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Buy once. Yours forever.

No subscription required. No servers. No cloud lock-in.

Free

The writing surface, free for everyone.

$0

Free forever, for any work you do.

  • Free for any purpose: personal or professional
  • Book Mode: your manuscript as real, bordered pages
  • Living markdown: formatting renders as you type
  • Typewriter scrolling & Tranquility mode
  • Smart typography: curly quotes, em dashes, auto-capitals
  • Spellcheck with your own correction list
  • Writer's dashboard: live word, page & daily-goal counts
  • Project-wide find & replace, with preview and backups
  • Living outline with drag-and-drop reordering
  • Version snapshots: a quiet backup before every save
  • 4 themes, 7 typefaces, full page styling
  • Reassign every keyboard shortcut
  • Markdown-native: plain files on your disk. No cloud lock-in.
Download Lectern Free

Lectern Pro

Founder's Edition: for writers who go all in.

$29

One-time payment. Lifetime license. All future updates included.

  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Compendium: people, places & lore, shared across a series
  • AI assistant in your voice: Scene Beat, Continue, Copy Edit, Rephrase & custom processes (BYOK, any model)
  • AI tuned to your book: tense, POV, focal character & style guide
  • Context-aware thesaurus
  • Highlight & Whiteout: guide or hide passages from the AI
  • Voice: Dictate your draft & hear it read back (bring your own Deepgram key)
  • Styled DOCX, PDF & EPUB export: illuminated capitals intact
  • Compile a whole folder into one manuscript
  • Theme studio: tune every element, save & carry your designs
  • Lifetime license: all future updates included
Buy Lectern Pro for $29

Supporter

For organizations who keep Lectern independent.

$50

Per seat, per year. Entirely optional.

  • Everything in Pro, plus:
  • Support independent software built by working writers
  • Be recognized as a supporter of Lectern
  • The same full feature set as Pro, no extra unlocks needed
  • Peace of mind for teams who’d rather give back
Become a Supporter

Lectern is free for everyone, for any purpose, including your professional work. Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks the deeper writing tools. The Supporter tier is optional: if Lectern benefits your organization, it’s a way to help keep the work independent and user-supported.

AI assistance is optional and uses your own API key. You connect your OpenRouter account and pay that provider directly, and Voice works the same way with your own Deepgram key. Lectern never hosts or generates content itself, and never touches your key beyond your own device.