If Novlr 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.
For Novlr users
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 | Novlr | Your Book Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Where do I write? | Yes, and deliberately calmly | 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 structural read of your first three chapters
Bring three chapters from Novlr and we'll email back a real structural read — the through-line, where attention drops, and the two things to fix first. Free, and nothing moves permanently.
What Novlr does well
Novlr is calm, deliberately human-first, and owned in part by its writers. The daily writing habit tracking works, the interface stays out of the way, and its explicit position against generative writing is a real principle rather than marketing.
The gap
What Novlr does not do is tell you whether the book works. There is no structural read, no simulated beta read, no proofread against your own style sheet, no cover, no blurb, no legal screen.
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
Keep writing in Novlr. When the draft is done, bring it here for the editorial work, then take it back or take it forward.
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 Novlr
Novlr's position against generative writing is a real principle, and it is worth saying plainly that nothing here writes your book either. Your words are stored as Exact Text and are never overwritten; every suggestion arrives attached to a place in the manuscript and waits until you accept it.
So the order is: finish in Novlr, then bring the draft here.
First, Detailed Editorial Feedback on the whole book. Not three chapters — the whole thing, at once, because a sag in the middle is invisible from the front. A developmental editor charges £1,500–£4,800 for this read, or £400–£900 for a written report alone.
Second, Beta Reader. Three readers, each reading blind, reporting where they drifted and where they stopped believing you. Human beta readers run £50–£200 per reader per round.
Third, Proofread, against a style sheet built from your own manuscript so your deliberate spellings survive. A proofreader charges £300–£800 for a full book.
Then export, and go back to Novlr for the next one if that is where you like writing.
What Your Book Pro is
Your Book Pro is a British book-writing platform. You bring a book — an idea, a folder of notes, half a draft, or a finished manuscript written somewhere else — and it gives you the editorial process a publisher would run: a plan, structured feedback, a simulated beta read, a line edit, a proofread, a cover, a blurb and a print-ready file. You can type it, upload it or speak it. The tools sit in one place and work on the same manuscript, so the feedback compounds instead of arriving as twelve disconnected opinions.
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 the readQuestions people ask
- Do I have to stop using Novlr?
- 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 Novlr cost?
- Free; Starter $8/mo annual; Studio $16/mo annual; $499 lifetime, 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?
- A whole-book structural review. You have a finished draft and a writing habit — what you do not have is an outside read, and everything else depends on what that finds.
- 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.