# Scribora — verified product facts Scribora is a source-first nonfiction ebook workspace that turns notes, transcripts, public web URLs, PDF and PPTX documents, and supported audio into an editable outline, chapter drafts, and PDF or EPUB exports. Intended use: It is designed for people who already have source material and want a managed workflow from source analysis through outline, chapter review, and export. Last verified against the implementation: 2026-09-19 ## Supported source material A project can combine pasted notes or transcripts, public web URLs, PDF and PPTX documents, and supported audio. - Supported audio MIME types cover MP3, WAV, M4A/MP4, OGG, and WebM. - Audio is transcribed before it enters the same source-analysis workflow as documents and notes. - Public discussions can be gathered from Reddit, Hacker News, and Stack Exchange. ## Book workflow Scribora stores project sources, analyzes them into a knowledge base, plans an outline, generates chapters, and gives the author a review and editing step before export. - The outline is an explicit checkpoint rather than a hidden generation step. - Chapter generation runs as a background job and can be reviewed chapter by chapter. - Pro projects add critique, revision, coherence, style-refinement, and fact-checking passes. ## Outputs The implemented ebook export formats are PDF and EPUB; projects can also create a public landing page and, where enabled, images and cover assets. - PDF and EPUB are separate export formats in the public API. - Exported files still need the author's final editorial and publishing review. - Scribora supplies files and publishing assets; the author chooses the storefront or distribution channel. ## Ways to use the product Scribora has a free evaluation path, project-scoped one-off book editions, and recurring account plans. - The free plan currently includes an outline and two sample chapters. - A one-off Standard Book or Pro Book applies to one existing project and does not change the account subscription. - Current prices, credits, and plan limits come from the public billing catalog rather than this static page. ## Public evidence Public sample-book pages and free sample chapters show actual Scribora output, while the docs describe current product behavior. - Indexable sample chapters are server-rendered and also available as machine-readable Markdown. - The documentation and its Markdown alternates are generated from the same registry. - The pricing page and pricing Markdown read the same public billing catalog. ## Boundaries - Scribora is positioned for nonfiction, not fiction. - It is source-first: a prompt-only, high-volume book generator is a different product category. - It is not primarily a layout tool for prose that is already finished. - Generated text and automated checks do not replace the author's factual, legal, or editorial review. - Scribora does not guarantee book sales, rankings, reader conversion, or publishing approval. Product facts: https://www.scribora.ai/about · Markdown: https://www.scribora.ai/about.md Index: https://www.scribora.ai/llms.txt · Feed: https://www.scribora.ai/feed.xml Documentation: https://www.scribora.ai/docs · Markdown index: https://www.scribora.ai/docs.md Current pricing: https://www.scribora.ai/pricing · machine-readable: https://www.scribora.ai/pricing.md Public output evidence: https://www.scribora.ai/samples · machine-readable index: https://www.scribora.ai/samples.md Complete free sample chapters are listed in llms.txt and served at https://www.scribora.ai/samples/ --- # Product documentation Last reviewed: 2026-09-19 ## Create your first ebook with Scribora Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/getting-started Category: Getting started A complete walkthrough from source material to outline, chapters, and a finished PDF or EPUB. ### What Scribora expects Scribora is source-first: you begin with material you already have, not an empty topic prompt. Notes, transcripts, links, PDFs, and audio give the system the substance it should organise and write from. A project then moves through four visible phases: Gather, Analyze, Plan, and Write. Publishing tools become available once the book has enough generated content. - Gather: add the material the book should be grounded in. - Analyze: turn raw material into a structured knowledge base. - Plan: generate and edit the chapter outline. - Write: generate, review, and refine chapters before export. ### The shortest path to a finished book 1. **Create a project** — Choose a project name and topic. You can also seed subreddit sources and set a target country before creation; chapter, language, tone, and positioning controls remain editable on the project page. 2. **Add sources** — Paste notes, add URLs, or upload source files. More useful source material usually produces a more specific outline. 3. **Build the knowledge base** — Let Scribora analyse the collected material before asking it to plan the book. 4. **Generate the outline** — Review the chapter sequence before spending credits on full chapter generation. 5. **Write and review** — Generate chapters, edit them where needed, and use Pro refinement features when the project has Pro access. 6. **Export** — Download the finished manuscript as PDF or EPUB when the export status is ready. ### Start free, then choose how to finish The Free account is designed to let you build a real project and preview the workflow before paying. When you want to finish the book, you can either buy a project-scoped one-off book edition or use a recurring plan. One-off book purchases do not change your account subscription. They unlock the selected project only. Note: Current prices and credit allowances are shown live on the pricing page and in the pricing guide; the docs do not duplicate those values. ### What actually unlocks each phase The workflow does not advance because you clicked Next. The project state drives it: at least one gathered source unlocks Analyze; a built knowledge base unlocks Plan; an outline unlocks Write; and the Publish section is rendered only when the export status reports that publishing is available. Scraping, analysis, outlining, and writing are background jobs. While one is active, the workflow keeps the progress state inside the current step and explicitly allows you to leave the page while it runs. ### The free sample is part of a full book plan A new project is planned at the normal full-book chapter count even on Free. Free does not create a special two-chapter outline. At Write time, Scribora calculates how many remaining chapters the current balance can afford; if only a subset is affordable, it writes that subset and leaves the rest planned rather than pretending the short sample is a finished ebook. ## What source material should you give Scribora? Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/sources/choose-source-material Category: Sources How to choose notes, transcripts, PDFs, links, and research that produce a stronger nonfiction ebook. ### Use material with information density The strongest inputs contain decisions, examples, explanations, data, first-hand observations, or a point of view. Ten pages of specific notes are usually more useful than fifty pages of generic background. Scribora can organise messy source material; it cannot manufacture first-hand knowledge that was never present. - Good: interview transcripts, workshop notes, consulting frameworks, research summaries, saved articles with a clear purpose, recorded explanations, internal playbooks. - Weak: duplicated SEO articles, vague brainstorming, pages that repeat the same claims, or material unrelated to the promised book. ### Mix source types A single project can combine different kinds of material. For example, use a transcript for your voice, a PDF for evidence, and a set of links for current context. When sources disagree, keep the disagreement visible instead of deleting one side. It gives the analysis stage something meaningful to resolve. ### You control which gathered items reach analysis Gathered material is inspectable before it becomes part of the knowledge base. Scraped and imported items can be deleted, and scraped items can be explicitly included or excluded from knowledge-base building. The source summary tracks Reddit, manual notes, custom URLs, uploaded files, Hacker News, and Stack Exchange as distinct source types. That breakdown is useful when one source family is dominating a project. ## Turn notes into an ebook Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/sources/add-notes Category: Sources Add raw notes to a Scribora project and turn them into structured nonfiction chapters. ### Add notes directly Use the note input when the material already lives in your clipboard, a notes app, or a rough draft. Keep headings and lists when they carry meaning; Scribora does not require polished prose. 