BookWrite: ScribeMe

Craft a novel, journal, diary

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Step through the door of an old bookshop and write. Open ScribeMe and you're standing at the door of a bookshop. Push it open, step inside, and your library is waiting on the shelf - every book you've written, standing spine-out, in whatever order you like. MAKE A BOOK, NOT A DOCUMENT Choose how a book feels before you write a word: hardcover, leather, cloth or paperback; the colour of the boards; cream, white or parchment pages; and the pen in your hand - fountain pen, ballpoint, pencil or marker, each with its own ink and weight of line. Pick a typeface with real character. Every cover gets its own grain, so no two books on your shelf look alike. Tall, square and wide picture-book shapes are all here. A DIARY THAT LOCKS Any book can be locked with Face ID or your passcode - a private diary that stays private. Night pages give you dark paper and light ink for writing after bedtime. WRITE, DRAW, ILLUSTRATE Real styling: bold, italics, centred lines, scene breaks. Draw straight onto the page with Apple Pencil or a fingertip, and add photo illustrations wherever you like. Draw your own cover, too. ORGANIZE A REAL STORY Chapters with a contents sheet. A plot board that lays your pages out at a glance. A story bible that interviews your characters and remembers your places. Story templates - three acts, hero's journey, fairy tale, mystery - that scaffold the chapters for you. Find and replace, and search across the whole shelf. TAKE IT OFF THE DEVICE Export a typeset PDF with cover, dedication, contents and illustration plates. Print a fold-at-home booklet. Make an EPUB ebook, a plain-text file, or an audiobook read aloud. Back up your whole library to a single file and carry it to another device. KEEP GOING Daily goals, streaks, milestones and writing sprints. A home-screen widget with your shelf and your streak. An evening writing prompt if you want one. Read a finished book with a real page curl, or have it read to you. YOURS, AND PRIVATE No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking, no subscriptions, and nothing is ever collected. Your books live on your device. Turn on iCloud sync (beta) and they sync through your own private iCloud - still nobody else's. Automatic version snapshots mean nothing you write is ever really lost. Everything in ScribeMe is included, free. It always will be. Made for iPhone and iPad.

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Everything the bookshop promised finally arrives. An earlier update went out packaged with the wrong build, so if ScribeMe has felt unchanged - this is the one that changes it. Write with real styling - bold, italics, scene breaks. Draw right on your pages with Apple Pencil and add photo illustrations. Organize with chapters, a plot board, and a story bible that interviews your characters. Export a typeset PDF, a fold-at-home booklet, an EPUB ebook, even an audiobook read aloud. Flip through a finished book with a real page curl. Lock a private diary with Face ID. Keep automatic version snapshots, sync your shelf through your own private iCloud (beta), try square and wide picture-book shapes, add the home-screen widget, and pick your favorite of three shop-sign app icons. Also new: Settings now shows the version installed on your device, so you can always tell exactly what you have. All of it free, as everything in ScribeMe always will be.

Version 1.2.1

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    Information

    Provider
    Richard Wheatley
    Size
    4.3 MB
    Category
    Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 18.1 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 18.1 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 18.1 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 2.1 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © 2026 Richard Wheatley
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