Your new writing room
Where novelists write with AI without selling their soul.
Your outline, your notes, your scenes and your world fall into place and reshape themselves naturally, in step with your method, backed by an AI as quiet as it is powerful.
The outline
Your outline and storyboard, always in plain sight.
By chapter 12, I no longer know where my novel is going.
Three proven narrative architectures for fiction, a free outline for essays or theses. Reorder with a single gesture — chapters, scenes, parts — the structure follows.
Who is it for?
Made for fiction. Built for any structured writing project.
Built primarily for novelists and short fiction writers — narrative outline, character sheets, cross-chapter consistency and an AI that sees your whole project. Equally suited for essayists, academics, poets, screenwriters and bloggers.
Each project has its own dedicated interface. Naturally, everything remains finely adjustable.
Fiction
Narrative outline (Save the Cat, hero's circle, free outline), character, location and conflict sheets linked via @mentions, non-linear writing with storyboard, contextual AI that knows your whole novel.
Academia
Argumentative outline, one-click APA/MLA/Chicago citations, numbered footnotes, integrated bibliographic search, AI that knows your corpus, connector analysis and PDF export via LaTeX.
Poetry
Real-time syllable count (alexandrine, octosyllable, elisions, dieresis), enriched French dictionary, zen mode, repetition detection and inline AI that suggests a line without writing the poem.
Essay
Free argumentative outline, idea and citation sheets linked via @mentions, thematic tags, AI that knows your reasoning, logical connector analysis.
Screenplay
Acts, sequences, movable scenes, characters and conflicts linked to the text via @mentions, contextual AI for dialogue, clean export for stage, agent or registration.
Blogging
Multi-article calendar inside one project, AI that knows your editorial line, scored readability, AI-generated SEO metadata, direct WordPress publishing in one click.
01The journey
A writing experience unlike any other — finally comfortable.
Structure your way, write at your own pace, rewrite in your own voice. Reorganize without breaking a thing. Doubt, start over, hand it to a second reader without flinching.
02Real friction
Long projects rarely break on “inspiration” — it's almost always something else.
Every writer falls for it. “I have no inspiration” is usually a quieter way of saying: I didn't know where I was going, I no longer know where I am, so I no longer know where to go next.
03What Extypis actually carries
Three promises sitting on a stack of features.
Write without anxiety, hold the structure, support the editorial work, ship a file as clean as something out of a print shop — it really can be that simple.
Architecture
The project stays manageable while it keeps changing.
Extypis is strongest when a text grows, shifts, sharpens and starts generating real internal dependencies — narrative, sources or ideas.
Editorial AI
An AI that suggests, never replaces.
On every generation, Extypis AI reads your outline, your sheets and the text already written. Where a generic AI starts from scratch on every prompt, ours keeps the project coherent from start to finish.
Manuscript
The project ships cleanly, ready to be read.
Finishing tools matter as much as drafting tools: versions, readability, front matter, citations, exports — they have to save time when there is little left.
After the writing
Give your project a real reading address.
Once the text is ready, you don't have to leave Extypis to find your first readers. Publish in one click on the public catalog and give your book a clean, readable, shareable page.
Extypis catalog
Published directly on Extypis — no fees, no middleman.
Publishing opens a dedicated page for your project: cover, title page, chapters, table of contents. The content is frozen at publication, so your readers always see a stable version while you keep working. You decide when to push a new version.
A reading page for each project
Customizable URL, title page, cover, table of contents and chapter-by-chapter navigation.
A catalog that helps readers find your book
Your project can appear in the public catalog, categories, subcategories and trending page — or stay accessible only through the direct link.
Readers who can actually react
Readers can comment chapter by chapter, mention a specific paragraph, and you get notified for every feedback.
A stable version without breaking your work
The text is frozen at publication time. You keep writing on your side, then decide when to push an update.
Everything Extypis unlocks for you
Hold your story, from outline to final page.
Narrative tools you won't find elsewhere — turn a tangle of ideas into a structure that holds.
AI that suggests, never replaces
The AI permanently sees your whole project — outline, sheets, scenes already written. Every rewrite, every completion, every suggestion, every cover stays consistent with your entire work, and at no extra cost or setup. You approve every word.
Estimates if you only use this feature. Credits are shared across every AI tool.
