Scrin
Scrin
Open Scrin

Keep writing.
Scrin keeps the rest.

A home where pages grow into books.

  1. Capture ideas on your phone
  2. Draft chapters
  3. Tighten them with a plan
  4. Clean your copy
  5. Share it with people
The editor, with the scene The last ferry on the page.

Follow the thought

Start it before it has a title. It becomes a chapter when you're ready.

Home: four coloured boxes, including The Salt Road and Pride and Prejudice.

One safe place for everything

Novels, notes, half-ideas: all of them here, all of them whole.

The pairing window with its code, blurred in this picture.

Every device you own

Pick up on your phone where your laptop left off.

The import preview, the incoming manuscript's structure laid out before it enters.

Bring your manuscripts in

From whatever you wrote them in, every chapter in its place.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, chapter six
The outline view: chapters and scenes in editable columns.

See it your way

The whole book at a glance, or every scene one character is in.

Version history, two versions of the text compared.

Back to any version

Rewrite boldly. The earlier page is still there.

The export panel: format settings and a live preview of the result.

Share it your way

Choose who reads it, hear what they think, or just export the file.

Your manuscript, mapped

Its characters, places and plot lines, laid out for you.

No card, no account. Open Scrin by November 30 and your month runs to December 31. When the month is up, reading, history and exports stay free.

Try Scrin free for a month

The Margin

One thing about writing worth trying on your next page, in a short letter. Short enough to read before you start.

Asked first

Do I have to install anything?
No. Scrin opens in your browser, no account, and can sit in your dock as its own window; no signed macOS or Windows app yet. Safari clears a site's data after seven unvisited days of use: keep an export, or pair a second device.
Is it a novel-only tool?
No: an essay, a screenplay, a run of articles, anything long. Bring a script in from Fountain or Final Draft and it arrives in scenes, one per heading. Notes you leave yourself stay out of the export, unless you want them as Word comments.

Reading more first: The November Notebook, the guides, or what Scrin is.