Every version

• A new home for everything. A slim rail down the left takes you anywhere in one click: your books, the manuscript, the story bible, reports, the designers and settings. Hover a destination to see its keyboard shortcut. The sidebar beside it shows only what that page is about: your chapters on the Editor, your cast on Characters, and so on.
• The editor gets a top bar. See where you are at a glance (chapter › scene), switch between Editor, Corkboard and Outliner without losing your place, open the whole chapter as one document with Verkado, or go full screen.
• Front and back matter, handled. Dedication, epigraph, acknowledgments and the rest leave the sidebar for their own tab in Book Metadata. Turn each page on or off, choose print, ebook or both, and keep the standard publishing order or set your own. Verkilo can also add an Also By list from your other books, an About the Author page, a newsletter invitation, a review request and a preview of your next book, each written once for the whole project.
• Your day at a glance. A status bar along the bottom keeps today’s words against your daily goal in view whatever you’re doing, with one-click switches for the background tint and light or dark mode.
• Smoother all round. Sidebars slide in and out, pages fade in instead of jumping, and full screen grows out of the page. The AI destination only appears once you’ve added an API key.

• Import from Atticus. Open the backup file Atticus downloads, pick the books you want, and each arrives as a Verkilo book: front matter, chapters and back matter in order, scenes split at their breaks. Anything Verkilo can’t carry over, like endnotes or online images, is listed for you rather than quietly dropped.
• An AI assistant can reorganize your book. Assistants connected to Verkilo, such as Claude, can now move scenes between chapters, set them aside in the Trash, place new ones exactly where they belong, and leave comments in your manuscript for you to review. A change Verkilo can’t make is refused with the reason, never reported as done.
• Covers you’re free to publish. The barcode digits on print covers now use a font that’s free to use and distribute, and About Verkilo lists every font and component inside the app, with its license.

• Date your scenes in the story’s own time. Give a scene a day, a month, a year or a time of day, and how long it lasts. Use the ordinary calendar, the Julian one, or build your own world’s months, weeks and eras. Say only what you know: “March 1866” stays a month, and nothing pretends it was the first.
• See the whole story four ways. A Chronology you can edit from the keyboard, a Timeline drawn to scale with lanes for books, plot threads or any characters and places you choose, a Subway map of who crosses whose path, and a Matrix of every scene against every character and location. Drag events to move them in time; zoom from hours to centuries.
• Events that happen off the page. Backstory, offstage battles, a character’s childhood: they live on the timeline with notes and links, and never touch your word count or your manuscript. Promote one to a scene when you decide to write it.
• Threads, ages and flashbacks. Color your plot lines and follow them through every book. Set a character’s birth and death and see their age in every scene. A scene set before the one ahead of it in the book is marked as a flashback.
• Continuity you can trust. Verkilo spots a character on stage before they’re born or after they die, someone in two places at once, and an undated scene between dated ones. Say “this happens after that” or “no sooner than a year later”, and Verkilo tells you when a date breaks the rule; one click moves it back, and Undo is always there.
• Bring your timeline with you. Import events from a spreadsheet (CSV), matching the names to your characters and places, and export the whole chronology back out.

Your story bible grows, too.

• Your own kinds of entry. Factions, ships, spells, artifacts: add any kind you need, each with its own page, icon and color, beside characters and locations, with links, facts, versions and relationships like the rest.
• Relationships between anything. A character and the city that made them, a faction and its rival: relationship arcs now join any two entries.
• Scene details, as simple as you like. Every group beside your manuscript folds away and stays folded, and Settings can hide the ones you never use: skip story time, dependencies or labels entirely, or keep them all. Your own kinds of entry get their groups there too.

• Every session, kept. Verkilo now records each writing session in the background: when it started, how long it ran, how many saves, which scenes you touched. Writing History gains a Sessions view beside Daily, Weekly and Monthly; click a day on the heatmap to see that day’s sessions. When a session ends, the scenes it changed get a version snapshot, so Version History reads like a diary of the draft.
• Where every word came from. Each save records whether its words were typed, pasted, accepted from an AI line edit, fixed by an AI copyedit, written by an agent you connected, imported, or restored from a version. AI line edits are shown as words in and words out, and AI spelling and grammar fixes are counted apart as words touched, so a copyedit never reads as co-authorship. Words an agent writes over the local API are attributed to the agent, not to you.
• A record you can hand over. Export the Writing Record as a PDF or JSON from Writing History: totals by origin, every session, first and last write per chapter, every AI operation and whether you accepted it, every manual adjustment shown as an adjustment, and a hash chain the app can recompute to check that no closed session was altered afterwards. It stores counts, times and hashes, never your text or keystrokes, and it never leaves your computer until you export it.
• A nudge on the copyright page. If the record lists AI operations and no AI disclosure is set, the copyright tab says so and offers the standard wording in one click.
• Titles that stay tellable apart. Long titles and paths now shorten in the middle instead of at the end, the way Finder shortens a filename, so “Chapter 12: The Long Road” and “Chapter 12: The Long Night” never collapse into the same “Chapter 12: The Lo…”. Binder, breadcrumbs, outliner, scene lists, book cards, recent projects, gallery names, all of it.

