From the first idea to the finished book.
Grove is a calm writing app for novelists. Plan, write, edit and export in one place, with your whole storyworld right beside the page.
Every stage of a novel, in one place.
Most writing apps stop when the draft is done. Grove stays with you through the outline, the draft, your editor's notes and the finished file.
Your whole world, right beside your book.
Characters, places, creatures, lore, and the languages you invented. One world can be shared by every book in a series.
For the length of a hollowhourhollowhourthe quiet between dusk and true dark, when the wood is said to be busy
Grovespeak there was nothing at all. Not even sil'wensil'wenthe light left in a room after the lamp goes out
Grovespeak, the little ghost of light a room keeps after the lamp goes out.
"Mothwisemothwiseknowing a thing that nobody told you
Grovespeak," said Old MarrowOld MarrowThe keeper of the Hollow Oak, if keeping is the word for what he does.
Character · Mentor.
Hover over a highlighted word. From the sample story, Welcome to the Grove.
A storyworld, not a folder of notes
Every character, place and rule of magic gets its own page and tags, and stays one keystroke away while you write.
Dictionaries for your languages
Write each word down once, with its meaning. Forgot the word? Type what it means and Grove finds it.
A spellchecker that knows your world
Names and invented words are recognised, not underlined in red. The words in your world are the words Grove accepts.
Fits the way you already work.
Start anywhere
Outline first, or start straight in on chapter one. The board is there when you want it and stays out of the way when you don't.
Bring your book in
Already halfway through a manuscript? Bring it into Grove and carry on where you stopped.
Know how it's going
Set a word goal and a deadline, and Grove tells you what that means per day. Days spent planning count as work too, not just the days you add words.
- No subscriptionBuy it once. It's yours.
- No cloudNo account and no server. Grove works offline, on your Mac.
- Your filesEvery chapter is a plain file in a folder you choose. Open it with anything, any time.
I got fed up with writing my novels across different tools: one for ideas, one for the outline, one for the writing, another for editing.
So I built the app I wanted. One place for the whole book, with an interface simple enough to disappear while I write, and capable and flexible enough to keep up when the book gets big. No more subscriptions, and no more cloud.
I'm finishing my third novel in it now. Before it goes out into the world, I'm looking for a few writers to try it and tell me honestly what works and what doesn't.
Michael Sokolar
Become one of the first testers.
Free during testing. All you need is a Mac and a book you're writing. Tell me a little about it, and I'll get back to you personally.