1. **Open the project** — Go to the Gather phase of the ebook workflow. 2. **Add a note** — Paste the source text and give it a useful label so you can recognise it later. 3. **Repeat by topic** — Several focused notes are easier to inspect than one enormous dump. 4. **Analyze** — Build the project knowledge base after the useful source set is in place. ### Do not pre-write the book for the model You do not need to turn every note into polished paragraphs before importing it. The point of Scribora is to organise and transform source material into a coherent book. ### What the Add Knowledge form stores Your Notes → Add opens the Add Knowledge dialog. A note needs a title and at least 10 characters of content; the title is capped at 500 characters. Category is optional. - Problem: pain points the audience faces. - Solution: ways to solve a problem. - Tip: practical advice. - Story: a real example or anecdote. - Resource: a tool, link, or reference. Note: The category helps organize the source, but the note body is the material the analysis has to work with. ## Use links, PDFs, transcripts, and audio in a Scribora ebook Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/sources/links-pdfs-audio Category: Sources A practical guide to combining external links, documents, transcripts, and recorded source material in one project. ### Use each format for what it is good at - Links: useful for public references and material you want analysed alongside your own notes. - PDFs: useful for reports, research, guides, and structured source documents. - Transcripts: useful for interviews, calls, podcasts, lectures, and your natural speaking voice. - Audio: useful when recording is faster than writing; keep the recording focused on the intended book. ### A useful mixed-source recipe For a practitioner guide, start with your own notes, add two or three representative transcripts, then add only the external material needed to support or update the argument. This keeps the book recognisably yours instead of turning it into an assembled summary. ### Current ingestion paths and limits - Web URL accepts a public HTTP or HTTPS page; the URL scraper can extract ordinary HTML pages and direct PDF or PPTX resources. - Upload File currently accepts PDF, PPTX, MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, and WebM, with a 50 MB per-file limit enforced before upload. - Text transcripts are best pasted into Your Notes. Audio recordings are transcribed after upload and enter the project as extracted source text. - Audio above the transcription provider's per-request size limit is split server-side into smaller segments and the transcript is reassembled in order. ## Analyze source material and build the knowledge base Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/workflow/analyze-research Category: Workflow What Scribora does in the Analyze phase and when to rebuild the project knowledge base. ### Why analysis comes before the outline The Analyze phase turns the gathered source set into a usable project knowledge base. Planning directly from a pile of raw inputs makes it easier to over-weight the last document or miss relationships across sources. Run analysis after the core source set is present. If you add material that materially changes the book, analyze again before regenerating the outline. ### Research enrichment When enrichment is available, use it to fill factual or contextual gaps rather than to replace your source material. The book should still have a clear source-first spine. ### What the Source analysis card shows After the knowledge base is built, the project can show the number of extracted insights, a category breakdown, top themes, and any stored bias analysis. The category breakdown distinguishes Problems, Solutions, Tips, Questions, Stories, Resources, and Other. The UI shows up to eight top themes and, when bias analysis is present, its summary and dominant perspective. These are inspection signals for the source set, not extra chapters generated behind the scenes. ### Curate before rebuilding The include/exclude controls on gathered items affect knowledge-base building. If a noisy source should not influence planning, exclude or remove it before rebuilding the analysis rather than trying to compensate for it later in the outline. ## Generate and edit an ebook outline Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/workflow/generate-outline Category: Workflow Create a chapter plan from your source material, then review it before full chapter generation. ### Treat the outline as a checkpoint The outline is the cheapest place to catch a weak book structure. Check that each chapter earns its place, that adjacent chapters are not duplicates, and that the sequence matches the reader's progression. - Merge chapters that make the same promise. - Move prerequisites before advanced material. - Delete chapters supported only by generic background. - Keep the chapter count aligned with the edition or plan you intend to use. ### One-off books and chapter limits Standard Book and Pro Book are project-scoped one-off editions built around a 10-chapter book. A recurring Pro subscription retains the higher per-ebook chapter allowance defined by the current plan catalog. ### Regenerating an outline after chapters exist has a real consequence Outline regeneration is not a cosmetic rewrite. The review flow routes it through the outline-generation path that creates a new generation run and invalidates chapters written against the old structure. When existing chapters are present, Scribora shows a confirmation explaining that they will be marked stale and need to be regenerated. This is why structural changes are cheapest before the Write phase. ## Generate ebook chapters Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/workflow/generate-chapters Category: Workflow How chapter generation works, how credits are consumed, and how to avoid wasting generation on a weak outline. ### Generate after the structure is stable Chapter generation is where most writing credits are spent, so review the outline first. If a chapter title is vague, the generated chapter is likely to be vague too. The Write action targets the remaining chapters in one run. If the current credit balance covers only part of them, Scribora writes the affordable subset, preserves those chapters, and leaves the rest of the outline waiting for you to continue later. ### Credit use Scribora uses operation-based credits. The exact cost model is defined centrally by the product and exposed in the current pricing experience. Do not rely on old screenshots or third-party descriptions for credit values. ### How a Write run behaves when credits are limited Write normally targets all remaining chapters. Before dispatch, the product computes how many of those chapters the current balance can afford. A partially affordable run is allowed: the CTA and displayed credit cost are reduced to the affordable subset, the generated chapters stay in the project, and