Roadmap

I love the addition of the POV check, and think a tense checker would be even more beneficial as it would be used by a wider range of people (not everyone changes POVs, but so many people struggle with keeping tense). As a beta reader, it's probably one of the most common correction I make. I believe it would also be a make-or-break feature for some, since again, it's something almost all my writer friends struggle with.

Top Languages by Total Speakers (2025/2026 Estimates) English: ~1.45–1.5 billion Mandarin Chinese: ~1.1–1.2 billion Hindi: ~600–610 million Spanish: ~550–560 million French: ~270–310 million Hindi is third largest language spoken in the world. It should be added to Ellipsus ASAP , it will to open the software to 600 million people.

Kia ora! I'm from Aotearoa New Zealand, and as such a lot of my work is both set in Aotearoa and uses a lot of reo. Thus, I would greatly appreciate Te Reo Māori to be included amongst the supported languages. Constantly getting a red line when writing about my own home is a very frustrating experience. Especially when I AM writing it incorrectly (a misplaced macron, a simple mistype, etc) but I miss it because I assume the marking is simply highlighting a foreign word.

I draw on top of writing cos I like to suffer creatively twice. And I have a lot of homemade tools for protecting my art against AI scraping (random noise, low opacity image overlays, math etc) but there aren't a lot of similar tools for protecting my writing against AI scraping especially after it's published/posted somewhere else. When I was sharing via Googledocs, what I'd do is at every scene break, I'd just have a paragraph of nonsense written in white type. That way the nonsense-writing was invisible to the average reader but any AI scanning my work would read it as part of the novel. I'd love to have a feature that lets me select an "invisible font" that will always match the background color. Or just always have a color option in each theme that's the same color as the background. Or maybe have a way to have words randomly selected in a document. Then have the option to have those selected words converted to an image-format instead of a font format (so that an AI program would only be able to "read" fragments of writing) Idk how practical it is to make these features...they'd be cool

As well as being a writer here, I moderate writing events, and people sometimes use ellipsus links to submit work. Because reader links don't show word count, my team copies and pastes the text into another site to verify submission length. Different websites count words differently, which is usually fine, but sometimes we require a certain exact word count from a submission for one reason or another, and then the difference can cause an issue. If reader links displayed word counts, it would make events like ours much easier to run without having to push people to make their text copyable or send us screenshots. Additionally, for people who read particularly fast or slow, seeing word count would give a better estimate of reading time than the percent bar currently in reader links.

sticker sheets of multiple stickers. like the trans pride sticker sheet but more and other things. stickers 😈

I’ve noticed that there’s no Indonesian language option in the spell-check section. It would be great if this were available, as it would help Indonesian fanfiction writers with their spelling and writing.

with the change that allows readers to comment on the reader views (yay, thank you!), i think it would be nice to edit a document permissions without being inside it and opening it. currently if i'm looking at my documents and click the 3 dot menu on it for example the options are copy link, edit details (as in, the document description/name), move, information, and duplicate. i think it should also include the sharing button from within the document where we can set reader links and view/interact permissions, because it is tedious to go through and open my documents one by one to change their permissions to include the new comment feature.

Hi, as much as I love writing in english, I'd love to be able to write in my native tongue as well. Thak you

I'm visually impaired and although I love Ellipsus, I've been frustrated over how small most text is. It's hard for me to read things my friends send me because I can't adjust text size on my end. Other settings like manual adjustment of stuff like brightness would be great too!

Bookmarks for reader only viewers since its easy to lose track of where you are in a massive document if the page reloads.

There is a feature that Google Docs has where you can create a "bookmark" that links to a specific part of the document (that doesn't necessarily have to be a heading) and allows you to put it in other parts of the doc (like if a character is mentioned and you want to link to that character's section of the doc). I used this a lot for my worldbuilding docs and I'd really like this feature over here too!

I'm doing a story chain on Ellipsus with multiple writers, and we edit each other's previous parts in the chain whenever we have free time. Right now, we can only leave comments or edit directly. We don't mind editing directly for small typos, but for major revisions, it'd be helpful to "suggest edits" instead so that it doesn't seem like we're overstepping. Our current workaround to this problem is suggesting our big edits in comments, but this workflow is really not that efficient.

I just shared an open document link to a discord channel I write in, and I think it would be cool to actively see when someone is reading it, as well as see how many guests or users have actually seen it and when kind of like a guest book. I think it would be a fun thing to turn on if you want. (Can definitely be an optional thing)

This is to enhance the site's security in case some bad actors try to steal our stuff. It would give us extra peace of mind to know for certain nobody will steal our work, for AI or otherwise. Probably wouldn't have to be triggered every time we log in, but it would be there in the event of an emergency.

