You have finished the book and you can no longer see it. It happens to everyone who writes: after months inside a story, your brain fills the gaps the reader does not have. This beta reader reads your whole manuscript the way a stranger would, and gives you a report on what works, what does not and how to fix it, quoting specific lines from your text.
Not a list of tips that would fit any book. Every observation points to a place in your manuscript:
The most common complaint about AI tools is that they make things up. Here, every sentence shown in quotation marks is checked against your text before you see it; if it is not in your manuscript, it is dropped. So you can search for it and find it.
The text is analysed and discarded. No person reads it and it is not stored: the only thing saved is the report, in your account, and you can delete it whenever you want. The AI that does the reading runs on the paid tier, the one that does not use texts to train models.
The sample is free: with a free account we read the first 5,000 words so you can see how the report works on your own text. The full report costs €24 including VAT, a one-off payment with no subscription. If you are on a YourNovel plan, every month includes one full report.
Let us be straight about it. A professional manuscript assessment costs a few hundred euros or dollars and takes weeks; volunteer beta readers are free but slow, uneven and often too kind. This report arrives in minutes, is consistent and does not tell you what you want to hear, but it does not have a good editor's judgement or market knowledge. Use it to reach them with a better manuscript, not instead of them.
It is a full read of your manuscript by an AI that behaves like a demanding reader of your genre and like an editor: it tells you where the book hooks, where it sags and what to change, quoting specific lines from your text.
The full report reads the entire book, part by part, and then assesses it as a whole: structure, pacing, characters or arguments, ending. The free sample reads only the first 5,000 words.
No. The text is analysed and discarded; no person reads it. Only the resulting report is saved in your account, and you can delete it at any time.
The sample of the first 5,000 words is free with an account. The full report costs €24 including VAT, and YourNovel subscription plans include one per month.
No. It is a fast, detailed second opinion that helps you reach them with a better manuscript. A professional editor brings judgement, market context and a conversation that an automatic read cannot.
Yes. For self-help, business, popular science, memoir, essays and how-to guides the report measures different things: the promise to the reader, clarity, examples and whether readers can apply what they read.
If you want to work through the revisions chapter by chapter, YourNovel.app imports your draft and helps you revise it with an AI that remembers the whole book: characters, plots and what you have already changed.
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