Make it a book.
Alhora is book formatting software for authors. It turns your manuscript into a beautifully typeset ebook and print edition — on Mac, Windows, Linux and ChromeOS.
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Set it yourself.
Three of Alhora's style profiles, one paragraph — yours, if you like. Content never changes; only the profile does.
Prove a human wrote it.
Authors are losing deals to accusations they cannot answer. So your book now carries its own evidence — a private record of how it was written, sealed when you say so, and checkable by anyone.
It attests your process — an organic history over real time, with AI limited to checks that never compose a word. It does not claim to prove the absence of AI everywhere, and we will never say it does.
AI that reads. Never writes.
Optional checks that work like a careful proofreader in the margins: they flag possible problems and draft suggestions about your sentences — never sentences of their own. Try it, on the right.
Assisted is not generated. Stores such as Amazon KDP currently treat AI-assisted editing of your own words differently from AI-generated content — review each store's policy before you publish.
Read our AI principles →Meet Inkia.
Your AI-native operator, built into Alhora. Tell her what you want — run the checks, apply a style, fix the metadata, export for Kindle — and watch her do it, one narrated step at a time. She runs the app. She never writes your book.
The studio.
Structure on the left. Manuscript in the middle. Styles on the right. Alhora's three-pane editor keeps the whole book within reach.
real product, real pixels — the three-pane editor in Hybrid view
Seven volumes. One press.
Everything Alhora does to a book, shelved as a series. Pull a volume from the stack — each opens to its own plate.
The Typesetting Engine
Type that sets itself.
Your fonts, embedded with real metrics — license-safe, subset for the file. Lines justify with proper en-GB hyphenation, and widows and orphans are pulled home before you ever see them.
Drop caps bloom in print, not just on screen, with ornaments and folios set the way a compositor would set them. Twelve typography styles ship in the box, and your own fonts are welcome.
“The morning light fell through the attic window in dusty bars…”
The Print Room
Know it will print.
The spine width comes from real pagination — live, as the page count moves. Trim, bleed and gutter are checked while you design, not after the printer rejects the file.
A proof simulator flags problems early and estimates your print cost per copy. The final PDF ships print-ready — bleed, crop marks and ICC — in 24+ trim sizes, plus custom.
trim 6 × 9 in · bleed 0.125 in · 312 pp · cream 55lb
The Series Desk
Your whole backlist. One command.
Register every book in your series, push a new style across all of them, and batch re-export the lot while you make tea.
The Living Back Matter keeps your Also-By pages current in every book automatically — release book seven, and books one through six already know.
✓ series re-exported · 41s
Certainty
Ship with certainty.
Every export is validated offline against each store's rules — before you upload, not after you're rejected. KDP, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play: 3,412 checks in about four seconds.
And the Time Machine keeps every version of your book on your own disk — pre-export snapshots, style switches, reimport reviews — each restorable in one click.
3,412 checks · 0 errors · 4.2 s · fully offline
The Margin Notes
AI that reads. Never writes.
Optional checks that work like a careful proofreader in the margins: they flag possible problems and draft suggestions about your sentences — never sentences of their own. There is no compose feature. Not hidden, not premium — it doesn't exist.
You approve every change one by one, each backed by a snapshot you can undo. Your manuscript is never stored or used for training — the servers keep counts, never text.
Assisted is not generated.
Inkia, the Operator
She runs the app. She never writes your book.
Tell Inkia what you want — run the checks, apply a style, fix the metadata, export for Kindle — and watch her do it, one narrated step at a time.
You approve before anything changes; a sparkle traces the app's borders while she works, and you can stop her the instant you want. Everything she does is a real Alhora action from a fixed list — never a sentence of her own.
“Get me Kindle-ready.”
The Publishing Desk
From manuscript to storefront.
Publish Packages assemble complete upload kits for KDP, IngramSpark and Draft2Digital — files, metadata and checklists together, the right number on every edition.
Stamped ARC copies go out per reviewer, the Release Pack exports every format in one click, and accessible EPUB ships certified — gated on a real audit.
no feature left un-listed
Index
Everything else that shipped in v1.31 — no feature left un-listed.
Alhora, Vellum, Atticus.
Read the detailed comparisons: Alhora vs Vellum · Alhora vs Atticus · Vellum alternatives for Windows
Alhora v1.31. Competitor capabilities as publicly documented, July 2026 — check each vendor for the latest.
In their own words.
These are authors who publish their own books. We print what they send us — and take it down the day they ask.
I thoroughly appreciate the thought and care that has been put into Alhora. It's becoming a one-stop shop for everything, from the writing process, to the styling, to the formatting and export. The more you dig, the more you discover how much control of the writing and formatting process the author has. I've yet to find a platform designed specifically for indie authors that can do everything that Alhora can do. This is worth its weight in gold!
Alhora is a great new formatting software that answers a lot of problems that other softwares currently are failing in. It's very nice to use with nice graphics and the developer is amazingly considerate and responsive in fixing things that make it easier to use. A great new tool and I can't wait to keep discovering more about everything it can do!
I have always struggled with formatting my books. It’s been a constant battle with things moving around whenever I uploaded them to KDP. I would literally spend weeks trying to get everything lined up properly, and I was never in a position to buy other formatting software. So, when I was offered the opportunity to use Alhora, I knew I couldn’t miss it. Honestly, it has reduced my formatting time to hours, and my book looks so much more professional. I love all the little details I can add to my books and if there is something I want and it's not an option James will try to add it.
One price. The whole app.
Format your whole book free and see it exactly as it will publish. A plan unlocks export — nothing else is ever held back. Below: the optional AI add-on, and one subscription for a whole press.
billed as £8.99
billed as £89.99
billed as £99.00
Free tier exports a full EPUB & print PDF with a colophon page · No card required
All prices in GBP · Nothing here is ever required to format, preview or keep your book.
Questions, answered.
What platforms does Alhora run on?+
macOS, Windows, Linux and ChromeOS — natively. Every platform gets the same features and the same updates, at the same time. On a Chromebook it runs in the built-in Linux environment.
Is there a free trial?+
Alhora is free to download and use, no card required: import your manuscript, format it fully and preview every page exactly as it will publish. Exporting the finished EPUB and print PDF needs an account with a plan — monthly, annual or lifetime.
Can I import from Word, Scrivener or Google Docs?+
Yes. Footnotes, endnotes, tables, lists, links and images survive the trip — from .docx, Scrivener projects, Google Docs exports, Markdown and RTF.
What does the Lifetime plan include?+
One payment of $134.99 while the first 150 founder licences last — $194.99 after that, charged in pounds sterling. All platforms, all current features, all future updates — forever, with no recurring fees.
Does Alhora use AI?+
Only if you turn it on. AI-assisted checks flag and suggest on words you've already written — you approve every change, your manuscript is never stored or used for training, and Alhora is complete with AI switched off. The AI add-on starts at $6.99 a month on top of any plan. Read our AI principles.
How does it compare to Vellum?+
Vellum is Mac-only at $249.99. Alhora runs everywhere, costs less, and adds what Vellum doesn't have: custom fonts, store validation, series batch re-export and version history.
What Alhora builds next is up to you.
Every feature on the board came from an author asking for it. Read what others have suggested, add your voice to one, or put up something new — it is all in the open, including what we have already shipped.
“Some stories wait thirty years to be told. She meant to tell this one properly.”
Begin.
Download Alhora free and format your first book tonight.