This is specifically about words that are both already English and already spelled correctly, and how they are currently tripping the spell check. Like, for example, "biome" or "rainforest" (which does tend to be spelled as one word). Teaching the dictionary country and character names is fine once it's available, it just seems silly to have to do that with words that are in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

I’d like to be able to select multiple languages at once while writing so that I can write in multiple without one getting marked as incorrect all the time. This can go for completely different languages like a Chinese person speaking their native language in an otherwise English document or just simple slang variations between British English and American English

When trying to compare a draft with the main document, I like to use the "lock scroll" button. However, it doesn't work intuitively and actively works against me in many cases. It seems like lock scroll works on percentages? Like if I scroll to 25% of the way down the draft, the main will scroll to 25% down too, even if the text is entirely different in those two places. That makes it so that after the first couple paragraphs, I find it's rarely possible to directly compare two places in the document without turning off lock scroll. Then I have to scroll two documents manually. How I want it to work is: I can scroll to any place on the draft and the main document scrolls to the corresponding place, and vice versa (when possible). A less ideal option (but still better than how it is now) could be to lock the scroll bar at custom places, so it locks the docs at whatever is shown in the view screen when the lock is set. What I mean is, I could be at the top of the draft and scroll the main down halfway, then lock scroll, and both documents scroll from there. I hope this makes sense! The sort of thing that's hard to write out for me. :)

For example: Show total words across all docs over time (similar to AO3) Show writing streak over a week / month / year

I (and many writers I know) appreciate having a native PC app. For me, it allows me to work without having reliable internet and push/share changes once I am back online. It also is beneficial to have an app that lives in my toolbar that I can open that doesn't have the option for me to get sidetracked by search windows I'd forgotten about, impulsive whims, etc. It creates a more seamless work experience all around.

✅ Support writing offline 🚧 Support offline navigation 🚧 Support offline merging 🚧 Support offline version history 🚧 Support offline doc / draft creation

I primarily write in the Google Docs App on mobile/tablet, so that’s the kind of experience I’d be looking for in a substitute.I write almost every day and collaborate frequently with an editor and would really like to find an alternative to google.I was hoping this would be it, but without a robust mobile option, I just don’t know if this will be the best fit.

A master request for theme ideas!

I fI know ellpisus is more of a platform for your own writing, but I think it would be nice if there were weekly writing prompts that people could submit to and then you could read through people's stories and comment on them, maybe? I feel like it could add to the community aspect and would be fun to interact with each other's writing, but I get that it might be leaning too much towards more social-media kind of a space.

More disability options like dyslexia friendly fonts and dictaton options

Want to see a new font in Ellipsus? Add your idea in the comments. 👇 Please keep the following in mind: We cannot add MS default fonts like Times New Roman, Comic Sans, Lucida Sans, Verdana. We would need to pay to license them which isn't financially realistic for us at this time. 😭We can only support fonts that offer free commercial licensing. Font Squirrel and Google Fonts offer tons of options. We'll only add fonts with full Latin glyph support (e.g., letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation)

Introduce additional theme options to Ellipsus. Note from the Ellipsus team: If you're adding a comment, please provide detailed information on the colors you would like to see—extra points if you can share links to your inspiration! ❤️

Set document data for details like: Original creation dateOriginal creation sourceGenre

This could include options like: Create option to capitalize first letter of a sentence Automatically close parentheses Disable automatic hyperlinking

In Australia, the UK, and many other places, the correct way to punctuate dialogue is with single-quotation marks, not double. This is in accordance with nationally recognised style guides and publishing industry standards. The 'Dialogue Balance' feature does not recognise speech formatted using single-quotations as dialogue, so it labels all documents using them as being 100% narration. This renders the feature unusable for anyone in the aforementioned countries who are seeking publication.

I'm a fanfiction writer who has two accounts that I use for my works. One for my creepypastas and the other for my usual works I wanted to make it easier for me to export my works to my different accounts without having to log in and out of both of them each time. I believe this will save me and several others a lot of time and make the process of exporting less of a chore overall. Thank you for hearing me out.

I would love to have an option to log out of all sessions everywhere, rather than only on the current browser we're on.

I get a little overwhelmed when someone starts editing and I get an email for every comment they leave. I'd love to have one notification for "X started editing" or something. Or perhaps only getting a maximum of one notification per hour (so an email when the first comment comes through but then none until a summary notification an hour later).

I am very happy to see passwords have been implemented. I would like to request a toggle to turn the email code log in option off for our accounts. This (in addition to MFA, which I see has already been requested) would be much better for account security for those of us who want it. In this day and age it’s easy to spoof email addresses and forward things like login codes to bad actors. At a minimum you should be required to input the password prior to logging in with the email code.

Now that we have passwords, I think we could also make login even easier using passkeys! Passkeys solve many of the usual security issues that passwords have while being more ergonomic to use once set up (and also pretty easy to set up in the first place nowadays).

