WriteIDE or PlotWrite: who reads your chapters?
Both keep a long LitRPG serial consistent. In PlotWrite, the AI you connect reads your chapters and proposes the facts. In WriteIDE, you record the changes, and the book stays on your computer.
Choose PlotWrite if you want your ChatGPT or Claude plan to read every chapter and check the new one before you post, and a monthly plan in the browser suits you. Choose WriteIDE for a free desktop app with no account, which never writes your prose and works out every sheet from the changes you record.
Choose PlotWrite if
You want an AI to keep the facts for you.
- You are deep into a serial and want the facts read out of the chapters you have already posted.
- You want each new chapter checked against what was true at that point, with both passages side by side.
- You want every storyline in one view, with a nudge when one goes quiet.
- You want the option of drafting chapters with AI.
Choose WriteIDE if
You want the book and its record on your own computer.
- You want it free, with no subscription and no account.
- You want your chapters on your computer, in an app that works offline.
- You want an app that never writes your prose.
- You want PDF, HTML and BBCode too, and a Reader Codex for your readers.
WriteIDE and PlotWrite, side by side
| WriteIDE 0.7.8 | PlotWrite | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on | A desktop app for Mac with Apple silicon, Windows and Linux. | Your web browser. It is a web app and does not work offline. |
| Cost | Free, with every feature. | A 7-day trial with no card, then $14 or $24 a month, or $140 or $240 a year. AI runs on your own ChatGPT or Claude plan, key or computer. |
| Where your book is kept | On your computer, in local files and a local database. | In PlotWrite’s database, on Supabase in the US, encrypted at rest. |
| Account | None. | Yes. |
| How changes get in | You record each change at the scene where it happens: a slash command as you write, or Record a change. | The AI you connect reads your chapters and proposes facts. Nothing becomes canon until you approve it. |
| Stats at any point | Stats, items, skills and quests read as of any scene, and a stat block in a chapter reads from its own scene. | Stat sheets as of any chapter, with what changed since the chapter before, and each chapter checked against what was true then. |
| Import | Word, Markdown or text, reviewed before anything is made. It does not turn a book’s stat boxes into tracked changes. A CSV or Excel sheet can start a tracker. | Paste text or upload .txt, .md or Word files, split into chapters. Its AI can then build your story brain from them. |
| Export | Word, PDF, EPUB, Markdown, HTML and BBCode, Copy for Royal Road, and a Reader Codex for your readers. | Word, EPUB, Markdown and text, free on every plan. Copy for Royal Road turns System blocks into boxed tables. |
Read for you, or recorded by you
PlotWrite’s AI reads your chapters and proposes each fact, and you accept or reject it in an Inbox. On a long serial that saves a lot of typing. Each request sends the part of your story it needs to the AI you connected, under that provider’s terms.
WriteIDE never writes your prose. You record a change where it happens, with a slash command as you write or from the character’s page, and every sheet, stat block and chart reads from those changes. It takes more care, and your chapters stay on your computer.
A sheet as of any scene
Where each value was last set, as of this scene
- Realm
- Foundation Establishment Ch 4, Foundation
- Qi
- 760 Ch 4, Foundation
- Purity
- 82% Ch 4, Foundation
- Dao
- 22% Ch 4, Foundation
Sources
I make WriteIDE, so this page states only what PlotWrite says on its own pages, and links each one. No affiliate links.