the remaining chapters wait behind the credit wall. If no remaining chapter is affordable, the Write step becomes the finish-book purchase path instead of starting a job that cannot complete any work. ### Generation runs in the background The project records the active generation job and chapter progress while writing is running. The workflow explicitly tells the user that the job continues in the background, so a long chapter run is not tied to keeping the project page in the foreground. ## How Pro multi-pass writing works Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/workflow/pro-writing Category: Workflow Understand multi-pass chapter writing, coherence review, style refinement, and fact-checking in Pro projects. ### Pro is a different writing pipeline, not just more credits A Pro project can use a multi-pass workflow that drafts, critiques, and revises instead of stopping after the first generation. It also enables chapter-level coherence review, style refinement, and fact-checking with automatic fixes where supported. - Draft: produce the chapter from the project plan and source context. - Critique: inspect the draft for omissions, weak reasoning, and quality issues. - Revise: rewrite against the critique rather than accepting the first pass. - Coherence: check the chapter against the rest of the book. - Refinement and fact-checking: improve style and verify factual claims where the feature applies. ### One-off Pro versus recurring Pro A Pro Book one-off purchase unlocks Pro-quality generation features for that project while remaining a 10-chapter one-off book. Recurring Pro is an account subscription with recurring credits, multiple projects, and the plan's higher chapter limit. ### How a project gets the Pro pipeline Generation uses the project's effective tier, not only the account label. The backend compares the recurring account tier with any project-scoped one-off entitlement and uses the higher feature tier for that project. A Pro Book can therefore enable Pro generation on one project without upgrading the account. The one-off entitlement can only raise project capabilities; it never removes capabilities from an account that already has a higher subscription tier. ### What the implementation does after drafting For Pro-quality generation, sections go through critique and revision, then the chapter participates in book-level coherence work. The editorial path also includes humanization/style refinement and fact checking. Fact checking is grounded in the source excerpts available for the chapter. When factual problems are found, the pipeline has a separate correction step rather than merely attaching a warning to the draft. ## Review and edit generated chapters Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/workflow/review-edit Category: Workflow A practical editing pass for AI-generated nonfiction before you export the book. ### Review for source fidelity first - Check whether the chapter preserves the claims and nuance of your source material. - Remove generic advice that could have appeared in any book on the topic. - Verify numbers, names, dates, and attributed claims. - Look for repeated examples across chapters. - Make sure the chapter advances the reader instead of restating the introduction. ### Then edit for voice Once the substance is right, edit rhythm, terminology, and examples so the manuscript sounds consistent. If you have transcripts in the source set, compare the draft against the way the author actually explains the subject. ### Use the review controls according to the size of the change - Approve marks the content approved. - Quick Improve runs one of four targeted transformations: Concise, Engaging, Actionable, or Examples. - Regenerate with Feedback sends your written instruction through the regeneration path. - Reject & Regenerate stores the rejection reason and then regenerates using that reason as feedback. - Direct title/body editing is available when the effective project tier enables content editing. ### The review screen keeps provenance and history For chapters, the review page can show the source records used for that content. It also keeps version history across initial generation, full regeneration, feedback regeneration, quick improvements, manual edits, and restores. Version history can show a diff against the current version and restore an earlier version. Restoring an outline is treated specially because changing the outline can invalidate existing chapters. Note: Keyboard shortcuts are also built in: Cmd/Ctrl+Enter approves, Cmd/Ctrl+Backspace rejects, and the left/right arrows move between chapters when focus is not inside an input. ## Generate ebook images and a cover Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/publishing/images-and-cover Category: Publishing Use AI-generated project images and cover generation where the selected plan or one-off edition enables them. ### Project images Image generation is controlled by the feature allowance of the effective project tier. A project can inherit features from the account subscription or from a project-scoped one-off edition. ### Cover generation Cover generation is available only when the effective project tier enables it. Generate the cover after the title and positioning are stable; otherwise you will spend time polishing a visual for a book that is still changing. ### Images belong to a project and, optionally, a chapter The image API enforces the effective project's AI-image allowance before generation. Chapter review can generate or upload images associated with a specific content item, including caption and placement metadata. During ebook export, Scribora injects the most recent image for each chapter/image-type slot into the chapter content. Older regenerated versions of the same slot are not all stacked into the exported book. ### The cover is also a publishing asset When a project has a cover image, the Publish card uses that real project cover instead of the generic book mockup. The Publish flow can then render separate KDP cover files for paperback and ebook use; those outputs are distinct from the interior PDF/EPUB. ## Export a Scribora ebook to PDF or EPUB Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/publishing/export-pdf-epub Category: Publishing How to export a completed Scribora project as PDF or EPUB and what to check before download. ### When export becomes available The Publish section appears when the project has enough generated content for export. Scribora exposes PDF and EPUB downloads separately because the two formats serve different publishing workflows. - PDF: useful for direct downloads, lead magnets, review copies, and print-oriented workflows. - EPUB: useful for ebook stores and reading apps that expect reflowable text. ### Before exporting - Review the table of contents and chapter order. - Check title, author, and project metadata. - Verify that generated images and captions belong where expected. - Run a final factual pass on claims that could have changed since the source material was collected. ### Preview export versus final export Approval does not hard-block every export. If chapters exist but not all are approved, the export status is a preview state and the rendered file carries a preview watermark. Once all chapters are approved, the Publish card switches to the final download state. ### Format, theme, and author are separate settings Page format controls geometry and includes KDP paperback sizes as well as screen-oriented formats. The style theme controls typography and decoration; non-classic themes are gated by the effective project's theme feature. Author name is editable directly in the Publish card and is stored in the project's brand configuration. PDF and EPUB renders are queued as background jobs. The UI reports queued, rendering, and download phases rather than holding one long request open until the file is finished. Note: Export credits are deducted only