Stet
The writing app for novelists that keeps every version
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Stet is a writing app for novelists who rewrite a lot. It saves as you type, and you can name a version before any big change. Compare any version with today, word by word, and bring back what you cut. Try a chapter, or the whole book, another way in its own draft. Characters and places are marked in your manuscript, each with notes and a canvas. Your books stay on your device, it works offline, and it exports to Word and PDF, and to EPUB with Pro. Free forever.
PH · launched Oct 31, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Writing
- Privacy
- Books
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Could you build this?
Yes A writing app with autosave, named snapshots, word-level diffs, and character or place tracking is well-trodden territory built on standard editors and diff libraries.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 240 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 241 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.
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