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- Home What Galley is, how it works, and what it costs.
- Is Galley for you? Who it fits, who it does not, and where to go instead.
- Buy Galley The price, what it includes, and checkout.
- Philosophy The refusals: no AI in your prose, no subscription, no sprints.
- Features Everything the app does, grouped.
- Roadmap What is done, in progress, queued, and refused.
- Product updates What changed in the app.
Features in depth
One page per pillar, each listing the features inside it.
- The writing room You pick the trim and typeface first, then write on that page.
- The story bible Characters, places, a timeline and your research, in tabs beside the book.
- Revision Galley counts and checks the whole book, and you decide what to change.
- Toolkit Exports, preflight and the submission package are all in one menu.
- Safe & Secure Only you can read it, it’s backed up, and no AI is trained on it.
Built for
The same app, read from where you are standing.
- Self-publishing authors Type the last sentence, and the files are already made.
- Querying and traditional publishing The manuscript an agent expects, out of the book you actually wrote.
Docs: Getting started
Docs: Writing
Docs: The story bible
Docs: Book design
Docs: Revise & publish
Docs: Your account
Comparisons
Honest, and they concede what the other tool does better.
- All comparisons The hub.
- Galley vs. Atticus The closest tool to Galley: write and format in one place, for a one-time price.
- Galley vs. Dabble A nice subscription writing app, but you’ll need a formatter at the end.
- Galley vs. The Novel Factory Detailed plotting tools and no AI, but it exports to Word, not a finished book.
- Galley vs. Novelium Its AI doesn’t write for you, but it does read your manuscript to check it.
- Galley vs. Novlr Writer-owned, no AI, with courses and a community, but it only exports manuscripts.
- Galley vs. Reedsy Studio Free and good for a first book, but you’re limited to its templates.
- Galley vs. Scrivener A great drafting tool, with a compile step most people find hard.
- Galley vs. Sudowrite An AI that writes prose with you, which Galley never does.
- Galley vs. Ulysses A lovely Markdown app for Apple devices that exports manuscripts, not books.
- Galley vs. Vellum Great-looking interiors, but it’s Mac-only and you write the book somewhere else.
- Galley vs. Word & Google Docs Where most novels start, and where formatting a book gets painful.
Free tools
Everything between a finished manuscript and a book you can sell.
- All resources The hub.
- Spine width calculator Page count and paper stock in, spine width and full wrap cover size out.
- Words to printed pages How many printed pages your word count actually becomes, at your trim and type size.
- Trim size comparison Every common trim at true scale, with your page count in each.
- Cover template generator A print-ready PDF wrap, with the folds and the bleed already drawn.
- Kindle royalty calculator What a Kindle sale pays after the per megabyte delivery fee, at 70% and at 35%.
- Kindle Unlimited earnings What a full read-through pays in KU, and how many borrows equal a sale.
- KDP royalty calculator Print cost, royalty per copy, and the minimum list price KDP will accept.
- Amazon description formatter Formatted description in, KDP-legal HTML out, counted against the 4,000 character limit.
- ISBN checker Validate an ISBN, convert between the 10 and 13 digit forms.
- ISBN barcode generator Your ISBN as a scannable EAN-13, with the price add-on, at print size.
- Copyright page generator The whole copyright page, in the order printers expect it.
- Front and back matter Everything before and after the story, in the right order, for print or ebook.
- Reading time calculator Silent reading, reading aloud, and finished audiobook hours from one word count.
- Word count by genre The expected range for your genre, and where your manuscript sits in it.
- Writing pace calculator A daily word count for your deadline, and what missing a week actually costs.
- Standard manuscript format Shunn format in full, plus the checklist to run before you send it.
- Shunn format generator Paste your text or open a .docx. Get a submission-ready manuscript back.
- Query letter formatter Your paragraphs, assembled in the order an agent reads them.
- Anatomy of a book page Recto, folio, gutter, running head, widow. Every part of the page, named.
- Proofreading marks What the marks on a paper proof are asking you to do, one table.
- Readability checker Reading ease, sentence lengths, adverbs and repeats, for one chapter.
- Dialogue punctuation Comma or full stop before the tag, interruptions, action beats, quotes.
- Dashes and hyphens Common types of dashes, hyphens, and some spacing comments.
- UK vs US style Quote marks, punctuation placement, spelling families, dates.
Write in your language
One page per language Galley sets, with the faces, the typesetting and where it can be sold.
