Apple Intelligence on device, or the AI you already pay for
Write the book, not the software.
Scivelle is a distraction-free writing suite for novels, theses and essays. Real pages, a living outline, your own AI, and files that stay yours.
No credit card required · For macOS, Apple silicon and Intel
The fog had come in before the tide, the way it did in October, and by the time Mara reached the quay the boats were only sounds: a halyard ticking against a mast, water working at the stones. She counted the lamps to the end of the breakwater and found one missing.
Someone had left the door of the harbourmaster’s office open. Light fell out of it in a long yellow bar and lay on the wet cobbles like something dropped.
Audience
Built for the long form.
Three kinds of writer, one quiet page. Pick yours.
Chapters, cast and plot, kept beside the page.
The Manuscript pane outlines the book as you write it. Nothing to set up and nothing to maintain: the chapters are the headings, the scenes are yours to name.
Chapter nodes
Every chapter and scene with its word count, dragged into any order. The title you type in the pane becomes the running head on every page of the chapter.
Plot grid
Lay your plot lines against the chapters and see at a glance where a thread goes quiet for too long.
The cast, traced
A profile for everyone in the story, with every mention by chapter a click away. Ask the assistant for a character’s history from the text alone.
Plot grid
The letters go quiet for three chapters.
Features
The infrastructure of a long book.
Local files, a version at every save, Word on both ends, and an AI that answers to you. The boring parts, done right.
Local-first. Offline by default.
Your manuscript is a file on your Mac, not a row in someone’s database. Write on the train, in a cabin, through a blackout. Nothing asks you to log in because there is nothing to log in to.
The Lighthouse Year.docx
~/Documents/Books · 41,205 words
A version at every save.
Every save is kept. Roll back a chapter, recover the scene you cut on Tuesday, or just see how far you have come.
Today, 14:02
41,205 words · +612
Today, 09:17
40,593 words · +1,044
Yesterday, 22:40
39,549 words · the scene you cut
Syncs through the folder you already use.
Keep the book in iCloud Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive and it follows you to the next Mac. The file syncs; nobody but you ever sees it.
Speaks fluent Word.
.docx in, .docx out. Styles, comments, tracked changes under your name, pictures and tables. Your editor never has to know.
Bring your own AI.
Apple Intelligence on device by default. Or sign in with your ChatGPT plan, paste a Claude or Gemini key, use OpenRouter, run Ollama. Your text goes only to the service you chose.
Collects nothing.
No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reports, no accounts. The developer receives no data from the app, and the privacy policy is short enough to read.
- No analytics
- No telemetry
- No crash reports
- No accounts
Pages that print as they look.
Real page sizes, running heads with the chapter title, “Page 12” bottom right. The PDF is the screen, down to the widows.
Pricing
One plan. Every feature. $0 today.
14 days of the whole thing, with no card on file. Decide when you have finished a chapter, not when a pop-up tells you to.
Scivelle
14-day full accessThe complete writing suite, for one writer, on your Mac. Nothing is held back for a higher tier, because there is no higher tier.
- Every feature from day one. No tiers inside the app.
- Apple Intelligence on device; your own AI providers optional.
- Opens and saves Word documents, tracked changes and comments included.
- A version at every save. Local files, no account.
- The Manuscript pane: chapters, scenes, cast, notes and the plot grid.
- Human support by email.
Due today
$0then $59, once
Full access for 14 days. No credit card required.
Start 14-Day TrialFor macOS, Apple silicon and Intel. Your files stay yours either way.