Best for
You need a persistent manuscript project for planning or import, chapter-by-chapter drafting and revision, full-book review, and structured export.
Gixo Folio
Plan, import, draft, revise, and export a book chapter by chapter.
Best fit
For authors planning manuscripts, chapters, and edition-ready book projects.
Start path
Start or reopen a book project, then move from manuscript planning into chapter drafting when ready.
Trial or free path
Start a no-card 14-day Folio trial to plan a manuscript, draft chapters, and evaluate export. Paid Folio continues chapter generation after the trial.
Paid unlock
Paid Folio continues AI chapter drafting after the trial and unlocks higher chapter capacity and edition add-ons.
Author
Good for one author drafting a book with AI, a chapter at a time
Best for one person doing real work
$19/month
10 AI-drafted chapters every month
Everything in the free studio
Clean exports — no Gixo page
Cancel when your book ships
Recommended
Selected
Pro
Good for serial authors, course creators, and ghostwriting workloads
Best for small teams that review together
$99/month
Everything in Author
50 AI-drafted chapters every month
One edition included monthly — audiobook or translation
White-label and SCORM export
Priority support
Monthly plans, cancel anytime — we expect you to cancel when your book ships. Author includes planning, manuscript import, AI chapter drafting, revision, and EPUB, editable DOCX, chapter PDF, HTML, and Markdown export. Pro adds 50 AI chapters/month, white-label, SCORM, and one audiobook or international edition every month across 89 locale variants.
Product fit
Is Folio right for you?
Not the right fit when
You need retailer publishing, human copyediting, fiction-specific world-building tools, or a guarantee of publishing or commercial success.
What to expect
Folio exports EPUB, editable DOCX, a full-book print PDF sized to its trim — standard sizes such as 6×9, 5.5×8.5, and 5×8 inches, or a custom trim inside KDP's paperback range — with mirrored inside and outside margins that meet KDP's minimum for the page count it renders at and an optional 0.125-inch bleed, a full-wrap paperback cover PDF whose spine is sized from that interior's page count, chapter PDF, HTML, and Markdown from one export path. Eligible higher-tier workflows can also produce SCORM and white-label output.
What your team should review
The author or editor still owns factual review, voice, continuity, rights, manuscript readiness, cover decisions, metadata, and the final publication process.
Important limitation
Folio prepares downloadable book files; it does not publish them to a retailer, provide human copyediting, or guarantee publishing or commercial outcomes.
A finished book, not a blank project
Folio is a manuscript workspace that keeps the library, chapter editor, and print-ready export on one book. The pages below are real manuscripts: the library, the chapter editor on a GST guide for freelancers, and reader mode on a 13-chapter travel guide that exports as a 261-page print PDF. Folio prepares those files; it does not publish them to a retailer.
Books Folio wrote from a short brief
Folio planned, outlined and drafted each book chapter by chapter on 3 October 2026 from the brief shown, then exported the same saved book as Word, EPUB and PDF without editing. The two stories are invented throughout, and the workbook names no one. They are samples of what Folio writes from one paragraph, not finished books: nobody has edited them.
Chapter book · 6 chapters · 9,528 words · 57-page PDF
The Summer Lost-and-Found
A chapter book for readers aged seven to nine: a boy is put in charge of his village's lost-property cupboard for one summer and has to find the owners of a growing pile of odd objects. Folio wrote all six chapters from the brief. Each runs 1,513 to 1,754 words where the brief asked for about 1,100.
The brief Folio was given
A funny, warm chapter book for readers aged seven to nine about a boy who is put in charge of his village's lost-property cupboard for one summer and has to find the owners of a growing pile of odd objects. Six short chapters of about 1,100 words each, short sentences, plenty of dialogue, and a gentle surprise in the last chapter. Audience: Children aged seven to nine, read alone or aloud. Tone: Funny, warm and gentle. Everything in the book is invented: the village, the people and the events. Use no real person, organisation, brand or place, and no statistics or quotations.
PDF (378 KB)Word (30 KB)EPUB (31 KB)
Screened mechanically for what the brief forbade (a real person, organisation, brand, place, statistic or quotation) and found none: every capitalised name is a character or place in the book. Nobody has edited the text, and nobody has read it for quality.
Novella · 5 chapters · 30,103 words · 132-page PDF
The Winter Logbooks
A quiet, character-driven novella in five chapters. A retired harbour pilot who has not spoken to his sister for years is asked by a young archivist to explain the entries in the old harbour office logbooks, and as they catalogue them the two learn how the town came to make a decision it never talks about. Folio wrote it from one paragraph; each chapter runs 4,890 to 6,860 words where the brief asked for about 4,500.