after the basic export validations pass. If the render itself fails, the backend refunds that export charge. ## Scribora pricing, plans, and credits Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/billing/pricing-and-credits Category: Billing Understand Free, Starter, Pro, Enterprise, recurring credits, and how project-scoped one-off books fit into the same product. ### Two ways to pay Scribora supports recurring account plans and project-scoped one-off book purchases. They solve different problems: recurring plans are for ongoing creation across projects, while one-off editions are for finishing a specific book without changing the account subscription. ### Recurring account tiers The account tiers are Free, Starter, Pro, and Enterprise. Prices, credit allowances, project limits, and feature limits are returned by Scribora's billing catalog and can change without this documentation becoming stale. ### Credits are operation-based Credits pay for generation and processing operations. A Pro chapter costs more than a single-pass chapter because the Pro pipeline performs additional critique, revision, and quality work. Note: The live catalog below is the source of truth for current prices and allowances. ### Account tier and project tier can differ Most limits come from the recurring account tier, but a one-off book can raise the effective tier of one project. The backend always uses the higher of the account tier and the mapped one-off tier, so buying an edition cannot reduce an existing subscriber's capabilities. Feature checks such as editing, AI images, cover generation, themes, humanization, and fact checking all use that effective project entitlement where applicable. ### One-off credit bundles are derived, not hardcoded The credit grant behind a one-off book is calculated from the same operation costs used by the product: research/scraping, outline generation, the edition's chapter pipeline, and export. The Pro edition also includes the current Pro image allowance in that calculation. That keeps the bundle aligned when operation costs change instead of relying on a duplicated magic number in the checkout flow or documentation. ## Standard Book vs Pro Book one-off purchases Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/billing/one-off-books Category: Billing Compare Scribora's project-scoped Standard Book and Pro Book editions without confusing them with recurring subscriptions. ### What a one-off purchase changes A one-off book purchase attaches an entitlement to one existing project. It does not upgrade the user's account tier and does not create a recurring subscription. Checkout happens after the project exists, so the payment can be tied to the exact project being unlocked. ### Standard Book Standard Book unlocks Starter-level project features for a 10-chapter book. It is intended for a complete standard-quality book without a recurring subscription. ### Pro Book Pro Book unlocks Pro-quality generation features for a 10-chapter project, including the multi-pass writing pipeline, coherence review, style refinement, fact-checking, and the configured Pro image allowance. ### Why recurring Pro is still different Recurring Pro remains an account-level plan with recurring credits, multiple projects, and its higher chapter allowance per ebook. Buying Pro Book on one project does not grant those account-wide benefits. ### The effective-tier rule Standard Book maps that project to the Starter feature set; Pro Book maps it to the Pro feature set. The backend then compares that mapped tier with the account subscription and uses whichever is higher for the project. There is one deliberate exception to simply inheriting the recurring Pro limits: Pro Book remains capped at the standard 10-chapter one-off scope, while recurring Pro keeps its higher per-ebook chapter limit. ### Paid one-off output is treated as paid output A paid one-off project, like a paid subscription project, exports without the Free-tier Scribora attribution. The entitlement is still attached only to that project; this does not change the account plan shown elsewhere in the product. ## Publish a Scribora ebook on Amazon KDP Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/publishing/amazon-kdp Category: Publishing Prepare a Scribora manuscript for Amazon KDP using EPUB or PDF and check the publishing details before upload. ### Choose the export for the KDP format For Kindle ebooks, EPUB is the natural starting point because it is reflowable. For print workflows, use the PDF output only after checking page geometry, margins, images, and the requirements of the selected trim size. ### Do a store-specific review - Check title and subtitle consistency between manuscript, cover, and KDP listing. - Inspect the table of contents in a Kindle previewer. - Verify image quality and any full-bleed requirements for print. - Use Scribora's free KDP tools for royalty and cover calculations when relevant. - Review Amazon's current publishing and content rules before submission because marketplace requirements can change. ### Scribora produces separate KDP cover files The Publish card exposes two cover exports in addition to the manuscript. Cover (Paperback) renders a wraparound PDF containing back cover, spine, and front cover. Cover (eBook) renders a front-only JPEG for the Kindle ebook cover. The ebook-cover renderer enforces the implementation's KDP minimum image dimensions. The paperback renderer uses the selected trim format and the rendered book geometry to build the wraparound cover. ### Interior size and cover size must agree The page-format selector includes KDP paperback trim sizes and is independent of the visual theme. Use the same trim choice for the interior PDF and the paperback cover; KDP treats the interior and cover as separate uploads whose geometry must match. ## Scribora troubleshooting Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/troubleshooting Category: Help Common reasons a project is blocked at sources, outline, generation, credits, or export. ### The project cannot move past Gather Make sure the project contains at least one usable source and that source processing has completed. Empty or failed source imports cannot produce a meaningful analysis stage. ### Chapter generation stops early Generation can pause when the remaining credit balance cannot cover the next operation. The project keeps the chapters already generated; add credits through the appropriate plan or project purchase before continuing. ### Export is not visible The Publish section is gated by export readiness. If the project still needs an outline or generated chapters, finish the current workflow phase first. ### A one-off purchase is not showing on the account plan That is expected. Standard Book and Pro Book are project-scoped entitlements, not account subscription tiers. Open the purchased project to see the unlocked workflow. ### An uploaded file is stuck in Processing File upload has two stages: browser transfer and server-side parsing/transcription. For audio in particular, reaching 100% upload does not mean the source is ready. Wait for the queue item to reach Added before expecting it to participate in analysis. The current file input accepts PDF, PPTX, and supported audio formats up to 50 MB. Unsupported types and files that produce too little extractable text are rejected by the ingestion path. ### The export says Preview instead of Download This is different from export being unavailable. With chapters present but not all approved, Scribora deliberately allows a preview render and marks it with a preview watermark. Approve the remaining chapters to move the Publish card to the final-download state. ## Turn an interview or podcast transcript into an ebook Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/sources/transcripts Category: Sources Use interview, podcast, webinar, or call transcripts as source material for a structured nonfiction ebook. ### Transcripts