Plans and features
Scroll offers Free, Plus, and Pro plans. Every plan requires sign-in. Your prose, cards, and Project settings remain in the local folder you choose.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Free | Plus | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Projects, Markdown/YAML, editing, search, and file management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Use supplied Card Types, templates, properties, and relationship definitions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit Defaults and save or reset Global customizations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create, duplicate, or import Global Card Types, templates, properties, and relationships | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create or override definitions for the current Project | — | — | ✓ |
| Migrate an existing Project's managed card folders | — | — | ✓ |
| Works, tasks, references, and all built-in Story views | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create, import, and browse reference cards | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Set up delivery profiles, choose versions, and review delivery previews and readiness | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Link prose or cards to reference material | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add a delivery confirmation to the history | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Metadata migration and advanced Project maintenance | — | — | ✓ |
| Bibliographies, citations, and references blocks | — | — | ✓ |
| Ruby and math editing | — | — | ✓ |
The built-in Story views are Spreadsheet, Gallery, Calendar, Timeline, Gantt, Subway, Relationship graph, Map, Mindmap, Whiteboard, and Flowchart. All 11 are included with Free.
Free
Free provides a complete local writing Project. You can draft, search, and organize files; create characters, locations, events, tasks, and references from supplied templates; and inspect the same data through every built-in Story view.
Free also lets you create and maintain works, Publish Versions, and delivery profiles, choose a manuscript version, and review delivery previews and readiness. Adding a new delivery confirmation to the history requires Plus or Pro.
Free requires an account but does not require a paid subscription. In Templates, select a Default and then its Pencil button to change its name, appearance, constraints, or template fields. After saving, it is labeled Customized globally. Select Reset override to restore the current Default. Free cannot create, duplicate, or import Global definitions, but it can use and preserve higher-tier structures already present in a Project.
Plus
Plus includes everything in Free. It can also create, duplicate, import, edit, and delete reusable Global Card Types, templates, properties, and relationships. Plus adds links between prose or cards and reference material, and lets you add delivery confirmations and review their history. These confirmations do not copy or transfer your manuscript and are not required to create a work, Publish Version, or delivery profile.
Plus can read Project-specific structures but cannot change them. The first time a Global definition is used in a Project, Scroll may ask you to choose its managed folder inside that Project.
Plus does not include Scribe's typesetting or export features. PDF, EPUB, print layout, and Appearance remain part of Scribe.
Pro
Pro includes everything in Plus. It is designed for users who maintain different structures in different Projects or need advanced writing features. You can create or override Project-specific Card Types, templates, properties, and relationships; migrate managed folders and metadata; and edit bibliographies, citations, references blocks, Ruby, and math.
These operations can change the Project's structure or the meaning of its content. Back up the entire Project before migrating data, removing fields, or changing relationships in bulk.
Sign-in, offline use, and plan changes
- Free, Plus, and Pro all require sign-in.
- After Scroll confirms a paid plan online, paid features can remain available offline for up to 24 hours. If they become unavailable, reconnect and select Refresh plan.
- Downgrading or signing out limits actions no longer included in the current plan. It does not delete or rewrite prose, cards, relationships, saved views, or advanced content.
- After Plus is downgraded to Free, Default-derived Global customizations remain editable; Global definitions created with Plus become read-only.
- After Pro is downgraded, Project-specific structures remain available for reading and creation, but are read-only until Pro is restored.
- General-purpose editors can still read common local file formats, but they may not understand Scroll-specific Project settings or advanced content.
See Account and updates to review Current plan and refresh it. For how plans apply across Catalpas Atelier products, see Plans and access. Current purchasing options appear on the Scroll pricing page; if you also need Scribe, compare Writing Suite. Prices and available offers are shown on the official website and at checkout.