Draftwell Pro
Local writing app that tracks a book's structure, time spent and prose metrics, no AI.
Draftwell Pro organizes a manuscript as Book → Chapter → Scene, auto-saves every 5 seconds, and highlights known characters, locations and items in the editor so continuity slips are hard to miss. It imports an existing .docx by mapping its headings to chapters and scenes, plans structure on a drag-to-rearrange corkboard, and scores prose on dashboards covering readability (Flesch, Flesch-Kincaid, ARI, Coleman-Liau, Gunning Fog, SMOG), vocabulary, rhythm and pacing. It runs on Windows and Mac with everything stored locally, and markets itself explicitly against AI-written tools and subscriptions.
What holds up
- +No subscription and no AI — a tool with everything stored on your own machine, not a vendor's cloud.
- +Imports an existing .docx and maps its headings straight into the Book → Chapter → Scene structure.
- +Scores prose on eight named readability metrics, not a single vague score.
- +Entity highlighting flags known characters and places as you type, catching continuity errors on the spot.
Mind the limits
- −No pricing shown on the page — the cost isn't clear before you look further.
- −Windows and Mac only, so Linux writers are left out.
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