Built to get back to the writing.
Threadbound is made by one person, in Australia, who kept spending writing time on everything except the writing.
Why it exists.
I’m Jackson, and I write. For a long time, though, I spent more of my writing time inside writing tools than inside my story. Some did too little, and some did everything at once. Either way I’d sit down to write and end up rearranging notes, setting up folders and learning features, and close the laptop with no new words.
So I built something for myself. Threadbound started as a personal tool, a simple place to keep track of my plot threads and nothing more. I’ve worked in web development before, so I could make exactly what I needed and leave out what I didn’t.
How it grew.
Then it kept going. I wanted to draft beside my plan, so Manuscript arrived. Then a place for my world and my characters, calendars for a world with its own, and somewhere for research.
Each of those is a module you switch on, so the simple plot tracker I started with is still the first thing you see. Threadbound can carry a whole book now, from the first thread to the finished draft, without turning into the kind of software it was built to get away from.
Independent, and paid for once.
There are no investors, no ads and no subscription. Threadbound is paid for by people buying it once, and that’s the whole business. It means I answer to the people who use it, not to a growth chart.
What gets built next comes largely from the requests board, where you can suggest ideas and vote on other people’s.
Threadbound is operated by Allay Society Pty Ltd, trading as Threadbound, in Queensland, Australia.
A note on the irony.
I don’t think generative AI belongs in creative writing, and Threadbound has none. I do use AI every day to help build Threadbound, because it’s a good tool for making software. I’m happy to own that contradiction, and I’ve written about where the line sits.
Say hello.
Questions, ideas or something that isn’t working: send feedback, or email threadboundapp@pm.me. I read everything.