Scribbly is a private, local-only analysis tool that reveals structural patterns in your manuscript—through annotation, visualization, and data—without touching a server or generating a single word.
Your manuscript never leaves your device.
Before analysis begins, you define the manuscript's world. Characters and their aliases, relationship constellations, thematic clusters, world vocabulary, and craft concerns specific to your draft. The result is analysis that reflects your book—not a generic novel.
You know something isn't working. The Restructure tab helps you see exactly what and why. Create a card for any structural problem, and Scribbly synthesizes everything it knows—character presence, thread continuity, anchor proximity, annotation clusters—into a targeted action plan.
The Analyze dashboard runs entirely in your browser. Tension, rhythm, dialogue, character presence, thread continuity, key scenes, and chapter bookends—all in one place, all derived from your specific manuscript.
A force-directed graph of thematic clusters derived from your annotations and manuscript vocabulary. Clusters with more annotation overlap appear larger. Edges show where themes intersect. Built from your highlights, not generic literary assumptions.
Scribbly starts with reading. As you move through your manuscript, you highlight in amber, sage, or rose. Add a note. Tag it. Mark whether it feeds the Semantic Map. Every annotation feeds every analysis downstream—the timeline, the map, the restructure cards, the revision insights.
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid since she is envious; her vestal livery is but sick and green, and none but fools do wear it.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet; so Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title.
Link two versions of your manuscript and compare them structurally. See how your tension curve shifted, which patterns are new since the last draft, and whether the alerts you fixed actually resolved.
Scribbly has no backend. No accounts. Everything stays on your device. Run it entirely offline from source if you prefer.
Your manuscript, highlights, notes, and analysis never leave your device.
No login, no email, no profile. No tracking. Open Scribbly and start working. Backup and restore via a JSON export you keep yourself.
Scribbly uses rule-based text processing—run entirely in your browser—to calculate word frequencies, character occurrences, sentence lengths, and dialogue ratios to create manuscript specific insights.
Upload your EPUB or DOCX, define your manuscript, and start seeing the structure you've been writing.