The complete guide
Everything CharmWriter can do
Every feature in the app, grouped by where it fits in writing a book — what it does, why it matters, and how to use it. Speak it or type it: everything here works either way. Start anywhere.
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Start your book
Create the book, understand what it costs, and get to your first session.
Starting a book
Create the book, describe it in a sentence, and start talking.
- New book setup (title, author, premise, genre)
- Craft settings: point of view, tense, tone
- Book language, separate from interface language
- AI-detected craft settings after your first session
- Your first page, shown as a book page when Charm first drafts prose in the chat
- Your chapter shown as a book when you finish a session, open at what you just wrote
- A writing appointment: say when you will write next and get one reminder
- Your library: shelf, covers and list views
- Continue where you left off
- Book preview from the library
- Trash and restore
- Edit any book setting later, from the workspace or the dashboard
- A cover, once your first chapter exists
Charm writes your whole book
Describe the book, settle the big turns, and let Charm write every chapter.
- A whole-book plan from one description: acts, chapters, cast and world
- A length you choose, which sets the chapter count and the price
- The AI model that writes it, chosen per book, with the price moving to match
- The language the book is written in, set before it starts
- An opening you already wrote, pasted in as the voice to build on
- Editable outline before anything is written: retitle, reorder, add, remove
- The exact price, shown before the writing starts
- Scene-by-scene writing, roughly 600 to 900 words at a time, with a printed break where the story cuts to another time or place
- Story Bible built as the book is written
- A quality check on every chapter, with the scores kept
- Decision points at the big turns, with the roads not taken recorded
- Take another road, which re-plans the chapters not yet written
- Tell Charm something in your own words, at any decision point
- How often Charm stops to ask is yours to set
- Continuity scans at act boundaries
- Pause, close the tab, and pick it up later
- Hands the finished manuscript to Finish Book
Importing a manuscript
Bring in a book you already wrote and carry on from where it stands.
- Import from Word (.docx), Markdown (.md) or plain text (.txt)
- Chapter breaks detected from Word headings, chapter titles or scene separators
- A review step where you confirm or correct the chapters before anything is saved
- Italics and bold kept as written
- Book language detected from the prose
- Story Bible built from the whole manuscript: characters, places, plot arcs, relationships
- Genre, point of view, tense and tone read from your opening pages
- The manuscript import itself costs nothing
- A price shown in credits before the Story Bible is built
- Resume a part-built Story Bible later
Charm Credits
Prepaid credits, no subscription, and they never expire.
- Two free credits on signup, no card required
- Four prepaid packs from $2.99
- Credits never expire
- Live balance in the header
- A quiet heads-up before you run out
- Per-book spend badge
- A credit wall that does not interrupt your session
- Transaction history
- Refunds on unspent credits within 30 days
Tell your story
The part that is actually you talking. Speech, conversation, and the record it leaves behind.
Speaking your story
Dictate, hold a spoken conversation, or upload recordings you already made.
- Press-to-talk dictation into any chat box
- Live transcript preview while you speak
- Whisper transcription for accuracy
- Auto-send after a configurable pause
- Talk to Charm: hands-free spoken conversation
- Charm speaks back in your book language
- Spoken workflow commands
- Push-to-talk mode for slow thinkers
- Barge-in — interrupt Charm mid-sentence
- Voice, speaking speed and pause sensitivity settings
- Upload existing recordings (up to 90 minutes)
- Review a transcript before it enters your book
- Have any of Charm’s replies read aloud — no microphone needed
- Listen to a whole chapter read aloud, with the cost shown first
- Your characters read their own replies aloud, each in their own voice
- Hands-free: talk to a character out loud and they answer out loud
Modes, sessions and notes
Three modes of conversation, and the record each session leaves behind.
- Speak or type — every mode works either way
- Listening mode — talk, be questioned, decide nothing
- Writing mode — turn conversation into prose
- Editing mode — refine what already exists
- Keyboard shortcuts for switching modes
- Focus mode — the conversation and your chapter side by side, full screen
- Starter prompts on an empty session
- A personalised opener based on your premise
- An opener that names where you stopped last time
- Tone selector for drafting (5 tones)
- @mentions to pull Story Bible entries into context
- Live notes timeline with AI observations
- "Previously" carry-forward between sessions
- Session transcript kept in full
- Post-session analysis pipeline
- Welcome-back orientation after a long break
Your story’s memory
The reference material CharmWriter builds and maintains for you while you talk.
