n. Scots ‘a thing, thingie (or, if you’re feeling very Scottish, a hing-way) that you want to describe, but just can’t seem to find the word for it in the moment’
Author your next Novel, Screenplay, Thesis, Fanfic, or even that Musical Magnum Opus. From concept to publishable and (if you're so inclined) print-ready work. The sky's the limit! Well, unless you take Thingway to space. But you'll have to sign up first to do that…
The app designed for the freedom to change your mind
(For updates, and probably some digital founder’s goodies as a wee treat after launch too.)
Writing is rewriting, as they say — so tap redraftable and write a second version right where the first one sits, then flick between them until you love one more. Every draft lives in the one file, in the same spot, and with no copies, no lost formatting, and no more folders filled with masterpiece-FINAL-v7-actually-final_final_thisistheone.docx…
The loch keeps its own counsel. Whaur the ferry hings at the loch's mou, it waits on the licht — and the far shore stays hidden till the mist has a mind to lift.
Mark a character once and Thingway tracks the whole identity: their name, their aliases (nicknames, titles, whatever the other characters call them), and every he, him, his that belongs to them. Change your mind on page 300 (new name, new gender) and one tap rewrites all of it in place. Nothing else in the text is touched.
Some need candlelight, some need stark contrast, some need their own colours. Swap the whole look (colours, contrast, even the typefaces) in a single click. Six themes ship at launch, from candle-lit Dark Academia to a stark black-and-white print mode. Try a few:
Whaur the ferry hings at the loch's mou, it waits on the licht — and the far shore stays hidden till the mist has a mind to lift.
Most apps get you to a manuscript, then leave you exporting, reformatting, and fighting a separate program to make the actual book. Thingway does the last mile too. Structured templates hand you every page a book needs (title, copyright, dedication, about the author). The contents page builds itself from your chapter titles, every link already wired for EPUB. Then export a clean ebook or a pixel-perfect PDF, from your desk or your phone.
Thingway isn't a desktop app with a phone companion — it's a phone app with a desktop release. The engine was built for the phone first, so a full fantasy epic or a PhD thesis opens, scrolls, and searches in a blink, wherever you are.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
There is nothing surprising in this. Almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots.
A brave stove-boat, and a brave man in it, made a fine picture against the wall, and a lamp swung slow in the draught.
It was a queer sort of place—a gable-ended old house, one side palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly.
Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee.
From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
The morning came, and the mist lifted, and the far horizon was as wide and open as it always was.
A fantasy epic or a full PhD thesis — and it still opens in a blink.
Your writing is never locked in. Export the whole thing — or a single chapter — in any format you need, as many times as you like, at no cost. It's your work; it leaves whenever you do.
Drafting, planning, structure, citations, translation, and export don't live in separate apps or scattered files. They live in your document — and the whole thing is built from the ground up for tap, drag, and drop, on the desk or in your pocket.
Join the waitlist and we'll send one email the day Thingway opens — nothing else.
(For updates, and probably some digital founder’s goodies as a wee treat after launch too.)