Pay once for the app. Encrypt for a few quid more.
The app sits on your hard drive — a lifetime payment, every update on the v1 line included. Guild is the optional add-on for sync between devices on different networks. Society adds the writers on top — private Circles, direct messages, co-writing — and includes Guild. Either way, only you can read your work — even Trove cannot.
Founders price: £39 until 1 January 2027.
Same lifetime app, same five-machine licence, same v1 updates. After that it returns to £49.
Trove
Pay once. Yours forever. Your library stays on your machine — no server to depend on, no account to lose, no subscription clock running.
14-day trial first if you want it · activate up to 5 machines
- Editor with focus mode, typewriter scroll, configurable typography
- Manuscript tree — parts, chapters, scenes, drag-to-reorder
- Folio — composite continuous-scroll across selected scenes
- Board — cards, outline, and POV-lane timeline
- Tome — global notes graph with backlinks
- Codex — typed Entities with Relationship Map
- Maps and family trees, pinned to your own places and people
- Codexes you can link from any Manuscript
- Reference graph — rename-safe [[links]] across scenes, entities, and notes
- Time — invented calendars and a story-time timeline
- Canvas — freeform plotting boards
- Read aloud — offline narration, generated on your machine
- Snapshots, drafts, and version history per Document
- Compile to DOCX, EPUB, PDF, and Markdown
- Templates, Sprints, Sessions
- Command palette and full-text search
- 14-day refund · No subscription · No tracking
Trove Guild
Sync your own devices over the open internet. Encrypted on your machine before it leaves — only you can read it.
Optional. The app works fully without it. Cancel anytime.
- Encrypted sync between your own machines — only you can read it
- Every device you write on kept in step — desktop, laptop, phone, tablet
- Stop mid-sentence on one machine, carry on from another
- Hosted storage for your encrypted sync traffic
- Cancel anytime — the app keeps working offline, on disk
Trove Society
Everything Guild does, plus the writers. Private Circles, direct messages, and shared sprints — encrypted end to end, between people you choose.
Includes Guild. One subscription, not two. Cancel anytime.
- Everything in Guild, including sync across your own devices
- Private writing Circles — small groups with excerpt critique built in
- Direct messages with other writers, encrypted end-to-end
- Shared sprints and a reading room for work in progress
- Profile and discovery on the Trove network
- Live co-writing sessions with another writer (coming soon)
14-day refund on Trove · VAT calculated at checkout · educator and student discount on request.
Lifetime
What's in Trove.
Everything the app does on your hard drive. This is what £49 buys you — paid once, kept forever, working offline.
Optional add-on
What Guild adds.
Your own devices, in step. Encrypted on your machine first, routed through Trove second — nobody but you can read what travels.
Encrypted with the same standard behind Apple iMessage. The technical spec is public on our docs site if you want the detail.
Guild + community
What Society adds.
The other writers. Small invite-only rooms rather than a public feed — and Guild's sync is included underneath, so Society is one subscription, not two.
Society needs Guild active underneath it, so buying Society covers both. There is no way to end up paying twice.
FAQ
Pricing, in plain English.
Sync, Circles, and messages run through a server I have to keep online. That's a real monthly bill — storage, bandwidth, abuse handling, security patches. Charging for the optional service keeps the lifetime tier honest. The app stays a one-off payment; the bit that costs me every month is the bit on a subscription.