Talk to your characters
Open a character and ask them something. They answer in their own voice.
- A character answers in the first person, from your Story Bible
- Two modes: talk TO them, or ask a script editor ABOUT them
- They speak your book language, not the app language
- An honest warning when a character is too thin to be interesting
- The conversation is saved and is there on your other devices
- Nothing said in it ever reaches your chapters
- Keep a fact you like: read that one fact, press the button, and it joins the Story Bible
- Hear them say it, in a voice you choose for each character
- Or go hands-free: speak your question and they answer out loud
The Story Bible
Every character, place, thread and date, maintained without you maintaining it.
- Character sheets with roles, descriptions and arcs
- Plot arcs with type and status
- World elements: locations, cultures, rules, organisations
- Timeline of events
- Relationships between entities
- Automatic updates after each session
- Pending update cards you approve or dismiss
- Full-text search across the bible
- Click-to-edit any field
- Per-field AI assist
- Revision history per entity
- A character window with avatar, relationships and revision history
- Facts from a character conversation, added one at a time when you approve them
- Duplicate detection and merging
- Merge undo
- Written in your book language
Story Map and timeline
See the whole book at once — as a web, a timeline, or a grid of arcs.
- Interactive entity web with drag and zoom
- Automatic force layout, positions remembered
- Relationships you draw yourself
- Auto-derived connections from your text
- Narrative lenses: All, Focus, Conflict, Entity
- Filter by chapter or session
- Plot frames and world zones
- Node size by number of connections
- Character portraits on their own nodes
- Red ring on entities with unresolved contradictions
- Timeline Flow view with scene analysis
- Chapter grid — chapters as columns, arcs as rows
- Arc coverage across chapters
- Detail panel with inline editing and AI assist
- Manage hub: merge, delete, reorder
- Keyboard navigation and a legend
Story questions and Story Pulse
The questions a good editor would ask, and a read on the whole book.
- Questions grouped by need: character, plot, world, pacing
- Priority ordering — critical first
- Answer inline, discuss in chat, or dismiss
- You are told where each answer was filed
- Discussion stays out of the book, never turned into prose
- CharmWriter notices when you have settled it and offers to save
- Wander off mid-discussion and it offers the answer back, not silence
- Dismiss with a reason, and undo
- Snoozed questions revive later
- Whole-book questions, separate from scene questions
- Your open question asked back when you return
- Filters: all, critical, this chapter, this session
- Answered history you can reopen
- Backlog from completed chapters
- Revision tasks parked for later
- Story Pulse every third session
- Pacing, absent characters, stale threads
Write the chapters
Turning conversation into a manuscript, and shaping it once it is there.
Chapters and drafts
From spoken conversation to a chapter that is actually in the book.
- Save to Chapter from any AI reply
- Live chapter draft panel
- Inline AI actions on selected text
- Formatting on selected text: bold, italic, headings, quotes, lists
- The draft panel renders in the book's typography
- Chapter navigation with status badges
- Chapter transitions: minimal, guided or full
- Previous-chapter summary when you move on
- Gap warnings between chapters
- Editable word count goal
- Chapter split and merge
- Full-screen chapter reader
- Whole-book preview with page turns
- Marking a chapter complete
- Your real chapter shown as a book when you finish a session, opened where that session began
The Smart Editor
A full-screen editor where every AI tool works on the passage you selected.
- Full-screen rich text editing
- Select text for AI actions
- Improve, expand, shorten, rewrite, continue
- Custom instructions for any edit
- Word-level diff with accept or reject
- Regenerate an edit you did not like
- Tone selector
- The editor shows the book as you write: serif, indents, drop caps, scene breaks
- Paragraph styles: headings, block quotes, bulleted and numbered lists
- Bold, italic, strikethrough and clear formatting
- Em dashes, ellipses and the quotation marks your language uses
- Smart quotes and dashes, typed for you in your book's language
- Tidy typography across a chapter that arrived with straight quotes
- Book or Plain typography while you edit
- Keyboard shortcuts for everything, listed under Ctrl+/
- Scene outline sidebar: jump to any scene, with its word count
- Find and replace with highlighting
- Live word count and readability score
- Automatic saving every 30 seconds
- Uncertainty markers the AI leaves for you
- Insert and resize images
- Chapter split and merge
- Edit history with version restore
- Book-style preview pane
- Preview paginated like print: pages fill to the bottom, drop caps open a chapter or a scene
- Zoom controls
Illustrations and images
Generate a scene illustration, or upload your own photographs.
