Ellipsus will make it easier to write, edit, and publish together. We’re starting with a collaborative text editor, but we have big plans for 2024 and beyond.

So far, we’ve built the basics of text editing, collaborating, drafting, and merging. Next up, we’ll be working to add more organizational features (e.g., folders). Visit our ideas board if you want to vote on upcoming feature ideas or add your own.

Ellipsus was founded by John and Rex: co-founders, writers, and partners for more than a decade. They live in Berlin with two dachshunds and a ton of books. Ellipsus was born from the drama and difficulty of trying to write a novel together. They’re building Ellipsus in Europe with Fuad, Vincent, Orne, Kate, and Karol.

We’re not fans, to put it mildly.

Nope! In fact, ensuring that creators own their work is core company value. We want to make it easier to write, edit, and publish together so that creators can be credited (and eventually compensated) accordingly.

There are lots of ways to share your feedback!

We want to get as many writers using Ellipsus by the end of the summer—but we’ll only “launch” launch when we know we’ve built something people really, really love.

In order to grow the team and fund ongoing feature development, we will need to charge for a version of Ellipsus at some point. A paid version would be targeting users with specific needs related to advanced security, data syncing, and collaboration. But there will always be a free version of Ellipsus, and we want to be as generous as possible in what's included on that free plan (e.g., unlimited docs and drafts, for starters).

It takes time to build a great freemium experience (not to mention a premium product people will happily pay for), which is why we won't roll that out in 2024. While the features that will be included in our paid plan aren't final-final, we can share that everything in the product today will be included in our free plan.