The brief Folio was given
A quiet, character-driven novella set in a small harbour town over one winter. A retired harbour pilot who has not spoken to his sister for years is asked by a young archivist to explain the entries in the old harbour office logbooks. As the logbooks are catalogued, the two of them learn how the town came to make a decision it never talks about. Five chapters of about 4,500 words each, in close third person, for adult readers of literary fiction. Audience: Adult readers of quiet literary fiction. Tone: Reflective and warm. Everything in the book is invented: the town, the people, the organisations and the events. Use no real person, organisation, place or event, and no statistics or quotations.
PDF (694 KB)Word (74 KB)EPUB (71 KB)
Screened mechanically for what the brief forbade (a real person, organisation, place, event, statistic or quotation) and found none: every capitalised name is a character, place or heading in the book. Nobody has edited the text, and nobody has read it for quality.
Workbook · 6 chapters · 21,038 words · 75-page PDF
Six Weeks to a Daily Writing Habit
A six-week workbook of short exercises and reflection prompts for adults who want to start a daily writing habit. Each week is one chapter with ten-minute exercises to do with pen and paper, blank lines to write on and a page to look back on the week. Folio wrote it from one paragraph; each chapter runs about 3,000 to 3,800 words where the brief asked for about 2,800.
The brief Folio was given
A six-week workbook of short exercises and reflection prompts for adults who want to start a daily writing habit. Each week is one chapter of about 2,800 words with a few ten-minute exercises the reader does with a pen and paper, and a short page to look back on the week. Audience: Adults who want to write a little every day and have never kept the habit. Tone: Encouraging and practical. Do not state any statistic, study, survey, quotation, case study, testimonial or named person, and do not describe what research shows. Do not describe hypothetical writers or give anyone a name: speak to the reader as 'you'. Every exercise is something the reader does themselves with a pen and paper.
PDF (740 KB)Word (65 KB)EPUB (54 KB)
Screened mechanically for what the brief forbade (a statistic, study, survey, quotation, case study, testimonial, named person or a claim about what research shows): the only figure is the ten minutes an exercise takes, and no person is named. It carries blank lines for the reader to write on. Nobody has edited the text, and nobody has read it for quality.
Folio prepares these files; it does not publish them to a retailer. The PDF is a 6 by 9 inch interior with a title page and contents.
The print PDF you actually download
These are pages from the exported print PDF of that travel guide — table of contents, a mapped interior page, and a later illustrated chapter. This is a downloadable book file, not a retailer listing.
Gixo Folio offers a free manuscript workspace and monthly AI chapter plans: Folio Author is $19/mo for 10 AI-drafted chapters a month, and Folio Pro is $99/mo for 50 chapters plus white-label and SCORM export and one audiobook or international edition every month. Import, plan, and manually write free. Subscribe for AI chapter drafting; eligible manuscript exports remain available after cancellation. Pro-only formats and edition access have separate entitlements. Both paid plans are monthly with no annual lock-in.
Start freePlanning, import, and manual writing do not require a subscription.
Subscribe while the book is activeUse Author or Pro for the months you need AI chapter drafting; keep eligible exports after cancellation.
Cancel when it shipsYour book remains yours; the pricing model is designed around a finished deliverable.
Plan, write, and export in one Folio workspace
Start blank, import an existing manuscript, or use AI planning before paying. Your own imported or manually written manuscript can be exported without a subscription. Current or historical paid Folio access also preserves eligible exports. Subscribe when you want more AI-drafted chapters.
Folio Author vs Folio Pro: what each book writing plan includes
Both paid plans are monthly with no annual lock-in and cover the same complete book workflow. The difference is drafting volume, export coverage, and included editions.
| Plan | Monthly price | AI-drafted chapters | Export formats | Editions (audiobook / international) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Folio Author | $19/mo | 10 per month | EPUB, editable DOCX, chapter PDF, HTML, Markdown | One-time add-ons, $99-$299 depending on finished length |
| Folio Pro | $99/mo | 50 per month | Everything in Author plus white-label and SCORM | One edition included every month, then $99-$299 depending on finished length |
Importing and manually writing your own manuscript can remain free. As a budget example, one to three paid months of Folio Author cost $19 to $57 before taxes or edition add-ons. This is an illustration, not an estimate of how long your book will take. Author includes 10 AI-drafted chapters per month.
How the AI Book Studio works
Import content or start from a short brief, shape the chapters, revise the full book, then export when it is ready.
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Import or set the brief
Bring in existing material or define title, audience, positioning, and outcome so the project starts from real context.
2
Shape the chapters
Build the outline before drafting so each chapter has a job and the manuscript stays coherent.
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Revise in one place
Use the editor and reader flow to finish the book before you export it.
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Inspect and export
When the manuscript is ready, choose an available export format that matches the destination and download the final book.
Count the handoffs, not the features
The question is how many tools it takes to finish the book, not to start it.
