For Dabble users
If Dabble works for you, keep it. This is not a page asking you to switch. It is about the gap between finishing a draft and publishing one — the structural read, the beta read, the editing sequence, the proofread, the cover — and how to fill it without moving your manuscript anywhere permanently.
What sits where
Not a scorecard. A map of which tool answers which question, so you can tell what you are missing rather than which is 'better'.
| The question | Dabble | Your Book Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Where do I write? | Yes, with plotting alongside | You can, but you don't have to |
| Is my plan any good? | Holds your plan; does not critique it | Plan Feedback, and the Book Coach free with no account |
| Does the book work? | No | Detailed Editorial Feedback across the whole manuscript |
| How will readers react? | No | Beta Reader — three reader types, whole book |
| Is it consistent and clean? | No | Proofread and Book Dictionary, checked against your own conventions |
| Could this get me sued? | No | Safety Screening — flags exposure so you know what to take to a solicitor |
| Cover and blurb? | No | Generate a Cover and Back-Cover Blurb |
| Can I keep using both? | Yes | Yes — upload from anywhere, export again, free forever |
A separate free preview: A free outside view of your own pages
A separate editorial preview of one extract; it does not read the whole book or do the specialist job this page describes. Send up to 5,000 words. You get back what the draft appears to be doing to somebody who wasn't there when you wrote it, the strongest thing in it named, the exact place a reader starts to drift, and three revision priorities in order.
A separate editorial preview of one extract; it does not read the whole book or do the specialist job this page describes. An AI-assisted read of your own pages. Not a human edit, not a line edit, and not a scored report.
What Dabble does well
Dabble's Plot Grid is the best plotting interface in a cloud writing app, the sync is reliable, and its stance on generative AI is deliberate and clearly stated. For novelists who plan, it is a very good place to work.
The gap
Dabble helps you build and write the plan. It does not assess it, and it does nothing after the draft — no structural feedback, no beta read, no editing sequence, no publishing preparation.
That gap is where £2,500–£6,000 normally goes: a developmental edit at £1,500–£4,800, a copy-edit at £800–£1,600, a proofread at £400–£800, a cover at £250–£800. It is also the reason a great many finished drafts never become books.
How to add the missing half without moving house
Plan and draft in Dabble. Bring the outline here for a critique before you write into it, and bring the draft back for the editorial passes.
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.
Where to start, coming from Dabble
Dabble's plot grid shows you the book you intended. It cannot tell you whether that book works, because it is displaying your own plan back to you — which is the one perspective you already have.
First, Plan Feedback, and do this before you write more rather than after. It stress-tests the structure while changing it is still cheap. A freelance outline critique costs £150–£400; a full manuscript assessment £400–£900.
Second, Detailed Editorial Feedback once the draft is done — the read that finds the middle that repeats itself and the ending that arrives before the book has finished arguing. £1,500–£4,800 with a developmental editor.
Third, Beta Reader, because a structural note and a reader's boredom are different information and you want both before you pay anyone for sentences.
Keep planning in Dabble. The plan and the critique of the plan do not have to live in the same place.
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. A whole-book structural review costs 600 of them, so the first one is free. credit packs are there when you need more.
And the limits are stated on every tool page: real beta readers tell you whether they would have bought it; a designer who knows your shelf will outsell a generated cover; a solicitor is the answer when a book names living people.
Upload a manuscript written anywhere
Run a whole-book review
Email me my free review linkQuestions people ask
- Do I have to stop using Dabble?
- No. Upload a manuscript, run the passes it needs, export it again and carry on where you were. The export is free forever.
- How much does Dabble cost?
- Writer $19/mo; Author $29/mo; Bestseller $49/mo, as published in September 2026. Prices move — check before deciding.
- Will my formatting survive the round trip?
- Heading hierarchy and chapter order are preserved, and import diagnostics show you what was found before anything is processed. Complex layout is best applied at the end, in your formatting tool.
- What should I run first?
- Plan Feedback, if you are still drafting. You already have a plan; what you have not had is anyone disagreeing with it while disagreeing is still cheap.
- Is this cheaper than hiring an editor?
- Substantially — and it is not a replacement for one on every book. The honest use is to fix what you can here first, which makes a human editor's quote smaller if you still want one.