I searched, and found a lot of people requesting offline modes for Ellipsus - that's related, but not identical to, what I want. What I want is an option to opt out of cloud storage entirely. A fully offline program (or webapp) that allows me to control my own data, store my own drafts locally, and only let them come into contact with the internet when I'm ready for them to. Less Gdocs, more Microsoft Word in 1995. I'm oldschool. I never used Google Docs, I like my writing to be stored locally on my own machine and only backed up elsewhere if I choose to, I do not enjoy cloud storage, and I especially don't want my writing stored in cloud storage. It makes me self-conscious as I write, knowing it's not technically entirely private. A lot of what I write is really cringe and self-indulgent, I'm a fanfic author. The mandatory use of a cloud sync storage mode is currently a dealbreaker for me on Ellipsus, even though I love a lot of its other features (the export-for-ao3 option...) and my current program of choice is in the midst of integrating AI. Ellipsus devs, please consider a version of Ellipsus that offers local, rather than cloud, storage.

Here's a sample scenario: Main Folder: Sub-Folder A Sub-Folder B Sub-Folder C Inside Sub-Folder A: Document A Document B Document C Now I sort the sub-folders under Main Folder to be arranged by name in ascending order. The effect is that even the documents inside Sub-Folder A become arranged by name in ascending order. But when I sort Sub-Folder A to be arranged by 'Edited', the same sorting gets applied to Main Folder. I'd like to request for the sorting and order to be independent between folders. This means that I can have Main Folder sorted by name in ascending order, and have Sub-Folder A sorted by 'Edited' both at once. Hopefully that's clear! If you have any further clarifications, please feel free to reach out. Happy to wait for the implementation should this be considered. :) Thank you!

If I am invited to collaborate on a document, I get every comment on that doc emailed to me. I do not want to receive updates for comments on documents I am done reviewing, that others are still working on. But there is no way to opt-out of getting notifications on a document-to-document basis. The only option on desktop is a universal notification setting that applies unilaterally. I still want notifications about my own documents but I would love to be able to control per document what I am notified about and how.

Currently, creating a new draft duplicates the main document. It would be great if it was possible to create a blank draft. Proposed solution: upon clicking on +New Draft, a drop-down with two option appears: Empty From main document

When scrolling through a document on a touchscreen device, it is very easy to accidentally bring up the onscreen keyboard. This is disruptive and may lead to accidental edits when just trying to read. It would be incredibly helpful to be able to locally toggle off and on your ability to edit a document

I think a tote bag with maybe some of the Ellipsus doodles on it could be very cute. Or perhaps doodles that relate to a certain theme (Such as a light pink color palette similar to the 'Petal' theme with art of flowers on it. Or a blue color palette similar to the 'Jazzy Blue' theme with similar art.)

So, collaborator options offers edit or merge, not just viewing. Public link offers only viewing, but as it's not tied to an email, I suspect that, once the link created, the only way to prevent someone from reading the file is by toggling off public link altogether. I would like to be able to invite specific emails to view my files. Reason I ask: I share writings on patreon and ko-fi through gdrive as pdfs, folders locked to specific emails. I had the thought last night that I could offer a better service by using Ellipsus (and further get my writing off google obviously), but for that I need to be able to lock files/folders to specific emails only, that I prefer to have in view-only. So, essentially: private link, that doesn't require an Ellipsus account. Thanks for reading!

I would love to have the themes organised in some way and/or searchable. At the moment it isn't really a problem, but scrolling through the amount of themes we have at the moment, I can see it becoming a problem in the future if more themes are added that it might be unmanageable to have to scroll through all the different options. I was thinking maybe themes could be sorted into "categories" or filters - maybe "light" and "dark" so that people who want a light theme can see all the light-based themes in one place and vice versa? Maybe some categories based on mood or colour? Maybe a category for pride options? Maybe a search bar so that people can search themes with keywords? Maybe not necessarily "categories" but filter options instead. Just throwing some ideas out there! ^^'

Less suggestion, more a bug. But if you paste something from say, word, that has different alignments, the alignments are not carried over and have to be manually fixed

I use private windows as a way to log into multiple accounts on various sites using the same browser. Because of the way I organize all my tabs, I log into Ellipsus using private windows. My system default is dark mode, and Ellipsus correctly detects this with the System theme. However, logging into Ellipsus blasts my eyes with light mode's white background when I log in until I manually switch to another theme. I understand that theme selection is remembered by cookies rather than account settings, and that could be difficult to change to accommodate those using private windows (although it would be awesome as an option), but I would love to at least have Ellipsus default to System theme instead of Light theme.

I LOVEEEE the new pride theme, it is so cute!! As someone who uses a screen constantly I just won't be able to manage the brightness even though I love the color scheme. Adding a dark option for this would be so cool and easier on the eyes for those of us who are prone to headaches and such! I love the rainbows and it certainly made it more fun to have to sit down and do words today!

