Pricing

Buy once. Yours forever.

No subscriptions. No servers. No cloud lock-in.

Free

The writing surface, free for everyone.

$0

Free forever.

  • Book Mode — your manuscript laid out 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 section reordering
  • Version snapshots — a quiet backup before every save
  • Drop caps, Collect & Separate, and more
  • 3 themes, 7 typefaces, full page styling
  • Reassign every keyboard shortcut
  • Markdown-native — plain files on your disk. No cloud lock-in.
Download — coming soon

Lectern Pro

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

$29 $49

Founder's price during pre-order & beta. Rises to $49 at public release — early buyers keep their lifetime license.

  • Everything in Free, plus —
  • Compendium — people, places & lore, with aliases, tags, and one shared world across a series
  • AI assistant in your voice — Scene Beat, Continue, Copy Edit, Rephrase, and your own 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
  • Styled .docx export — headings, emphasis & 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
Pre-order — opening soon

AI assistance is optional and uses your own API key — you connect your OpenRouter account and pay that provider directly. Lectern never hosts or generates content itself, and never touches your key beyond your own device. Purchases are processed by Paddle.com as our authorized reseller and Merchant of Record.