Hello writer, nice to meet you.

For a decade, NaNoWriMo did something remarkable: every November it got hundreds of thousands of writers to sit down and hit a word count together. Then it lost its community, and its momentum went with it.

Adam Rendo had done NaNoWriMo twice. What kept him writing wasn't the deadline: it was watching the line on the graph climb, and watching other people's lines climb beside it. When that disappeared, he built the part he missed.

Authorlytica is a word tracker and writing analytics app for writers who want to finish their book. You log how many words you wrote. Authorlytica turns that raw number into charts, streaks, and stats: every session moves you closer to beating your personal best, hitting the next milestone, and understanding your own habit a little better.

Writing is a solitary pursuit, but it doesn't have to be a lonely one. Add the writers you actually know, share your sessions, and cheer each other through the slow weeks and the breakthrough ones.

Underneath the word count, Authorlytica is looking at patterns: not just how much you write, but who you are as an author. Premium takes that further: find your most consistent and efficient hours of the week, build a project plan that adjusts itself as you write, and run several projects in parallel.

And because the work is personal, the app should look like the book you're writing. Pick the theme that fits the book (Palermo Sunset for a romance, Nord for a cold fantasy, and more besides).

While novel writers are the main target audience, Authorlytica is built for multiple types of authors: academic writers can track their pagecounts, editors can make editing projects, and poets can write in lines.

Authorlytica is built mission-first. The free plan has everything you need to finish a book: 3 active projects, full daily tracking, every gamification element, the social features, and a basic project planner. No external ads. No credit card to sign up. Premium is a serious upgrade: 30 projects, all-time and custom-range analytics, the dynamic planner, and writing speed and pace analysis. There's a lifetime option for anyone tired of subscriptions.

Privacy is important here. Your actual prose is never stored outside of your laptop. Your data doesn't train an AI, and your personally identifiable data is never sold. Download everything whenever you want, or delete your account and every trace of it.

It's web-based. Nothing to install, works on any device. Built and maintained by one indie developer, currently in open beta with over 400 writers across 50+ countries. Adam builds it alone, in evenings and weekends, around a full-time job. One day he'll finish his own book with it.

Every feature (the graphs, the streaks, the friends feed) exists to serve one mission: motivate everyone with a story to get it out onto the page.

Log your first session today.