Writing tools for novelists
Drafting a novel is a long stretch of small, repeated tasks. You are tracking a daily word target, usually against a 50,000-word NaNoWriMo run or a 90,000-word manuscript, and the same scene gets rewritten three or four times before it earns its place. The tools that help are the ones that respect the draft, do not sync it anywhere, and tell you what changed between revisions.
Phrasit is built for that working pattern. The word counter holds your daily target and total project count in one view, find and replace handles the global renames that come up every time a character or place name shifts, words per page gives the trad-publishing manuscript estimate at 250 words a page, and the text comparator shows a line-level diff between two drafts of the same chapter. The essay outliner doubles as a beat-sheet template for plot structure work. Everything runs locally in the browser with no signup and nothing leaving your device.
Core tools
The ones novelists reach for first- Word counter
Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and reading time in any text. Real-time stats, mobile-friendly, no signup.
- Find and replace
Bulk find and replace across long text with support for regex, case sensitivity, and whole-word matching.
- Words per page
Estimate page count for an essay by font, size, and spacing. Times, Arial, Calibri, and Verdana supported.
- Text comparator
Compare two pieces of text side-by-side with line and character-level diff. Shows similarity percentage.
- Essay outliner
Generate a structured 3-level outline for argumentative, expository, narrative, or compare-contrast essays.
- Text formatter
Clean messy text. Trim whitespace, collapse spaces, strip blank lines, convert smart quotes, normalise line endings.
Helpful supporting tools
Useful adjacent to the core set- Grammar checker
Catch grammar, spelling, and style issues with LanguageTool. Inline suggestions, explanations, and one-click fixes.
- Paragraph counter
Count paragraphs, sentences, and words. Get average length per paragraph and pinpoint the longest one.
- Word frequency
Find the most common words in text with stopword filtering, minimum length controls, and count bars.
- Reading time
Estimate how long text takes to read and to speak aloud, with slow, average, and fast wpm presets.
- Duplicate lines
Remove duplicate lines from pasted text with case, whitespace, and first-or-last occurrence options.
- Random words
Generate random English nouns, verbs, adjectives, or mixed word lists for writing prompts and games.
Guides for novelists
Pick one and try it now
No signup, no paywall, runs entirely in your browser. The fastest way to see whether Phrasit fits your workflow is to open the tool and paste in a real piece of text.