SceneWeaver
A structure-aware manuscript development environment for complex long-form writing — with continuity and integrity tooling that generic editors don't have.
Built for long-form writers
Structure
Hierarchical manuscripts: chapters, scenes, sections — reorderable, splittable, with word-counts that roll up automatically. Built for novels and series, not single notes.
Continuity
First-class entities for characters, items, locations, and organisations. Cross-reference integrity, usage panels, and merge-token disambiguation across the whole work.
Integrity
Reports for statistics, readability, repeated phrases, and data quality. Restore points, snapshots, and diff viewing — so revision never costs you what you wrote.
What makes SceneWeaver different
Local-first, offline-first
Your manuscripts live on your machine as portable SQLite files. No accounts, no sync, no cloud lock-in. Copy the file to a USB stick and your project moves with you.
Your writing never leaves your machine
SceneWeaver never transmits manuscript content — text, entity names, citations, or exports. Bug reports and anonymous usage telemetry are opt-in, off by default, and never include a word of what you wrote.
No DRM, no export crippling
One-click export to DOCX, PDF, EPUB, HTML, Markdown, Plain Text, Fountain, and LaTeX. The full feature set, the full text, always. Trust is the product for writing software.
Free — and free stays
Version 1 is free for everyone: the complete feature set, no accounts, no activation, no paywall. Version 2 introduces optional paid tiers for unlimited manuscripts, but a free tier continues — same full feature set, capped at three simultaneous manuscripts.
SceneWeaver is closer in spirit to Scrivener or Aeon Timeline than to Notion or Obsidian. If you're writing long, complex work with many threads and a cast that has to stay consistent, this is for you.