Questions.
The short answers writers tend to ask first.
Skrib is a writing studio for long-form work. The Plan is an infinite canvas where you lay out structure, characters and research. The Draft is where you write, with industry-standard formatting and multiple versions inside one project. The Library keeps every project and imported file searchable. All three sit in one browser tab, so the plan stays beside the page.
Each of them does one part of the job. Word is a document editor built for office work. Final Draft is made for screenplays, so your novel and your research live somewhere else. Notion is good for notes but knows nothing about story structure or script format. Skrib puts planning, drafting and research in one place for novels and screenplays, so nothing you decide or find gets lost between apps.
Skrib has four plans. Studio on its own is $12 a month. Studio + Companion is $17, Studio + Companion Pro is $29 and Studio + Companion Max is $49. Your first month costs $3 to $6, once. Paying yearly costs $120, $170, $290 or $490 a year. Your first year is half price: $72, $98, $174 or $294. After that, a yearly plan works out to 2 months free compared with paying monthly. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial, and you don’t need a card. If it isn’t right for you, email us within 30 days of your first payment and we’ll refund you
You do, always. Skrib claims no rights over anything you write, plan or upload. We do not scrape it, sell it, or use it for anything.
The Human Authorship Attestation Standard — a way to prove your work is yours. If you choose, Skrib captures the process behind your writing and issues a certificate of human authorship. Useful for submissions, publishers, and anywhere authorship matters.
Novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, game writers, serial authors and fan writers. Anyone whose work runs long enough that the plan, the research and the draft stop fitting in one head. There are also tracks for creators, teachers and teams if you write outside fiction.New answer
No. Skrib is for anyone who takes a long piece of writing seriously, whether it is your ninth novel or your first. Novelists, screenwriters, fan writers, playwrights and researchers all work in it.
Novels, novellas, short story collections, features, pilots, stage plays, comics, sketch, game scripts, video and podcast scripts. Each has templates that open as a Plan and a Draft already shaped for the form, so the formatting is right before you write a word.
Only if you want it to be. Skrib ships in two tracks. Purist is the studio with no AI in it at all. Companion adds an assistant that suggests, but never changes a line until you accept it. The editor, the canvas and the Library are the same in both.
There is no free plan. Every account starts with a seven-day free trial of the full studio, with Companion included. When the trial ends, you choose a plan.
Purist is the studio on its own: editor, canvas, Library, and nothing reading over your shoulder. Companion is the same studio with an assistant you can ask for help planning, finding things in your own research, or hearing an honest read on a draft.
No. The trial needs only an email address. You add a card when you choose a plan.
A one-off payment of $200 for the Purist studio, kept for good. It includes everything in Purist Pro, unlimited projects and unlimited storage, with no AI and no recurring charge.
Credits are how Companion usage is measured. Basic includes 800,000 a month, Pro 2.4 million and Max 9.6 million. A short suggestion on a scene costs a fraction of what a pass over a whole chapter does, so how long a month's allowance lasts depends on how you work.
No. Unused AI credits do not roll over to the next billing period. Your credit balance resets at the start of each new billing cycle, so we recommend using your available credits before the current period ends.
Yes. The underlying studio is the same, so switching tracks changes what is available beside your work, not the work itself. Your projects, drafts and Library stay exactly where they are.
Yes. You can cancel your subscription at any time. Your subscription will remain active until the end of your current billing period, and you’ll continue to have full access until then. For example, if your subscription renews on January 18 and you cancel on January 20, you’ll keep your paid access until February 18. Your subscription will then end automatically, and you won’t be charged again. Refunds may also be requested by contacting our support team. Each refund request is reviewed individually based on the circumstances and our refund policy. For full details about cancellations, billing, and refunds, please review our Terms and Policies at https://skrib.com/legal/terms.
In a browser, on a desktop or laptop. That is on purpose for now. A writers room needs room: the canvas open beside the draft, the research where you can reach it, the shape of the whole thing visible at once. None of that survives a phone screen, and we would rather not ship a version that pretends otherwise. A mobile version and offline writing are both on the roadmap.New answer
Not yet. A native app is on the roadmap, after collaboration and HAAS. Skrib runs in a browser on a desktop or laptop today, which is where the canvas and the draft can sit side by side without either one shrinking to nothing.
No. Skrib runs in the browser. Sign in on any desktop or laptop and your projects are there, with nothing to download, update or leave behind on the old machine.
