Quilltrack is a free writing tracker with two halves. Pacetrack logs your sessions, manages every project in one place, sets goals that adjust when you fall behind and shows you how you actually write. Plottrack is the plot tracker and world builder: universes, timelines, characters, locations, factions and plot threads.
A look inside Quilltrack
The Quilltrack Android app puts your word count tracker in your pocket. Log writing sessions, run sprints, keep your streak going and check your project progress from your phone. Your account syncs between the app and the web.
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Built for every kind of writer
Quilltrack has two halves. Pacetrack follows the writing itself. Plottrack keeps the world the writing lives in. Use either on its own, or both together: they share one account and they talk to each other.
Log every session in seconds, run several projects at once, set goals that redraw themselves when you fall behind, time your sprints, and turn the whole history into analytics: your peak hours, your pace and your projected finish date.
Use it as a world tracker, universe builder or story bible: give a universe its own calendar and timelines, keep every character, relationship, location, faction, item and language in one linked place, plan books scene by scene, and watch your plot threads run across the chapters.
Word counts, projects, milestones, goals that recalculate when you fall behind, sprint and session timers, writing analytics, and streaks that survive the days you miss.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You get four rest days every month. Miss a day and one is spent for you automatically, so the streak stays alive without you doing anything. Rest days are capped and reset on the first of each month, so a long streak still means something.
No tutorials and no onboarding videos. Three steps and you are tracking.
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.
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.
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.
Plottrack is the worldbuilding and story tracking half of Quilltrack. Use it as a world builder: give a universe its own lore, calendar and timelines, and keep every character, location, faction, item, language and plot thread in one linked place. Use it on its own, or beside Pacetrack.
A universe holds everything a book needs: its lore, its people, its places and its history. The World menu is yours to shape, with sections for magic, history, politics, economy, religion, culture, inhabitants, technology and more. Each section asks the questions that matter, so gaps are easy to see.
Your world does not have to run on the Gregorian calendar. A timeline can have its own year length, its own named months and its own days, or use real dates if that suits the story better. Eras anchor the scale, every event lands in the right place, and a character is drawn across the same line as the events.
Characters carry more than a name: portraits, titles and aliases, appearance, psychology, backstory, voice, secrets, goals, and any custom field you add. Link them to each other and the relationship map and the family tree build themselves from the roles you set.
Books sit inside the universe they belong to. Break a book into chapters and scenes, give each scene its point of view, its purpose and its status, and read the whole book on a storyboard. Link the book to a Pacetrack project and its title, status, word count target and cover stay in sync.
Open a thread for anything that runs through the story: the main plot, subplots, character arcs, mysteries, romances. Mark what each thread sets up and what pays it off, and watch all of them run across your chapters on one chart.
Places get atmosphere, sensory detail and history, and nest inside each other so a city sits inside a region and a region inside a continent. Factions get leaders, members, territory, allies and enemies. Items get their powers, their owners and a history of who held them. Languages get vocabulary, grammar and the characters who speak them.
Upload a map of your world, then pin the places, characters and items that matter onto it. Each pin gets its own icon and colour, and each type of pin can have a colour of its own across the universe.
The same records, drawn several ways: a storyboard for scenes, a canvas for timeline events and lifespans, a family tree for bloodlines, a web for relationships and another for factions, a hierarchy for places, and a chart for plot threads.
One search covers the whole universe, from a nickname to a line inside a lore entry. Every record shows how complete it is and which other records link to it, so you can follow a thread from a scene to the character, the place and the event behind it.
Every universe gets its own dashboard. Start from a template or build your own from cards that show recent updates, record counts, word targets, lore sections and the questions still open.
Save a version of a universe before a big change and read it back later, or export the whole universe to a file and import it into another account.
Pacetrack is free in full. Plottrack is free with one universe and generous limits on every record type. Plottrack Pro removes those limits and unlocks custom World sections, custom lore, dashboard templates and the full relationship web. It is $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year, and you can cancel any time.
Whether you write 200 words a day or 5,000, Quilltrack adjusts to your pace and your goals.
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.
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.
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 rarely moves in a straight line. Phases and session types let you track research, outlining, drafting and revision as separate measurable work.
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.
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.
A spreadsheet can hold your word counts, and a folder of documents can hold your story notes. Here is what you get on top of both, without maintaining any of it yourself.
| Feature | Quilltrack | Spreadsheet | Basic Trackers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Word count tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple projects | ✓ | Manual | Sometimes |
| Goal tracking with pacing | ✓ | Manual | Basic |
| Streak & habit tracking | ✓ | ✗ | Rarely |
| Activity heatmap | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Writing sprint timer | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Live session time tracker | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Time-of-day analytics | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Annual goal with redistrib. | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CSV data export | ✓ | ✓ | Rarely |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | Sometimes |
| Story world & lore tracking | ✓ | Scattered | ✗ |
| Custom calendars & timelines | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Characters & relationship maps | ✓ | Manual | ✗ |
| Maps with pinned locations | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Books, scenes & plot threads | ✓ | Manual | Rarely |
What writers usually ask before they start tracking.
Pacetrack is free in full: word count tracking, projects, goals, sprints, analytics, streaks and your Wrap. Plottrack is free with one universe and generous limits on each record type, and Plottrack Pro removes those limits.
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.