Thingway

n. Scots ‘a thing, thingie (or, if you’re feeling very Scottish, a thingway) that you want to describe, but just can’t seem to find the word for it in the moment’

For students, academics, authors, and the everyday storyteller.

Author your next Novel, Screenplay, Thesis, Fanfic, or even that Musical Magnum Opus entirely offline. From concept to publishable and (if you're so inclined) print-ready work. The sky's the limit! Well, unless you take Thingway to space of course. But you'll have to try it first to do that…

Animated demo: the Thingway editor moving between a phone, a tablet and a laptop, showing a journal with headings, a music block and a screenplay scene.

Try another draft, in the exact same place

Love a passage, but just want to try something? Now you can.

Writing is rewriting, as they say, so tap redraftable and write a second version exactly where the first draft just was, then flick between them until you love one more. Every draft can now stay in the one file, in the same spot, and with no copies, no lost formatting, and no more folders filled with masterpiece-FINAL-v7-actually-final_final_thisistheone.docx…

Chapter I

Instead, what I found waddling out of the dark opposite the table, and quite luckily might I add, well luckily at least at that moment, was a man, and a short man at that who I soon found out went by the name Frank. ‘Names Frank.’, he said.

Keep the good bits

Made something perfectly reusable? Drag it out to save and keep for later!

Highlight or select ANYTHING and everything! A structured table, image, chart or perfect little passage. Just grab it, drag it, and save it until you need it!

Animated demo: a highlighted passage and a table being dragged into the Block Bank, to save and reuse later.

Change a name, everywhere all at once

Rename Tom to Amy? Every other copy does too!

Mark a character once and Thingway can track the whole identity: their name, their aliases (nicknames, titles, whatever the other characters call them), and every he, him, his that belongs to them. Change your mind on page 300? (new name, new gender?) one tap rewrites all of it! No afternoons wasted, and nothing else in the text is touched.

Chapter IV
Every step, anywhere, anytime

Finishing your work shouldn't need 42 tabs, 3 apps and a desktop PC.

Use Thingway's infinite canvas to plan and draft using the full power of the editor in a more visual space. Then write your masterpiece and use the inbuilt automatic structure blocks to easily produce perfect contents pages, bibliographies and figure lists, or the in-depth citation system for non-destructive academic referencing.

And yes, it even includes pre-made templates (with automatic industry formatting) covering everything from dedications to epigraphs, and dual-column screenplay dialogue.

Built for the long haul

One million words, in the palm of your hands.

Thingway isn't a desktop app with a phone companion. It's a fully-fledged writing suite designed and optimised for mobile, keeping every feature available across every platform.

Thingway’s editing suite can handle
1,000,000 words
2,000 pages
300 chapters +

A fantasy epic or a full PhD thesis on your phone? No problem!

Yours to take, always

Every word is yours, exportable whenever. For Free!*

Your masterpiece is never stuck in the mud, nor locked into Thingway. Every save writes a text copy alongside it usable in any editor. If Thingway (somehow) vanished tomorrow, your backup plain text file still opens in Notepad.

EPUBreflowable ebook
PDFprint-ready
DOCXWord
Markdown.md
PDFas images
TXTplain text
Create in any colour

Not everyone writes best on a white page.

Thingway launches with six bold statement themes, each with custom colours, contrasts and typefaces, and are swappable at any time.

Chapter I

‘What am I doin down ere!?’ He replied, laughing to himself quietly, ‘Can’t you read son.’ Frank pointed at a black and gold patch loosely stitched to his turn of the century jacket, the patch read: “FRANK – Ministry of Conservation.”

Classic Export

P.S. for the premium writers, the full theme customiser is unlocked in-app, to allow any colour, any font and any style of your choosing!

The full Thingway suite

Everything you'll ever need

Drafting, planning, structuring, referencing, translating, formatting and export no longer need separate apps or scattered files. Thingway's editor handles them all, and the whole thing is built from the ground up for tap, drag, and drop, on the desk or in your pocket.

For everyone

  • An infinite canvas for planning and drafting in a visual space
  • The full rich text editing suite, with every tool you’re used to, and some you’ve never seen before
  • 34 block types covering every use-case a writer could ever need
  • The Block Bank to save any passage or block, and reuse it in any document you ever make
  • Offline spelling and grammar checker
  • Focus mode, and six themes from an amber terminal to a bold newsprint mode
  • Export to EPUB, PDF, DOCX, Markdown and plain text at no extra cost

For academics

  • Citations as structured data, not formatted text: APA, Harvard, Chicago
  • Non-destructive referencing: change style, keep every source
  • Bibliographies, contents and figure lists that build themselves
  • LaTeX math block for equations
  • WCAG accessibility checker

For authors

  • Redraftable passages: every version in the one file, in the one place
  • Character tracking: rename once, and names, aliases and pronouns follow
  • A project Wiki for characters, places and lore
  • Structured templates: title, copyright, dedication, epigraph, about the author
  • EPUB export with internal links already wired
  • Drop caps and a custom text renderer
  • Offline translation across 35 European languages, three passes

For screenwriters

  • Automatic industry formatting, no manual tabbing
  • Dual-column dialogue blocks
  • Parentheticals, sluglines and scene headings
  • Outliner with completion states, beat by beat
  • A planning panel that opens beside the script, not instead of it
Out now on Android

Take a peek!

* Thingway is free to download and use on mobile. Some features (custom themes, translation, and the built-in thesaurus and dictionary) are part of Premium, a monthly or annual subscription. The desktop app is a one-time paid licence. Exporting your work is free on every platform, always.