illusions
A Japanese-first writing editor for focused fiction
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Illusions is a Japanese fiction-writing editor built for uninterrupted drafting. Write vertically or horizontally, add ruby text, run Japanese proofreading, and keep every change safe with autosave and version history. Export your manuscript to PDF, EPUB, or DOCX. Available on iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux. 縦書き、ルビ、日本語校正、自動保存、履歴、PDF・EPUB・DOCX書き出しを一つに。iOS、macOS、Windows、Linux対応の日本語小説執筆エディタ。
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 56 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: creative and book writing software · 137 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Writing
- Books
- OpenAI Day
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a text editor supporting vertical text layout (CSS writing-mode or standard desktop layout frameworks), ruby annotations, and document export using standard libraries.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 100 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 101 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 259 days after the earliest competitor.
- Parallax/Print · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- FocusWrite · ph · 2026-10-11 · 113 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Author Magic · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- GhostWriter AI · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Spell-Kori · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Penwick · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- phras.ai · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- DOKIVO · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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