Edda

Edda is the complete writing platform built for authors, novelists, screenwriters and storytellers. Everything you need to take your story from idea to published book, in one workspace that runs on your device. No AI. No subscription. No cloud requirement. MANUSCRIPT WRITING Parts, chapters and scenes in a drag-and-drop tree with synopsis, status and notes. Rich text with markdown shortcuts, plus prose, screenplay and lyric modes. Distraction-free typewriter mode with continuous auto-save. WORLDBUILDING Character profiles with arcs, flaws, motivations and visual relationship webs. Locations, lore articles and a searchable encyclopedia. Custom calendar systems with invented eras, months and festivals on a timeline. Multi-generational family trees and a reference-art gallery. PLOT & STRUCTURE Eight templates: Hero's Journey, Save the Cat, Three Act, Five Act, Freytag, Story Circle, Snowflake and Seven Point. Editable beat sheets you assign to scenes with completion tracking. Plot-thread tracking with a visual intensity timeline across the whole book. THE SKALD A writing assistant built from craft, not models. Fully offline and rule-based: no language model, no network call, and no prose written for you. Six readability scores and nine style-flag categories, from passive voice to 270+ cliches. Inline spell check with a per-project dictionary. 120+ hand-curated prompts and 160,000 combinatorial premises for when you are stuck. VOICE DICTATION Offline voice-to-text dictation. Speak your story into the manuscript when inspiration strikes, with no internet connection required. BETA READER MANAGEMENT Visible and invisible watermarks in PDF, DOCX and EPUB exports. Per-reader NDA status, version tracking and structured feedback. Draft tracking and reader progress monitoring. PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING True EPUB 3, print-ready PDF and DOCX with six trim sizes and full front and back matter. Pre-publish checklist for KDP and IngramSpark with ISBN validation. WRITING ANALYTICS Daily word-count goals with streak heatmaps. Timed writing sprints with live counts and saved history. Challenge mode for November writing months and your own deadlines. RESEARCH & REFERENCE Research folders, timelines, tags and full-text project search. A 100+ entry trope bible with a deterministic keyword and hashtag generator. Link library for retailers, social profiles and reference material. FOCUS Blindwrite mode: full-screen, single-line drafting with no deleting or editing while you compose. The interface fades until only your text remains. WHY EDDA Your words stay on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing trains anything, and no account is required to write. One-time purchase. No subscription, no feature gating, no module upsells. Try the full studio in your browser first, no install: https://edda.ink/demo