Available for Mac · Windows · Linux
The writing app for world builders.
Draft your novel without losing track of who's where, what they can do, or how magic works in your world. Vellerune keeps the lore at your fingertips while you write.
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L on anything in your prose.
- ✓ One-time license. No subscription.
- ✓ Mac, Windows & Linux.
- ✓ Your work stays on your machine.
Why Vellerune
One app for both your books and your worlds.
Most fantasy novels get written across half a dozen tools and held together with copy-paste. Vellerune is the one app that takes you from blank world to finished book — worldbuilding, plotting, drafting, and publishing, all in one place.
The journey
From the seed of a story to a printed book.
Vellerune is organized around the writer's journey. Every act has the tools you need, each one building upon the previous.
Build your world
Plot your story
Write your book
Publish your work
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Your world, always at hand.
Type a character's name, a city, a piece of forgotten lore. Hit L and the side panel surfaces every matching entry — with full dictionary and thesaurus built in.
No need to switch windows or break your flow.
- Aliases match too. Nicknames, titles, the name they used to go by — all surface the right entry.
- Beyond your world. Built-in dictionary & thesaurus on the same panel.
- No round-trips. The reference appears right beside your prose.
Storylines & Plots
Weave your plots.
Most plot tools commit to one shape. Vellerune lets you bullet beats in a list, then drop them onto a 2D canvas to see how threads intersect across books. The list and the canvas are the same events, just two ways to view and organize them.
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Map your world.
Bring your own maps. Pin locations, mark regions, and measure the road between them. Every pin links back to a location in your world, so the map and the lore stay connected.
Publish
Self-publish format for stores. Manuscript format for agents.
Skip the Word → third-party converter ritual. Vellerune exports manuscript DOCX for agents and submissions, plus polished, print-ready PDF, DOCX, and EPUB for self-publishing — drop caps, gutters, scene-break ornaments, and more.
Everything you create in a world exports to DOCX too. You're never locked in.
Progress
Two ways to count a writing day.
On a heavy revision day you might type several thousand words but the manuscript only grows by two hundred. Vellerune tracks both — words written and net words — alongside your daily writing time, on the dashboard. Daily goals and per-scene targets are there if you want them.
Your work
Your books stay yours.
Your manuscripts and worldbuilding live on your own machine, not on Vellerune's servers. There's no account to create, and the app works without an internet connection. Everything in a world — your prose, characters, locations, even the glossary — exports to standard DOCX, so if you ever decide to take your work somewhere else, you can.
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One-time license. Free 30-day trial on Windows and Linux.