Where writers build their stories
A web app for novelists · Karde
Most writing tools ask you to make the book simpler than it is. Karde is a browser-based writing app that gives the tangle somewhere to sit: the characters, the timeline, the turning points and the draft itself, held together and ready whenever you are.
Build.
Build your cast of characters, the turns and beats of the plot, the events set out along a timeline, and the author profile that carries your name.
→Write.
The Brief that holds the whole idea of your book, and a clean writing space you can set to suit you, with options to ease eye strain over long hours. Write or edit as the work needs it, every version tracked, and the small tools that carry the work forward.
→Publish.
Choose the size, typography and layout, add your cover, and see your book take its finished shape in live preview, long before it goes to print.
→Every planning surface, every quiet page, every finishing touch. Take the full tour of what a Karde subscription actually holds.
See what Premium holds ›Every writer on Karde has a public profile: the manuscripts they are working on, the milestones they have hit, the pages they read.
Begin your book · free for a month
Select the plan that fits your writing:
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When the trial ends, your planning tools go read-only. Everything you have written stays exactly where it is, and your drafting space is still free and open.
If you have ever felt like you cannot keep the whole thing in your head, you are not doing it wrong.
I built Karde because I know what it feels like to carry a whole book in your head. The characters that shift on you. The timeline that slips. The notes on the back of an envelope. The plan written at midnight. The one voice you are chasing across sixty thousand words. It is a lot. Every writer I know is holding more than they can keep in view. Karde is the room I always wished I had.
You are in the right place.
Free for writers
A small, honest, useful thing I made for the writers still deciding. No sign-up, no card. Take it for a spin and see how the studio thinks.
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Every line you write into Karde is held, version-tracked and protected, and there whenever you need it, from anywhere in the world.
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Hold every character, plot turn and beat together, beside the manuscript. · Premium
See the whole shape of your novel on a single ordered line. · Premium
Never lose a note, a draft or a version of the manuscript again.
Have a public author profile that grows with every book you write.
Watch your manuscript set as a finished book, long before it prints.
See the whole road to a finished book, one considered milestone at a time. · Premium
A month free. No card.