preserve the ideas, not the book structure A transcript is valuable because it contains explanations, examples, objections, and the author's natural vocabulary. It is usually poor book structure: the conversation follows questions and detours rather than a reader's learning path. For a text transcript, paste the transcript or the relevant sections into Your Notes. If you still have the recording, you can instead upload a supported audio file and let Scribora transcribe it. The Analyze and Plan phases can then separate repeated ideas, group related material, and turn the conversation into a deliberate sequence. ### Clean only what changes meaning - Remove long sections that are completely unrelated to the intended book. - Keep concrete examples, disagreements, and stories even when the spoken wording is messy. - Keep speaker labels when attribution matters. - Do not flatten every sentence into formal prose before import; the transcript is useful evidence of voice. ### Choose the ingestion path based on what you actually have - Text transcript: add it through Your Notes, splitting very long conversations into coherent chunks if that makes later inspection easier. - Original recording: upload MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, or WebM and let the audio parser create the transcript-backed source. - Public transcript page: add its public HTTP/HTTPS URL if the page exposes extractable text. Note: The current Upload File control does not accept arbitrary TXT or DOCX transcript files. ## Turn voice memos and audio recordings into an ebook Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/sources/voice-memos Category: Sources Upload audio source material to Scribora, let it be transcribed, and use spoken expertise as the basis for a nonfiction book. ### Record the knowledge you would otherwise never write down Audio is useful when explaining a subject out loud is faster than writing it. Scribora's upload flow can process audio into transcript-backed source material, so a recorded explanation can participate in the same knowledge base as notes, links, and documents. A focused recording produces better source material than an unstructured hour of thinking aloud. Record one problem, framework, case study, or chapter-sized idea at a time when possible. ### Audio processing is asynchronous Audio transcription can take longer than text or PDF parsing. Wait until the upload queue shows the file as Added before you build or rebuild the knowledge base. Note: The recording is an input source. Scribora writes the book from the transcribed material; it is not simply an audio-to-text export tool. ### Supported audio and size behavior The current upload control accepts MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, and WebM and enforces a 50 MB file limit. Audio is transcribed with the server's transcription pipeline before it becomes a gathered source. For audio larger than the transcription provider's per-request limit, the server attempts to split the recording into smaller segments without re-encoding, transcribes them in order, and concatenates the text. If safe splitting is unavailable or the file cannot be read, the upload returns a user-facing processing error. ## Turn PDFs and documents into ebook source material Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/sources/pdfs-and-documents Category: Sources Use reports, PDFs, slide decks, and structured documents as grounded source material for a Scribora ebook. ### Import documents as evidence, not as layout When you upload a document, Scribora extracts its usable content into the project's source layer. The goal is to understand and reuse the information, not to preserve the visual layout of the original file. That distinction matters for reports and slide decks: headings, arguments, examples, and facts can inform the new book even though the exported ebook receives its own structure and formatting. ### Use documents selectively - Prefer primary reports and material you are allowed to use. - Remove obsolete versions when a newer document supersedes them. - Add your own notes alongside reference documents so the project retains your interpretation and point of view. - Check quotations, tables, and externally sourced facts before publication. ### What the current document parser actually reads Upload File currently supports PDF and PPTX for document ingestion. PDFs are parsed for extractable text; PPTX files are read slide by slide from text frames. This path does not preserve the original visual layout and does not perform OCR on image-only PDF pages. A file that yields less than 20 characters of extracted text is rejected as unusable. Extracted source text is capped at 100,000 characters before it is stored as a gathered source. Note: DOCX is not currently accepted by the project source uploader. ## Use web links as sources for a nonfiction ebook Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/sources/web-links Category: Sources Add saved articles and useful URLs to a Scribora project without turning the finished book into a generic web summary. ### Links should fill a role in the book A saved URL is most useful when you know why it belongs in the project: evidence for a claim, a current example, a counterargument, or background the reader needs. A hundred vaguely related bookmarks create more noise than a handful of purposeful sources. Combine external links with your own notes or transcripts. That gives the project both factual context and an authorial spine. ### Review time-sensitive sources Web pages change and facts become stale. Before export, revisit claims that depend on current prices, policies, product capabilities, dates, or market data. Source-first generation reduces invention; it does not make old evidence current. ### What the URL importer can fetch The URL path accepts HTTP and HTTPS resources that resolve to public network addresses. Private, loopback, link-local, and reserved destinations are blocked before fetching. For normal HTML pages, Scribora extracts the main readable text and falls back to a second HTML parser if needed. Direct PDF and PPTX URLs are also supported. The URL fetcher caps a response at 10 MB and follows only a bounded number of redirects. Note: A page still needs to be publicly fetchable and contain extractable content; a URL by itself does not guarantee a usable source. ## Set up the project brief before generating an ebook Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/workflow/project-brief Category: Workflow Set the project topic, generation controls, and positioning fields that Scribora actually uses when it plans and writes the book. ### Creation and positioning are two separate steps The new-project form currently asks for the project name and topic, with optional subreddit seeds and a target country. It creates a full-length project using the product defaults rather than asking you to design the outline in the form. On the project page, Chapters, Language, and Tone remain visible as generation settings. The separate Positioning brief contains Target country, Unique angle, Promised outcome, and Forbidden topics. - Target country: localises examples, laws, currencies, institutions, and subreddit discovery. - Unique angle: a one-sentence statement of what should make this book distinct. - Promised outcome: the concrete result the book should deliver to the reader. - Forbidden topics: comma-separated subjects the generator should avoid even if they appear in the sources. ### The positioning fields are used by generation These fields are not decorative metadata. The generation model reads them when building prompts for the outline and chapters, and the critique path also receives the positioning context. Leaving them empty is supported, but gives the generator fewer constraints. Be specific without pre-writing the outline. Define the angle, outcome, geography, and exclusions; let the Plan phase