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Features

Everything you need to plan your next novel with ease.

Scryla is built for authors who want structure, clarity, and momentum, without rigid templates or overwhelming complexity. Plan and refine with confidence, so you can always see the bigger picture.

Install Scryla on desktop, phone, or tablet (or open it in your browser) and keep your planning workspace with you wherever you go.

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Core Workspace

Project-based planning, with room to explore.

Create multiple writing projects, keep series organized, and archive safely so you never lose the ideas you’ll want later.

Project-based planning

  • Create and manage multiple writing projects
  • Link series titles with reading order, book type, and series blurbs
  • Archive projects safely; permanent deletion is explicit so you won't lose a thing

Board-based structure

  • Visual board for chapters, scenes, notes, characters, beat sheets, and marketing copy
  • Drag-and-drop ordering where you need it
  • Per-project board background colors for quick visual separation

Archive-first philosophy

  • Archive cards to keep drafts, alternates, and "use later" ideas so nothing is wasted
  • Restore archived items when your story changes direction
  • Permanent deletion is gated and intentional

Install Scryla anywhere

  • Install Scryla on desktop, mobile, or tablet, or use it direct from your browser
  • Launch Scryla like an app in its own window
  • Sign in to access your projects wherever you may be

Chapters & Scenes

Flexible chapter design. Clear scene-level progress.

Capture what you need and skip what you don’t. Scryla supports structure without forcing you into a single method. It's not our way or the highway. Your way is the high way!

  • Chapters: titles, optional subtitles, and overviews put you in constant control
  • Scenes: add, reorder, complete, archive, and restore with readable previews on the board
  • Narrative signals: Story Impact (Revelation, Confrontation, Fallout, etc.) and Intensity help track narrative weight
  • Mobile-friendly: Drag and drop chapters and scenes even on smaller screens
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Outline & Export

See the whole story at once. Export anytime.

When it’s time to review offline, share with an editor, or hand the outline to your drafting tool, exporting is one click away.

Continuous outline view

A clean, scrollable view that matches how writers actually review structure.

  • Chapter titles & subtitles
  • Chapter overviews
  • Scene descriptions

Export as a clean document

Download your outline as a polished .docx for editors, collaborators, or agents.

  • Consistent formatting
  • Readable structure
  • Great for offline review

Timeline View

Spot pacing, coverage, and structure issues in seconds.

The Timeline view brings chapters, narrative beats, character arcs, and notes into one visual map, so you can understand what's happening (and what's missing) without digging through cards.

  • See story impact + intensity across the whole manuscript
  • Layer narrative beats, character arcs, and notes for fast coverage checks
  • Jump straight to a chapter when something looks off
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Structure

Beat sheets that fit your framework (or none at all).

Use templates, remix them, or build your own. Keep everything in one place—and connect beats to chapters when it helps.

Multiple beat sheets per project

  • Use templates or create your own
  • Full Markdown formatting inside beats
  • Optional beat → chapter mapping for coverage

Character-aware beats

  • Tag characters directly in beats
  • Track how each character moves through the story
  • Build arcs alongside structure without splitting tools

Notebook

Your ideas, captured fast, and kept close.

The Notebook is a lightweight space for quick notes, research snippets, and reminders that don't belong to a specific project. Drop all your pre-project notes in one place, and attach them to a project when you need to.

  • Fast note capture with a focused editor
  • Searchable list to find the right note quickly
  • Built for desktop, tablet, and mobile workflows
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Characters & Notes

Keep characters, research, and reminders connected.

Scryla keeps your planning context close so you’re not switching between docs, spreadsheets, and sticky notes just to remember what you meant.

Character profiles

Notes, descriptions, and development space with full Markdown support for your characters.

  • Fast, flexible character entries
  • Clean previews of all your data
  • Archive characters (and restore them later)

Character arcs

Built-in 9-beat arc template (or create your own). Rename beats, use a custom setup, or remove what you don’t use.

  • Track character progress
  • Customizable character arc beats and labels
  • Built to stay flexible across genres

Notes & cross-referencing

Worldbuilding, research, themes, and reminders keep you close to the plot no matter where you are.

  • Free-form notes with formatting
  • Tag notes against chapters for instant recall
  • Archive notes so you don't lose them

Writing-Friendly Editing

Markdown everywhere, with a cleaner reading mode.

Chapters, scenes, notes, characters, beats, and marketing copy all support beautiful formatting so your planning stays fast and expressive without messy formatting tools.

Comfortable editors

  • Keyboard shortcuts for bold, italics, and links
  • Previews stay true to what you intend
  • Autosave designed to avoid data loss

Responsive UX

  • Mobile, tablet, and desktop layouts for consistency
  • Bottom navigation on mobile for one-handed use
  • Modals that work with long content

Distraction-free by default

  • Inline editing keeps you in control
  • Focus on the chapter, beat or character without losing the plot
  • Clean previews everywhere, with full export functionality

Safety & Control

Stability you can trust for long projects.

Novels and series evolve. Scryla is designed for real writing timelines, with safe defaults, clear states, and reliable tracking.

Reliable project tracking

  • Archive-first actions so you don’t lose important work
  • “Recently edited” timestamps ensures you're always ahead of the curve
  • Backend-driven autosaves for accuracy

Service transparency

  • Your work is owned by you. Always
  • Clear, deliberate actions for archival and deletion
  • Built to be stable and durable

What’s Next

Scryla is actively evolving.

Planned features build on what Scryla does best: scenes, beats, impact, intensity, and outlines. You can get deeper insight without extra work.

Want an app-like experience? Installing Scryla is easy. Curious what’s coming next? View the roadmap.

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