- Book writing software for Arabic العربية
- Book writing software for Basque Euskara
- Book writing software for Bengali বাংলা
- Book writing software for Bulgarian Български
- Book writing software for Catalan Català
- Book writing software for Chinese 中文
- Book writing software for Croatian Hrvatski
- Book writing software for Czech Čeština
- Book writing software for Danish Dansk
- Book writing software for Dutch Nederlands
- Book writing software for English English
- Book writing software for Estonian Eesti
- Book writing software for Finnish Suomi
- Book writing software for French Français
- Book writing software for Galician Galego
- Book writing software for German Deutsch
- Book writing software for Greek Ελληνικά
- Book writing software for Hindi हिन्दी
- Book writing software for Hungarian Magyar
- Book writing software for Icelandic Íslenska
- Book writing software for Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia
- Book writing software for Irish Gaeilge
- Book writing software for Italian Italiano
- Book writing software for Japanese 日本語
- Book writing software for Korean 한국어
- Book writing software for Kurdish کوردی
- Book writing software for Latvian Latviešu
- Book writing software for Lithuanian Lietuvių
- Book writing software for Malay Bahasa Melayu
- Book writing software for Norwegian Norsk
- Book writing software for Pashto پښتو
- Book writing software for Persian فارسی
- Book writing software for Polish Polski
- Book writing software for Portuguese Português
- Book writing software for Romanian Română
- Book writing software for Russian Русский
- Book writing software for Serbian Српски
- Book writing software for Sindhi سنڌي
- Book writing software for Slovak Slovenčina
- Book writing software for Slovenian Slovenščina
- Book writing software for Spanish Español
- Book writing software for Swedish Svenska
- Book writing software for Thai ไทย
- Book writing software for Turkish Türkçe
- Book writing software for Ukrainian Українська
- Book writing software for Urdu اردو
- Book writing software for Uyghur ئۇيغۇرچە
- Book writing software for Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
- Book writing software for Welsh Cymraeg
Reference
- Publishing glossary 120 terms, from bleed and gutter to standard manuscript format.
Writing
Craft, formatting and self-publishing, plainly explained.
- All posts The index.
- Kindle Unlimited Page Reads: How KENP Pays October 17, 2026
- Conan Doyle Used “Upon” 465 Times: Overused Words in Fiction October 14, 2026
- How Many Words Should a Chapter Be? October 9, 2026
- Drop Caps and Small Caps: How a Chapter Opens in a Printed Novel October 5, 2026
- Vellum on Windows: Your Actual Options October 1, 2026
- What Is a Dinkus? Scene Breaks in a Printed Novel September 27, 2026
- KDP Royalties Explained: 35%, 70% and the Paperback Maths September 24, 2026
- The Copyright Page for a Novel, Line by Line September 22, 2026
- Running Heads and Folios: The Top and Bottom of a Book Page September 18, 2026
- How to Credit Quoted Material in a Book September 14, 2026
- Standard Manuscript Format, and What Agents Actually Check September 10, 2026
- Can You Quote Song Lyrics in a Novel? September 6, 2026
- Writing Software for Novelists Who Don't Write in English September 2, 2026
- Accessible Ebooks and the European Accessibility Act August 30, 2026
- How to Write a Book Blurb, and Format It for Amazon August 27, 2026
- Book Margins and the Gutter: The Numbers for KDP August 25, 2026
- The Best Book Writing Software for Self-Publishing Novelists (2026) August 21, 2026
- Book Writing Software Without a Subscription August 18, 2026
- Galley for Self-Publishing August 15, 2026
- How to Back Up a Novel Properly August 12, 2026
- Galley for Traditional Publishing August 10, 2026
- Translating Your Own Novel August 7, 2026
- The Best Fonts for a Novel Interior, and the Licence You Need August 5, 2026
- How Long Should a Novel Be? Word Counts by Genre August 1, 2026
- How to Choose a Trim Size for Your Novel July 29, 2026
- Getting a Scrivener Project Into Word Without Wrecking It July 26, 2026
- Justified or Ragged Right for a Novel? July 24, 2026
- Is Your Writing Being Used to Train AI? July 20, 2026
- Does Scrivener Use AI? And Which Writing Apps Do July 17, 2026
- Why Galley Will Never Put AI in Your Prose July 15, 2026
- Scrivener vs Vellum: Which One Does What July 11, 2026
- Front Matter and Back Matter: The Right Order for a Novel July 8, 2026
- A Series Bible for Book Two and Beyond July 4, 2026
- Sending Your Novel to Beta Readers June 30, 2026
- What You See Is What Prints: Writing on the Real Book Page June 26, 2026
- A Character Sheet That's Actually Useful (With a Real Example) June 22, 2026
- EPUB, Print PDF, or Both? The Files You Actually Need to Self-Publish June 18, 2026
- From Manuscript to Published Book, Without Leaving One Tool June 14, 2026
- What a Style Sheet Is, and Why Your Copyeditor Will Ask for One June 10, 2026
- How to Format a Paperback for KDP (Margins, Gutter, and Bleed) June 6, 2026
- Continuity Errors in Fiction, and How to Catch Them June 2, 2026
- Why Galley Is Buy-Once, Not a Subscription May 29, 2026
- Do You Need an ISBN to Self-Publish? May 25, 2026
- How to Keep Character Names Consistent Across a Whole Book May 21, 2026
- Keep the Story Bible Beside Your Manuscript, Not in Another App May 17, 2026
- What Is a Story Bible, and Do You Need One? May 13, 2026
- Should Your Novel Have a Prologue? May 11, 2026
- A Self-Editing Checklist for Your Novel May 9, 2026
- How to Write a Synopsis for Literary Agents May 7, 2026
- The Typography Rules That Make a Book Look Professionally Made May 5, 2026