Free Desktop App · Windows

Typeset Studio Print-ready books, made on your own machine.

A free app that turns a manuscript into a typeset, print-ready PDF interior, with fonts embedded and ready for KDP or IngramSpark. Pick a genre style, drop in your Word or Markdown file, and compose. No subscriptions, no accounts, and your manuscript never leaves your computer.

Download for Windows See It In Action
Free & open Python bundled, nothing to set up 100% offline
A book cover designed and rendered in Typeset Studio
What It Does

A whole typesetting studio, offline

Typeset Studio does the fiddly, expensive part of self-publishing, laying out a professional book interior the way a designer would, but from a simple browser window on your own PC.

Real book typesetting

Drop caps, running heads, page numbers, mirrored margins, scene breaks, a proper table of contents, real hyphenation and smart quotes. The details a printed book actually needs.

Genre styles, reusable

Nine ready-made interior styles: literary, thriller, romance, fantasy, sci-fi, mass-market and more. Build a style once, then duplicate it per book and tweak only what changes.

Cover Studio

Pick a genre house style, fill in your title, and get a professional designed cover, with backgrounds, emblems, and a full front + spine + back print wrap sized to your page count.

Write in the app

A built-in manuscript editor with live styling, a chapter outline, find & replace, word count, and autosave. Or just import the .docx, .md, or .txt you already have.

PDF & EPUB export

Export a print-ready PDF with subsetted, embedded fonts and an EPUB 3 e-book from the same manuscript, plus a preflight report and spine / margin calculator for KDP and IngramSpark.

Private by design

Everything runs locally in your browser against an app on your own PC. No cloud upload, no account, no watermark, no per-book fee. Your unpublished manuscript stays yours.

A Look Inside

See it in action

From a blank page to a bound-looking book. Here's the studio at work.

The Cover Studio: editing a designed book cover with a live preview
Cover Studio Fill in the text, watch the cover redraw live.
The in-app manuscript editor with a chapter outline sidebar
Manuscript editor Write with live styling and an outline.
A rendered book interior page with a chapter-opening drop cap
Typeset interior Drop caps, running heads, clean margins.
The Styles home page showing reusable book-interior style cards
Reusable styles One recipe per book, duplicated per customer.
The result page showing a preflight report and spine and margin calculator
Print-ready checks Preflight, spine width, and margin sanity.
How It Works

From manuscript to book in five steps

01
Pick a style
Choose a genre interior style, or duplicate one and make it yours.
02
Add your manuscript
Upload a .docx, .md, or .txt, or write it in the app.
03
Design a cover
Optional: pick a house style and fill in the text.
04
Compose
The engine typesets your book, front matter and all.
05
Download
Grab your print-ready PDF and EPUB. That's it.
Get Typeset Studio

Free to download. Free to keep.

Typeset Studio is released free because it replaces the things authors usually pay for: typesetting, formatting, and cover design. If it saves you money or time, a tip helps me keep building it.

Download for Windows

Windows 10 / 11 · installer bundles everything · no Python setup required

First run: Windows may flag the unsigned installer with an “unknown publisher” notice. Click More info, then Run anyway. This is normal for a free, independently released app.

Tip via PayPal
A one-time thank-you, any amount.
Support on Patreon
Back the studio and future updates.