Your Book Pro vs Plottr
They do different jobs. Plottr Visual plotting done properly. Your Book Pro is the editorial process — planning, structural feedback, a simulated beta read, editing, proofreading, a cover and a print-ready file. Most authors who ask this question should use both, and the export here is built so they can.
Side by side, honestly
Plottr's own published pricing, September 2026. We have not tried to make this flattering — a comparison you cannot trust is worth nothing to either of us.
| Plottr | Your Book Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Plotters, series writers, and anyone who needs to see the whole shape laid out spatially. | Getting a book from idea or draft to finished, with the editorial work done properly |
| Price | $60/year; Pro $99/year | Plus: free to start with 1,000 non-expiring credits; credit packs are there when you need more |
| Approach to AI | No AI | Editorial guidance and feedback. Your words stored as Exact Text and never overwritten. |
| Planning | Yes | Book Coach (free, no account) and Plan Feedback |
| Structural feedback | No | Detailed Editorial Feedback across the whole manuscript |
| Beta reading | No | Beta Reader — three reader types across the whole book |
| Proofreading | No | Proofread, checked against your own style sheet |
| Formatting / export | Limited | Clean manuscript export, with presets for the main formatting tools |
| Works with the other | Yes | Yes — upload from anywhere, export again, free forever |
A separate free preview: Your free private Book Coach
A separate Book Coach preview for discovering the book's reader, shape and next step; it does not do the specific job this page describes. A short private conversation, one question at a time. By the end you should have a clearer sense of what your book is actually about, who it is for, the shape it wants to take, and the one next thing to do. It never writes a word for you.
A separate Book Coach preview for discovering the book's reader, shape and next step; it does not do the specific job this page describes. It asks questions and gives you your own answers back. It does not write the book. You can copy or download the finished plan straight from the page, free and with no email needed.
What Plottr is genuinely good at
Visual plotting done properly. Timelines, character arcs, series bibles, templates for established story structures — Plottr is the best thing available for a writer who thinks in cards and columns, and it handles multi-book series continuity better than almost anything.
What these tools do instead
Plottr gives you a superb place to build a plan. It does not tell you whether the plan is any good.
Plan Feedback does exactly that: it reads your structure against what your genre actually requires and reports where the shape will cause trouble — the chapter doing two jobs, the three in a row where nothing changes, the promise made in chapter one that the outline never keeps. That is the outline critique an editor charges £150–£400 for.
The part people miss
After the plan, the paths diverge entirely: Plottr's job is finished when you start writing, and Your Book Pro's is only beginning — draft, structural review, beta read, edit, proof, cover, print.
How to use both
Plan in Plottr if that is how your mind works. Bring the outline here to have it stress-tested before you write eighty thousand words into it, then bring the draft back for the editorial work.
Plus lets you upload a manuscript you wrote anywhere, run whichever tool you actually need, and export it again. That is what makes keeping both tools a real option rather than a polite fiction: your book does not have to move house to get edited. A plain export of your own words is free forever.
About Your Book Pro
Your Book Pro is a book-writing platform built in Britain. Start with an idea, notes, half a draft, a podcast, or a finished manuscript, and use our purpose-built AI tools for planning, feedback, editing, proofreading, cover designs, and to create print-ready files. Writing is totally free: you can type, upload or speak your book as much as you like, and use only the editing tools you need with Plus, or go unlimited with Pro.
Produce world-class drafts at the fraction of the cost of hiring a human editorial team.
Every account starts with 1,000 welcome credits, and a plain export of your own words is free.
Every account starts with 1,000 welcome credits that never expire, so a whole-book structural review — normally 900 credits for a 60,000-word book — costs nothing the first time. credit packs are there when you need more.
And the honest limits are on every tool page, not hidden: real beta readers in your actual audience tell you things no simulated reader can; a cover designer who knows your shelf will outsell a generated cover; a publishing solicitor is the answer when a book names living people. We would rather say so here.
Upload a manuscript written anywhere
Run a whole-book review
Email me my free Book Coach linkQuestions people ask
- Is Plottr better than Your Book Pro?
- For what it does, Plottr is good at it — that is why the answer is usually both rather than either. They sit at different points in making a book.
- How much does Plottr cost?
- $60/year; Pro $99/year, as published on their site in September 2026. Check the current price before deciding — these move.
- Can I use both?
- Yes, and that is the intended answer. Upload a manuscript written anywhere, run what you need, export it again. A plain export of your own words is free forever.
- Do I have to move my book?
- No. Nothing has to migrate permanently. The upload-work-export loop exists precisely so you can keep the writing tool you like.
- What if I only want one tool?
- Run a single pass on your manuscript and take the result with you. There is no subscription requirement and the welcome credits cover a whole-book review.