Folio runs the production chain on one book: draft and revise the manuscript, run the consistency audit, validate the ISBN and generate its barcode for the print cover, and export EPUB, editable DOCX and a print-ready interior PDF with KDP-sized mirrored margins at standard or custom trim sizes. The audiobook edition and the international edition are then built from that same finished book in the workspace, not from a file you export and re-import.
Assembled from separate tools, the same result means drafting in one, formatting in another, buying an ISBN from a third, sending the manuscript to a narrator or audiobook service, sending it again to a translator, and running every translated edition back through the formatter — a file handed over at each step. In Folio the only file that leaves is the finished one you upload to the distributor you choose.
Folio validates an ISBN you already hold, converts between ISBN-10 and ISBN-13, and generates the barcode for your print cover. It does not issue ISBNs. Folio prepares downloadable book files; it does not publish them to a retailer, provide human copyediting, or guarantee publishing or commercial outcomes.
Built for repeat-publishing solo experts
Consultants, coaches, creators, and service businesses can turn existing knowledge into recurring authority books without stitching five tools together.
Book brief and outline
Start from a defined book brief, then turn it into a chapter structure that keeps the project coherent while drafting.
Chapter-by-chapter authoring
Draft, revise, and save chapters in one place with the chapter list, editor, and current manuscript kept together.
Manuscript readiness and review
Track which chapters are final, use reader mode for the last pass, and treat export as the final step instead of the place where revision begins.
Manuscript consistency audit
Before export, Folio can run a read-only manuscript consistency audit: deterministic checks across the whole book flag duplicate chapter titles, unresolved drafting placeholders, passages repeated across chapters, and Story Bible term-casing, while a bounded AI pass reviews every chapter — in full for shorter manuscripts and as a balanced per-chapter excerpt for longer ones — to surface contradictions, timeline and character inconsistencies, terminology drift, and unresolved threads. Each finding is severity-ranked with evidence, a suggested fix, and a 0–100 consistency score, and the outline, chapter order, editor, and revision state stay attached to the same book project. You still review and resolve every finding before publishing.
Final export options
Paid plans export EPUB, editable DOCX, print-ready full-book and chapter PDF at standard book trim sizes, HTML, and Markdown; Pro adds white-label and SCORM for training-manual handoff.
Import-first activation
Turn newsletters, course notes, and prior drafts into a chapter structure before spending AI budget.
International editions
Create localized editions across 89 supported locale variants, with translated metadata, localized cover text, and edition-specific exports.
How to choose the best book writing software for your workflow
The best writing software for authors is the one that supports the whole stage where their manuscript gets stuck. If you only need distraction-free typing, a simple editor may be enough. If the outline, chapters, revisions, and final files keep separating, software for writing a book should keep those parts attached to one persistent project. Folio is built for that second job: plan or import the manuscript, draft chapter by chapter, review the whole book, and export it when it is ready.
Planning before pages
Compare book writing apps on how well they preserve the brief, reader promise, outline, and chapter jobs while the manuscript changes—not just on the blank-page editor.
A manuscript, not isolated outputs
The best book writing software for a long project should keep every chapter in order and make the full manuscript readable, so repetition and weak transitions can be found before export.
Revision and editing fit
Folio supports manuscript revision and a full-book review pass. If you need specialist copyediting, grammar diagnostics, or human editorial services, compare dedicated book editing software or an editor alongside it.
Nonfiction and fiction needs differ
Folio is strongest for structured expertise, educational, business, and repeat-publishing workflows. Authors comparing the best novel writing software should also test fiction-specific beat, character, and world-building tools against the way they plan stories.
Check the last mile
Confirm the tool exports the file you need. Folio produces EPUB, editable DOCX, chapter PDF, HTML, and Markdown on paid plans; it does not design a cover or publish the files to a retailer for you.
Test with a real chapter
Use the same outline and source material in each candidate, then compare continuity, revision effort, manuscript navigation, and export—not the polish of one generated paragraph.
Learn before you start
These pages explain fit, pricing, comparisons, and language options before you start your book.
Landing
Books landing page
Explore the Folio workflow, plans, use cases, and paths into the book studio.
Use cases
Who Gixo Folio is for
See the kinds of books and professional use cases that fit Gixo Folio best.
Guide
Books guide
A clear walkthrough from setup to finished export.
Tutorial
How to write a book with Gixo
Step-by-step onboarding for first-time book projects.
FAQ
Books FAQ
Answer pricing, export, language, and fit questions before purchase.
Pricing
Folio plans and pricing
See the monthly plans, chapter allowances, and export coverage in detail.
Import
Newsletter to book generator
Turn newsletters, essays, and existing expertise into a structured manuscript before paying for drafting.
Workflow
Writing a book with ChatGPT
See when prompt drafting is enough and when a persistent book workspace is the better fit.