- Generate an illustration from a chapter or a selection
- Three types: illustration, storyboard, collage
- Art style, quality and shape options
- Preview and edit the prompt before paying
- Cost quoted before generating
- Upload your own images
- Resize by drag or preset
- Optional captions
- Images flow into preview and exports
- Character portraits: upload one, or generate one from the character's description
- Your own author picture, uploaded or generated from a line you write
Keep it good
Quality and consistency checks, across one chapter and across the whole book.
Chapter review, polish and language check
A scored read of the chapter, a line-by-line polish, and a language purity pass.
- Scored review: prose, pacing, dialogue, sensory detail, character voice
- An "AI tells" score for how human the prose reads
- Named strengths, not just faults
- Actionable improvements anchored to passages
- Locate a passage without spending credits
- Apply an AI fix, reviewed as a diff
- Applied suggestions marked done
- AI Polish across the whole chapter, paragraph by paragraph
- Language check for wrong-language words and diacritics
- Accept or reject each change
- Revision tasks from your own answers
Consistency and contradictions
Three scanners that find where your book disagrees with itself.
- Bible-internal contradictions
- Chapter versus Story Bible checks
- Cross-chapter continuity
- Severity levels and filters
- Grouped by type
- Jump to the source of a fact
- AI-proposed fixes reviewed as diffs
- Choose which version is canon
- Dismiss with a reason and undo
- Bulk dismiss
- Automatic scan after saving a chapter
- Live consistency alerts while you write
- Contradiction rings on the Story Map
Finish and publish
Packaging a manuscript into a finished book and getting it out as a file.
Finishing your book
A four-step wizard from complete-enough manuscript to packaged book.
- Readiness checklist with jump links
- Whole-book review, Quick or Deep
- Pacing curve across chapters
- Arc resolution and open threads
- Character payoff analysis
- Opening and ending scores
- Chapter-anchored improvements
- Front matter: copyright, dedication, epigraph
- Back matter: acknowledgments, about the author, AI disclosure
- AI-generated blurb, logline and synopsis
- Cover Designer for front and back covers
- Export in four formats
- Reopening a finished book
Export and formats
EPUB, Word, Markdown and print-ready HTML — your book, your file.
- EPUB 3 for e-readers and stores
- Microsoft Word (.docx) for editors and print services
- Print-ready HTML for PDF
- Markdown for plain text and archiving
- Covers and matter included automatically
- Contents list in every format
- Inline images embedded
- Optional Story Bible in the Markdown export
- Page numbers and proper margins in Word
- Full account data export
Around the writing
Research, languages, settings, and everything that makes the app yours.
Charm Chat, the research assistant
A separate floating chat for questions, so your writing session stays clean.
- Floating bubble you can drag anywhere
- Knows your Story Bible as canon
- Answers general research questions too
- Cannot change your manuscript
- Separate conversation per book
- Follows your interface language
- Minimise, hide or clear
Writing in your language
Interface in English, Ukrainian or Czech — and your book in whichever you like.
- Interface in English, Ukrainian and Czech
- Book language set separately, per book
- AI prose follows the book language
- Story Bible written in the book language
- Speech recognition in all three
- Charm speaks your book language aloud
- Language purity check for Ukrainian and Czech
- Native voices for Ukrainian and Czech
Settings and personalisation
Make the workspace simpler, warmer, faster or more careful — as you prefer.
- Experience modes: Simple, Full or Custom
- Per-feature toggles for panels you do not use
- Colour scheme including dark mode
- Visual styles: Modern and Editorial
- Six font pairings
- AI model tiers: fast, balanced, most capable
- Separate tier for the research assistant
- Creativity levels from faithful to creative
- Chapter transition style
- Writing reminders you can switch off
- Dictation and voice settings
- Guided tours and a spoken tutorial
- Feature hints you can switch off
- Author name for your books
- A picture of you, uploaded or generated
- Account, password and email changes
- Privacy: voice consent, data export, deletion
- Android app
Every feature, A to Z
The full inventory, alphabetically, with the guide page that covers each one.
