--- title: "Roadmap — what’s being built in Galley, and what isn’t" description: "The Galley roadmap: what’s under consideration, in progress, live in the app, and decided against. No delivery dates." source: https://usegalley.com/roadmap --- Updated 7 September 2026 # What I'm *working on* A list of your ideas and features currently under consideration or already live in Galley. To request a feature, reach out from within the app dashboard. For what has already shipped, with dates, see [product updates](https://usegalley.com/changelog). ## Backlog 10 Things under consideration. The page ### Vertical Japanese and Chinese Setting a book top to bottom, columns right to left, the way Japanese literary fiction is printed. Waiting onFollows the horizontal work, which is done. The print engine has no vertical text yet. Structure ### Restructuring a book offline Writing offline works. Adding, renaming, and reordering chapters still needs a connection. Series & editions ### Translator access A translator should get access to localized versions of your book without editing the source. Waiting onAccounts Series & editions ### Story bible across a series Book two starts with an empty story bible today. Publishing ### Boxsets Several finished books compiled into one store-ready file, with their own front matter and contents. The page ### Full-page images A full-page image as a matter page, for maps and part-title art. Story bible ### Plot tracking Plot lines, twists, and holes tracked across the manuscript. The writing room ### Style sheet rules The style sheet is one free-text box today. Making the editor’s automatic dash and quote changes visible and optional needs work. Story bible ### Research attachments PDFs, recordings, and scans in Research. Today you can only add text and links. Account ### Collaboration Editor and co-author access. ## In progress 2 Currently working on. Safe & yours ### Offline writing out of Beta Offline writing works-ish. It needs testing. The page ### Right-to-left languages Writing and publishing support for right-to-left scripts like Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. ## Done 21 Live in Galley 🎉 Safe & yours Sept 26 ### Accessibility in the editor The Galley app is now screen-reader friendly with accessibility features in place. [How accessibility in the editor works](https://usegalley.com/docs/accessibility) The page Aug 26 ### Japanese, Chinese and Korean Horizontal CJK: kanji chapter numbers, kinsoku line breaking, emphasis dots, Japanese trim sizes and the colophon. [How japanese, chinese and korean works](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#cjk) Structure Aug 26 ### Prologues and epilogues The parts of a book that carry no chapter number. They stay inside the manuscript, so every check still reads them. [How prologues and epilogues works](https://usegalley.com/docs/structure#prologue-epilogue) Revision Aug 26 ### Reading links for beta readers A watermarked link per reader, with an optional password and expiry, that you can turn off. [How reading links for beta readers works](https://usegalley.com/docs/preview-and-export#for-other-people) The writing room Aug 26 ### Toolbars and Drawers Fewer toolbars, labelled story tabs, and the rest moved into Drawers. [How toolbars and drawers works](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-editor) Platform Aug 26 ### Status page Hosted off Galley’s own infrastructure. Story bible Aug 26 ### Research and ⌘K search ⌘K searches the whole book. A clipping can become a glossary term, a citation, or a permissions entry. [How research and ⌘k search works](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible) Revision Jul 26 ### Self-edit tools A consistency sweep, delivery readiness, and in-book statistics. [How self-edit tools works](https://usegalley.com/docs/revision) Revision Jul 26 ### Draft milestones Mark an entire book as a draft stage, and compare any chapter across milestones. [How draft milestones works](https://usegalley.com/docs/revision#version-history) Story bible Jul 26 ### Permissions and credits Keep track of copyrighted material in the book, and generate a credits page from it. [How permissions and credits works](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible) Revision Jul 26 ### Cuttings Cut prose is kept, searchable, and can be pulled back in. [How cuttings works](https://usegalley.com/docs/revision) Structure Jul 26 ### Manuscript import A.docx,.md, or.txt splits into chapters. A revision comes back with a diff. [How manuscript import works](https://usegalley.com/docs/your-first-book#import) Story bible Jul 26 ### Retroactive tagging Tag a character or location, and every earlier mention updates. [How retroactive tagging works](https://usegalley.com/docs/the-story-bible#characters) The writing room Jul 26 ### Offline writing Beta Chapters save to the device and sync when you reconnect. [How offline writing works](https://usegalley.com/docs/offline-writing) The page Aug 26 ### Page breaks in the editor A mark to indicate an approximate page break (which may change depending on stray words and scene breaks when the book is exported). Publishing Jun 26 ### Print typography Justification, hyphenation per language, widow and orphan control, and real ligatures. [How print typography works](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design) Publishing Jul 26 ### Large print and accessible EPUBs A 16pt large print PDF, and EPUBs that declare their accessibility. [How large print and accessible epubs works](https://usegalley.com/docs/preview-and-export) Publishing Jun 26 ### One tuned EPUB per store Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play, and Nook. [How one tuned epub per store works](https://usegalley.com/docs/publishing) Publishing Jun 26 ### Device preview Preview the book on a Kindle, iPhone, iPad, or as print. [How device preview works](https://usegalley.com/docs/preview-and-export) Revision Jun 26 ### Read-through mode The whole book in one continuous scroll. [How read-through mode works](https://usegalley.com/docs/revision#read-through) Series & editions Jun 26 ### Editions and translations A translation or edition inherits the master book’s design. [How editions and translations works](https://usegalley.com/docs/series-and-translations) ## Not doing 2 Decided against for now. The writing room ### Sprints and timers Writing against a stopwatch. Goals, streaks, and momentum are as far as this goes for now. Story bible ### Structure templates No fifteen-thousand-point grids to fill in. Galley won’t prescribe a method.