Bookcicle Pricing

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Start free, upgrade when you need metered fiction Workflow Services.

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Annual billing saves money vs monthly.

Basic

Essential features to manage your account.

Free

✓ Manage Account
✓ Purchase fiction Workflow Services ad-hoc (Ghostwriter, Editorial, …)
✓ Cloud storage – 500 MB†
Notary by Bookcicle
✓ Local proofs for every account holder

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Creator

Creator Pro

Power users

More capacity + a higher self-service AI budget cap for heavy, metered workflows.

$14.99 /month

$99.99 /year

Best value — billed annually.

✓ Everything in Creator
✓ Metered Workflow Services (pay-as-you-go), see metered AI pricing.
✓ Cloud storage – 20 GB†
✓ Self-service AI budget up to $160 / month†
Notary by Bookcicle
✓ Anchors – 5 / month
✓ Notary attests – 80 / month

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Studio

Gated

Unlimited§ AI usage and model control.

Invite Only

✓ Everything in Creator Pro
✓ Unlimited§ Workflow Services
✓ Choose any AI model
✓ Cloud storage – 200 GB†
Notary by Bookcicle
✓ Anchors – 10 / month
✓ Notary attests – 100 / month

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† Plans include an allotted storage amount. Once the storage limit is reached, storage is not metered; future drafting will be limited until the plan is bumped or data is manually removed.
§ Creator and Creator Pro include plan-specific self-service AI budget caps. Studio unlimited AI usage is subject to a fair-usage policy.

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The Author Finishing Workflow
One Workflow. From First Draft to Publish-Ready.

Finishing a draft is only half the work. Bookcicle owns the rest: copy edits, proofreads, formatting, translations, and screenplay adaptations, all in one operationalized workflow. Months of friction, condensed into under 24 hours.

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Arrive polished.
Let beta readers focus on the main ideas.

Editorial Edits

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A strong draft.
Faster.

Ghostwriting

Release your story in every market.

Translation

Literary Convert

Adapt your novel into a screenplay, and expand your brand.

The lane we own

The finishing workflow, operationalized.

Finishing your first draft is a relief. Then comes the reality that polishing and publishing is just as hard as writing. Bookcicle isn’t a tool or a single slice of that work. It’s the workflow itself: every step between “draft done” and “publishable assets,” owned end-to-end.

The old way 2–3+ months · English only

Stitched together, one human handoff at a time.

First draft. Relief. Then reality.
Developmental edit: A human editor, $3k+, 3–6 weeks.
Refine / Rewrite: Your time, weeks to months between every edit pass. The unpriced slog.
Copy edit. A human editor, $1.2k+, 2–3 weeks.
Proofread: A human editor, $1k+, 2–3 weeks.
Formatting for publication. DIY work or another contractor.
First final draft. One language. No screenplay.

Bookcicle way Under 24 hours · Many languages + screenplay · A fraction of the cost

One workflow. Draft in, publishable assets out.

First draft. Bring your own, or let Bookcicle Ghostwriting turn your imagination into a first draft.
Developmental edit: supported inside Bookcicle for drafts written with Ghostwriting. Structural rewrites, scene work, and character beats land in hours, not weeks. (Native Bookcicle dev edits coming soon.)
Everything else in Bookcicle, in under 24 hours. Refine and rewrite passes, copy edits, proofreads, formatting, translations, screenplay adaptation. One workflow, owned end-to-end.
First final draft. Many languages. Plus a screenplay. Publish-ready.

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Inside the workflow

The stages that finish your book.

These aren’t isolated tools you stitch together. They’re the stages of one operationalized workflow: copy and line edits, proofreads, translations, and format adaptations, running end-to-end inside Bookcicle, on the AI provider you prefer. Final creative polish stays in your hands. You keep 100% of your rights.

Editorial Edits

Line, copy, and developmental edits for fiction manuscripts in a single pass, so human editors can focus on character, pacing, and story.

Ghostwriting Assistance

An AI co-author that matches your voice and pacing. Outline and draft a 20–30 chapter story. Drafts written with Ghostwriting also unlock in-Bookcicle dev edit support, so structural rewrites land in hours, not weeks.

Multi-Format Exports

Write your story once, then adapt it into fiction-first formats: novel to screenplay, screenplay to short story, or translation into different languages, all via Bookcicle's AI.

One Workflow

From First Draft to Publish-Ready.

Not a tool. Not a single slice. Bookcicle is the finishing workflow itself: copy edits, proofreads, formatting, translations, and screenplay adaptations, running end-to-end between your draft and your publishable assets. Final creative polish stays in your hands. You still keep 100% of your rights.

Arrive polished.
Let editors focus on the big ideas.

Editorial Edits

Learn More →

A strong draft.
Faster.

Ghostwriting

Release your story across global markets.

Translation

Literary Convert

Adapt your novel into a screenplay, and expand your brand.

Weeks → Under 24 Hours: Copy edits, proofreads, formatting, translation, and screenplay adaptation move from a months-long stitch of contractors into a single workflow that finishes overnight.
Many Languages, Plus Screenplay: One draft in. Multiple language editions out, tuned for fiction voice, tone, and pacing, plus a screenplay adaptation, so you can scale your story into new markets.
Your AI, Your Voice, Your Rights: Run the workflow on the AI provider you prefer: OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, DeepSeek, Cohere, or Mistral. Final creative polish stays in your hands. You keep 100% of your rights.

Why we built this

Built by an indie author who lived the friction.

First draft done. Relief. Then the slog: developmental edits, copy edits, proofreads, formatting, and finally a single English edition, months later. That post-draft gauntlet is the lane Bookcicle owns. Currently focused on fiction: novels, novellas, chapters, and short stories—and built so the workflow from draft to publish-ready stops being the hard part.

Ready to finish?

One workflow. From first draft to publish-ready. Bring the draft. Bookcicle takes it the rest of the way: copy edits, proofreads, formatting, translations, and screenplay adaptation. The work between “done writing” and “ready to publish” stops being the hard part.

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One Workflow. From First Draft to Publish-Ready.

The lane we own

Stitched together, one human handoff at a time.

One workflow. Draft in, publishable assets out.

Inside the workflow

One Workflow

Why we built this

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