For Mac and iPad
A writing environment with a story bible built in.
Sgeulai holds a manuscript and everything you know about it — the people, the places, the threads that run through it — in one place. Sgeulai is Scottish Gaelic for storyteller.
Write.Remember.Return.
How it's laid out
The window is divided the way the work is.
Binder on the left, editor in the middle, inspector on the right — every analysis tool explains itself there, in three parts: what it is, how to read it, and what to do about what it says.
Binder
Editor
Inspector
What's inside
Everything the tagline promises, built in.
Three verbs, one manuscript. Every feature earns its place under one of them — the red arc is the manuscript, the blue arc is the Story Bible, the same two strokes as the mark above.
01
Write
- Comments and tracked edits — inline comments, and every AI-edited passage marked in the margin.
- Grammar and style, your way — Harper checks live with nothing to install; Antidote plugs in if you already own it.
- Wikilinks as you go — mention a character or place and Sgeulai offers to link it, no separate step.
02
Remember
- A Story Bible built in — characters, places and threads live beside the manuscript, not in a separate app.
- A timeline beneath the story — lay the real world's dates beside your scenes and chapters.
- Turn any webpage into a source — the Web Clipper extension saves a citation, a quote and its images straight to the Story Bible.
03
Return
- Twenty-six ways to read what you wrote — pacing, repetition and dialogue balance, drawn from the manuscript itself.
- AI that reads, not writes for you — proposes Story Bible entries; nothing is written down without your approval.
- A provenance report for every AI-touched passage — quoted verbatim, built to hand to an editor.
- Brings what you already have — import from Scrivener, Plottr or EPUB; export to DOCX, PDF or a clean Shunn-standard manuscript.
The name
Sgeulai is Scottish Gaelic for storyteller.
sgeulai /SHKAY-lee/
The mark above is two 270° arcs of one radius, rotated a half turn about their shared centre — the manuscript and the story bible, the same story turned twice. The single yellow disc is the nib: the point where writing begins, and the one element that may never be removed.
Sgeulai is built on Bauhaus construction — circles, squares, triangles and 90° arcs, nothing rounded, nothing shadowed, nothing gradient. Its interface icons follow one grammar throughout: a circle is who, a square is what, a triangle is where.
The care runs both directions. Export a manuscript for submission and Sgeulai strips its own identity out entirely — Shunn standard, Courier Prime, nothing branded anywhere in it. Agents reject decorated manuscripts. That restraint is the brand decision.
“The product is for people who care about sentences.” — the brand, on itself
Read more, or get in touch.
The help documentation covers getting started, importing a manuscript you already have, and every analysis tool in the inspector.