Verso
A writing app for novelists that keeps the page quiet and the drafts in order.
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/ Overview
Writers had forty apps and still wrote in a notes app.
Verso's founders were two novelists tired of tools built for teams. They wanted one calm page, and everything else out of sight.
Client
Verso
Remote
Engagement
Eight months
2024
Type
Product design
Category
Writing tools
02
/ Challenge
Every feature we added made the page louder.
Chapters, notes, versions and word goals all had to exist, without ever sitting next to the sentence being written.
So the page shows only the page, and everything else waits one keystroke away.
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/ Product
One page, one cursor, nothing else.
The interface disappears while you write. Chapters, notes and goals wait one keystroke away.
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The editor
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The editor
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/ Writing
Designed with writers, not for them.
Twelve novelists used Verso for a year before launch. Their habits decided every feature we cut.
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The beta
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The beta
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/ Library
Every draft kept, nothing ever lost.
Versions are filed like books on a shelf: quiet, ordered, and there when you need them.
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Drafts
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Drafts
1.2M
words written each week
41 min
average writing session
12
novelists in the beta
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