Word count tracker for VellumVellum makes the book beautiful. Falcontext checks it to the last page.
Writing or revising in Vellum? Falcontext reads your Vellum book on the Mac each time Vellum saves: today’s words, your goal, your streak, and the checks on the whole book. Only the story is counted, never the title page or the acknowledgements.
Any Mac from macOS 10.13 on, Apple silicon or Intel. (Vellum is Mac-only.) New in Falcontext 6.0.
What Falcontext adds to Vellum.
Vellum gives you a finished book
- Ebook and print editions laid out from one file
- Chapters, parts, ornamental breaks, and the front and back matter around the story
Falcontext adds
- Only the story counted. The prologue, the chapters and the epilogue, inside parts and box-set volumes too. Not the title page, copyright, dedication, acknowledgements or About the author, nor parts Vellum leaves out of both the ebook and the print book.
- Counted every time Vellum saves. Today’s words against your goal, a streak that forgives one missed day, and a finish date at the pace you write. Vellum doesn’t even need to be open.
- Your chapters and scenes, mapped. Each chapter’s title is a chapter in Bird’s Eye, and Vellum’s ornamental breaks are scene breaks. An empty line, such as a gap around a flashback, stays a gap.
- Checks on the whole book. Filter words, tense slips, telling instead of showing, dialogue tags and the rest, on the latest text, after the book has left Word or Google Docs. Many of them free.
- Your cast, chapter by chapter. See where each character turns up, and who’s been off the page too long.
- Vellum and the rest. Drafted in Scrivener, Word or Google Docs, finished in Vellum? It’s all one streak and one history.
Falcontext only reads your Vellum book, on your Mac, and never writes into it: findings are fixed by hand in Vellum. Your writing is never sent anywhere, and no AI is used on your writing in any way. How your data is handled.
Counting your Vellum book.
Three steps on your Mac, and you’re done.
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Download Falcontext for the Mac
Free. Updates install themselves.
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Add your Vellum book
Choose Add…: your recent Vellum books appear; or choose the .vellum file yourself, or drop it in. Falcontext offers a new one when you make it.
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Set your goals and write
Type your own goals over the numbers beside the slashes. Each time Vellum saves, Falcontext counts and checks the book again.
Good to know.
- Which files: Vellum books (.vellum), and older Vellum books kept as a package. Falcontext reads only the text, never the images.
- Fixing a finding: by hand in Vellum. Fix, which changes the text for you in Google Docs, Atticus, WordPress, Ellipsus and Perch’s writing pad, is off in the desktop app.
- Focus Mode (Pro) makes Vellum’s window fill the screen.
- Also on your Mac: Scrivener, Microsoft Word, Apple Pages and LibreOffice Writer.
Learn more.
Everything here works in Vellum too.
How it works
Checks writers start with
Your next chapter starts today.
Set a goal, open your book and watch the words add up.
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