Upload it. Your manuscript imports as a Draft, ready to write in, and research, spreadsheets and scripts land in your Library beside it. There is no conversion step and no reformatting pass before you can work.
Word, PDF, OpenDocument, Markdown, plain text and Final Draft, covering manuscripts, screenplays, notes, transcripts and spreadsheets. They open ready to work rather than as attachments you have to convert first.
The Plan canvas is an infinite canvas that sits beside your Draft. You lay out the whole timeline rather than the next chapter, using Scene Cards, Notes, Stickies, folders, arrows, colour swatches and uploads. You can start from a structure template like the Hero's Journey or Save the Cat, or pick from many others. Give a character a page of their own and fill it until they have a history and a want. Move a beat and the act break moves with it.
The Draft is the editor, where the writing happens. It is block-based, with industry-standard formatting and navigation, and it stays one glance from the Plan. You can keep as many drafts as you like inside a single project, so the scene you cut in draft two is still there when you want it back in draft six.
The Library holds everything you have written or imported across every project, searchable in one place. Open a project there and you see all its drafts and every note, outline and research card from its Plan. So when you are writing book two, the eye colour you gave a character in book one is a search away.
Yes. Screenplay format is built into the Draft, scene numbers hold through revisions, and you can export straight to Final Draft (.fdx) or Fountain. Stage formatting holds too, with scene breaks and cues staying where you put them.
Yes. Versions live inside a single project rather than as separate files, so you can write a second pass without losing the first and without ending up with six documents named final.
Every template opens as a Plan you can move around and a Draft already shaped for the work, so you never start on blank paper. There are six collections, covering fiction and poetry, structure and beats, characters and worlds, screen and stage and comics, writing process, and video and podcast. Three-act structure, the Hero's Journey, Save the Cat and Freytag's pyramid are all there.
It suggests changes right where the work is, and you decide what stays. Ask it to check whether Martin is sixty in chapter two and fifty-eight in chapter nine, and it marks each fix inline in the Draft, so you see exactly what would change and where. You accept or reject them one at a time or all at once. On the Plan it works the same way. Ask it to break a note into beats and it proposes Stickies, lines them up in order and connects them to the note. Nothing moves until you say so.
No. Nothing in your script moves until you say so. Suggestions arrive marked and pending, and you accept or reject them one at a time or all at once. The Companion is closer to a reader who annotates than a writer who takes over.
Yes, and it is a whole plan rather than a setting. Purist is the studio with no AI in it. Same editor, same canvas, same Library, nothing reading over your shoulder, at every price point including Lifetime.
Paid Companion plans give you access to all available models, and you choose which one to work with.Skrib Companion uses leading AI models from Google and Anthropic, including Google Gemini Flash and Gemini Pro, as well as Anthropic Claude Sonnet and Claude Opus.Different models may be used depending on the task, allowing Companion to balance speed, reasoning quality, writing performance, and context handling.
You do, always. Skrib claims no rights over anything you write, plan or upload. We do not scrape it, sell it, or use it for anything.New answer
Your work sits in your own account, walled off from other users, encrypted in transit and at rest. It is never pooled into a shared dataset and never used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. The full detail is in our Privacy Policy.
No. Not ours, not anyone else's. Your work is never pooled into a shared dataset, and that holds on every plan, including the free one.
At any time, in the format you need. Your work is never held hostage. If Skrib stops being the right tool, you leave with everything, which is the only honest guarantee a writing tool can make.
Manuscripts export to .docx, .doc, .odt, .fodt, .md, .txt and .pdf. Scripts export to .fdx for Final Draft and .fountain. Data and reference material export to .xlsx, .csv, .tsv, .pptx and images.
Your work stays safe. We do not delete your projects simply because your subscription ends. After your paid access expires, your account switches to view-only mode. You can still open and review your existing projects and export your work, but you will no longer be able to edit, modify, or continue working on them until you reactivate your subscription.
Export and send it. Clean .docx for a manuscript, .fdx or .fountain for a script, .pdf when you want it read rather than edited. Shared editing inside Skrib is the next thing shipping.
The Help Center covers most of it. Inside Skrib, click the question mark in the bottom right corner and choose Send report. Pick a bug, feedback or a fresh idea, add a screenshot if it helps, and it goes straight to the team. You can also email team@skrib.com, or join our Discord, where writers and the people building Skrib are in the same room.
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