derive the chapter sequence from the analyzed sources. ### Generation controls stay editable after creation The project page keeps Chapters, Language, and Tone visible above the positioning brief. The chapter selector is built from the current effective project limit, so recurring Pro can expose a higher maximum while a one-off Pro Book retains its 10-chapter scope. Country and language are intentionally separate. If a country is selected but the writing language differs from that country's default language, Scribora shows a warning rather than silently changing the manuscript language. ## Use research and community enrichment without losing your voice Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/workflow/research-enrichment Category: Workflow Add external research and community evidence to a source-first ebook while keeping the author's own material in control. ### Enrichment is for gaps and reality checks Scribora can enrich a project with external context, including relevant community discussions where the workflow enables it. Use that layer to discover objections, terminology, examples, or questions that your private notes may not contain. The enrichment layer should challenge and support the source set rather than replace it. If the finished chapter could have been written without any of your material, the project has drifted toward generic synthesis. ### What to look for - Questions that recur across independent discussions. - Real wording readers use for the problem. - Counterexamples that expose an overconfident claim in your notes. - Recent context that materially changes an older source. ### How community discovery is wired into the project The Reddit discovery endpoint receives the topic, keywords, and audience context, and also reads the project's country and language. That allows discovery to prefer country-native communities instead of silently defaulting every project to US-centric sources. The resulting subreddit set is stored back on the project before the asynchronous scrape runs. Gathered Reddit items can then be inspected and excluded before knowledge-base building. ## Check ebook coherence and facts before publishing Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/workflow/coherence-and-fact-checking Category: Workflow Use project-level coherence review and factual checks to catch contradictions, repetition, and unsupported claims before export. ### Chapter quality is not book quality Ten individually readable chapters can still make a poor book if they repeat the same lesson, contradict each other, change terminology, or introduce prerequisites after they are needed. Pro-quality projects can use coherence-oriented review across the manuscript rather than judging each chapter in isolation. ### Fact checking still needs judgment Automated factual review can identify and correct many risky claims, but it should not be treated as a guarantee. Before publication, manually inspect claims with legal, medical, financial, scientific, reputational, or rapidly changing consequences. - Check numbers and dates against the underlying source. - Keep opinion and evidence clearly separated. - Verify named people, companies, studies, and quoted claims. - Re-check facts that were current when the source was collected but may have changed since. ### Fact checking and plagiarism checking are different systems Pro fact checking is part of the generation pipeline: it compares factual claims against source excerpts available to the chapter and can run an automatic correction pass when problems are found. The plagiarism scan is a separate review/publishing tool. It measures similarity against the project's internal source material and, when the web check is available, external web matches. Its result can be Original, Checked, or Needs review; it does not certify factual truth. ### Know the limit of source-grounded fact checking The automated fact-check step only has evidence when source excerpts are available. A claim outside that evidence can still require manual verification even when the Pro pipeline completed successfully. ## Create a landing page for a Scribora ebook Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/publishing/landing-page Category: Publishing Turn a finished ebook project into a public landing page that explains the promise and gives readers a path to the book. ### The landing page is a distribution asset An exported file is not distribution by itself. Scribora's publishing workflow can create a landing page around the project so the book has a public destination you can link from email, social posts, ads, or your website. Finish the positioning first. A landing page cannot rescue a book whose reader and promise are still unclear. ### Check the page as a first-time visitor - Can a visitor tell who the book is for without knowing you? - Is the outcome clearer than the production process? - Does the title on the page match the exported book? - Is there one obvious next action rather than several competing calls to action? ### What you can configure before publishing - Headline and subtitle. - Landing-page language, independently of the dashboard language. - Free sample: chapter 1 or a generated lead magnet. - Checkout URL for the Buy button. - Google Analytics ID. - Refund-guarantee days shown on the page. - Optional AI-tuned copy for the hero, table-of-contents heading, buy section, and FAQ. ### AI copy is editable and optional With AI-tuned copy disabled, the landing page uses the static template without an AI-copy generation charge. With it enabled, you can preview the generated copy, edit individual fields, save those edits, and regenerate when needed. A published page can be updated, re-published, viewed, or unpublished. Unpublishing removes the public page while keeping its saved configuration so it can be published again later. ## Create a lead magnet from an ebook project Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/publishing/lead-magnet Category: Publishing Generate a focused freebie from a Scribora project and use the existing book knowledge as the source for a useful lead magnet. ### A lead magnet should solve a smaller problem The free asset should not be a random excerpt or a compressed copy of the whole book. A useful lead magnet takes one problem the project understands well and turns it into something immediately actionable, such as a checklist or focused companion resource. Because it is generated from the same project, the freebie can stay aligned with the terminology and ideas of the book instead of becoming disconnected marketing copy. ### Use it to bridge discovery and the book The lead magnet works best when someone can get value from it without buying anything and still understand why the full book goes deeper. Keep the promise narrow enough that the free asset can actually deliver it. ### The current lead-magnet formats The Publish area currently offers Checklist, Quick Guide, and Cheat Sheet. Generation is a billable content operation; after a lead magnet exists, you can open it in Edit & Review, download it as a styled PDF, or generate another format. Downloading the generated lead magnet PDF does not consume a second export credit: the backend treats the generation as the paid operation and the later PDF download as delivery of that content. ## Choose a one-off Scribora book or a subscription Source: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/billing/choose-one-off-or-subscription Category: Billing Decide between a project-scoped Standard or Pro Book purchase and a recurring Scribora account plan based on how often you publish. ### Choose by workflow, not by sticker price If you are finishing one specific book and do not need an ongoing monthly credit pool, a project-scoped one-off edition keeps the purchase attached to that book. If you create repeatedly across projects, a subscription provides recurring account credits and account-wide limits. ### Standard