Create a project
Add whatever you are writing right now. Give it a title, a phase, a target word count and a cover image or colour. Takes about 30 seconds.
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Track your writing and finish your projects
Quilltrack is a free word count tracker and writing project manager for authors, novelists, bloggers and screenwriters. Log your sessions, manage every project in one place, set goals that adjust when you fall behind, and see how you actually write.
No sign up. Your session starts right away.
Built for every kind of writer
📖 Novelists✍️ Bloggers🎭 Screenwriters📚 Non-Fiction Authors🖊️ Poets🎓 Academic Writers
What Quilltrack does
Word count tracking, project management, adjustable goals, sprint and session timers, writing analytics and streak protection. All free, all in one place.
Word Count Tracking
Log your word count in seconds
Type the number, pick the project, done. Everything else updates on its own. You can count in words, pages, chapters, scenes, lines or minutes, so it works whether you write novels or scripts. Already part way through a manuscript? Add a starting balance so your totals are correct from the first session.
- ✓Words, pages, chapters, scenes, lines or minutes
- ✓Back date any session you forgot to log
- ✓Notes and tags on every entry
- ✓Negative entries for words you cut in revision
Projects & Milestones
Manage all your projects in one place
One project or six running in parallel, both work fine. Each project gets its own cover image or colour so you can tell them apart at a glance, plus a genre, a target and a phase you move it along as it grows.
- ✓Eleven phases covering every stage up to published
- ✓Automatic milestones at 25, 50, 75 and 100 percent
- ✓Custom milestones for deadlines and handoffs
- ✓Progress percentage, genre and last worked on date
Smart Goals
Goals that recalculate when you fall behind
Set your word count and your deadline and you get the daily target you need. It only counts the days you said you would write, so weekends stay off if you want them off. Miss a few days and the daily number redraws across the time you have left.
- ✓Deadline goals with automatic daily recalculation
- ✓Habit goals for a set word count on set days
- ✓Annual goals split into twelve monthly targets
- ✓Missed months spread forward across the rest of the year
- ✓Any goal can be limited to certain projects or tags
Sprints & Sessions
Time your writing without leaving the app
Start a sprint, write until the timer ends, then enter your count on the spot. For work that has no fixed length there is a session timer that counts up until you stop it. Both run on the clock, so a refresh or a switch to your phone will not lose the session.
- ✓Sprint timer with an optional end chime
- ✓Count up session timer with pause
- ✓Six session types including drafting, revising and research
- ✓Hours tracked per session type on every project
Analytics & Your Wrap
See when you write best and when you will finish
Your logged sessions get turned into numbers you can use. Which hours and days produce your highest counts, whether your words per hour is going up, and a projected finish date based on your recent pace. You can also turn any date range into a Wrap card and share it.
- ✓Density map across every hour and weekday
- ✓Golden hours ranked by output
- ✓Words per hour trend and habit score
- ✓Projected finish date for each project
- ✓Shareable Wrap card for any date range
Streaks & Streak Freezes
Keep your streak through the days you miss
You get two streak freezes every month and you earn more by writing three days in a row. Miss a day and a freeze is used automatically, so the streak stays alive without you doing anything. Freezes are capped, so a long streak still means something.
- ✓Two freezes every month
- ✓Extra freezes earned by writing three days in a row
- ✓Applied automatically on a missed day
- ✓Full history of every freeze and the day it covered
Set up in under two minutes
No tutorials and no onboarding videos. Three steps and you are tracking.
Log your sessions
When you finish writing, enter your word count. Pick the date, the session type and add a note if you want one. Your data starts building from the first entry.
Watch the data build
Your heatmap fills in, your streak grows and your goals track themselves. After a few weeks the analytics can show you your peak hours, your pace and your projected finish date.
Create an account later if you want to keep your data.
Works for every kind of writing
Whether you write 200 words a day or 5,000, Quilltrack adjusts to your pace and your goals.
📖
Novelists
Track a manuscript from first scene to final draft. Log your daily count, run several books at once, and use the pacing tools to hit a deadline. Works for NaNoWriMo.
✍️
Bloggers & Content Writers
Track output across several blogs or clients. Use tags to keep paid work separate from your own, and see your total monthly output on one dashboard.
🎭
Screenwriters
Track by pages instead of words. Run several scripts at different phases, and log outlining and research as separate session types from drafting.
📚
Non-Fiction & Memoir
Non-fiction rarely moves in a straight line. Phases and session types let you track research, outlining, drafting and revision as separate measurable work.
🎓
Academic Writers
Dissertations and theses run for months or years. Track chapter by chapter, log research sessions, and set semester long targets that recalculate around your schedule.
🖊️
Journalers & Personal Writers
You do not need a book for Quilltrack to be useful. Daily journaling is a writing habit. Track your consistency, keep your streak and watch the practice build over a year.
Compared to a spreadsheet
A spreadsheet can hold your word counts. Here is what you get on top of that, without maintaining any of it yourself.
Start with one session
A year of logged sessions gives you a full record of your writing: your streaks, your sprints, your finished projects and the patterns behind all of it. It starts with a single entry.
No sign up. Your session starts right away.
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