Vellerune is a writing app for novelists who build worlds, but the tools work for any genre. Books are organized into front matter, acts (optional), chapters, and scenes. Everything you type saves automatically. Focus mode clears the screen to just your words. Snapshots quietly keep versions of every scene, and drafts let you revise freely while the original stays untouched.
A World for Your Story
Each world holds your setting material: characters, locations, maps, organizations, magic systems, a glossary, and notes. World items can be linked together in any way you see fit using the customizable template system, with backlinks between references.
Reference Without Leaving the Page
Quick Lookup opens your world's entries beside your prose, so checking a name or a rule never breaks your flow. It also includes a dictionary and thesaurus, alongside your world's own glossary.
Map Your World
Drop in your maps to set up locations with pins or regions, measure the distance of a journey, and more. Maps can even be included in the front matter of your exported books.
Stay Motivated
Vellerune records your writing time, words written, and net words as you work. Set daily or scene-level goals and watch the dashboard chart your progress.
Bring Your Manuscript
Import a Word document in standard manuscript format and Vellerune builds the book for you, chapters and scenes intact.
When it's time to share your work, export a submission-ready manuscript or a self-publish layout as PDF, DOCX, or EPUB with maps, trim sizes, gutters, custom scene breaks, chapter images, and more.
Private by Design
No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud requirement. Your worlds and your writing are just files on your machine, easily exportable at any time so you're never locked in.
Vellerune ships with Learn Vellerune, a guidebook that teaches the app from inside it, alongside simple exercises using the built-in world items.
rthomasv3 added Vellerune as alternative to Scrivener, Campfire Write, Manuskript and Ulysses