Daily writing comfort
Everything that makes long-form writing sustainable: shortcuts, templates, anchored notes, versions, goals.
Ship a book, not a file.
From manuscript to finished book: professional exports, academic citations, direct publishing.
Analyse and refine your prose
Style tools that go beyond the spell-checker: readability, poetic meter, repetitions, connectors, passive voice.
Lifetime updates
Every future Extypis innovation included, no extra cost, no paywall.
Backing an indie project
Extypis is an independent, self-funded project — no ads, no venture capital.
Human support
Got a question? You talk directly to the creator, never a chatbot.
04Pricing
Free to begin, free to finish. Real pricing only when you need to go further.
Structure and writing are entirely yours. The subscription only adds a steady co-pilot, an occasional co-author, and an unbiased reader pulled from your target audience.
05FAQ
Frequently asked, plainly answered (still friendly).
What does "Extypis" mean?
"Ex typis" is a Latin phrase that appeared on the title pages of printed books from the 16th to the 18th century, right before the printer's name — literally "from the presses of…". The word comes from the Greek τύπος (typos): imprint, model, mark left behind. That's exactly the lineage we claim: a digital workshop that prepares your manuscripts in the great European typographic tradition — until they're worthy of being printed.
Is Extypis only for novelists?
No. Fiction is the most visible target and the tool excels there (narrative outline, narrative elements, cross-chapter consistency, scene-based writing). But Extypis serves essayists, academics, poets, screenwriters and bloggers just as well. For researchers and essayists: auto-numbered footnotes, book-quality PDF export via LaTeX, and a central bibliographic corpus (ISBN search, auto-filled metadata) callable with a shortcut from any scene — APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard, Vancouver. For poets: French syllabic metrics, prosody, mute-e handling. For everyone: free structure and clean exports (DOCX, EPUB, PDF, Markdown, HTML).
Will Extypis AI write my text for me?
No. It stays silent while you write, and becomes a real sparring partner the moment you call on it. When you're deep in a chapter, you inevitably forget things — a character introduced three scenes earlier, a detail slipped in at the beginning, a thread of consistency to hold. The AI doesn't forget: it knows your entire project — sheets, chapters, scenes, outline — and remains stoic, ready to step in only when summoned. It suggests, checks, rewrites, unblocks, helps present and helps revise. But you keep final approval, on every word.
Does Extypis AI really know my project?
Yes. On every generation, it relies on the outline, the sheets and the pages already written. Where a generic AI starts from scratch on every prompt, Extypis keeps the full memory of your work so that suggestions stay coherent from start to finish.
If I write out of order, does the tool still hold up?
Yes. Scenes or parts stay independent, reorderable and previewable in the storyboard, then assemble cleanly at export.
Is the AI the same for free and subscribed users?
No, and that goes for both text and image. On editorial-sensitive tasks (long rewrites, continuity check, editorial pitch, AI assistant), a subscription automatically switches the AI cascade to Claude Sonnet 4.6, the strongest model on French prose. Free users stay on Mistral, Llama, Cerebras and Gemini: very fast and excellent for drafting, more modest on finishing and long-form consistency. For image generation (book covers), free users get Flux schnell (fast, standard quality) while subscribers access Flux 1.1 Pro and DALL-E 3 (editorial quality, careful typography and better photorealistic rendering).
Are my texts used to train an AI?
No. Your texts are never sent to the models for training. None of the AI providers used by Extypis (Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Groq, Gemini) has access to your content outside of the punctual API call required for the requested generation. The APIs are configured without training opt-in, and no data is retained on Extypis' side beyond what is strictly required to run the product.
What if I want no AI at all in my writing?
Extypis offers a strict AI-free mode: a single switch hides every button, side panel, slash command, credit badge and suggestion. The editor goes back to being a pure text editor, and no text is ever sent to a generative model. You keep the structure, the storyboard, the sheets and the exports — without any AI engine running. Discover the AI-free mode.
Can I export a clean file without paying?
Yes to start seriously. Paid plans extend AI usage, quotas and depth once the project becomes more demanding.
I built the writing app I always wished I had.
After finishing a novel through several attempts, and building up years of poetry — kept right here, on Extypis — I saw firsthand how many so-called writing blocks are really method problems, easy to step past once you give yourself the right tools. Technique doesn't replace imagination — it carries it. If you write seriously, Extypis was built for you too.