Getting Started

Scriblit is a manuscript editor built specifically for picture book writers. Instead of fighting a general-purpose word processor, you draft directly in spreads — the facing pages a reader actually sees — with illustration notes, page budgets, and submission-ready exports built in.

Sign in and start writing

Open the editor at app.scriblitpb.com and sign in (or create a free account).
A new, untitled manuscript opens automatically — just start typing.
The first time you sign in, a short interactive tour points out the main controls. You can skip it, and replay it any time from Help → Tutorial.

Your manuscript lives on your device. Scriblit never stores your words on our servers — signing in unlocks the editor and syncs preferences, nothing more.

The editor at a glance

The Scriblit editor with a picture book manuscript open: spread dividers, illustration notes, and the Notes panel — Menu bar, icon bar, the manuscript divided into spreads, the Notes panel, and the page-budget status bar.

Menu bar — File, Edit, Format, Share, and Help menus, just like a desktop app.
Icon bar — one-click access to undo/redo, text formatting, illustration notes, spread dividers, and Focus Mode.
Manuscript page — your draft, divided into spreads with page-range labels like [4–5].
Status bar — live counts of pages and spreads used against your page budget, plus word counts.

The editor adapts to small screens, too — open Scriblit on a phone or tablet and the toolbar and spreads reflow to fit.

The Scriblit editor on a phone-sized screen with the toolbar and spreads reflowed to fit — Scriblit on a phone-sized screen.

Where to next

Writing in Scriblit — spreads, illustration notes, Focus Mode, and preferences.
Saving & Exporting — .spb manuscript files, Google Drive, and TXT/PDF/DOCX exports.
Picture Book Basics — industry conventions and terminology: spreads, the 32-page book, front matter, and back matter.