Guides
Write your story — type it or talk it
Short, friendly guides to getting the most out of MakeVox, from your first chapter to your finished story.
Getting started
Getting started: your first chapter
Open MakeVox and type, or hit record and talk. Your AI editor shapes the rough draft into clean pages, and your outline grows as you go.
Getting startedMakeVox for Mac
Download the Mac app, drag it into Applications and sign in. Write offline, get updates automatically, and keep a daily backup of every story.
Getting startedStart from a classic
Pick a public-domain book, from Dracula to Shakespeare, and choose Book, Screenplay, or graphic novel / comic.
Writing with AI
Your AI assistance dial: Tidy, Shape, Co-write, Direct
One dial sets how much the AI does, from a light transcript cleanup to drafting a scene from a brief. Shape is the default; change it per story.
Writing with AIYour words, scored: Voice-Fidelity and the Provenance X-ray
See how much of a passage is yours. The Voice-Fidelity meter scores it, the Provenance X-ray shows it line by line, and a toggle keeps it your words only.
Writing with AIBuild your character bible
Your character bible is the AI's memory of who your people are. Write it or dictate it, and together with your prose it unlocks the Direct setting.
Writing with AIFind the characters in your story
MakeVox reads your prose and pulls out the recurring, named characters, then drops them into your Characters list with a short profile each.
Writing with AIScaffold your story from a structure
Drop a proven story structure into your outline as a set of beats, then fill each one by voice. A spine to write against, whenever you want one.
Writing with AIKeep character names straight with Name check
Dictation mishears names. Name check scans your prose, flags the mis-heard and inconsistent ones, and lets you fix them across the whole manuscript.
Writing with AINotes from a reader (Coverage)
Have a reader go through your whole script or manuscript and tell you what's working and what to look at again, pointing at your own lines.
Voice & audio
Hands-Free: write with your eyes off the screen
Hands-free voice capture for a drive, a walk, or the dishes. Tap start once, then do everything by voice. Nothing is lost, even on a spotty connection.
Voice & audioListen back: hear what your eyes skip
Have MakeVox read your draft aloud. Your ears catch the clunky lines, repeated words, and awkward rhythm your eyes glide right past.
Voice & audioTable read: hear your scene performed
Give every character their own voice and let MakeVox perform the scene, like a cast read-through. Dialogue that no real person would say jumps right out.
Voice & audioRecord your table read and share it
Turn your table read into one audio file, play it with a real scrubber, download it, and share it with a link that shows who listened and how far.
Voice & audioIn your voice: does this still sound like you?
Voice DNA checks how closely a passage matches your writing style, so AI-shaped prose still reads like you wrote it. It measures style, not word count.
Voice & audioReading Ambiance: give a scene its own soundscape
Add a subtle ambient soundscape to a section, matched to its mood, so a passage can be experienced instead of just read.
Voice & audioNarrate your book: make an audiobook
Connect your own ElevenLabs key and generate a chapter-by-chapter narration of your book, downloadable as MP3s.
Visuals
Generate images for your book
Describe the picture you want and MakeVox generates it: an illustration for a section, or cover art for the whole book.
VisualsSee your scene as a storyboard
Storyboard turns a scene into a visual shot list, generating a frame for each key beat so you can see how it plays.
VisualsCast looks: lock how your characters look
Generate a portrait for a character, lock the one that looks right, and that same face carries into every storyboard frame, comic panel, and video shot.
VisualsTurn your story into a film
Plan a scene's shots, storyboard them, and watch the story cut together in Film, a timeline you can edit. Rendering shots into video is coming soon.
VisualsMake a comic from your story
Break a scene into panels, render the art, then read it with bubbles and captions composited right over the artwork, and export the finished pages as a PDF.
Story types
Write a novel by voice
Talk your novel into being, speak scenes as they come to you, let MakeVox shape them into prose, and keep the whole book in your own voice.
Story typesWrite your memoir by voice
Tell your life stories out loud and MakeVox shapes them into memoir prose, the most natural way to write the book only you can write.
Story typesWrite a non-fiction book by voice
Turn what you already know into a book, talk through your ideas chapter by chapter and let MakeVox shape the explanation into clear prose.
Story typesWrite a self-help book by voice
Talk through your method and MakeVox shapes it into a self-help book, frameworks, steps, and takeaways a reader can actually use.
Story typesWrite a screenplay by voice
Start a screenplay, add scenes by talking, then talk each one through. Polish or punch up the dialogue, and import or export Fountain.
Story typesChoose your screenplay format
Write a film screenplay, stage play, or multi-camera TV script in its professional format, and it lays out and exports that way. Switch anytime.
Story typesWrite a stage play by voice
Speak your scenes, hear the dialogue, and shape a stage play by voice, with formatting built for the theatre, not the page.
Story typesMake an illustrated children's book
Tell a short, sweet story by voice and illustrate it page by page, MakeVox shapes the words and generates the pictures.
Story typesWrite a talk or keynote by voice
A talk is meant to be spoken, so write it by speaking, draft your keynote out loud and shape it into a script you can actually deliver.
Story typesWrite poetry and song lyrics by voice
Catch lines the moment they arrive and keep them exactly as you said them. Poetry & Lyrics is built for poems and songs, with a light touch.
Story typesKeep a voice journal
Talk out your day and let it become a journal, the lowest-friction way to keep writing, in your own words, without a blank page.
Story typesBuild a comedy set with the Bit Book
Capture bits by voice, let MakeVox split a rambling brain-dump into separate jokes, punch them up, and arrange them into a timed set.
Collaboration
Work on a story together
Invite people to a story and give each a role, from read-only viewer to full editor, so a co-author or beta reader can join in.
CollaborationGroup stories into a series
A Series keeps a whole world together: a Show for seasons and episodes, or a Story Series for related novels and scripts.
Sharing & export
Export your story
When you are ready to share, export your story to EPUB, DOCX, or PDF. Your writing is yours to take anywhere.
Sharing & exportDesign your book cover for print and ebook
Design a printed book's whole cover (front, spine and back) at Amazon KDP's sizes as a print-ready PDF, and its front as an ebook cover.
Sharing & exportYour pitch pack
Everything you send out with your work: your logline and notes on it, a pitch written from your pages, a printable one-sheet, and copy to share it.