Whenever I sent a link to a Google Document over Discord in the past, the message would populate with the document's title and the first five-ish lines written. This makes it really easy to see at a glance what document a link is leading to. Is there a way to implement a similar feature for Ellipsus links? Right now it's really difficult to organize Ellipsus documents externally between co-contributors.

It would be great to have more alignment options, especially center. I often center-align my section breaks / star breaks ( *)

More and more the burden of proving no ai use is being put on us writers to prove our innocence in the use of AI regarding our manuscripts. There is the present case of Mia Ballard, but there are others who say they did not use generative AI but the defamation of the persons career happens because they have no evidence. I would LOVE if Ellipsus could be on the forefront of innovation and be the first writing software to include a feature that PROVES we did not write with ai. I feel there are several ways to approach this. I've heard keystroke documentation and screen recording (added bonus if being able to choose to record yourself as the one doing the writing) are ways to prove no ai was written. Grammarly has "Authorship" but I question if it works at all, and mostly if it works with Ellipsus. But it would be nice to have everything in house, even if those options cost more once there is a pay model. As writers in the age of AI, we need more ways to prove our human made work is in fact human made!

I would like to use Ellipsus to work on essays for school; however I'm required to use Times New Roman for my papers. I understand the price for licensing it is pretty hefty, but I personally wouldn't mind paying a monthly subscription fee if it meant I could do all my writing work on Ellipsus.

The current max sixe for accepted image file is 512kb, which is very small in comparison to photos taken or downloaded on a phone or ipad!!! It would be amazing if the max file size could be increased?? If I've handwritten anything i like to photograph it to add to a storyboard on my ellipsus so it can be referenced at the same time as the rest of the story, but currentlly all photos have to go through a file converter to be small enough.

This would be so cool, especially for collaborations and when the collaborators used different themes AND font colours that aren't true black or true white. I am currently working with a friend who uses sepia for the font and works with the pride theme, but I always work in the darkest dark mode and the result is that the sepia text colour doesn't work for me, so I either have to change my theme or my friend has to change their text colour.

It would be nice to be able to personalise screen themes. I'm dyslexic, and having the ability to set the page colour to the shade of blue I like would be fantastic.

As a writer of fiction, something that has become an invaluable tool for me using other writing programs is a "word frequency" counter which allows me to quickly see if I've overused an uncommon word. This helps immensely during the editing process, and is something I definitely feel is missing from Ellipsus right now. A perfect version of this tool would include these features: a list of all words appearing more than once in the document, along with the number of times that word has appeared. an option to include or exclude universally common words such as conjunctions, pronouns, articles, etc. from the count as neededan option to exclude other specific words as needed (useful for ignoring character names or locations in the count)an indicator that shows when a word has been used multiple times within a set number of pages (for example, if I've used the word "shuffled" three times over two pages, an asterisk could appear next to that word in the frequency list to direct my attention; but if I've used it three times over 100 pages, it would just appear in the list as normal.)

The screen already does scroll as you type if your words reach the very bottom of the screen, but the format bar at the bottom gets in the way if your words go all the way down. You have to manually scroll every time your words get to where the format bar is. It's a very minor inconvenience, but it'd be helpful if the document began to scroll down as soon as your words reached the format bar just to keep the flow of writing going.

e.g. Times New RomanGeorgiaother fonts owned by Microsoft/Adobe

It would be great if when you edit the original, the drafts would update so you don't have to go in and edit all the drafts as well for them to match. but maybe be something you can turn on for each draft so if you wanted one not to change then it doesn't have to be on?

I love all the themes Ellipsus has and I love changing what my workspace looks like every few days. A button to choose a random theme from the list would be great for indecisive people like me I think!

I use spreadsheets to keep all my character profiles in one document with out having to scroll/search in long text documents or switch between different files. Also helpful for task planning, budgeting, tracking reading lists.

Ive never used import markdown files, could not figure out how to get one from google docs and had to convert a pdf to the import markdown file but that scrambled the formatting. Pretty annoying start after trying to leave google docs.

I personally make moodboards and like to have images handy to reference when writing, so it would be helpful to be able to upload those into the document folders to work on, rather than into the document I'm working on. (Kind of like how in Google Drive, which most of us are leaving, you can upload images into a folder.)

Something similar to spell check that could scan a document for common phrases like "easy as pie", "as it turned out", and other overused sayings and cliches.

Things like, how religions religions, cults, gangs etc. work, how fast and long a horse can run with a person on them, the prices of drugs etc. (all from perfectly legal sources) so it's all in 1 place (and less writers on an fbi watchlist)

A place where writers can just post plot bunnies they don't want to/can't write for a reason, with a taging system like a03 with the upvotes/downvotes of Reddit.

Adding the templates feature when creating a draft in a document