Mockingbird
Privacy-first desktop editor for fiction authors
Mockingbird is calm, local-first writing software for authors who want structure, momentum, and absolute ownership of every page. No AI prompts. No cloud treadmill. No machine between writer and sentence.
This staging site keeps the fuller in-progress product story online while the public homepage stays intentionally minimal.
90-second demo
Built for serious fiction writers
Mockingbird is for novelists, short story writers, and literary obsessives who care about cadence, structure, and private draft space.
It respects sentence-level concentration while still helping with long-form architecture. Calm surface. Hard-working underneath.
Track relationships and context across your story: friends and enemies around each character, which characters belong to which places, and the details that tie your world together. Add your own categories for animals, vegetation, religions, plants, lore, or anything else the book needs.
See daily word counts, strongest writing hours, and recent sessions in one calm ledger.
Follow each major character across the book with clear lanes, turning points, and narrative transitions.
See emotional movement at a glance with graceful curves and a few carefully chosen notes at decisive moments.
No cloud lock-in. No AI ingestion. Your novel lives in plain ASCII `.txt`, with structure and formatting stored separately in human readable format. Rest assured: your manuscript stays readable and recoverable decades from now, without depending on a proprietary formats.
Keep a private ledger of the day’s work, from the mood that opens the page to the notes, weather, music, and details you choose to preserve. Add your own journal fields, keep every entry on your own machine, and write with the assurance that nothing is uploaded to the cloud.
Alpha and beta
Founder note
I started Mockingbird because too many writing tools began to feel like software for managing software. Tabs, prompts, social surfaces, subscriptions, clutter. Fiction needs steadier company.
This editor is being shaped around private drafts, visible structure, and clean text ownership. Something durable enough for long novels. Quiet enough for difficult pages.
Founder, Mockingbird
Status
This staging branch documents the intended product direction, but the public alpha request flow and release-update mailing list remain inactive until a compliant consent and double-opt-in setup is in place.
