The writing studio for your long-form projects
To finish what you started.
Too many writing projects die — not for lack of talent, but for lack of method. Extypis holds the outline, the sheets, the drafting, the analysis and the export — you write, we tend to the work.
Structure
A visible architecture gives a long text its spine.
Outline, storyboard and chapters stay in sync, from start to finish.
Three recognised narrative templates for fiction, a free outline for essays, theses or collections. Reorder freely — the rest follows.
All features, free500 free AI creditsNo credit card required
Who is it for?
Made for fiction. Built for any long text.
Built first for novelists: narrative outline, character sheets, cross-chapter consistency and an AI that knows the whole project. Also for essayists, academics, poets, screenwriters and bloggers — APA/MLA/Chicago citations, poetic meter, clean DOCX/EPUB/PDF exports and direct WordPress publishing.
Switch genre at will and even customize it in 2 clicks — without affecting the work in progress.
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.
The interface
An interface that fades away when you write.
A writing Mode for each project — novel, thesis, poetry, screenplay: the interface keeps only what matters. Zen Mode hides everything but your text. The rest is one click away via .
01The journey
From rough idea to a presentable text.
Structure your way, write at your own pace, rewrite in your own voice; reorganize without breaking a thing; doubt, start over, get a second read without flinching.
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Step 01
Catch the spark
Ideas come when you've stopped expecting them — at a red light, in the shower, at 3am. You know they'll fade if you wait until you're back at your desk. The real writing tool isn't the one waiting for you; it's the one that's there when the spark strikes.
Notes, drafts & storyboard
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Install the world
At first, you know every face in your story. By chapter 7, the antagonist's eyes have changed colour, the heroine has shed a few years, the country house has moved. That's not a memory flaw — it's what a long project costs, and those who hold all that in their head are doing maths, not writing novels.
Linked narrative elements
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Step 03
A frame that holds, never freezes
You waver between two fears: plan too much and you smother the spark; plan nothing and you lose the thread by chapter 3. No long-form work has ever held without a plan — but none has survived a rigid one. The right frame bends as you advance, like the manuscripts of Flaubert or Proust: a living draft, never a frozen file.
Narrative plan + free reorganization
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An AI that knows when to shut up
At one point, you'll go dry on a dialogue. At another, you'll doubt a whole scene. You want a companion — not an impostor pretending to write in your place. The right AI is the one that knows your project end-to-end, stays silent while you write, and only speaks when you call.
Contextual AI assistant
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Revise before collapse
After six months, you can no longer see your own text. Repetitions become invisible, contradictory dates slip past you, the passive voice has become a tic. Before others judge you, fresh eyes are needed — without mood, fatigue or ego, eyes that have read every chapter with the same attention and respect your style.
AI continuity check
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A manuscript that doesn't betray itself
A book you never send doesn't exist. But to let it go with dignity, it has to be ready to face the eyes of others — editor, jury, or reader. No patch-up job, no last-minute saves, no regret when you click send.
Multi-format export
02Real friction
Long-form work rarely breaks on “inspiration”.
Cute idea. Inspiration shows up the moment a writer no longer has to worry about pencil-lead thickness before sharpening.
“I lose track of side characters, sources or supporting references.”
As the project grows, the details — eyes, dates, relationships — quietly leave your working memory.
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The Extypis answer
Characters, places, sources and notes have their own dedicated sheets, linked to the text through @mention. Everything is recallable from any scene, no tab-switching, no folder-digging.
“My outline turns false as soon as the text moves.”
You move a chapter, and suddenly the table of contents lies, cross-references point sideways, the structure becomes decorative.
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The Extypis answer
Outline, storyboard and chapters are three views of one project — moving a scene reorders everything, numbering follows, @mentions hold. And if the reshuffle creates an inconsistency — an event referenced before it happened — the AI flags it for you in the margin.
“Generic AI either helps little, or erases me.”
A broad tool sends back smooth, decontextualised prose that needs almost as much repair as help.
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The Extypis answer
The Extypis AI reads your outline, your sheets and the text already written, hands-off, on every call. No prompt to compose: consistency with your work is guaranteed on every rewrite, continuation or pitch.
“I write out of order, and I spend half my time patching it back together.”
