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title: "Features: everything in Galley"
description: "Everything Galley does, in one list: write on a real book page, keep the story bible beside the manuscript, run the revision checks a tired eye can't, and export print-ready PDF and EPUB. €199 once."
source: https://usegalley.com/features
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# 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.

https://usegalley.com/features/write

### The story bible

Everything the book has to remember, beside the book.

https://usegalley.com/features/story-bible

### Revision

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

https://usegalley.com/features/revise

### Exports & toolkit

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

https://usegalley.com/features/make-the-book

### Safe & yours

Private, backed up, never trained on, never locked in.

https://usegalley.com/features/your-work-is-safe

## 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](https://usegalley.com/roadmap) shows what's queued and what's refused, and
[product updates](https://usegalley.com/changelog) shows a chronological list of everything added to Galley.

[The page](#the-page)[The writing room](#the-writing-room)[Structure](#structure)[Story bible](#story-bible)[Revision](#revision)[Momentum](#momentum)[Publishing](#publishing)[Series & editions](#series-editions)[Safe & yours](#safe-yours)

### [The page](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design)

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

[**True book pages** Six trim sizes, mass market to Royal](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#trim-size)[**35 book typefaces** Latin, Arabic, Devanagari, Japanese and more, all licensed for commercial publishing](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#typeface)[**Chapter openings** Five conventions, bare title to full dress](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#chapter-openings)[**Scene breaks** Type --- and it typesets itself](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#scene-breaks)[**Running heads** Your name and title across the top, the way books do it](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#running-heads)[**House style** British or American, justified, properly hyphenated](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#house-style)[**Your own ornaments** Upload the flourish that opens a chapter or breaks a scene](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#chapter-openings)

### [The writing room](https://usegalley.com/features/write)

The screen you sit at for a year.

[**Focus mode** Nothing on screen but the page](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-editor#focus-mode)[**Typewriter scroll** The line you are writing stays at eye level](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-editor#typewriter)[**Light & dark paper** Switch the page, keep the room dark](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-editor#page-theme)[**Accent themes** Six colours for the room. None of them reach the book](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-editor#accent)[**@ and # mentions** Type @ for a character, # for a place. Never misspell either](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-editor#mentions)[**Block styles** Body, title, scene — the three a novel needs](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-editor#block-styles)[**Inline comments** Margin notes to yourself, resolvable](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#comments)[**Search everything** ⌘K finds any chapter, name, term or clipping](https://usegalley.com/docs/shortcuts#command-palette)[**Keyboard shortcuts** Hands stay where they are](https://usegalley.com/docs/shortcuts#the-full-list)

### [Structure](https://usegalley.com/docs/structure)

Chapters, parts, and the shape of the thing.

[**Chapters & parts** Drag to reorder, group into parts](https://usegalley.com/docs/structure#chapters)[**Prologue & epilogue** The parts of a book that carry no chapter number](https://usegalley.com/docs/structure#prologue-epilogue)[**Chapter stages** Draft, revised, final — one click](https://usegalley.com/docs/structure#stages)[**Synopses** A logline pinned to every chapter](https://usegalley.com/docs/structure#synopses)[**Front & back matter** Title page to acknowledgements](https://usegalley.com/docs/structure#front-back-matter)[**Table of contents** Builds itself from the book](https://usegalley.com/docs/structure)[**Import your draft** A.docx,.md or.txt splits itself into chapters](https://usegalley.com/docs/your-first-book#import)

### [Story bible](https://usegalley.com/features/story-bible)

Everything the book needs to remember, beside the manuscript.

[**Characters** Aliases, roles, and sections you name yourself](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#characters)[**Cast overview** Who appears where, counted from the prose](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#cast-overview)[**Locations** Every place the story touches, same sheet as the cast](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#locations)[**Timeline** Narrative dates on a scrollable line](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#timeline)[**World-building** Magic, history, culture, and the rules you set](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#world-building)[**Research clippings** The passage, why it matters, where it came from](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#research)[**Style sheet** Your spelling and hyphenation rules, your call](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#style-sheet)[**Glossary** Terms glow in the prose, and get their own page at export](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#glossary-references)[**References** Superscripts that number themselves at export](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#glossary-references)

### [Revision](https://usegalley.com/features/revise)

The checks your tired eye can't run.

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

### [Momentum](https://usegalley.com/docs/account-and-devices#dashboard)

Goals and streaks, only if you want them.

[**Writing goals** Per book, per day, and entirely optional](https://usegalley.com/docs/account-and-devices#goals)[**Streaks & sessions** What you wrote today, and across the last two weeks](https://usegalley.com/docs/account-and-devices#goals)[**The dashboard** Every book, and the sentence you left off on](https://usegalley.com/docs/account-and-devices#dashboard)[**Progress per book** Draft → revised → final, as a bar you can read at a glance](https://usegalley.com/docs/revision#stages)

### [Publishing](https://usegalley.com/features/make-the-book)

Everything between your last sentence and a reader.

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

### [Series & editions](https://usegalley.com/docs/series-and-translations)

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

[**Series** Group the books, keep the design consistent across them](https://usegalley.com/docs/series-and-translations#series)[**Editions & translations** Derive a copy that brings the structure and bible with it](https://usegalley.com/docs/series-and-translations#editions-translations)[**Side-by-side view** The original in one column, your translation in the other](https://usegalley.com/docs/series-and-translations#side-by-side)[**Per-book language** Hyphenation and quote marks follow the language you set](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#language)

### [Safe & yours](https://usegalley.com/features/your-work-is-safe)

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

[**No AI on your words** Nothing generated, nothing suggested, nothing trained on](https://usegalley.com/docs/your-data#no-ai)[**Autosave** Plus save-on-exit, plus ⌘S, plus it tells you if a save fails](https://usegalley.com/docs/your-data#hard-to-lose)[**Version history** Daily snapshots per chapter, restore any of them](https://usegalley.com/docs/revision#version-history)[**30-day bin** Deleted work waits a month before it goes](https://usegalley.com/docs/your-data#bin)[**Offline writing Beta** Saves to your device, syncs when you are back](https://usegalley.com/docs/offline-writing)[**Keyboard and screen reader** Audited, measured, and honest about what is still missing](https://usegalley.com/docs/accessibility)[**Private by default** Walled off to your account. No one else can read it](https://usegalley.com/docs/your-data#where-kept)[**Three devices** Desk, laptop, iPad. Manage them yourself](https://usegalley.com/docs/account-and-devices#devices)[**One-zip backup** The whole book and its bible, downloadable, yours](https://usegalley.com/docs/your-data#you-can-leave)

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

[Launch Galley](https://app.usegalley.com) Opens straight into a book. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.