Quilltrack features

Logging a session takes a few seconds. Enter the amount, pick the project, and it gets filed against the right date and the right type of work. Your totals, averages and streaks all update on their own.

Not every writer counts words. You can log pages, chapters, scenes, lines or minutes instead, or track a word count with a second metric next to it if you want both. If you started your project before you found Quilltrack, add a starting balance and your figures are right from the first session you log.

Revision counts as work too. When you cut words from a draft, log it as a negative entry. Your project total drops to match reality and your productivity stats still credit the session. Every entry can carry a note and your own tags, and you can back date anything you forgot at the time.

One project or several running at the same time, both work. Every manuscript, blog series or script gets its own space with a cover image or colour to identify it, a genre, a target and a current phase.

There are eleven phases: Idea, Planning, Outlining, First Draft, Revising, Beta Readers, Final Draft, Querying, Published, On Hold and Abandoned. Move a project along as it changes and you can see the state of everything you are working on from one screen, with progress percentage, genre and the date you last worked on it.

Each project keeps its own record. A cumulative progress graph with a pace line showing whether you are ahead or behind, an activity heatmap, a searchable log of every session, and a breakdown of hours by type of work. Set a target and milestones are created at 25, 50, 75 and 100 percent, and you get told when you cross one. Add your own milestones for anything else that matters, like a deadline or a beta reader handoff.

Finished projects can be archived. Every session, statistic and milestone stays and stays searchable.

A target goal works backwards from a deadline. Enter the word count and the date and you get the daily pace you need. It only counts the days you said you would write, so a weekday writer never gets a target built on seven days. Miss a stretch and the daily number recalculates across what is left. Get ahead and it drops.

A habit goal ignores deadlines. You set an amount and a frequency, for example 300 words on five days a week, and Quilltrack tracks the streak and the hit rate.

An annual goal covers the year. Set a yearly total and it becomes twelve monthly targets, spread evenly or front loaded. Fall short in one month and the difference is spread across the months that remain, so the year stays reachable instead of becoming impossible early on.

Any goal can be limited to specific projects or tags, so a blogging goal and a novel deadline can run at the same time without affecting each other.

The sprint timer runs inside the app. Pick a length, write until it ends, then enter your count straight away. An optional chime marks the end. Because timers run against the clock rather than the browser tab, a refresh, a closed laptop or a switch to your phone will not lose a sprint in progress.

For work with no fixed length, like a long revision pass or an afternoon of research, the session timer counts up until you stop it and pauses when you step away.

Every session gets a type: Drafting, Revising, Editing, Outlining, Research or Brainstorming. Those hours are tracked per project, so you can see how much time each part of the process actually takes. Most writers find revision and research take far more time than drafting, and none of that shows up in a word count on its own.

All of this comes from your own logged sessions. A density map plots your writing across every hour and every weekday, which shows your real peak window rather than the one you assume. Golden hours rank your most productive times by actual output. A words per hour trend shows whether your drafting speed is improving. A habit score reduces your consistency to one number.

Velocity prediction takes your recent pace and works out when your current project will be finished at that rate.

There are per project insights too: how your pace on one project compares to your own average, which time of day suits it, and whether it is drifting out of your routine.

Most streak systems reset to zero the first day you miss, which is where a lot of people stop using them.

Quilltrack gives you four rest days every month. When a day passes with nothing logged, a rest day is spent for you automatically and your streak continues. You do not have to notice or do anything.

Rest days are only spent while a streak is actually alive, so time away from the app never eats into your allowance. The count resets on the first of each month instead of carrying over, so a long streak still means something. Your dashboard shows how many you have left this month, and every rest day your streak has used is marked on your writing heatmap.

Pick a date range, from a week to a full year, and Quilltrack builds a visual summary of it. Total words, best day, longest streak, top project, fastest session, how your time split across types of work, and a writing persona based on the hours you actually write, from Night Owl to Morning Bard.

It also compares your total to well known books, which makes a number like 60,000 words easier to picture. The card can be downloaded or shared directly.

Everything in Plottrack belongs to a universe. A universe has a name, a genre, a cover and a description, and it holds its own World sections: the lore that describes how the place works. The sections you would expect are already there, covering magic and powers, history, politics, economy, religion, culture, the peoples who live there, technology, and a general one for anything else.

Each section asks for what actually matters to it. A political system gets its power structure, its succession and its laws, while a religion gets its deities, practices, clergy and afterlife. You can hide the sections you do not need, put them in your own order, add your own sections, and define custom fields that every entry in a section then carries. Custom World sections and custom lore are part of Plottrack Pro.

Lore entries link outward. A war can point at the characters who fought it, the factions behind it and the places it happened, and those links appear on the records themselves. Open a character and you can see which parts of the world they belong to, without hunting for them.