| Feature | Covered in |
|---|---|
| "Previously" carry-forward between sessions | Modes, sessions and notes |
| @mentions to pull Story Bible entries into context | Modes, sessions and notes |
| A character answers in the first person, from your Story Bible | Talk to your characters |
| A character window with avatar, relationships and revision history | The Story Bible |
| A cover, once your first chapter exists | Starting a book |
| A credit wall that does not interrupt your session | Charm Credits |
| A length you choose, which sets the chapter count and the price | Charm writes your whole book |
| A personalised opener based on your premise | Modes, sessions and notes |
| A picture of you, uploaded or generated | Settings and personalisation |
| A price shown in credits before the Story Bible is built | Importing a manuscript |
| A quality check on every chapter, with the scores kept | Charm writes your whole book |
| A quiet heads-up before you run out | Charm Credits |
| A review step where you confirm or correct the chapters before anything is saved | Importing a manuscript |
| A whole-book plan from one description: acts, chapters, cast and world | Charm writes your whole book |
| A writing appointment: say when you will write next and get one reminder | Starting a book |
| Accept or reject each change | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| Account, password and email changes | Settings and personalisation |
| Actionable improvements anchored to passages | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| AI model tiers: fast, balanced, most capable | Settings and personalisation |
| AI Polish across the whole chapter, paragraph by paragraph | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| AI prose follows the book language | Writing in your language |
| AI-detected craft settings after your first session | Starting a book |
| AI-generated blurb, logline and synopsis | Finishing your book |
| AI-proposed fixes reviewed as diffs | Consistency and contradictions |
| An "AI tells" score for how human the prose reads | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| An honest warning when a character is too thin to be interesting | Talk to your characters |
| An opener that names where you stopped last time | Modes, sessions and notes |
| An opening you already wrote, pasted in as the voice to build on | Charm writes your whole book |
| Android app | Settings and personalisation |
| Answer inline, discuss in chat, or dismiss | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Answered history you can reopen | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Answers general research questions too | Charm Chat, the research assistant |
| Applied suggestions marked done | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| Apply an AI fix, reviewed as a diff | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| Arc coverage across chapters | Story Map and timeline |
| Arc resolution and open threads | Finishing your book |
| Art style, quality and shape options | Illustrations and images |
| Author name for your books | Settings and personalisation |
| Auto-derived connections from your text | Story Map and timeline |
| Auto-send after a configurable pause | Speaking your story |
| Automatic force layout, positions remembered | Story Map and timeline |
| Automatic saving every 30 seconds | The Smart Editor |
| Automatic scan after saving a chapter | Consistency and contradictions |
| Automatic updates after each session | The Story Bible |
| Back matter: acknowledgments, about the author, AI disclosure | Finishing your book |
| Backlog from completed chapters | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Barge-in — interrupt Charm mid-sentence | Speaking your story |
| Bible-internal contradictions | Consistency and contradictions |
| Bold, italic, strikethrough and clear formatting | The Smart Editor |
| Book language detected from the prose | Importing a manuscript |
| Book language set separately, per book | Writing in your language |
| Book language, separate from interface language | Starting a book |
| Book or Plain typography while you edit | The Smart Editor |
| Book preview from the library | Starting a book |
| Book-style preview pane | The Smart Editor |
| Bulk dismiss | Consistency and contradictions |
| Cannot change your manuscript | Charm Chat, the research assistant |
| Chapter breaks detected from Word headings, chapter titles or scene separators | Importing a manuscript |
| Chapter grid — chapters as columns, arcs as rows | Story Map and timeline |
| Chapter navigation with status badges | Chapters and drafts |
| Chapter split and merge | Chapters and drafts |
| Chapter split and merge | The Smart Editor |
| Chapter transition style | Settings and personalisation |
| Chapter transitions: minimal, guided or full | Chapters and drafts |
| Chapter versus Story Bible checks | Consistency and contradictions |
| Chapter-anchored improvements | Finishing your book |
| Character payoff analysis | Finishing your book |
| Character portraits on their own nodes | Story Map and timeline |
| Character portraits: upload one, or generate one from the character's description | Illustrations and images |
| Character sheets with roles, descriptions and arcs | The Story Bible |
| Charm speaks back in your book language | Speaking your story |
| Charm speaks your book language aloud | Writing in your language |
| CharmWriter notices when you have settled it and offers to save | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Choose which version is canon | Consistency and contradictions |