An end scene burns before chapter three. But traditional word processors were never built for that — you cut, paste, renumber, juggle files.
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The Extypis answer
In Extypis, every scene, part or chapter stays movable and exportable in final order. You write when the urge strikes, the software handles the sequence.
“I stop seeing contradictions, repetitions and tics after too many passes.”
The closer you get to the text, the less you see what drifts: passives, dates that contradict each other, involuntary refrains.
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The Extypis answer
Analysis tools and AI consistency checks surface weak signals — repetitions, passives, narrative contradictions — before they harden into the manuscript.
“My final export never looks like the text I worked on.”
After months of writing, losing a day to a messy export feels like slipping back to draft level.
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The Extypis answer
Everything that makes a finished book is already in Extypis: title page, dedication, epigraph, foreword, appendices, bibliography. APA/MLA/Chicago citations and footnotes generate themselves. At export — DOCX, EPUB, book-quality PDF, Markdown — the text comes out exactly as you crafted it.
03What Extypis actually carries
Three promises, atop a stack of features.
Hold structure, support editorial work, ship a clean file — whatever your genre.
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.
Structured narrative plan
Beat-sheet structured around three reputable frameworks, with automatic narrative health and chapter mapping.
Storyboard
Story overview with summaries, labels, quick preview and scene reordering.
Non-linear writing
Write scenes in any order, then reorganize them freely.
@character mentions
Insert clickable mentions to your characters, locations and objects.
8 narrative element types
Dedicated cards for characters, locations, conflicts, themes, objects and more.
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.
AI writing assistant
Conversational AI assistant in the sidebar, color-coded quotes highlighted in the text and one-click rewriting from any passage.
AI rewriting in your text
Select any passage and let AI suggest a rewording right inside the editor.
AI continuation in your text
Type /continue and AI extends your text in your style.
AI nudge when you're stuck
When you pause, a discreet bubble offers an AI nudge. Press Tab to continue your sentence — never interrupted while you write.
AI continuity check
AI automatically detects contradictions, forgotten arcs and inconsistencies in your story, and saves the report.
AI presentation & summary
Tagline, short presentation and full summary automatically generated, saved and faithful to your story.
AI narrative element generator
Characters, places, events, themes… generated by AI with optional illustration.
Image generation (cover, places, characters)
Book cover + images of your characters, places, and objects, generated by AI. Free: 3 images, standard models. Premium: unlimited, pro editorial quality (Flux 1.1 Pro, DALL-E 3).
Manuscript
The project exits cleanly, ready to be shared.
Finishing tools matter as much as drafting tools: versions, readability, front matter, citations, exports — they have to save time when there is little left.
Snapshots (versions)
Create versions, compare them and restore a previous state.
Readability score
Measure how easy or demanding your text is to read.
Repetition detection
Spot unwanted repetition and refine your style faster.
Passive voice detection
Spots passive voice sentences and highlights them. Shows the percentage of passive voice in the text. Useful for energizing your writing if you tend to overuse the passive.
Front matter and back matter
Preface, afterword, dedication, epigraph, table of contents (at the start or the end?): publishing has conventions no author really learns. Extypis guides you through every editorial fixture — title page, cover auto-cropped to book format, ISBN, copyright, opening and closing sections — and lets you reorder or hide any of them at export.
Bibliographic citations
Academic references with one-click style switching.
PDF export (LaTeX)
Generate polished PDFs with true typographic quality.
Multi-format export
Export to PDF, DOCX, EPUB, HTML, Markdown or full archive.
Everything Extypis unlocks for you
Five concrete capabilities: structure, write, (use AI 🤫), analyse, publish.
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.
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.
Daily writing comfort
Everything that makes long-form writing sustainable: shortcuts, templates, anchored notes, versions, goals.
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, even to finish. Serious when you need to go deeper.
The work of structuring and writing is entirely yours. The subscription gives you a thoughtful co-pilot, an occasional co-author, and an objective reader drawn from your target audience.
05FAQ
Frequent questions, plain answers (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.
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'd always wished for.
Having finished a novel after several attempts, and built up years of poetry — kept right here, on Extypis — I saw firsthand how many writing blocks are really method problems, easy to move past once you give yourself the right tools. Technique doesn't replace imagination — it carries it. If you write seriously, Extypis is for you too.