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.
Wiki, graph, board.
Every entry is a page. Every connection can be drawn. Every stray idea has a wall to live on — and all of it links back to the manuscript, never into your exports.
Vellum and Atticus set beautiful pages. Neither knows who Marta is.
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.
Completely optional. Off by default.
Your manuscript is never used to train AI models.
Write, format and export your entire book without AI. If you opt in, AI checks work like a careful proofreader in the margins: flagging possible problems and suggesting corrections to your own words. You choose which checks to run and which suggestions to accept.
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 operator, built into Alhora. Local guides and commands help with supported app tasks. Conversational planning through Alhora Cloud is a separate AI-plan feature, subject to service availability. Inkia never writes your book.
A second pair of hands.
Invite whoever you trust — an editor, a co-author, an assistant. A code and a link, and your book opens live in their Alhora: what they type lands under your hands in about a fifth of a second, and what you type lands under theirs. No seat count, no per-editor fee.
Starting a session comes with any paid plan; joining one needs only Alhora installed. Sessions travel through Alhora's own relay, which carries your words without keeping them.
Sell it from your own shop.
The last page of making a book is selling it. Your ebook, paperback, hardback and special edition go direct to readers from a shop page that is yours. Set up, customise and manage your shop in Alhora on desktop or in your browser.
You source printed copies from your own printer or supplier and arrange packing and shipping. Alhora does not print, supply, store or ship physical books.
The real studio. Your turn.
Open a sample book in Alhora’s actual editor. Shape a chapter, explore the reader preview, and find the style that feels like your book.
The same editor and Style Studio as Alhora, ready for you to explore.
Edit a chapter, see it on a reader’s device, then make it yours in Style Studio. Your sample edits stay in this tab and reset when you refresh.
Try Alhora Web BetaIndex
Everything else that shipped in v1.36.1 — no feature left un-listed.
Alhora, Vellum, Atticus.
Read the detailed comparisons: Alhora vs Vellum · Alhora vs Atticus · Vellum alternatives for Windows
Alhora v1.36.1. 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 share their words — and take them 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.
Choose a plan for complete exports.
Format and preview your whole book free. Export a sample to check the files, then choose a plan to export the complete book. AI add-ons and Publisher plans are separate subscriptions. See all plan benefits.
Your first plan purchase: request a full refund within 14 days. See refund terms.
Free sample export: your front and back matter plus the first eight pages, with a small mark in the margin · 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 £99.00 while the first 150 founder licences last — £139.99 after that. All platforms, all current features, all future updates — forever, with no recurring fees.
Does Alhora use AI?+
AI is optional. Local Inkia guides and commands are separate from Alhora-hosted Cloud AI. Cloud AI checks and conversational planning require an active AI plan and service availability. You review suggestions before applying them; AI does not write your book. Core editing, formatting and export do not require Cloud AI. 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.