DragonWriter
DragonWriter is an online app for writing, organizing, and sharing stories, with tools for drafting and connecting with other writers.
What DragonWriter is
DragonWriter is an online app for writing, organizing, and sharing stories, with tools for drafting and connecting with other writers. Its distraction-free editor autosaves and includes scene version history, story structure, notes, and a codex for characters and locations. Analytics cover writing streaks, pace, goals, words added and deleted, readability and tone signals, plus visualizations of a story’s cast and places. Prompts, a name generator, story dice, and a Magic 8 Ball offer additional writing aids. Members can publish to a public library, invite beta readers for scene-by-scene feedback, use a forum, and join writing challenges and group sprints. The user guide also lists real-time scene co-editing. Stories can be exported as EPUB, DOCX, plain text, or Markdown, or saved in .dwriter format for backups and transfers between accounts. The app supports web and Android with cloud sync. The Free plan is free, with no ads or paywall. DragonWriter is in closed beta, and registration requires a referral code.
Good
- Autosaves drafts and keeps scene version history
- Includes story structure, notes, and a character codex
- Offers scene-by-scene beta-reader feedback
- Exports to EPUB, DOCX, plain text, and Markdown
- Free plan has no ads or paywall
Watch out
- Closed beta registration requires a referral code
- Online only
- Free plan
Who it suits
DragonWriter suits story writers who want drafting, organization, progress tracking, and community features. It is available on web and Android, but new registration requires a referral code.
Verdict
DragonWriter brings drafting, story organization, analytics, and writing-community tools together. Its closed beta and referral-code requirement are important access limits to consider.
Plans and prices
From DragonWriter's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | no ads · no paywall · online only |
The facts
Each one read from DragonWriter's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Account deletion
- Deleting an account permanently removes the account, stories, images and covers and cannot be undone.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API and SDKs
- The public user-guide navigation contains no API, SDK or developer-documentation section.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Beta access
- The site says DragonWriter is in closed beta and registration requires a referral code.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Beta reading
- Authors can share a frozen draft copy for scene-level and inline comments from invited readers.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Beta status
- The service is in closed beta and registration requires an invitation code.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cast analytics
- Cast and Places views visualize characters, points of view and locations from scene tags.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Codex
- Each story can contain private notes plus character and location records for worldbuilding.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Real-time collaboration lets multiple members edit scenes, notes and story reference material while seeing live cursors and word counts.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Collaboration limitation
- Live collaboration is described as a beta feature controlled by a site administrator.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Community
- Members can publish to a public library, invite beta readers for scene-by-scene feedback, use a forum, and join writing challenges and group sprints.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Community publishing
- Members can publish selected story scenes to a shared public library with comments, likes, bookmarks and subscriptions.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cover images
- Users can generate covers from colors and patterns, choose an Unsplash image, or upload their own artwork.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data deletion
- Users can delete their account from Settings, which permanently removes their account, stories, and uploaded images and covers.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Data hosting
- Cloudflare is identified as hosting the application, database and uploaded images.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The public user guide covers accounts, editing, analytics, collaboration, publishing, exports and community features.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Export
- Stories can be exported as EPUB, DOCX, plain text, or Markdown, and a native .dwriter format supports backups and moving stories between accounts.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Exports
- Finished manuscripts can be exported as EPUB, DOCX, TXT or Markdown.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Goals and statistics
- Goals track writing targets, streaks, activity heatmaps, pace, peak writing time, and words added versus deleted.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Import limit
- Imported .dwriter files are limited to 25 MB and count against story and image quotas.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Install model
- The installed experience is a browser shortcut or progressive web app rather than a separate native desktop executable.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The documentation describes optional Discord linking and Matrix direct-message notifications.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Native backup format
- The proprietary .dwriter format stores a complete story, including structure, notes, highlights, cover and inline images.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company identity
- The public site identifies the product as DragonWriter but does not publish a legal company name, headquarters or founding year.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Maker description
- The site says it is maintained by one person and warns that beta users should expect bugs.checked 15 Oct 2026
