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For novelists
from start to finish

Karde is built for the whole book, not around it.

Most writing tools ask you to make the book simpler than it is. Karde gives the tangle somewhere to sit: the characters, the timeline, the turning points and the draft itself, held together and ready whenever you are.

Notes on a laptop, held for the writer

Writing a book is a long apprenticeship.

Inside the Karde studio

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thestudio.

Every planning surface, every quiet page, every finishing touch. Take the full tour of what a Karde subscription actually holds.

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Live authorprofile.

Every writer on Karde has a public profile: the manuscripts they are working on, the milestones they have hit, the pages they read.

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Select the plan that fits your writing:

Free
A$0/forever
Free forever, in AUD · no card, ever
  • The Scriptorium, where every book you are writing lives
  • Distraction-free manuscript editor
  • Unlimited notes
  • Book Preview
  • Public author profile
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Everything in Free, plus:

  • The Brief
  • Characters
  • The Planner
  • Events
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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.

Natassja at her desk with Karde open on the laptop

A book is a lot to hold.

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

Not ready to make an account? Start with the Novel Planning Kit.

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.

The Novel Planning Kit on a phone
The Novel
Planning
Kit

Every line you write into Karde is held, version-tracked and protected, and there whenever you need it, from anywhere in the world.

With a Karde account, you will

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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

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