A rich text editor built for the demands of long-form writing. Organize your novel into scenes and chapters, enter a distraction-free flow state, and export your finished work in any format a publisher could ask for.
Built on TipTap, the same editor framework behind some of the world's best writing tools. Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, headings, lists, blockquotes, code blocks, and more -- all accessible with intuitive keyboard shortcuts.
Organize your manuscript the way you think about it. Nest scenes inside chapters, drag them into new positions, and track each one with its own status, synopsis, and notes. Your story's architecture is always visible at a glance.
Enter a minimal, full-screen writing environment where nothing competes for your attention. Typewriter scrolling keeps your active line centered, and the interface fades away until you need it. Just you and the page.
Every sentence deserves the right formatting. Edda's editor gives you complete control over your prose without burying you in menus. Apply bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough with a keystroke. Insert headings at any level. Build ordered and unordered lists, blockquotes for dialogue or emphasis, and fenced code blocks when your character is a programmer.
The toolbar appears when you need it and vanishes when you do not. Markdown shortcuts are recognized automatically, so typing **bold** does exactly what you expect. It is the best of both worlds: visual editing with keyboard-first speed.
She stood at the edge of the forest, where the last of the lamplight dissolved into shadow. The path ahead was not marked on any map she had studied, and yet her feet knew the way.
The old woman had warned her: "Once you cross, you cannot return as the person you are now."
"That is precisely the point," she whispered, and stepped forward.
Elara makes her decision to cross the forest boundary. Key tension: she knows the cost but chooses it anyway. Mirror this against her reluctance in Ch 1.
After the stranger's warning and the discovery of the old map, Elara confronts the forest threshold alone at dusk. She crosses into the unknown.
A novel is not a single document. It is a constellation of scenes, chapters, parts, and acts, each with its own purpose and place. Edda embraces that complexity. Create a nested manuscript tree that mirrors the real structure of your book. Drag scenes between chapters. Collapse entire parts to focus on the section that matters right now.
Every scene carries its own status indicator -- draft, revision, or final -- so you can see your manuscript's progress at a glance. Attach notes and a synopsis to any scene without cluttering the prose itself. When revision day comes, you will know exactly where each piece stands.
The hardest part of writing is not the writing itself -- it is staying in the zone long enough to let the words accumulate. Edda's distraction-free mode strips the interface to its essential minimum: your text, a gentle cursor, and nothing else. The sidebar disappears. The toolbar fades. The world outside your story ceases to exist.
Typewriter scrolling keeps your active line vertically centered so your eyes never chase the cursor down the screen. And when you need an extra push, start a writing sprint: set a timer for 15, 30, or 60 minutes and watch your word count climb in real time. When the bell rings, you will be amazed at how much you wrote.
Sprint history is saved automatically, so you can track your sessions over time and find the rhythm that works best for you.
The corridor narrowed as she descended, the stone walls pressing close enough to touch on either side. Water dripped somewhere ahead, each drop a metronome counting the seconds.
She thought of her mother's garden, of sunlight on the stone bench where she had first learned to read. How far that world seemed now, separated from this darkness by more than distance.
Her hand found the wall again. Cold. Damp. Real. She kept walking.
The mountains rose in the distance, their peaks still capped with snow despite the warmth of the valley below...
Some writers think best when they speak. Edda's offline voice dictation, powered by wav2vec2, converts your spoken words into text without sending a single byte to the cloud. Pace around your room, dictate dialogue while you act it out, or narrate scene descriptions while your hands are free. It all happens locally on your machine, private by design.
Not every project is a novel. Switch to Screenplay mode for properly formatted scripts with scene headings, action lines, character cues, and dialogue. Working on a song? Lyrics mode gives you a layout designed for verses, choruses, and bridges. The editor adapts to the work, not the other way around.
Your manuscript lives in Edda, but it should go wherever you need it to. Export individual scenes or your entire book in PDF for print-ready review, DOCX for agents and editors who live in Word, Markdown for technical workflows and version control, HTML for web publishing, or plain text for maximum portability.
And you will never lose a single sentence. Edda auto-saves continuously as you type. There is no save button because there does not need to be one. Close the app mid-sentence, reopen it tomorrow, and every word will be exactly where you left it. Your writing is preserved the instant it leaves your fingertips.
All writing features are included with every Edda purchase. No tiers, no add-ons, no feature gates.
Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, headings, ordered and unordered lists, blockquotes, and code blocks. Everything you need to shape your prose.
Nested manuscript structure with drag-and-drop reordering. Organize your book the way you think about it, from parts down to individual scenes.
Minimal interface with typewriter scrolling that keeps your active line centered. The world disappears so your story can appear.
Set a timer and race the clock. Track words written per sprint, build consistency with session history, and discover your most productive writing windows.
Search across your entire manuscript in seconds. Rename a character, fix a recurring typo, or find every scene where a particular word appears.
Edda saves every keystroke automatically. Close the app, reboot your computer, lose power -- your manuscript is always safe without lifting a finger.
Switch the editor's formatting to match your medium. Screenplay mode structures scripts with proper scene headings and dialogue. Lyrics mode organizes verses and choruses.
Speak your story into existence with AI-powered speech recognition that runs entirely on your device. No internet, no cloud, no eavesdropping.
Export to PDF, DOCX, Markdown, HTML, and plain text. Send your agent a Word doc, post a chapter as HTML, or archive everything in Markdown.
Live word count, character count, and reading time estimates for every scene, chapter, and your entire manuscript. Always know where you stand.
Power users can keep their hands on the keyboard. Format text, navigate scenes, toggle focus mode, and start sprints without touching the mouse.
Mark each scene as draft, revision, or final. Attach private notes and a synopsis that travel with the scene but never appear in your exported manuscript.
Stop fighting your software and start writing your story. Edda's manuscript editor is ready when you are.
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