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The Writing Tracker Built to Help You Actually Finish
Track every word you write. Manage your projects. Build an unbreakable writing habit. Quilltrack is the free word count tracker and writing project manager made for authors, novelists, bloggers, and anyone with a story to tell.
No sign-up required. Your session starts immediately.
Built for every kind of writer
📖 Novelists✍️ Bloggers🎭 Screenwriters📚 Non-Fiction Authors🖊️ Poets🎓 Academic Writers
Everything you need to write more and write better
Quilltrack combines word count tracking, project management, habit building, and writing analytics into one clean tool — free for every writer.
Word Count Tracking
Track every word, every session, every day
Log your daily word count in seconds. Quilltrack tracks your progress across every project simultaneously — novels, blog posts, screenplays, short stories — and shows you exactly where you stand at a glance.
Log by words, pages, chapters, scenes, or even time. Already written 20,000 words before you found Quilltrack? Add your starting balance and your stats stay accurate from day one.
Every session you log becomes data. Over time, Quilltrack surfaces patterns you would never notice manually — your best writing days, your most productive hours, your average words per session.
- ✓Log by words, pages, chapters, scenes, lines, or time
- ✓Add sessions for any date, past or future
- ✓Set new totals or log incremental progress
Project Management
Manage every manuscript from first idea to final draft
Writing a book isn't one task — it's dozens of phases strung together over months or years. Quilltrack treats your writing projects the way they actually work.
Create a project for every manuscript, blog series, or script you are working on. Assign it a phase: outlining, drafting, revising, querying. Upload a cover image to make it feel real. Track its progress with a cumulative graph and a full activity heatmap.
When a project is done, archive it. Your history, stats, and every session you ever logged stay safe and searchable forever.
- ✓Phases: Idea, Outlining, Drafting, Revising, Querying, Published
- ✓Cumulative progress graph with on-track par line
- ✓Cover images, genres, targets, and milestones per project
Smart Goals
Set writing goals that actually adjust when life gets in the way
Most writing goals fail because they assume every day is the same. Quilltrack's goal system is built around how writers actually live.
Set a deadline-driven target goal and Quilltrack calculates exactly how many words you need to write each day to finish on time — based only on the days you actually plan to write. Miss a week? The daily target recalculates automatically across your remaining days. Write extra on a good day? Your required pace drops to reflect it.
Prefer consistency over deadlines? Set a habit goal instead — write at least 300 words, five days a week — and track your streak and hit rate over time.
For the bigger picture, set an annual goal and watch Quilltrack break it into monthly targets, then redistribute any shortfall automatically so your yearly goal stays reachable.
- ✓Target goals with smart daily recalculation
- ✓Habit goals with streaks and hit-rate tracking
- ✓Annual goals with monthly breakdown and automatic redistribution
Sprints & Sessions
Write in focused sprints. Track exactly how long each phase takes.
The writing sprint is one of the most powerful tools for increasing daily output. Set a timer for 25 minutes, write without interruption, and log your count when it ends. Over time, your sprint data shows exactly how fast you write and how that pace improves.
Quilltrack's built-in sprint timer supports both single focus blocks and Pomodoro-style intervals. When the timer ends, a soft chime plays and you log your words immediately — no context switching to another app.
Need to track longer sessions? The Live Session timer counts upward from zero as you work. Tag it as Drafting, Revising, Brainstorming, or Research. When you finish, Quilltrack adds it to your project's time analytics so you can see not just how many words you wrote, but how many hours you spent on each part of the process.
- ✓Sprint timer with Pomodoro mode and soft end chime
- ✓Live session timer for open-ended writing work
- ✓Time-by-session-type analytics per project
Writing Analytics
Understand your writing patterns and become more productive
Most writers know how much they write. Very few know when they write best, how their pace changes across a project's phases, or whether they are actually improving over time.
Quilltrack turns your logged sessions into insights. The time-of-day heatmap shows which hours and days of the week produce your highest word counts. The words-per-hour trend line shows whether your drafting speed is improving. The habit score tells you at a glance how consistent your writing practice has been.
Every January, Quilltrack generates your personal Annual Wrapped — a shareable visual summary of your entire writing year. Total words, best month, longest streak, projects completed, fastest WPH session. A reminder of what you actually accomplished, in one beautiful card.
- ✓Time-of-day productivity heatmap
- ✓Words-per-hour trends over time
- ✓Annual Wrapped year-in-review report
Up and running in under two minutes
No tutorials. No onboarding videos. Quilltrack is intuitive by design.
Log your first session
After every writing session, open Quilltrack and enter your word count. Choose a date, a session type, and an optional note. The data starts building immediately.
Watch your progress compound
Your heatmap fills in. Your streaks grow. Your goals track automatically. The longer you log, the more Quilltrack can show you about your writing patterns.
Create an account later if you want to save your progress.
Made for every kind of writer
Whether you write 200 words a day or 5,000, Quilltrack adapts to your pace and your goals.
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Novelists
Track your manuscript from the first scene to the final draft. Monitor your daily word count, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and use Quilltrack's pacing tools to hit your deadline — even during NaNoWriMo.
✍️
Bloggers & Content Writers
Track output across multiple blogs or clients. Use tags to separate personal and professional projects. See your total monthly content production in one dashboard.
🎭
Screenwriters
Track by pages instead of words. Manage multiple scripts in different phases. Log research and outlining sessions separately from drafting to understand your full creative process.
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Non-Fiction & Memoir
Non-fiction projects rarely follow a linear word count arc. Quilltrack's flexible phase system and session tagging let you track research, outlining, drafting, and revision as distinct, measurable phases.
🎓
Academic Writers
Dissertations, papers, and theses take months or years. Track chapter by chapter, log your research sessions, and set semester-long targets that recalculate around your schedule.
🖊️
Journalers & Personal Writers
You don't need to be writing a book for Quilltrack to be useful. A daily journaling habit is a writing habit. Track your consistency, celebrate your streaks, and watch your practice grow over time.
More than just a word counter
Quilltrack is the only free writing tracker that combines project management, smart goals, time tracking, and an AI writing assistant in one place.
Your next writing session starts now
Thousands of words from now, you will look back at a heatmap that tells the story of your writing year. Every streak. Every sprint. Every project you pushed through to the end. It starts with a single logged session.
No sign-up required. Your session starts immediately.
Free forever. No credit card. No ads. Just your words.