Know where readers
stop
— before they
ever start.
The river crossing took longer than Mara had expected. She watched the horses struggle against the current, their legs churning the brown water into white foam.
She thought of her mother, and her mother's mother, and all the women who had stood at river crossings before her, each one weighing the cost of what lay behind against what might wait on the far bank. The water was cold. She had always hated cold water. When she was seven, she had fallen through the ice on—
Readers disengage in 3.2s avg
The last horse made it across. Davan pulled her up onto the bank, his hand rough and warm.
"We'll make camp here," he said. She nodded. There was nothing left to say. The fire was small and cheerless. The stars came out slowly, one by one, indifferent.
Comparable to Ch.7, Wheel of Time
Why authors choose Pagewright
12x
faster than dev editing
3.1B
reader behavior data points
40k+
published novels analyzed
68%
fewer DNF reviews reported
Pagewright insight
Chapter 3 opens with 480 words of retrospective backstory before any scene action. Published comparables average 80 words. Restructure to open on Mara at the riverbank — backstory can follow her action decision.
Real-time retention mapping
Your retention score updates with every paragraph you write.
Other tools ask you to upload a finished draft. By then you've already written yourself into trouble. Pagewright runs continuously — the moment a scene starts drifting, the signal appears.
Chapter-by-chapter dropout probability. Scene-level pacing velocity. Dialogue density benchmarks against 40,000 published novels in your exact genre. All of it, live.
- Works inside your existing writing tool via our browser extension
- Genre-specific benchmarks: fantasy, romance, thriller, literary fiction
- Actionable fix suggestions — not vague scores, actual structural guidance
Corpus pattern matching
Compared against 40,000 published novels — in real time.
Pagewright's corpus holds 40,000 published fiction titles, annotated with actual reader-completion data. Not just bestsellers — the full range, including books that sold poorly and the DNF reviews that explain why.
When your chapter 3 looks like chapter 3s that lost 47% of readers in comparable thrillers, you see that signal before you've written chapter 4.
"I got my DNF review on book 4 saying chapter 3 lost them. Pagewright flagged that exact chapter on book 5 before I sent it to my editor. First time I've felt like I was ahead of the problem."
Works where you already write
Scrivener
Google Docs
Word
Notion
Obsidian
+ more
$1,800
avg. developmental edit cost
Pagewright surfaces the same structural issues a developmental editor finds — at the scene level, in real time, for a fraction of the cost. And three weeks faster.
Zero workflow disruption
Fits inside the tools you already use to write.
Install the Pagewright extension, open your manuscript, and the sidebar appears. No uploads. No new app to learn. No waiting for a report to come back in two weeks.
Authors writing 2–5 novels a year need structural feedback that moves at the speed of writing. Pagewright does. A developmental editor doesn't.
Honest comparison
How Pagewright compares
One question matters: does it tell you before you publish, or after?
| Feature | Pagewright | Marlowe / Authors.ai | ProWritingAid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time analysis (as you write) | ✓ | ✗ Upload only | ✗ Upload only |
| Chapter-level dropout risk scores | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Genre-specific corpus (40k+ novels) | ✓ | Partial | ✗ |
| Structural fix suggestions | ✓ | Report only | Grammar only |
| Works inside Scrivener / Google Docs | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $29/mo | $99/report | $20/mo |
Pricing
Less than one developmental edit.
For every book you write.
Draft
Free
First 50,000 words
- ✓ Real-time retention map
- ✓ 3 genre corpus benchmarks
- ✓ Chapter-level scores
Author
$29/mo
Unlimited manuscripts
- ✓ Everything in Draft
- ✓ Unlimited word count
- ✓ All 12 genre corpuses
- ✓ Scene-level fix suggestions
- ✓ Series arc tracking
14 days free. No card required.
Press
$79/mo
For editors and agencies
- ✓ Everything in Author
- ✓ 10 author seats
- ✓ Shareable PDF reports
- ✓ API access
Stop writing in the dark
Your next book deserves
readers who finish it.
Join authors who analyze as they write — and ship books readers can't put down. First 50,000 words free. No card needed.
Analyze my manuscript freeNo credit card. Cancel anytime. Works with Scrivener, Google Docs, and Word.