versus Pro quality Standard Book uses the Starter-level project feature set for its 10-chapter scope. Pro Book uses the Pro-quality writing and review feature set for a 10-chapter scope. Recurring Pro remains different because its account-level limits apply across projects and allow the current Pro chapter limit shown in the live catalog. Note: Use the live catalog on this documentation's pricing page for current prices, credits, and limits. The decision guide deliberately contains no copied prices. ### The project still uses the higher entitlement The choice is not destructive. If an account already has capabilities above the one-off edition mapped to a project, Scribora keeps the higher account feature tier. Conversely, a Pro Book can raise a Free or Starter project to the Pro feature set without granting Pro to the rest of the account. --- # Articles ## Scribora vs Inkfluence AI: price and workflow, checked against the vendor Source: https://www.scribora.ai/blog/scribora-vs-inkfluence Published: 2026-08-28 Inkfluence AI is cheaper than us and it is not close. If you are writing books from topics, stop reading and go there. This page is for the case where you already have the material. We make Scribora, so treat this as a vendor comparison and check it. Every Inkfluence figure below came from their own pricing page on , not from a comparison table. Price, stated properly Inkfluence AI Creator is for 35 chapters a month. Premium is . Scribora Starter is ; the current Scribora pricing page is the source of truth for its live credit allowance and feature limits. At the check, Inkfluence's paid entry point was cheaper than Scribora Starter. That is a dated comparison, not a permanent claim: both current pricing pages are linked so the numbers are checkable. What the difference actually buys The products do different work before drafting. Scribora has explicit source ingestion and analysis stages; if you do not need those stages, paying for them is unnecessary. Scribora reads what you bring first — pasted notes, URLs, PDFs, slide decks, audio — organises it into sources, builds an outline you edit, drafts each chapter against those sources, and can enrich the source set with Reddit, Hacker News and StackExchange. Those are additional processing stages that are visible in Scribora's product workflow and public documentation. If you do not have material to bring, every part of that is overhead you are paying for and not using. Buy Inkfluence AI if Your input is a topic. You publish on volume — guides regularly, across subjects, feeding a list or an ads funnel. You want an audiobook version out of the box. Or your monthly budget is the binding constraint, in which case their unlimited tier at is a better deal than anything we offer and we would rather you knew that from us than found it out afterwards. Buy Scribora if You have a folder that has been full for a year. Fifteen call transcripts, a Notion page of notes, saved links, an old webinar. The book has not been written because nobody has decided what is in it, not because you lacked a generator. Or the value in your work is specific — your data, your client patterns, the objection you answer every week. A tool that starts from a topic will write the guide everyone else has, which is the expensive kind of cheap. How to decide without trusting either of us Both have free tiers. Run the same job through both, using your real material, and read the two outlines side by side. The question to hold in your head: could this outline have been produced without the material I uploaded? If yes, the material is not adding anything and you should buy the cheap tool. If the outline contains things that could only have come from your files, you have your answer, and it did not come from a comparison page written by a vendor. Read a full sample chapter before uploading anything, or see the verified prices across the whole category . --- ## Designrr Alternatives: two different products, depending on why you are leaving Source: https://www.scribora.ai/blog/designrr-alternatives Published: 2026-08-28 Before you shop for a replacement, work out which half of Designrr you were actually using. People who want a cheaper Designrr and people who want to stop using a formatting tool for a drafting job need opposite products, and most alternative lists mix them together. We make one of the tools on this page, and only one of the two answers below points at us. Prices were checked against vendor pages on . A note on Designrr's price We leave Designrr at because its current public pricing page and its current Help Center billing article show conflicting plan figures. Rather than select the number that makes this comparison look cleaner, check Designrr's current pricing page before buying. The conflict itself is why this table does not print one canonical Designrr price. If you were using it to lay out finished content This is what Designrr is for and it does it well. You have a good blog post or a finished document, and you want it as a branded PDF, flipbook or lead magnet without opening design software. If that is your job and you want out for reasons of price, templates or support, what you need is another packaging tool. Scribora is not one and will not help you: it has no template gallery and no flipbook. Look at layout-first products and ignore everything below. If you kept fighting it, read this part There is a second group, and it is much larger than the alternative lists suggest. They bought Designrr expecting it to turn a pile of material into a guide, and discovered it expects the guide to mostly exist already. The symptom is specific: you spend hours before opening the tool. Pasting transcripts into a document, reordering paragraphs, deciding what to cut, writing connective tissue between sections. Then you paste the result in and it makes it pretty in four minutes. Those hours are the actual work, and no formatting tool was ever going to remove them. Switching to a different formatting tool moves the four pleasant minutes and leaves the hours untouched. What the other category does instead Drafting tools start earlier. You give them the mess — transcripts, notes, saved links, PDFs, audio — and the first output is an outline rather than a layout. You edit that outline, which is where the document is actually decided, and only then does anything get written. Scribora sits here, and it is honest to say what that costs: starting from your material means reading and organising it, which is more machine work than writing about a topic, which is why it is priced above the topic-to-PDF tools. If your content is already written, you are paying for a step you do not need. The two-minute test Open the last thing you made in Designrr and ask where the time went. Mostly inside the tool, choosing templates and fixing layout? You want a packaging alternative, and this is the wrong page for you. Mostly before it, in a document, deciding what the thing was even about? You do not have a Designrr problem. You have been using a layout tool to solve a structure problem, and the alternative you want is in a different category. The head-to-head comparison goes into the workflow difference in more detail, and the price comparison covers where the cheaper drafting tools beat us outright. --- ## Best AI Ebook Generators (2026): vendor-sourced prices and workflow differences Source: https://www.scribora.ai/blog/best-ai-ebook-generators Published: 2026-08-28 If your constraint is monthly cost, buy the cheapest tool on this page — it is not Scribora. If you already have notes, transcripts, or research and the hard part is turning that pile into a book, price is the wrong axis and this page explains why. We make one of these tools, so read this the way you would read any vendor comparison: check the claims. Every price below came from the vendor's own pricing page, last checked on , and where primary vendor sources conflict