The only writing desk that reads poetry.
Poems and stories, in one desk. Syllables, meter and rhyme scheme in the margin as you type. Eight forms that check themselves. Critique that never writes for you. And your work exports forever — on every plan, including free.
- Autosave you can watch
- Pin any version
- Export forever, every plan
- 1 credit per run, shown before you click
Poems and stories, each on their own terms.
One desk, two grains. Pick the mode when you start a piece and the editor, the reports and the goals all change with it.
Poem mode
For lines, stanzas and form.
- Syllables, meter and rhyme scheme in the margin
- Eight form scaffolds that check themselves
- Focus narrows to the stanza you're in
- Echoes and Meter wobble reports
- Goals counted in lines and stanzas, not just words
- Poem Rater, Checker and Analyzer, run inline
Story mode
For chapters, pacing and voice.
- Chapter and section headings in the manuscript
- Projects hold ordered chapters you can reorder
- Focus narrows to the paragraph you're in
- Pacing and Dialogue tags reports
- Goals counted in words and drafts
- Story Rater, Checker and Analyzer, run inline
Your scansion, in the margin, as you type.
Every line gets its syllable count. Paid plans add the metrical reading and the rhyme scheme, with rhyme families highlighted across the poem. When the scansion is wrong — and on a real poem it sometimes is — click the syllable and correct the stress. The correction sticks to the word.
Free plans see syllables. Meter and rhyme are on paid plans.
Forms that grade themselves.
Refrains copy themselves down the page, rhyme slots track as you fill them, and every requirement carries a traffic light. Eye rhyme grades amber, not red — because the canonical sonnets use it.
Shakespearean sonnet
14 lines, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Petrarchan sonnet
Octave and sestet, volta at nine
Villanelle
19 lines, two refrains
Sestina
Six end-words, rotating
Ghazal
Couplets, radif and qafia
Haiku
Three lines, 5–7–5
Limerick
AABBA, anapaestic
Blank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
It tells you what's wrong. It never fixes it for you.
Select a stanza or a paragraph and ask for a critique anchored to exactly that passage. Or open Workshop chat, which reads your draft and the rest of the project. There is no "continue writing," no "describe this scene," no suggest-and-apply. The words on the page stay yours.
Passage feedback: 1 credit. Workshop message: 1 credit.
Five reports that cost nothing, three that cost a credit.
Echoes, Rhythm, Pacing, Dialogue tags and Meter wobble are computed instantly, no credit. Clichéd rhymes, Abstract vs concrete, and the corpus benchmark run against public-domain poetry Storgy already holds, so you can see where your sonnet sits among sonnets.
- Echoes
- Free
- Rhythm
- Free
- Pacing
- Free
- Dialogue tags
- Free
- Meter wobble
- Free
- Clichéd rhymes
- 1 credit
- Abstract vs concrete
- 1 credit
- Corpus benchmark
- 1 credit
The things a writing app must never get wrong.
Autosave you can watch.
Debounced saves, flushed when you close the tab, with a visible "Saved 3s ago."
Versions you pin.
Every AI run snapshots first. Pin and label any version, restore without destroying anything.
Export forever.
DOCX and PDF, per piece or per project, on every plan — including free, including lapsed. We will never hold your manuscript.
Share links that outlive your subscription.
Creating one needs a paid plan. Reading and revoking never will.
Goals and streaks. Free on every plan, zero credits.
Count in words, lines, stanzas or drafts — because "500 words" means nothing to a poet. Miss a day and the streak pauses instead of resetting. Take a planned day off and it still counts. One insight a week: a name and a number, not a dashboard.
Start free. Upgrade when the margin earns it.
Free
- 2 projects
- Full editor, poems and stories
- Syllable gutter
- Goals and streaks
- 7-day version history
- Export forever
All paid tiers include
- Unlimited projects
- Meter + rhyme gutter
- All eight scaffolds
- Every report
- The corpus benchmark
- Share links
- Deeper version history
One AI run = one credit. The price is on the button before you press it.
Frequently asked questions
Will it write my poem for me?
No. By design. It critiques, scans and measures. Nothing in the Desk generates verse or prose on your behalf.
Is it just for poetry?
No. Story mode gives you chapter headings, ordered chapters inside a project, pacing and dialogue-tag reports, and the same workshop. Poetry is simply the part nobody else does.
What happens to my work if I cancel?
You keep exporting it, forever, in DOCX and PDF. Existing share links keep working. This is published policy.
How do credits burn?
One per AI run, shown before the click. Computed reports and re-runs of unchanged text cost nothing.
Your desk is waiting.
Free account, no card. Two projects, the full editor, and every word exportable forever.
Open the Desk — free