| Click-to-edit any field | The Story Bible |
| Colour scheme including dark mode | Settings and personalisation |
| Contents list in every format | Export and formats |
| Continue where you left off | Starting a book |
| Continuity scans at act boundaries | Charm writes your whole book |
| Contradiction rings on the Story Map | Consistency and contradictions |
| Cost quoted before generating | Illustrations and images |
| Cover Designer for front and back covers | Finishing your book |
| Covers and matter included automatically | Export and formats |
| Craft settings: point of view, tense, tone | Starting a book |
| Creativity levels from faithful to creative | Settings and personalisation |
| Credits never expire | Charm Credits |
| Cross-chapter continuity | Consistency and contradictions |
| Custom instructions for any edit | The Smart Editor |
| Decision points at the big turns, with the roads not taken recorded | Charm writes your whole book |
| Detail panel with inline editing and AI assist | Story Map and timeline |
| Dictation and voice settings | Settings and personalisation |
| Discussion stays out of the book, never turned into prose | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Dismiss with a reason and undo | Consistency and contradictions |
| Dismiss with a reason, and undo | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Duplicate detection and merging | The Story Bible |
| Edit any book setting later, from the workspace or the dashboard | Starting a book |
| Edit history with version restore | The Smart Editor |
| Editable outline before anything is written: retitle, reorder, add, remove | Charm writes your whole book |
| Editable word count goal | Chapters and drafts |
| Editing mode — refine what already exists | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Em dashes, ellipses and the quotation marks your language uses | The Smart Editor |
| EPUB 3 for e-readers and stores | Export and formats |
| Experience modes: Simple, Full or Custom | Settings and personalisation |
| Export in four formats | Finishing your book |
| Facts from a character conversation, added one at a time when you approve them | The Story Bible |
| Feature hints you can switch off | Settings and personalisation |
| Filter by chapter or session | Story Map and timeline |
| Filters: all, critical, this chapter, this session | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Find and replace with highlighting | The Smart Editor |
| Floating bubble you can drag anywhere | Charm Chat, the research assistant |
| Focus mode — the conversation and your chapter side by side, full screen | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Follows your interface language | Charm Chat, the research assistant |
| Formatting on selected text: bold, italic, headings, quotes, lists | Chapters and drafts |
| Four prepaid packs from $2.99 | Charm Credits |
| Front matter: copyright, dedication, epigraph | Finishing your book |
| Full account data export | Export and formats |
| Full-screen chapter reader | Chapters and drafts |
| Full-screen rich text editing | The Smart Editor |
| Full-text search across the bible | The Story Bible |
| Gap warnings between chapters | Chapters and drafts |
| Generate an illustration from a chapter or a selection | Illustrations and images |
| Genre, point of view, tense and tone read from your opening pages | Importing a manuscript |
| Grouped by type | Consistency and contradictions |
| Guided tours and a spoken tutorial | Settings and personalisation |
| Hands the finished manuscript to Finish Book | Charm writes your whole book |
| Hands-free: talk to a character out loud and they answer out loud | Speaking your story |
| Have any of Charm’s replies read aloud — no microphone needed | Speaking your story |
| Hear them say it, in a voice you choose for each character | Talk to your characters |
| How often Charm stops to ask is yours to set | Charm writes your whole book |
| Images flow into preview and exports | Illustrations and images |
| Import from Word (.docx), Markdown (.md) or plain text (.txt) | Importing a manuscript |
| Improve, expand, shorten, rewrite, continue | The Smart Editor |
| Inline AI actions on selected text | Chapters and drafts |
| Inline images embedded | Export and formats |
| Insert and resize images | The Smart Editor |
| Interactive entity web with drag and zoom | Story Map and timeline |
| Interface in English, Ukrainian and Czech | Writing in your language |
| Italics and bold kept as written | Importing a manuscript |
| Jump to the source of a fact | Consistency and contradictions |
| Keep a fact you like: read that one fact, press the button, and it joins the Story Bible | Talk to your characters |
| Keyboard navigation and a legend | Story Map and timeline |
| Keyboard shortcuts for everything, listed under Ctrl+/ | The Smart Editor |
| Keyboard shortcuts for switching modes | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Knows your Story Bible as canon | Charm Chat, the research assistant |
| Language check for wrong-language words and diacritics | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| Language purity check for Ukrainian and Czech | Writing in your language |
| Listen to a whole chapter read aloud, with the cost shown first | Speaking your story |
| Listening mode — talk, be questioned, decide nothing | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Live balance in the header | Charm Credits |