Pricing
AI book writing software pricing guide
Compare subscription tools, book workspace pricing, and export costs before choosing the right setup.
Alternative
Atticus alternative
Compare formatting-first book software with a writing workspace that keeps planning and drafting together.
Alternative
Vellum alternative
Choose Folio before typography polish, when the manuscript still needs import, drafting, and review.
Pro
White-label book production
Review the ghostwriter and book-packager workflow for recurring client authority books.
Use case
Training manual writing software
See the strongest fit for onboarding, SOPs, enablement, and internal training manuals.
SCORM
SCORM training manual export
Use Pro for static LMS handoff without chasing quizzes, branching, or course authoring.
Experiment
AI fiction book workflow
A small, honest fiction workflow test for authors who value continuity and export over brainstorming depth.
Use case
Client guide or eBook generator
Review the best fit for consultants, agencies, and service businesses creating client education assets.
Process
AI book outline generator
See how the outline becomes the operating plan for the manuscript.
Process
AI chapter generator
See how chapter drafting stays attached to review, export, and edition readiness.
Use case
Write a nonfiction book with AI
Review the best fit for authority books, guides, and client education.
Use case
AI business book writer
See the best-fit Books page for founder books, consultant books, and framework-led manuscripts.
Free builder
Copyright page builder
Assemble publication metadata, fixed rights text, identifiers, attribution details, and a selected disclaimer.
Book writing software pricing and export questions
How much does Gixo Folio book writing software cost?
Folio Author is $19/mo with 10 AI-drafted chapters per month, and Folio Pro is $99/mo with 50. Both paid plans are monthly with no annual lock-in. Import, planning, and manual writing are free. Entirely author-owned manuscripts export free, and current or historical paid access preserves eligible manuscript exports after cancellation.
What is the difference between Folio Author and Folio Pro?
Folio Author ($19/mo) suits a single focused book project: 10 AI-drafted chapters a month with EPUB, editable DOCX, chapter PDF, HTML, and Markdown export. Folio Pro ($99/mo) suits serial authors, ghostwriters, and course creators: 50 AI-drafted chapters a month, white-label and SCORM export on top of the Author formats, and one audiobook or international edition included every month.
Is there a free Gixo Folio plan or a one-time publishing pass?
A free manuscript workspace supports planning, import, and manual writing. Author ($19/mo) and Pro ($99/mo) are monthly AI chapter plans; there is no one-time publishing pass. Entirely author-owned manuscripts export free, and current or historical paid access preserves eligible manuscript exports. Pro-only formats and edition entitlements remain separate.
What export formats does Gixo Folio support?
Paid Folio plans export EPUB, editable DOCX, chapter PDF, HTML, and Markdown from the same export path. Folio Pro adds SCORM and white-label output for training-manual and client handoff.
What does a single book actually cost on Folio?
Most nonfiction books take one to three months of Folio Author ($19/mo) to draft and review, so a single book typically costs about $19 to $57 in total. Cancellation is self-serve and the pricing is designed around cancelling when the manuscript ships, then re-subscribing for the next book.
Are audiobook and international editions included?
Folio Pro includes one edition — audiobook or translation — every month. Otherwise editions across 89 supported locale variants are one-time add-ons at $99-$299 depending on finished length per book, with translated metadata, localized cover text, and edition-specific exports.
Does Gixo Folio publish my book for me?
No. Folio prepares downloadable book files; it does not publish them to a retailer, provide human copyediting, or guarantee publishing or commercial outcomes. The author or editor still owns factual review, voice, continuity, rights, cover decisions, and metadata.
Does Gixo Folio check my manuscript for consistency before export?
Yes. Folio can run a read-only manuscript consistency audit that combines deterministic checks across the whole book — duplicate chapter titles, unresolved drafting placeholders, passages repeated across chapters, and Story Bible term-casing — with a bounded AI pass that reviews every chapter to flag contradictions, timeline and character inconsistencies, terminology drift, and unresolved threads. Shorter manuscripts are reviewed in full; for longer books the AI reviews a balanced excerpt from every chapter and tells you when it sampled. Each finding is severity-ranked with evidence, a suggested fix, and a 0–100 consistency score, and you still review and resolve every finding before publishing.
Can Folio export a print-ready book PDF?
Yes. Alongside editable DOCX and EPUB, Folio produces a print-ready full-book PDF at standard book trim sizes such as 6×9, 5.5×8.5, 5×8, 7×10, and 8×10 inches, plus per-chapter PDF, HTML, and Markdown. The print PDF has mirrored inside and outside margins that meet KDP's minimum for its page count, a custom trim inside KDP's paperback range, and optional 0.125-inch bleed. It is RGB and not a CMYK or PDF/X file, so a printer that requires those handles the final prepress step.
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