Ellipsus Plus

Ellipsus Plus gives us a way to keep building and improving Ellipsus long-term, allowing us to remain independent and continue to support over 500k writers, and the operations of our full-time team.

Yes. The free plan will remain free, and will continue to receive updates and many new features. Plus is a set of features on top of the free plan, making the whole tool more sustainable, funding the development and maintenance of Ellipsus for all users.

Our initial Plus features were informed by community-wide feedback and surveys. The results were:

• Custom themes: The custom theme builder lets you create unlimited themes, using any colors, gradients, images, or .gifs. You can attach any custom theme to Reader links, or share your themes with your community via export and import.

• Emboss: Emboss lets you share proof-of-work metrics (your Writing Journey) with your audience, to show the human processes behind in the work. These metrics are attached as a badge and card to your document or draft, and can be shared via Reader integration (or standalone link, coming soon). They are private by default, and only visible if you choose to share them with your work.

• Public version history: You also can choose to share selected version history snapshots alongside work published via Reader links, giving readers a more in-depth proof-of-work record of how your writing developed.

• Unlimited version history: Revisit and restore earlier snapshots of your work, with unlimited version history beyond the 30 days included in the free plan.

• Writing insights: See insights into your writing process, and spot patterns faster across ten highlighted metrics—vocabulary diversity, sentence length, sentence rhythm, paragraph density, sentence openers, passive voice, adverbs, word frequency, and word echoes. These insights come from simple pattern-counting algorithms that run locally on your device. No AI is used, and your text never leaves the editor.

• Multimedia snippets: Customize your snippets with media backgrounds, fonts, text colors, and add attribution. Match it to your custom themes, or upload a new image or .gif to fit the vibe. Add a byline to credit the author or character speaking.

These features are not the entirety of Ellipsus Plus—there’s more to come, and soon!

Our commitments to writers are not changing:

• We will not sell your data.
• We will not include generative AI in Ellipsus.
• We will not train generative AI models on your work, or share data for this purpose.
• We will not run ads.
• We will continue to offer our robust free plan.
• We will continue to improve the free plan alongside the Plus plan.

See our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for more information.

Ellipsus Plus is here to help us build sustainably.

Yes! As an Ellipsus user, you will be able to test all Plus features during your 7 day free trial.

We wanted the Plus plan to be sustainable for Ellipsus and reasonable for writers.

We know subscription fatigue is real. We also think that writers should be able to own their tools, and not rent them forever. We also know that the cost of buying tools outright can be prohibitive.

Subscribe-to-own means your subscription payments count toward your ownership of Ellipsus Plus.

You can buy the license outright (for $99), pay annually (two payments of $60), or pay monthly ($6 a month for 24 months). Once you’ve paid for your license, you own Ellipsus Plus forever. That includes future features, updates and improvements.

You can read more about subscribe-to-own here.

Yes! If you’d rather pay once, you can purchase the Plus license upfront for $99.

Our pricing model was shaped by community feedback, and the real costs of running Ellipsus, (e.g. hosting, development, support, infrastructure, security, our team, and keeping our lights on).

We know that affordability means different things for everyone; payment localization is something we’re planning to support in the near future, so you can pay in a way that makes sense for where you live.

Yes! Ellipsus Plus includes a week-long free trial (with no payment information required), so you can explore the features before deciding whether to upgrade.

The same Ellipsus you know and love. The free plan still includes unlimited documents, drafts, collaborators, and core features.

Yes! Ellipsus Plus allows us to build more sustainably, which means continued improvements, updates, and new features added to the free plan too.

We may release free seasonal or event-focused themes in the future.

You can keep writing on the free plan. Your existing work stays yours; your documents, drafts, collaborators, and core features will remain available.

You do not need to upgrade to Plus to keep using Ellipsus.

We’re moving collaborator chat to Ellipsus Plus. Unlike all other Ellipsus features, collaborator chat is powered by a paid third-party. Because of rising costs and low usage, we’ve made the decision to move chat to Ellipsus Plus.

Your existing chat content will not disappear immediately. Affected users—anyone who has ever used collaborator chat—will receive direct communication in-app and via email, with a clear timeline:

• For the first 7 days, free users will retain full access to collaborator chat.
• After 7 days, chat will become read-only for free users. You’ll still be able to read and export your existing chats.
• Your docs, drafts, comments, and collaboration access will not be affected by this change.

No way. Ellipsus is a writing tool… and ads are awful writing inspo.

Ellipsus Plus helps us avoid revenue models that depend on advertising or other nasty practices.

You can cancel your Plus subscription at any time. If you cancel before your license is paid-in-full, you’ll keep access to Plus until the end of your billing period. After that, your account will revert to the free plan.

Learn more about cancellation and Plus plans.