Inkia · your operator

Meet Inkia, your AI operator

Tell Inkia what you want done — run the checks, apply a style, fix the metadata, export for Kindle — and she does it, narrating each step and stopping the moment you say so. She runs the app for you; she never writes your book. Meet Inkia →

She plans the steps, walks you through the pages, and narrates as she goes
You approve before any change — one undoable step, a snapshot taken first
Stop her the instant you want — a sparkle traces the app's borders while she works
Every action is a real Alhora operation from a fixed list — never a sentence of her own
Included with any AI tier — and she spends no credits

Proof of authorship

Prove a human wrote it

Authors are losing deals to AI accusations they have no way to answer. Alhora keeps a private, tamper-evident record of how your book was actually written, and turns it into a certificate anyone can check. See how it works →

A private record on your machine — sessions, revisions, pastes, imports, and the exact scope of every AI check
Never your words: the record is built so it cannot hold your manuscript
You see exactly what would leave your machine, and nothing is sent until you approve it
A signed certificate with a public verification page anyone can check
An optional line and QR code on your copyright page, plus a print-quality code for your back cover
Amazon's AI disclosure questions, answered from the record instead of memory

It attests your process — an organic writing 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.

Export

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

Typesetting

Professional print typesetting

Each of Alhora's twelve built-in styles was designed by a professional book designer — and underneath them sits a real typesetting engine. Your print pages are set the way a traditional typesetter would set them.

Your fonts embedded with real metrics — what you proof is what prints
Justified text with proper English hyphenation
Widow and orphan control
Drop caps and ornaments in print as well as ebook
12 professionally designed interiors, plus the built-in Google Fonts library and your own OTF or TTF fonts
Licence-safe embedding — Alhora checks a font's embedding permissions so you never ship a font you're not licensed to embed

Print readiness

Know it will print before you order a proof

Alhora checks your interior against the realities of print-on-demand before you upload — so the proof copy you order is the one you approve.

Spine width and cover dimensions calculated from your actual page count
Gutter check with a one-click fix
Printing cost and royalty estimates from your real page count
Proof Mode overlays with image DPI warnings before anything goes to press

Validation

Store-ready before you upload

Every exported EPUB is checked against the rules of the major stores — entirely offline, on your machine. When you see the badge, you can upload with confidence.

Every exported EPUB checked against KDP, Apple Books, Kobo and generic rules
Validation runs entirely offline — nothing is uploaded to check
“Ready for Kindle” badges before you send a file anywhere

Accessibility

Accessible EPUB, verified by audit

The European Accessibility Act has made accessible ebooks a legal requirement across the EU. Alhora builds conformance in — and is honest about it: accessibility metadata is declared only when your book actually passes the built-in audit.

EPUB Accessibility 1.1 and WCAG 2.1 AA conformance metadata
Declared only when the built-in audit passes — never claimed by default
Designed to help you meet the European Accessibility Act

Content types

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

Series

Series Command Centre

Your backlist is an asset — Alhora treats it like one. Register every book in a series, then update all of them in one run instead of opening each project in turn.

Register your backlist and manage every book from one place
Batch re-export every book in a single run
Push styles across the series and sync series metadata
Living Back Matter — edit your Also By and newsletter blocks once, and every book updates

Revision

Revise without fear

Your manuscript is protected at every step — snapshots you can restore, merges you can see, and a proofing pass that catches the small things before your readers do.

Time Machine — automatic on-disk snapshots with a timeline and restore, so every version of your manuscript stays on your machine
Reimport Review — revise in Word, then merge back with a chapter-by-chapter, word-level diff. Never a blind merge
Typography Sweep — an instant proofing pass for curly quotes, doubled spaces, dash and spelling consistency

Import

Import that keeps everything

Alhora's importer maps your existing styles to the correct book elements automatically — and it keeps the details other tools drop. You don't need to re-format your manuscript; just import and go.

Microsoft Word (.docx) with footnotes, endnotes, tables, lists and links intact
Google Docs exports
Native Scrivener projects
Markdown (.md) and Rich Text Format (.rtf)
Italic, bold, heading, chapter and scene break preservation

Publishing

From export to on sale — without guesswork

The stores don't offer a magic publish button, so Alhora gives you the next best thing: everything prepared, checked, and laid out so the upload goes right first time.

Publish Packages — KDP, Draft2Digital and IngramSpark folders with validated files
A metadata sheet in the store's field order, plus a step-by-step upload checklist
ARC stamping — individually stamped review copies for each recipient, saved as local files for you to send
A local distribution log, so you always know who has which copy

Platform

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 22.04+, Debian 12+, AppImage)
Universal Mac build for Apple Silicon and Intel

AI-assisted production

Checks and drafts on your words — never writing

Alhora's optional AI add-on works only on words you've already written: it checks, flags, suggests and drafts, and you approve every change. It never writes your book. Read our AI principles.

Editorial Pass — chapter-by-chapter proofread and copyedit checks, with accept/reject on every flag and a style sheet that grows with your decisions
Manuscript analytics — instant, on-device, and free for everyone
Import structure suggestions — likely chapter breaks and front matter flagged for you to confirm
Alt-text drafts — image descriptions drafted for you to review and approve
Launch-kit drafts — store metadata and launch materials drafted from your own words, for you to edit and approve

Audiobook

Audiobook package

Alhora prepares the files a narrator or narration service reads — it does not produce audio. Everything a recording session needs, built from your finished manuscript.

Narration scripts and SSML for every chapter
Spoken-form handling of scene breaks, letters and text messages
A pronunciation sheet for names, places and invented terms
Opening and closing credits, plus a chapter manifest with runtime estimates

For small presses

Your press, on every page

Alhora's publisher plans give a small press one place to produce every title, with your imprint where readers and reviewers see it.

Organisations with seats — every seat gets full Alhora access
Press-name labelling on ARCs and publish checklists
Hosted ARC download links that expire — temporary by design, so no copy of your book sits at a permanent public URL

Fonts

Set your book in any font

Alhora comes with a curated shelf of professional book fonts, and puts the entire Google Fonts library right inside the app. Choose a typeface and Alhora embeds it in your ebook and print PDF for you — licence checked, with no font files to download or manage.

A curated shelf of professional book fonts, built in and ready offline
The full Google Fonts library — over 1,900 families — browsable right inside Alhora
Every font you pick is embedded in your EPUB and print PDF, automatically
Licence-safe by design — Alhora only offers fonts cleared for embedding
One click to add a typeface — no downloading archives or chasing files

Language

Your interface in one language, your book in another

Alhora's menus and buttons come in fifteen languages. Your book's language is a separate setting, chosen per book: Alhora proofs, hyphenates and typesets your manuscript in the language it was written in, and names the parts of the book in it. The two are chosen independently — an author writing in Portuguese can keep the interface in German.

Fifteen interface languages — English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic
Your book's language is set per book, and is completely independent of the interface language
Proofing, spelling and hyphenation run in your book's language, never corrected into English
The parts of the book are named in it — “Kapittel 1” in a Norwegian book, not “Chapter 1”
Your EPUB declares it, so reading devices know what it is, and it is carried on the store metadata sheets you upload with

AI

Optional AI, on your terms

Everything on this page is complete with AI switched off. Alhora's optional AI features follow five plain rules — the first is that the AI never writes your book. Read our AI principles.

Everything a professional author needs