Clear ARC: Plan, Plot, and Write Your Novel Free for 30 Days

30 days free, then £8/month. Plan, plot, and write your novel free for 30 days.

Clear ARC is the all-in-one writing app for new authors who want to plan their book in as much (or as little) detail as they like, then write it chapter by chapter without losing the plot. Use every feature for 30 days. Cancel anytime. Pay nothing if it's not for you.

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Writing your first book shouldn't feel like fighting your tools.

You try to outline and lose all your momentum

You sit down to plan the whole thing first because that's what writers are supposed to do. Three index cards in, the spark is gone and the blank page is winning. By the time you're 'ready' to write, you've already talked yourself out of the book.

You start writing, then realise you needed to plan

Chapter three lands, characters multiply, places get vague, and you can't remember if your protagonist already met the antagonist or if that's chapter eight. Now you're scrolling back through 18,000 words trying to keep your own story straight.

Your notes live in five different apps

Character sheets in a Google Doc. Plot beats in a spreadsheet. Worldbuilding in a Notion page you keep meaning to organise. A dedication scribbled on the back of a receipt. Every time you open the laptop you spend twenty minutes finding where you were.

You're never quite sure what to write next

You know roughly where the story is going. But sitting down on a Tuesday night, you can't remember what your protagonist was feeling at the end of the last scene, or which character is supposed to walk in next, or why. So you close the laptop and tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow.

A different way to write a book

What if your tool worked the way stories actually get written?

Most writing tools want you to either plan everything first, or write everything first. Clear ARC lets you do both at the same time, in any order, on any day.

Add a character when a character arrives. Drop in a place when you need one. Write chapter four before chapter two if that's where the energy is. Reorder anything later by dragging it. Nothing breaks.

Underneath, Clear ARC quietly keeps track of how everything connects. Series, books, chapters, scenes, events. Characters and how their behaviour changes. Places, items, and the moments they show up. Then it shows you the whole thing in a timeline so you always know where you are and what happens next.

When you're done, hit export. Your manuscript comes out in EPUB or HTML, ready for Kindle, Lulu, Amazon, or whatever you publish through. One click. No formatting fights.

Everything you need to finish the book, in one place

Plan as little or as much as you want

Some writers want a beat sheet for every scene. Others want three lines and a feeling. Clear ARC handles both. Add a chapter, scene, or event whenever you need it. Skip the ones you don't. The app never makes you fill in fields you don't care about.

Add characters, places, and items anywhere, anytime

A new character walks into chapter seven? Add them from inside chapter seven. Same with places and items. They're automatically linked to the scene they appeared in, so you can find them again instantly. Your worldbuilding grows naturally instead of upfront.

Track your characters as they grow (or fall apart)

Record changes in behaviours, emotions, and traits over the course of the book. See exactly when a character shifts from cautious to reckless, or from loving to bitter. Clear ARC lays it out on a timeline so you can spot a flat character arc before a reader does.

See your whole story in one timeline

Open the timeline and watch the entire book at a glance. Character arcs, plot beats, place changes, item movements. Zoom into a single chapter when you want detail. Zoom out when you want to feel the shape of the whole novel.

Write chapter by chapter with your notes beside you

Open the writer and your scenes, events, and chapter notes sit in the column next to your draft. Close them for full-screen focus. Autosave runs quietly in the background, so you never lose a word. When you come back, Clear ARC drops you back exactly where you left off.

Export to EPUB or HTML in one click

When the book is finished, hit export. Get a clean EPUB ready for Kindle and every other eReader, or HTML you can paste into Amazon, Lulu, Publisher Rocket, or whatever you publish through. No formatting wrestling. No converter tools. Just a finished book.

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