Karde is a platform for the complex work of writing a book.
Every character, every scene, every turn of the plot, held together in one considered place.
What Karde helps you build:
Free · Author Profile
Books you draft in Karde land on the shelf on their own, alongside any published titles you add by hand. Each cover carries a synopsis and a From the author note, and any tile can be hidden from the public page if a book is not ready to be seen yet.
Free · The Scriptorium
The Scriptorium is where every story you are writing lives. Every idea, every character, every scene, every research note and stray line of dialogue held together on one considered shelf. Nothing scattered, nothing lost, every book one click away.
Begin a volume in nine forms, novel, novella, memoir, short story, screenplay, essay, non-fiction, poetry collection, or something of your own. Each book carries its cover, its title, and where it is right now, drafting, revising, submitted, published. Click any tile and Karde takes you into that project's folder: the manuscript, the characters, the events, every note and every scene ready to work on.
When you begin a volume, Karde asks the questions that shape it: the objective, the inspiration, the synopsis, a note from you to your future readers. Bring in a draft you have started elsewhere as a .docx and it lands inside the folder ready to keep going. Write the intention once, come back to it whenever the writing loses its shape.
Begin your book and start your writing project in your own Scriptorium.
Premium · The Planner
Premium · Inside the Characters system
Every character in your book, laid out as cream cards on the navy backdrop. Portrait, name, role, the shape of who they are. Add a character in seconds, open any of them in one click, keep the whole cast in one view.
Thirty-nine prompts across eight parts, Basics, Physicality, Personality, History, Relationships, Inner Life, Arc, and free-form Notes. A quiet list of questions that draws each character out of you, one answer at a time, so no motive, memory or relationship goes untraced.
A page for each character with a hashtag first name, their role, their POV designation, their relationships, the associations they belong to, and a gallery of up to twenty images. Their first name is auto-highlighted in amber across the whole book, so every mention of them is marked wherever it appears.
Premium · Events
Every event of your story, left to right in the order it unfolds. Titles, dates, covers. This is where the saggy middle stops being a feeling and becomes something you can actually see, and move.
Each event holds its nested beats, numbered 1.1, 1.2, so the novel exists as pieces before it is prose. Drag them between events as the story changes. Show or hide the descriptions to zoom from arc to scene without losing the thread.
Hover the gap between two events and a small plus appears. Structure changes mid-draft: a new turn, a scene you missed, a beat that moves. Add it exactly where it needs to be, and the rail reflows around it.
Label each event positive to negative, negative to positive, hope deepens, bad goes to worse. The emotional arc of the whole novel appears across the rail, so you can see where a run of the same beat is dragging the story down.