+ Chapter+ Scene+ Character+ Note
Storyboard your book
Chapters, scenes and characters on one canvas.
A quiet place to write.
Asterisk is a minimalist writing app for Mac. Just you, the page, and your book.
Download — 14-day free trialPricingAtmosphere · 0 words · 1 min read
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I'm here to help you think it through — the words stay yours.
What's working in this so far?
Where would a reader get lost?
Help me figure out what this is really about.
Ask about your writing…
Plain files, nothing in the way. Ordinary Markdown in the folders you already use, with the few tools you actually reach for.
Read Chapter 01
Chat that knows your bookAsterisk + AI
Ask about your whole manuscript, not just a paragraph.
I put down the water jugs and reached for my inhaler, and it turned out to be completely empty.
Apple Intelligence
Writing Tools, on your Mac.
Dictate
Speak a scene; keep writing.
Media library
Keep reference images beside the work.
Add to chatIllustrate
My brain knew the drill: slow down. Just slow down—every beat was costing me oxygen. Don’t waste the gas. But my lungs… my lungs didn’t care about logic.
Illustrating…Illustrate a momentGemini · your key
Select a passage; see the scene.