STINGER QUILL

A writing studio that keeps your books apart.

Quill is the author app: each writer's books stay separate inside one database, so a shared install never mixes one author's work into another's.

Deployed and running.

Quill is live. It packages with Social Studio rather than the standard Command Center bundle.

Open it yourself. The live app needs no sign-in, and it carries two short videos: a twenty-second demo of writing, outline cards and a finished book, and a thirty-second walkthrough of the seven steps.

A continuity checker that reads the whole manuscript.

Quill flags leftover [TODO] notes, overused crutch words, a scene that isn't doing what its card says, a character who never actually appears on the page, dialogue that's out of a character's voice, names never defined, a story setup that never pays off, "later" with no real timeline, unexplained time jumps, and same-day travel that doesn't add up, plus a name-collision check for two characters whose names are too close. It also tracks POV balance, dialogue ratio, sentence length, and overused or filter words as you write.

A planner for seven paths to published.

Amazon, wide and everywhere, bookstores and libraries, self-publish, finding an agent, serializing chapters first, or audiobook, each with its own platform guides (Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Apple Books, Kobo, and more) and a 26-step checklist filtered to the path chosen. Quill also generates a query letter, a one-page synopsis, and a one-sheet, and works out royalties by platform and price, plus print page count, cost, and spine width for a physical book.

Ask it, or click the button, both work.

An assistant panel inside the writing tool takes a typed or spoken command or question, and can run any of 72 writing operations, every one of which also has its own button, so nothing the assistant can do is hidden from the writer. A usage meter shows what the assistant is spending, with a budget cap and pause/resume.

Export to whatever you need next.

Markdown, Word (.docx), EPUB, HTML, plain text, print-ready PDF, or a JSON backup, with a book-look preview (title page and front matter) and compile controls for which scenes go in. Import works the other way too, pasted text, Markdown.txt, Word, or a Quill backup file. A sample novel is seeded on first sign-in, so a new writer never stares at a blank page. Quill installs on phone and tablet like an app.

More rooms for keeping a story straight.

Characters, places, rules, timeline

Keep a story bible of characters, places, rules and a timeline, and track promises, plotlines, beats and research.

Parts, chapters, scenes

Organize the book into parts, chapters and scenes, with act, status and comments for each.

Loose ideas, filed later

Jot down loose ideas and later file them into a scene.

A story bible across a series

Keep a story bible across a series and link books to it.

Goals, snapshots, and work that survives a dropped connection.

Goals, sessions, focus and sprints

Set word goals, log sessions, use focus and typewriter modes, and run timed sprints.

Snapshots, versions, paragraph compare

Save snapshots and versions, compare what changed paragraph by paragraph, and undo up to 40 steps.

Offline changes queue and sync

If you lose connection, your changes queue on the device and sync later without overwriting newer work.

Import with a preview

Import from Markdown, Word, a Quill backup or a Scrivener project, and preview the changes before applying them.

Local grammar and spelling checks

Run grammar and spelling checks on a chapter, with your own dictionary and ignore list.

Readers, submissions, a sales page, and a narrated book.

Share a link, collect suggestions

Share a manuscript with a reader by link, collect comments and suggestions, and accept or reject each one.

Submissions, letters, cover and marketing

Track submissions and their status, keep your letters, and set cover design and marketing kit details.

A book product and sales page

Add a book product and publish or unpublish a sales page for it.

Audiobook narration, with a connected voice

Estimate an audiobook's cost, preview a voice and start narration jobs; it needs a connected voice provider.

Quill against Scrivener, Atticus, and Dabble.

Each of these is a capable writing tool with its own strengths. This table lists what each vendor's own page says it offers, next to what Quill offers today. Where a vendor's page is silent on a capability, the cell says so; that is not a claim that the capability is missing.

Feature Quill ScrivenerAtticusDabble
Where you can write: browser and installs on a phone or tablet like an app Yes Mac, Windows and iOS listed; browser not stated on its pageyes: browser-based app, plus Mac, Windows, Linux and ChromebookNot stated on its page
Export formats Markdown, Word, EPUB, HTML, plain text, print-ready PDF, JSON backup Word, RTF, PDF, ePub, Kindle, HTML, LaTeX and moreEPUB, PDF, DOCXWeb, Word, Google Docs
A continuity checker that reads the whole manuscript (leftover notes, crutch words, out-of-voice dialogue, unpaid setups, time jumps) Yes Side-by-side document view for checking by hand; an automatic check is not stated on its pageNot stated on its pageNot stated on its page
Writing goals and targets Yes yes: word or character targets for a manuscript, a section or a sessionyes: writing goals and habit trackeryes: daily word count goals
Character, plot and story-planning tools Yes Not stated on its overview pageNot stated on its pageyes: character profiles, plot grid, worldbuilding bible
A relationship map between characters, inside the same book Yes Not stated on its pageNot stated on its pageNot stated on its page
A publishing planner: seven paths, platform guides, checklist, query letter and synopsis Yes Not stated on its pageNot stated on its pageNot stated on its page
An assistant that can run every writing operation, each of which also has its own button Yes Not stated on its pageNot stated on its pageNot stated on its page
Cloud sync or backup of your books Sign in with Google, X or email; your books are stored per writer Dropbox syncAutomatic cloud backupCloud backup and sync

Competitor entries read from each vendor's own page on 2026-09-21. Quill entries drawn from its capability catalog.