Lectern™

A quiet room for words.

Long-form writing, the way books are made.

Lectern is a long-form writing environment shaped around the way books actually get made — paragraph by paragraph, scene by scene, without ribbons of toolbars or tabs of distraction.

  • Book Mode — your manuscript laid out as printed pages
  • Markdown-clean — exports to Word, PDF, and EPUB
  • Built-in Compendium for characters, places, and lore
  • Optional AI assistance (bring your own API key)
  • Voice: dictate your draft, or hear it read back (Pro)
  • Tranquility mode — full-screen, no chrome
  • Your files stay yours. No cloud lock-in. Ever.
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Download Lectern Free Buy Lectern Pro — $29

See pricing — a free tier plus a one-time Pro license. Available now for Linux.