Marginalist

Read and review a manuscript (docx or pdf). Mark it up with clean, Word-compatible comments. Now with audiobook narration, story recaps, and an automatic character index.

Marginalist is a focused manuscript reader (and text-to-speech/ manuscript audio player) for book editors, agents, publishers, professors, writing groups, friends-of-novelists, and anyone else who tackles reading long manuscripts.

Open a MS Word document (.docx) or PDF, flow it into a beautiful reading experience, add and manage comments, and export back as the original document with all of your formatting intact. Our stay-out-of-the-way AI helps you keep track of your reading experience with three powerful features (Recap, Character Index, Ask) without generative nonsense.

FEATURES:

• Import MS Word (.docx) or PDF files (Files app, Dropbox, drag-and-drop and via share-sheet integration)
• Adjust your perfect reading environment (font, theme, margins, etc)
• Add comments with ease - or use one of our 'quick-action' comments
• View your reading stats, search the manuscript, or connect an external keyboard
• Three powerful non-generative AI features:
  • 'Remind me what happened' - get a recap of what's happened over the last handful of pages
  • 'Character index' - Marginalist automatically builds a character index with the associated passages so you never have to ask: 'Who is Robert again?'
  • Ask a question about the book
• Read Aloud - Marginalist will read the manuscript to you
• Author's Note - an in-app scratchpad / author's note can be optionally appended to the manuscript
• Export the manuscript back into your workflow, with all of the original formatting intact - and all of your comments.

Free to download and use. No account or signup needed.  Upgrade to PRO for a few extra features.

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