Worlds rarely keep time the way we do, so a timeline can run on its own calendar. Give it a year length and the months you want, with the days each of them holds, and every date you enter is a world date. If your history is coarser than that, a timeline can be years only, or years with a day inside them.

Eras anchor the scale. You decide where each era starts and ends, and everything else is placed against them: events, births, deaths, the founding of a faction, a war, a discovery. A universe can hold several timelines, so a deep history and the events of one book live on their own calendars side by side, while records that belong to no timeline still appear everywhere.

Dates are entered the way you write them and the number behind them is worked out for you, so nothing is ever mis-sorted or misread. A living character gets an "as of" date instead of a death date, which lets a lifespan stop where the story does rather than running to the end of the timeline. If you change a calendar later, Plottrack lists the records the change would affect before you commit it, so nothing moves without you seeing it first.

Each character has a sheet built for fiction. It starts with the facts: names, nicknames, titles and aliases, pronouns, age at the start of the story, dates of birth and death, and a portrait. Then the parts that decide how they behave: occupation, social class, education, appearance down to distinguishing marks, physical and mental health, core motivation, greatest fear, fatal flaw, and the belief the story is going to test.

The writing side is there as well. Voice notes, vocabulary level, verbal tics and accent, backstory, childhood, formative events, trauma, and secrets with a note of who knows each one. Goals split into external and internal, per book, so the same character can want different things in book two than in book one. Anything Plottrack does not ask for can be added as a custom field.

Relationships are records of their own. Label a link as family, romantic, rival, mentor, enemy or ally, give it a strength, a history and a current state, and it reads backwards with its own label too. Family links carry a role, and from those roles Plottrack draws a family tree in generations. Character arcs are plotted chapter by chapter, and appearances tie a character to the scenes they are in.

A book belongs to a universe and moves through planning, drafting, revising and complete. Beneath it sit chapters and scenes. A scene records its point of view, the characters present, where it happens, what it is doing for the story (introduce, develop, escalate, resolve, setup, payoff or transition), a word target, and a status you move along as you draft. The storyboard shows the book in order, scene by scene.

If you also track the manuscript in Pacetrack, link the book to that project. Its title, status, word count target and cover are then mirrored from Pacetrack, so there is one place to update them and the two halves never disagree.

Plot threads run across scenes and chapters: the main plot, subplots, character arcs, mysteries, romances, or whatever you name them. A thread can span a range of chapters and carry its own foreshadowing, pairing each setup with the payoff that resolves it, with resolution notes for when it closes. The thread chart draws them all against your chapters, which is where a dropped subplot becomes obvious.

Locations record what a place is like to stand in: its type, atmosphere, sensory detail and history, who rules it, who lives there, and the faction in charge. Places nest, so a city sits inside a region and a region inside a continent, and the location hierarchy shows the whole structure at once.

Factions carry an ideology, goals, methods, a leader, members, territory, allies, enemies and a founding date, whether they are a government, a guild, a religion, a criminal syndicate, an army, an academy or a secret order. Items carry a physical description, an origin, what they can do, who owns them now and who held them before, with a rarity from common to unique. Languages collect vocabulary, grammar notes and phrases, along with the characters who speak them and the places they are spoken.

Maps bring it together. Upload an image of your world, then pin locations, characters and items onto it, each pin with its own icon and colour. You can also set one colour per pin type for the universe, so every city pin matches without you setting it each time.

Plottrack draws the same records as many ways as a story needs: a storyboard of scenes, a timeline canvas of events and lifespans, a family tree, a relationship web, a faction web, an ability matrix, a location hierarchy, and a chart of plot threads. Each view answers a different question, and all of them read the records you already have, so nothing needs maintaining twice.

Search covers a whole universe from one box. Every record shows how complete it is and which other records link to it, which turns "what is still missing?" into something you can see rather than guess.

Every universe has its own dashboard. Use the default one, or build a card based dashboard with the counts, recent updates, lore sections, word targets and open questions you want in front of you. Predefined templates are part of Plottrack Pro.

A version snapshot saves the state of a universe: every record of every type, with a count, stored as a private file you can read back later. Export writes the whole universe to a file, and import reads one back into an account, validating it before anything lands. Both exist because deleting a universe is permanent.

The free plan includes Pacetrack in full and one universe in Plottrack, with generous limits on every record type: timelines, books, characters, locations, items, factions, languages, scenes, plot threads, timeline events, relationships, research notes, maps, lore entries, saved versions and dashboard cards. The limits in force are always shown on the upgrade page inside the Service.

Plottrack Pro removes those limits and unlocks custom World sections, custom lore, predefined dashboard templates and the full relationship web. It is $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year. Plottrack is in active development and carries a beta badge in the app; new worldbuilding tools land regularly, and everything you save stays yours.