we say so instead of selecting a convenient number. The prices we could actually verify Prices verified against vendor pricing pages on . Tool Entry price What you get Two of those rows contradict the comparison tables you will find elsewhere, and both corrections came from fetching the vendor page rather than trusting a table that already ranks for this query. The number that matters, and it is not in our favour At the check, Inkfluence AI Creator was for 35 chapters a month and Scribora Starter was . That is a dated price comparison, not a permanent property of either product; use the linked vendor pages for the number that applies when you buy. We are not going to explain that away. If you want a 12-chapter guide out of a topic you can describe in a sentence, you do not need Scribora's source-ingestion and analysis workflow. Compare the current prompt-first options and buy the one that fits your budget and output requirements. Where the tools actually diverge The category name hides the real split. Ask one question of any tool on this page: does it start from a prompt, or from my material? Prompt-first. You type a topic. The model writes chapters about it from what it already knows. Inkfluence AI is the clearest example and it is good at this. The output is coherent, fast, and cheap, and its limits are the limits of writing about a subject without consulting anything: it cannot contain your client stories, your data, or the objection you hear on every sales call, because you never gave it those. Packaging-first. You bring content that is already written and finished. The tool lays it out. Designrr is built for this. If your blog archive is good and you want it as a PDF lead magnet by lunchtime, a drafting tool is the wrong purchase. Source-first. You bring material that is real but a mess — call transcripts, Notion pages, saved links, voice memos, half a draft. The work is deciding what belongs in the book, in what order, and drafting from the material rather than around it. This is where Scribora sits. Whether that workflow is worth its current price depends on whether your own source material is actually the value you need preserved in the finished book. How to choose in one question Open the folder where your material lives. If it is empty — if you are starting from an idea and nothing else — a prompt-first tool is the right buy and the cheap one is the right cheap one. If the folder is full and has been full for a year, the reason the book does not exist is not that you lacked a generator. It is that nobody has done the work of deciding what is in it. A cheaper tool that starts from a prompt will not touch that pile; it will write a different book, about your topic, without your material in it. What Scribora does that the cheap tools do not Three things, stated plainly so you can check whether you need them. It ingests what you have: pasted notes and markdown, URLs, PDFs, slide decks, and audio. The book is drafted from those, and the sources stay attached to the project between sessions. It can ground chapters in real discussion — Reddit, Hacker News, StackExchange — so a chapter about a problem quotes how people actually describe that problem, rather than how a model assumes they would. It runs an editing pass against the prose patterns that make AI writing recognisable. We wrote up the four we cut first in how to edit AI-generated books , and you can apply that checklist to output from any tool on this page, ours included. Where Scribora is the wrong buy If you publish on volume — a guide a week, thin, disposable, feeding ads or an email list — unit cost matters heavily. Use the current vendor pricing pages rather than treating this dated comparison as a permanent price ranking. If your content is already written and you need it to look like a product, buy a formatting tool. If you write fiction, none of this applies; the tools built for narrative are a different category with a different set of vendors. And if you are not sure whether your pile of material is really a book, do not buy anything yet. Scribora produces an outline and two chapters free, from your own material, without a card. That is the cheapest way to find out whether the book is in there, and if the answer is no you have lost an afternoon instead of a subscription. Read a full sample chapter first if you would rather judge the output before uploading anything. A note on this page Prices move, which is the whole reason this page prints the date it was checked instead of implying the numbers are timeless. Everything above was verified on , and the corrections are why we fetch rather than copy. If a number here is now wrong, it is wrong — tell us and we will fix it rather than leave the page earning traffic on a stale claim. --- ## AI Ebook Generator vs ChatGPT: Why Copy-Pasting Isn't Enough Source: https://www.scribora.ai/blog/ai-ebook-generator-vs-chatgpt Published: 2026-03-15 "Why would I pay for an AI ebook generator when I can just use ChatGPT?" It's a fair question. ChatGPT can generate text. A persistent book project also needs source storage, a book-level outline, chapter state, review, and export. Let's break down the workflow differences. The Copy-Paste Problem Here's the typical ChatGPT ebook workflow: Prompt ChatGPT: "Write chapter 1 about X" Copy the output into a Google Doc Prompt again: "Write chapter 2 about Y" Repeat 10-15 times Manually fix inconsistencies between chapters Format everything yourself Hope the "facts" are accurate This process takes hours of manual work and produces an ebook with no research backing, inconsistent tone, and potential hallucinations. You're essentially being a human orchestrator for a writing tool. What a Dedicated Ebook Generator Does Differently 1. Research-Backed Content A general chat can work from a prompt and can also use material you attach in a conversation. Scribora's difference is the persistent book workflow around that material: project sources are stored, analyzed into a knowledge base, used to plan the outline, and kept available through chapter review. Scribora can also gather public discussions from Reddit, Hacker News, and Stack Exchange as additional project sources. 2. Structured Workflow Instead of managing prompts yourself, a purpose-built tool handles the entire pipeline: research → knowledge base → outline → chapters → humanization → fact-checking → export. Each step feeds into the next automatically. 3. Consistency Across Chapters ChatGPT has no memory between separate prompts (unless you manually manage context). A dedicated generator maintains the knowledge base, outline, and style across all chapters — producing a coherent book, not a collection of disconnected essays. 4. Built-In Quality Controls Humanization — automatically removes AI writing patterns ("It's worth noting," "Let's dive in," "In conclusion") Fact-checking — verifies claims against the scraped source material Word count enforcement — ensures chapters hit your target length, not just 500-word summaries Bias detection — flags when sources lean too heavily in one direction 5. Export-Ready Formats ChatGPT gives you plain text. An ebook generator exports to properly formatted PDF and EPUB with styling, table of contents, and metadata — ready for Amazon KDP or direct sales. When ChatGPT Is Fine To be fair, ChatGPT works well for: Short guides (under 5 pages) Brainstorming and outlining Writing individual sections you'll heavily edit Quick drafts where quality isn't critical When You Need More If you're creating a multi-chapter ebook, the reason to use a dedicated workflow is orchestration: persistent sources, a book-level outline, chapter state, review, export, and publishing assets in one project. That can save manual coordination; it does not guarantee better writing or sales, so judge the output on the public samples and on your own source material. Compare Scribora AI plans and see which one fits your publishing goals.