| Live chapter draft panel | Chapters and drafts |
| Live consistency alerts while you write | Consistency and contradictions |
| Live notes timeline with AI observations | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Live transcript preview while you speak | Speaking your story |
| Live word count and readability score | The Smart Editor |
| Locate a passage without spending credits | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| Manage hub: merge, delete, reorder | Story Map and timeline |
| Markdown for plain text and archiving | Export and formats |
| Marking a chapter complete | Chapters and drafts |
| Merge undo | The Story Bible |
| Microsoft Word (.docx) for editors and print services | Export and formats |
| Minimise, hide or clear | Charm Chat, the research assistant |
| Named strengths, not just faults | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| Narrative lenses: All, Focus, Conflict, Entity | Story Map and timeline |
| Native voices for Ukrainian and Czech | Writing in your language |
| New book setup (title, author, premise, genre) | Starting a book |
| Node size by number of connections | Story Map and timeline |
| Nothing said in it ever reaches your chapters | Talk to your characters |
| Opening and ending scores | Finishing your book |
| Optional captions | Illustrations and images |
| Optional Story Bible in the Markdown export | Export and formats |
| Or go hands-free: speak your question and they answer out loud | Talk to your characters |
| Pacing curve across chapters | Finishing your book |
| Pacing, absent characters, stale threads | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Page numbers and proper margins in Word | Export and formats |
| Paragraph styles: headings, block quotes, bulleted and numbered lists | The Smart Editor |
| Pause, close the tab, and pick it up later | Charm writes your whole book |
| Pending update cards you approve or dismiss | The Story Bible |
| Per-book spend badge | Charm Credits |
| Per-feature toggles for panels you do not use | Settings and personalisation |
| Per-field AI assist | The Story Bible |
| Plot arcs with type and status | The Story Bible |
| Plot frames and world zones | Story Map and timeline |
| Post-session analysis pipeline | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Press-to-talk dictation into any chat box | Speaking your story |
| Preview and edit the prompt before paying | Illustrations and images |
| Preview paginated like print: pages fill to the bottom, drop caps open a chapter or a scene | The Smart Editor |
| Previous-chapter summary when you move on | Chapters and drafts |
| Print-ready HTML for PDF | Export and formats |
| Priority ordering — critical first | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Privacy: voice consent, data export, deletion | Settings and personalisation |
| Push-to-talk mode for slow thinkers | Speaking your story |
| Questions grouped by need: character, plot, world, pacing | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Readiness checklist with jump links | Finishing your book |
| Red ring on entities with unresolved contradictions | Story Map and timeline |
| Refunds on unspent credits within 30 days | Charm Credits |
| Regenerate an edit you did not like | The Smart Editor |
| Relationships between entities | The Story Bible |
| Relationships you draw yourself | Story Map and timeline |
| Reopening a finished book | Finishing your book |
| Resize by drag or preset | Illustrations and images |
| Resume a part-built Story Bible later | Importing a manuscript |
| Review a transcript before it enters your book | Speaking your story |
| Revision history per entity | The Story Bible |
| Revision tasks from your own answers | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| Revision tasks parked for later | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Save to Chapter from any AI reply | Chapters and drafts |
| Scene outline sidebar: jump to any scene, with its word count | The Smart Editor |
| Scene-by-scene writing, roughly 600 to 900 words at a time, with a printed break where the story cuts to another time or place | Charm writes your whole book |
| Scored review: prose, pacing, dialogue, sensory detail, character voice | Chapter review, polish and language check |
| Select text for AI actions | The Smart Editor |
| Separate conversation per book | Charm Chat, the research assistant |
| Separate tier for the research assistant | Settings and personalisation |
| Session transcript kept in full | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Severity levels and filters | Consistency and contradictions |
| Six font pairings | Settings and personalisation |
| Smart quotes and dashes, typed for you in your book's language | The Smart Editor |
| Snoozed questions revive later | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Speak or type — every mode works either way | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Speech recognition in all three | Writing in your language |
| Spoken workflow commands | Speaking your story |
| Starter prompts on an empty session | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Story Bible built as the book is written | Charm writes your whole book |
| Story Bible built from the whole manuscript: characters, places, plot arcs, relationships | Importing a manuscript |
| Story Bible written in the book language | Writing in your language |
| Story Pulse every third session | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Take another road, which re-plans the chapters not yet written | Charm writes your whole book |
