what changed.

1.13

30 October 2026

The release-day build.

• About the author: your bio and photo from your author profile close the print book and the ebook, on a right-hand page. Turn it off in Format.
• Chapters open on the right: fixed a wrong page count when a chapter needed a blank page before it, which could throw off the gutter and spine. Rebuild your print files, and redraw the cover if Studio asks.
• KDP's AI question: AI art made in the cover Studio now counts in the metadata sheet's answer about AI-generated images.
• Questions that work: Plan outline, Rewrite, Hit a word target, adding to the Bible, Undo the AI run, Deactivate on this Mac and the rest now ask inside the app.
• Your licence: paste your key on first run. The paywall now matches the site: pay what you want until 31 December 2026, then $169 once.
• Trim sizes: 8.25 × 11 in no longer gets a wrong warning on the cover.
• Help and the walkthrough cover every AI service, the cover Studio and the Bible's fix actions.

1.12

19 October 2026

• Write: chapter editor with word targets and live counts; import from .docx, Markdown and plain text.
• Write it with AI: pick the kind of book first, then start from an idea, a spark or Surprise me; choose the shape, the book size and the length in pages or words; answer a few questions or tap Decide for me or Not sure yet; approve the pitch (titles, cast, outline, first page); then the book writes itself in the background, chapter by chapter, with pause, stop, resume and undo.
• Nonfiction: narrative nonfiction, idea or argument, survey or reference, how-to and memoir. Your notes come back as threads tagged Your call, We'll research or Both. The pitch brings a thesis, an outline in parts, a research plan and facts to check. Nothing is made up: uncertain facts get a check note, and the KDP pack isn't marked Ready until they're checked.
• Writing rules: no em dashes, US or UK spelling, no AI-sounding phrases, banned words, swearing, heat level and "said" tags, applied to every AI result.
• Manuscript check: before every build it finds AI leftovers, placeholders, empty or cut-off chapters, repeated passages and facts to check.
• The authorship dial: four levels, set for the whole book or per chapter. AI mode with brief, outline, chapter drafting, expand, shape, rewrite, trim and word-target tools. Review AI changes paragraph by paragraph; chapter history before every AI change.
• Any AI service: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama and LM Studio, plus any OpenAI-compatible service. A model for each job, keys in the macOS Keychain, cost estimates and a monthly limit.
• Author profiles: name, bios, photo and writing voice for you and your pen names.
• Story bible: characters, places, facts, timeline and who-knows-what; manuscript scan without a key; AI extraction and continuity checks with flags.
• Covers: a cover studio with nine layouts, AI art for the front or the whole wrap (made without lettering), your own images, one-click restyle with ten palettes and nine type pairs, and layers: text, shapes, icons, ornaments and patterns made from the title. Back-cover blurb options. Quick designs from ten templates. KDP wrap geometry with bleed, safe-area and barcode checks; 1600-pixel-wide ebook cover.
• Format: 17 KDP paperback trim sizes, interior type and leading, chapter openings (seven presets, ornaments, small capitals, drop caps), your own house-style rules.
• Publish: print interior PDF with the gutter for its page count and embedded fonts; EPUB with accessibility metadata, built to pass epubcheck 5.2.1; the KDP pack with a metadata sheet and AI-disclosure answers from your dial; the store listing (Amazon description, seven keyword phrases, three categories) drafted from the book.
• Help: first-run walkthrough and a searchable Guide in the Help menu.
• For Mac (Apple Silicon). Light and dark themes.