Hard to lose, easy to leave
Private, backed up, never trained on, never locked in.
A writing tool holds the only copy of the one thing you can't rewrite from memory. Galley takes that seriously, and treats leaving as your right rather than a threat to be managed.
Today, 09:14
Autosave
Yesterday, 18:02
Daily snapshot
Monday, 11:40
Before “Rename Mara Vale”
Sunday, 20:15
Daily snapshot
Monday, 11:40 Today, 09:14
At Weirwater the lamps were lit by hand, and it was Mara Vale who lit them, down at The Quiet Harbour before the neap.
The lamps at the station were already lit when she arrived.
At Weirwater Station the lamps were not yet lit.
Someone had left before the end of their watch, and in a town this size that was not a small thing.
She wrote it all down twice, to be sure of it.
The crossing that mattered was set down in the harbour ledger.
At Weirwater the lamps were lit by hand, and it was Mara Vale who lit them, down at The Quiet Harbour before the neap.1
At Weirwater Station the lamps were not yet lit. Someone had left before the end of their watch.
* * *
The crossing that mattered was set down in the harbour ledger, in a level hand.
Version history
Yesterday, 18:02
A snapshot a day, and one before anything risky — so changing your mind is never expensive.
No AI touches your prose
Nothing in Galley writes, rewrites, suggests or completes a sentence. Nothing trains on your book — not to improve a model, not to improve Galley. The tools here count, check and typeset. Every word in your manuscript is one you typed, and I have no intention of changing that.
Kept
Autosave as you type, a save when you leave, and ⌘S when you want to be sure. Daily version history per chapter. A 30-day bin for anything deleted. Offline, your chapters keep saving to your device and sync when you're back. Your book is walled off to your account — no other writer can see it, and neither can anyone who isn't you.
At Weirwater the lamps were lit by hand, and it was Mara Vale who lit them, down at The Quiet Harbour before the neap.1
At Weirwater Station the lamps were not yet lit. Someone had left before the end of their watch.
* * *
The crossing that mattered was set down in the harbour ledger, in a level hand.
Chapter stages
Draft → Revised → Final
Every chapter carries its stage, so the sidebar tells you where the book actually is at a glance.
Yours
One click exports everything you've written in open formats — print PDF, EPUB, Word, Markdown — plus the whole book and its bible as a single zip. Leaving is genuinely easy, which is the only thing that makes staying a choice instead of a trap. And if Galley ever shut down, you'd get six months' notice, exports throughout, and the code open-sourced.
What's included
Every card goes to the part of the docs that explains it.
Thirty minutes in it beats reading about it.
Launch GalleyOpens straight into a book. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.