Everything a professional author needs
Alhora is built around one principle: your manuscript deserves a beautiful, retail-ready interior without compromise.
Retail-ready output every time
Alhora exports files that go straight to the retailer upload page — no further processing, no fiddling with external tools. Every export is tested against the technical requirements of major publishing platforms.
- EPUB 3.0 — Kindle Direct Publishing, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble
- KF8 / Mobi — for older Kindle devices and sideloading
- Print-ready PDF — bleed, crop marks, ICC colour profiles for IngramSpark & KDP Print
- 24+ trim sizes: 5×8, 5.5×8.5, 6×9, 8.5×11, and more
12 styles. Infinite expression.
Each of Alhora's twelve built-in typography styles was designed by a professional book designer. Every detail — drop caps, chapter ornaments, running headers, folio placement — is handled automatically.
- 12 professionally designed book interiors
- Upload custom OTF or TTF font files
- Automatic drop caps, ornaments, and chapter decorations
- Fonts embedded in all exported files
For every story, every genre
Not every book is a simple prose narrative. Alhora handles the full spectrum of content types that authors need — including ones other tools simply don't support.
- Text conversations (SMS, instant messaging style)
- Verse and poetry with preserved line breaks
- Tables with full EPUB 3 and PDF support
- Pull quotes, author notes, and epigraphs
- Footnotes and endnotes with hyperlinked EPUB references
- Images with captions and alt text
Start from wherever you write
Alhora's smart importer maps your existing styles to the correct book formatting elements automatically. You don't need to re-format your manuscript — just import and go.
- Microsoft Word (.docx) with full style mapping
- Markdown (.md) with CommonMark support
- Rich Text Format (.rtf)
- Italic, bold, and heading preservation
- Chapter and scene break detection
Your tool, your machine
Vellum's Mac-only restriction has locked out millions of authors. Alhora runs natively on every major operating system — the full feature set, on every platform, simultaneously.
- macOS 12 Monterey and later
- Windows 10 and 11
- Linux (Ubuntu 20.04+, Fedora 36+, AppImage)
- Native ARM support on Apple Silicon and Windows ARM
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