“Well, before I tried Cora, I had just one question: Do we really need another text editor? Then I started seriously thinking about building my own.”— Robinson Crusoe
An editor fornovel writing
Focus on your story.
Fully offline. Completely AI-free.
$25, one-time purchase.
Explore Cora
Features
Writing
Chapters
Story Overview
Notes
Drafts
Import
Export
Offline
Clean UI
Outline
Sync
Focus Mode
Dark Mode
Search
Fast
Private
No AI
Inside a Chapter
Editor
At the end of the day it is just about writing.
Seamlessly.
Foglessly.
Uilessly.
Endlessly
Outline
Reading a story from the end. Opening it in the middle. Skipping paragraphs and going straight to the dialogue. That's how a story lives. An outline is a path, not an obligation.
Drafts
Having the story and the draft side by side is just another degree of freedom.
Having the story and the draft side by side is just another degree of freedom.
A draft is sometimes a buffer. Sometimes a trash bin. Sometimes just a reminder of how easy it is to get lost in letters.
Notes
- She couldn't have met him before Chapter 3
- The weather matters in the Paris scenes
- Ending feels rushed — revisit after Part II
Writing one story often sparks ideas for another. Notes are there only for a moment: to drop the idea somewhere safe, then return to the text.
Writers love it
“Was Homer a real person? Did he write all his epics? No one knows. But if I was, and if I did, then there is no question which app I used.”— Homer
“You can start something that already has a name, or you can come up with something that doesn't have one yet. No one liked what I wrote until someone called it a novel.”— Miguel de Cervantes
“Why, my dear, it is not enough merely to write. To be a writer, one must write twice as fast.”— Red Queen
“Personally, I didn't find Cora all that useful. I was looking for something more Sonnet-oriented, you know. There is no Sonnet in Cora. But at least there are Scenes.”— Shakespeare
“There is infinite hope. But not for us. Though I have to admit — with a good outline, the odds improve slightly.”— Kafka
Story Overview
Parts & Chapters
Your entire novel at a glance. Parts, chapters, and their note cards laid out on a single board — the macro view of your story's architecture.
Scenes
All scenes across every chapter, organized in one place. Search, filter, and reorder to find the pulse of your story.
All notes and drafts
Notes that span across chapters — character profiles, location bibles, timeline threads. Everything that holds your world together. Alternative versions and experiments at the story level. A sandbox where big-picture ideas compete before earning their place.
Everything you need
Import from anywhere
Bring in a manuscript from Word, Pages, Google Docs, or a folder of plain-text files. Heading sizes map automatically to Parts and Chapters. Sub-folders become Parts; individual files become Chapters inside them.
Export to any format
When the draft is done, export to PDF with a custom cover, running headers, and typography you control — or to ePub, Word, or a plain-text folder. Each Chapter becomes its own file; nothing extra is included.
No AI, by design
Cora has no writing assistant, no autocomplete, no generation. The blank page is yours. Use a separate tool for research if you want — then close it and write. Keeping the tools apart is how you keep your voice.
iCloud, the way Apple built it
Your novels sync across all your Macs through iCloud Drive — no account, no Cora server, and no subscription beyond what you already have. The .cora package format is designed for efficient file updates.