| Talk to Charm: hands-free spoken conversation | Speaking your story |
| Tell Charm something in your own words, at any decision point | Charm writes your whole book |
| The AI model that writes it, chosen per book, with the price moving to match | Charm writes your whole book |
| The conversation is saved and is there on your other devices | Talk to your characters |
| The draft panel renders in the book's typography | Chapters and drafts |
| The editor shows the book as you write: serif, indents, drop caps, scene breaks | The Smart Editor |
| The exact price, shown before the writing starts | Charm writes your whole book |
| The language the book is written in, set before it starts | Charm writes your whole book |
| The manuscript import itself costs nothing | Importing a manuscript |
| They speak your book language, not the app language | Talk to your characters |
| Three types: illustration, storyboard, collage | Illustrations and images |
| Tidy typography across a chapter that arrived with straight quotes | The Smart Editor |
| Timeline Flow view with scene analysis | Story Map and timeline |
| Timeline of events | The Story Bible |
| Tone selector | The Smart Editor |
| Tone selector for drafting (5 tones) | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Transaction history | Charm Credits |
| Trash and restore | Starting a book |
| Two free credits on signup, no card required | Charm Credits |
| Two modes: talk TO them, or ask a script editor ABOUT them | Talk to your characters |
| Uncertainty markers the AI leaves for you | The Smart Editor |
| Upload existing recordings (up to 90 minutes) | Speaking your story |
| Upload your own images | Illustrations and images |
| Visual styles: Modern and Editorial | Settings and personalisation |
| Voice, speaking speed and pause sensitivity settings | Speaking your story |
| Wander off mid-discussion and it offers the answer back, not silence | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Welcome-back orientation after a long break | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Whisper transcription for accuracy | Speaking your story |
| Whole-book preview with page turns | Chapters and drafts |
| Whole-book questions, separate from scene questions | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Whole-book review, Quick or Deep | Finishing your book |
| Word-level diff with accept or reject | The Smart Editor |
| World elements: locations, cultures, rules, organisations | The Story Bible |
| Writing mode — turn conversation into prose | Modes, sessions and notes |
| Writing reminders you can switch off | Settings and personalisation |
| Written in your book language | The Story Bible |
| You are told where each answer was filed | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Your chapter shown as a book when you finish a session, open at what you just wrote | Starting a book |
| Your characters read their own replies aloud, each in their own voice | Speaking your story |
| Your first page, shown as a book page when Charm first drafts prose in the chat | Starting a book |
| Your library: shelf, covers and list views | Starting a book |
| Your open question asked back when you return | Story questions and Story Pulse |
| Your own author picture, uploaded or generated from a line you write | Illustrations and images |
| Your real chapter shown as a book when you finish a session, opened where that session began | Chapters and drafts |
| Zoom controls | The Smart Editor |
Common questions
Do I need to read this guide to use CharmWriter?
No. The app has guided tours and a spoken tutorial that walk you through your first book. This guide is here for when you want to know exactly what something does, or discover a feature you have not met yet.
Is every feature here available to me?
Almost all of them, on every account. One — Talk to Charm — is switched off by default, and its page says where the switch lives in Settings. Upload a Recording is on by default and can be switched off the same way.
What does CharmWriter not do?
It does not write screenplays or scripts, it does not manage academic citations and bibliographies, it is not a general-purpose grammar checker for arbitrary documents (though a manuscript written elsewhere can be imported as a book, and its chapters polished like any others), and it does not publish or submit your book to any store. It writes prose books with you and hands you the finished file.
How much of the writing does the AI do?
It drafts prose from what you have already said, and it never decides what happens in your story. Every draft is offered to you before it becomes part of the book, and every AI edit is shown as a change you accept or reject.
Do I own what I write?
Yes, entirely. You hold full copyright on every word. Your writing is not used to train AI models, not resold, and not shared with other users.
Do I have to use the microphone?
No. Typing is a first-class way to use CharmWriter, not a fallback. Every surface that accepts speech also accepts typing — the conversation, editorial questions, the chapter draft, the editor. You can write an entire book without ever pressing the microphone. Most writers use both, switching by mood, energy and whether anyone else is in the room.
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Every new account starts with two free credits, enough to talk a whole chapter through, have it drafted, and see how it reads.
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