for the room. None of them reach the book @ and # mentions Type @ for a character, # for a place. Never misspell either Block styles Body, title, scene — the three a novel needs Inline comments Margin notes to yourself, resolvable Search everything ⌘K finds any chapter, name, term or clipping Keyboard shortcuts Hands stay where they are

Structure

Chapters, parts, and the shape of the thing.

Chapters & parts Drag to reorder, group into parts Prologue & epilogue The parts of a book that carry no chapter number Chapter stages Draft, revised, final — one click Synopses A logline pinned to every chapter Front & back matter Title page to acknowledgements Table of contents Builds itself from the book Import your draft A .docx, .md or .txt splits itself into chapters

Story bible

Everything the book needs to remember, beside the manuscript.

Characters Aliases, roles, and sections you name yourself Cast overview Who appears where, counted from the prose Locations Every place the story touches, same sheet as the cast Timeline Narrative dates on a scrollable line World-building Magic, history, culture, and the rules you set Research clippings The passage, why it matters, where it came from Style sheet Your spelling and hyphenation rules, your call Glossary Terms glow in the prose, and get their own page at export References Superscripts that number themselves at export

Revision

The checks your tired eye can't run.

Read-through The whole book end to end, the way a reader gets it Book-wide find & replace Rename a character across every chapter at once Overused words Your fillers counted, with the chapter where each peaks Name consistency Jeanie 41 times, Jeany once. Found Consistency sweep British/American, hyphenation, curly quotes, dashes Book at a glance Chapter shape, dialogue, sentence length, in one chart Word counts Live, per chapter and per book Draft milestones Mark a draft done and keep it to compare against

Momentum

Goals and streaks, only if you want them.

Writing goals Per book, per day, and entirely optional Streaks & sessions What you wrote today, and across the last two weeks The dashboard Every book, and the sentence you left off on Progress per book Draft → revised → final, as a bar you can read at a glance

Publishing

Everything between your last sentence and a reader.

Book preview Flip the print pages, or reflow it on an e-reader Print-ready PDF Mirrored margins, a real gutter, sized to your trim EPUB 3 With your cover, valid, for any store Store-ready EPUBs Tuned per shop: Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books Word & Markdown For editors, archives, and stubborn collaborators Manuscript format Double-spaced, the way editors ask for it Proofreading PDF Two pages a sheet, made for a red pen Large print PDF The same book, set for readers who need it bigger Share a copy A file or a link per reader, with their name watermarked on it Submission package Synopsis, bio, first chapters, agent-ready KDP preflight Trim, margins, metadata and page count checked before you upload Delivery readiness Is the book actually finished, or does it just feel finished Cover & listing Cover, blurb, ISBN, categories, keywords, in one place The copyright page Writes itself from what you already filled in Permissions ledger That quoted lyric, tracked from to-request to paid

Series & editions

One book becomes three: a sequel, a revision, a translation.

Series Group the books, keep the design consistent across them Editions & translations Derive a copy that brings the structure and bible with it Side-by-side view The original in one column, your translation in the other Per-book language Hyphenation and quote marks follow the language you set

Safe & yours

Hard to lose, never locked in, never trained on.

No AI on your words Nothing generated, nothing suggested, nothing trained on Autosave Plus save-on-exit, plus ⌘S, plus it tells you if a save fails Version history Daily snapshots per chapter, restore any of them 30-day bin Deleted work waits a month before it goes Offline writing Beta Saves to your device, syncs when you are back Keyboard and screen reader Audited, measured, and honest about what is still missing Private by default Walled off to your account. No one else can read it Three devices Desk, laptop, iPad. Manage them yourself One-zip backup The whole book and its bible, downloadable, yours

The website can't make you feel what using Galley is like. Thirty minutes in it can.

Launch Galley

Opens straight into a book. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.