Every tool on this page exists because authors currently pay a person for it. So each one carries two things: what the human version costs, and when the human is still better. That second field is not modesty — it is what makes the rest of the page worth trusting.

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The organising idea

A book does not need nineteen things done to it at once. It needs them in order, and the order is what most authors never see — which is why so much money gets spent on the wrong pass at the wrong time.

So the tools are grouped by stage rather than by type. Capture, before there is a draft. Create, getting words down. Shape, deciding what the book is. Improve, making it work. Prepare, getting it out.

You will not use all of them. Most authors use five or six, and the point of the list is knowing which five.

Every tool carries the price of the human version

On each tool page you will find the service it replaces and what that service costs in Britain — sourced to CIEP suggested minimum rates, Reedsy's published averages, Books.by and The Ghostwriters Agency, dated and flagged as sourced, derived or estimated.

This is deliberate. An author who does not know that a developmental edit costs £1,500–£4,800 cannot judge whether any of this is worth anything.

It also sets the honest expectation: the full editorial sequence with freelancers runs £2,500–£6,000, which is why most finished manuscripts stay in folders. That number is the reason this exists.

And what a human still does better

Every tool page has a field called when a human is better, and it is filled in honestly.

Real beta readers tell you whether they would have bought it. A publicist has relationships. A cover designer who knows your shelf will outsell a generated cover, and that gap is widest in romance, thriller and fantasy. A developmental editor who has sold books in your genre carries market judgement no rubric holds.

We would rather you knew that here than found it out after publishing.

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.

Plus lets you upload a manuscript you wrote anywhere — Word, Google Docs, Scrivener, a folder of chapter files, a stack of voice memos — run whichever tools you actually need, and export it again. There is no requirement to write here to be edited here, and a plain export of your own words is free forever.

Every account starts with 1,000 welcome credits that never expire. Beta Reader costs 500 of them; Detailed Editorial Feedback costs 600. So your first whole-book review costs nothing. credit packs are there when you need more credits.

And two tools are free to use with no account at all: the Book Coach at yourbook.pro/book-coach, and Writer's Block at yourbook.pro/free/unstick-my-book.

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Questions people ask

Do I have to use all of them?
No. Most authors use five or six. The order matters far more than the number — a proofread before a structural edit is money spent twice.
Do I have to write here to use them?
No. Upload a manuscript written anywhere, run what you need, export it again. That is what Plus is for.
Do I have to dictate?
No. Most authors type. You can type, upload or speak, and mix all three in the same book — the tools work the same either way.
What does it cost?
Plus is free to start with 1,000 non-expiring welcome credits. credit packs are there when you need more. Tools cost credits per run — Beta Reader 500, Detailed Editorial Feedback 600.
Which tool should I start with?
If you don't know what your book is: the Book Coach, free, no account. If you have a draft: Detailed Editorial Feedback, which your welcome credits cover.
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