Every destination on this page imports **.docx**, and not one of them imports PDF. So there is no special file to generate and no integration to wait for — there is one clean export and a short list of things to prepare depending on where it is going.
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Every destination, and what actually lands there
Seven of the eight produce the same .docx, because that is what they all import. The differences are in what you do once it is open.
| Destination | What you get | What to do at the other end |
|---|---|---|
| Take your book to Scrivener | Scrivener accepts **.scriv (native round trip), .docx, .doc, .odt**. | There is no special file to generate and nothing to buy — you export a clean .docx from here and import it there. What matters is the preparation, because Scrivener decides where your chapters begin from what is in the file. |
| Take your book to Vellum | Vellum accepts **.docx only**. | There is no special file to generate and nothing to buy — you export a clean .docx from here and import it there. What matters is the preparation, because Vellum decides where your chapters begin from what is in the file. |
| Take your book to Atticus | Atticus accepts **.docx**. | There is no special file to generate and nothing to buy — you export a clean .docx from here and import it there. What matters is the preparation, because Atticus decides where your chapters begin from what is in the file. |
| Take your book to Reedsy Studio | Reedsy Studio accepts **.docx or .odt**. | There is no special file to generate and nothing to buy — you export a clean .docx from here and import it there. What matters is the preparation, because Reedsy Studio decides where your chapters begin from what is in the file. |
| Take your book to Novlr | Novlr accepts **.docx only**. | There is no special file to generate and nothing to buy — you export a clean .docx from here and import it there. What matters is the preparation, because Novlr decides where your chapters begin from what is in the file. |
| Take your book to Dabble | Dabble accepts **.docx, Markdown, HTML, RTF**. | There is no special file to generate and nothing to buy — you export a clean .docx from here and import it there. What matters is the preparation, because Dabble decides where your chapters begin from what is in the file. |
| Take your book to Word or Google Docs | Word or Google Docs accepts **.docx — natively in Word, and Google Docs opens and converts it**. | There is no special file to generate and nothing to buy — you export a clean .docx from here and import it there. What matters is the preparation, because Word decides where your chapters begin from what is in the file. |
Not sure your manuscript is ready to move?
Send three chapters to the free opening-chapter review. You'll get a real structural read back by email — and you'll see how your headings and chapter structure come through, which is what every destination on this page reads.
This is the existing free chapter review, not a separate export tool.
The honest version of what a preset is
An earlier version of this plan had eight separate Export to X buttons, which implied eight native integrations — connections to other people's software that we would have to build and maintain, and that break when they ship an update.
That was wrong, and the reason it was wrong is simple: they all take .docx. So a preset is not a different file. It is the same clean .docx plus two or three preparation rules and a short note on how to import it at the other end.
That costs almost nothing to offer and removes a real obstacle for you. Which is the whole argument for doing it.
The three rules that cover almost everything
Use real Heading 1 styles for chapter titles. Not bold 18pt text that looks like a heading. Every destination except Dabble finds your chapters through the heading hierarchy, and manually formatted text is invisible to all of them. This one rule prevents most import problems.
Do not include a table of contents. Atticus in particular builds its own, and an existing one imports as a chapter.
Watch the file size. Reedsy Studio and Dabble both cap at 50 MB, and it is almost always embedded images rather than text that pushes a manuscript over.
PDF is not on this list, deliberately
Not one of these tools imports PDF. It is worth saying because authors ask for it constantly, and because it is a reasonable thing to assume.
A PDF is a picture of a finished page. The text inside it has lost its structure — headings are no longer headings, they are just larger text in a fixed position. That is exactly the information a formatting tool needs.
Export PDF when you are giving someone a book to read. Export .docx when you are giving a program a manuscript to work on.
Diagnostics before anything is processed
The failure mode of any manuscript handoff is silent: a heading misread as body text, a chapter split in two, a duplicated section from an old draft, footnotes vanishing.
So the import here shows you what it found before it does anything — chapters detected, headings it was uncertain about, footnotes, images, duplicate content. You confirm, then it runs.
Repeated passes use stable chapter identifiers, so running a second review does not duplicate your chapters. Which is a boring detail until it happens to you.
Your words are never trapped
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.
A plain export of your own words is free forever, on every plan, including the free one. That is deliberate and permanent. An editorial platform that could hold your manuscript hostage would be a bad thing to build, and a worse thing to trust.
What a credit pack buys is the artefact — a formatted DOCX or a publisher-ready PDF — not access to your own text.
Plus lets you upload a manuscript you wrote anywhere, run whichever tool you actually need, and export it again. No subscription to start, 1,000 welcome credits that never expire, and a plain export of your own words is free forever. Keep the writing tool you like. Add the editorial half when you need it.
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Get the free reviewQuestions people ask
- Which formats can I export?
- A clean .docx suits every destination on this page. A plain text export of your own words is free forever; formatted DOCX and publisher-ready PDF are artefacts and come from a credit pack.
- Can I export to PDF?
- Yes, for reading and for print. But no writing or formatting tool on this page imports PDF, so it is the wrong choice if you are moving a manuscript rather than delivering a finished book.
- Are these native integrations?
- No, and we would rather say so. They are prepared .docx exports plus import guidance. Scrivener is the exception, with a genuine .scriv round trip.
- Will I lose my chapter structure?
- Not if you use real heading styles. That single habit is what carries chapter structure through every one of these tools.
- What if my import goes wrong at the other end?
- Almost always headings — text that looks like a heading but is not styled as one. Fix the styles and re-export; it takes a minute and you do not need to redo any editorial work.