• Use the AI you already pay for. Verkilo’s AI features now work with OpenAI and Google as well as Anthropic. Add a key for whichever service you have an account with, then pick a model for each operation from one list: line editing, continuity checks, scene summaries. Choosing the model is the whole decision. Verkilo uses the right account automatically. Nothing changes if you already have a Claude key: it carries over on its own, and everything keeps working exactly as before.
• Cheaper options for the bulk work. Some AI jobs are judgment calls and some are just legwork. You can now spend accordingly. Keep the most capable model for line editing your prose, and run scene summaries or a whole-book continuity pass on something a tenth the price.
• Clearer answers when a run doesn’t finish. If a response is cut short because you selected too much, Verkilo now says so and suggests fewer sections, instead of reporting a confusing parse error. If a request is declined, or your account is out of credit, it says that too, and tells you which service to check.

• Export everything as Markdown. Project ▸ Export Data turns your entire project into a folder of plain Markdown files: every scene’s full text, characters, locations, your notebook, images included. Open the folder as an Obsidian vault, feed it to an AI assistant, or keep it as an archive nothing can lock you out of. Scenes are tagged by the characters and places in them, and your [[links]] work in Obsidian too.
• Export everything as a website. One click builds a private website of your whole project: every book scene by scene, every character and place, your notebook. It opens in any browser, on any computer, with no internet and no Verkilo required. Character pages even map who feels what about whom, book by book, in both directions.
• Mentions and links now read like prose. A character mention shows just the words you chose beside a small portrait. A notebook link shows its text beside a bookmark. Click any of them to jump to the record, change the wording, or remove the link. The sentence stays a sentence.
• Tables survive export. A table in your manuscript now arrives intact in every format: a true table in Word, a typeset table in your PDF, a clean table in EPUB and Markdown.
• Archive, don’t delete. Finished books can be archived separately from the Trash: out of the working shelf, one click to bring back. The archive and trash actions live in a tidy menu on the book page.

• Manuscript Reports. A new Reports page reads your whole book and shows you what’s on the page: the words you lean on and where they echo, clichés, sentence rhythm and variety, how much of the book is dialogue, readability, adverbs and possible passives, a pacing curve along the story, point-of-view balance, and where every character and place appears, or quietly vanishes. Twenty-three reports, each with a chart, a plain-English summary, and a click-through to the scene in question. Every figure is measured from your text, not generated. No AI involved, no internet required, nothing leaves your machine. A full novel analyzes in under a second, automatically, the moment you open the page.
• Your own rules, watched. Give Reports a house-style list, the words and phrases you’ve promised yourself to stop using, and every run counts them, down to the happy zero.
• Your library on every computer. Point Settings at any shared folder (Dropbox, iCloud, even a USB stick) and your interior templates, label groups, keyword templates and preferences (theme, fonts, your dictionary and more) follow you to every machine. Manuscripts stay where you put them.
• One file restores your setup. Settings export now carries everything: templates, preferences, your dictionary. A new computer or a reinstall starts from a single file.

• Work with your editor in Word. Export a book to DOCX, send it out, and import the edited copy. Every tracked insertion and deletion becomes a reviewable change in the editor, labeled with your editor’s name, accepted or rejected one at a time. Word manuscripts also import as new books, chapters, formatting and images intact.
• The Gallery. Every image in your project in one place, searchable, taggable and usable anywhere an image goes.
• At home on Windows, Mac and Linux. Images, fonts, exports and menus behave the same on all three, including fixes for images not showing and common fonts failing PDF export on Windows.

• A spine sized from your real interior. Opening a cover, or changing its trim size, compiles the interior and takes its page count, rounded up to the even count a printer binds, instead of assuming 300 pages. Trim size, page count and paper stock are saved with the cover and restored when you reopen it, and exporting a print cover whose page count is still a guess asks you first. Groundwood joins white and cream as a paper choice.
• A barcode Amazon accepts. KDP was rejecting covers whose barcode had been antialiased into gray seams and soft edges. The bars are drawn as single shapes and the ISBN box is snapped to pure black on white before conversion, so it scans, and the printed ISBN keeps the hyphenation you entered.
• AI line edits read like an editor’s marks. Suggestions arrive inline as tracked changes you accept or reject one at a time, never a rewritten document. And a full pass costs about half what it did.
• Undo follows your document. Undo belongs to the document now rather than the pane in front of you, so you can wander the binder and still step back through your changes.

• Move your license to a new computer. About Verkilo can now deactivate this device: one click and a confirmation frees that computer’s seat, so the same key activates somewhere else. The seat is released only after the activation server answers, so a dropped connection never costs you one.

• Bundles. A whole series exports as one real omnibus ebook with its own title, ISBN and copyright.
• Proofing. Spelling, grammar and style checking built in, entirely on-device.
• Import from Scrivener. A Scrivener project becomes a new book, characters and places included, with a full preview before anything is written.
• Print files publishers accept. Exported interiors and covers meet IngramSpark’s requirements and KDP’s recommendations out of the box, and every file is checked before it’s written. You’re told the page and the problem now, not by a printer’s rejection days later.
• Typographic quotes. Straight quotes and apostrophes are typeset as the curly ones a printed book expects.
• Keyboard shortcuts that work while you type on Windows, and Linux builds that run on current distributions.
• Details beside the scene and anchored comments rounded out the story-bible workflow.

First public release: the binder, the RichText editor, characters, locations and keywords, cover and interior design, and EPUB/PDF export.