Introducing Scribbly: A Developmental Editing Tool for Authors
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Scribbly is a private, local-only analysis tool that reveals structural patterns in your manuscript — through annotation, visualization, and data. It reads your book without touching a server or generating a single word. Perfect for authors who struggle with developmental edits, whether you work with a professional editor, beta readers or solo.
You start by teaching Scribbly your book: characters and their aliases, relationship constellations, thematic clusters, world vocabulary, and craft concerns specific to your draft. From there, the analysis reflects your manuscript, how you see it.
Read & Annotate
Highlight, add notes, tag what matters. Every annotation feeds every analysis downstream — the timeline, the map, the restructure cards, the revision insights.
Analyze
Tension, rhythm, dialogue, character presence, thread continuity, key scenes, and chapter bookends, all in one dashboard, all derived from your specific manuscript.
Restructure
Create a card for any structural problem — a chapter that isn't working, a thread that's lost continuity — and Scribbly synthesizes what it knows into a targeted action plan.
Semantic Map
A force-directed graph of your manuscript's thematic clusters, built from your annotations and vocabulary, not generic literary assumptions.
Version Comparison
Link two drafts and compare them structurally: overlaid tension curves, new patterns since the last version, and confirmation that the alerts you fixed actually resolved.
Privacy
No backend. No accounts. Everything stays on your device. Run it entirely offline from source if you prefer.
Upload your EPUB or DOCX, define your manuscript, and start seeing the structure you've been writing.