For Mac — in development
A writing environment with a story bible built in.
Sgeulai holds a manuscript and everything you know about it — the people, the places, the threads that run through it — in one place. Sgeulai is Scottish Gaelic for storyteller.
What's inside
Everything you know about the book, beside the book.
Sixteen analysis tools, a linked story bible, and a manuscript editor that reads the way you write.
A Story Bible built in
Characters, places and threads live beside the manuscript, not in a separate app.
Wikilinks and backlinks
Link as you write. See where a character or place is mentioned, from either end.
Sixteen ways to read what you wrote
Pacing, repetition and dialogue balance, drawn from the manuscript itself — not a guess.
AI that reads, not writes for you
Sgeulai reads the manuscript and proposes Story Bible entries. Nothing is written down without your approval.
Brings what you already have
Import from Scrivener, Plottr or EPUB. Export to DOCX, PDF, or a clean Shunn-standard manuscript.
A timeline beneath the story
Lay the real world's dates beside your scenes and chapters, and never lose track of when things happened.
How it's laid out
The window is divided the way the work is.
Binder on the left, editor in the middle, inspector on the right — every analysis tool explains itself there, in three parts: what it is, how to read it, and what to do about what it says.
Binder
Editor
Inspector
The name
Sgeulai is Scottish Gaelic for storyteller.
sgeulai /SHKAY-lee/
The mark above is two 270° arcs of one radius, rotated a half turn about their shared centre — the manuscript and the story bible, the same story turned twice. The single yellow disc is the nib: the point where writing begins, and the one element that may never be removed.
Sgeulai is built on Bauhaus construction — circles, squares, triangles and 90° arcs, nothing rounded, nothing shadowed, nothing gradient. Its interface icons follow one grammar throughout: a circle is who, a square is what, a triangle is where.
The care runs both directions. Export a manuscript for submission and Sgeulai strips its own identity out entirely — Shunn standard, Courier Prime, nothing branded anywhere in it. Agents reject decorated manuscripts. That restraint is the brand decision.
Write.
Remember.
Return.
“The product is for people who care about sentences.”
Read more, or get in touch.
The help documentation covers getting started, importing a manuscript you already have, and every analysis tool in the inspector.