Comparisons, checked 17 October 2026

Onwarder vs Google Docs

Q: What does Onwarder cost?

Writing is free. Cloud fixed prices: £8 a month or £79 a year in pounds sterling; €9 a month or €89 a year in euros; $10 a month or $99 a year in US dollars. Checkout confirms the currency.

A free online word processor with real-time co-editing, comments and revision history, and Gemini in some plans.Source [1]Source [12]

Docs offers documents with tabs and online collaboration; Onwarder keeps a novel, scene by scene, with a story bible and checks, on your device first.Source [1]Source [7]

Side by side.

Onwarder and Google Docs, question by question
	Onwarder	Google Docs
Price	Free for good, with no account. Cloud is $10 a month or $99 a year.	Free with a Google account. Gemini features come with paid Google plans.Source [1]Source [2]
Runs on	On the web, Mac, Windows and Linux, with iPhone in beta, and Android coming.	Web, plus iPhone and Android apps.Source [1]
Writing with no connection	Books kept on your device open and save with no connection in the desktop and phone apps.	Offline editing after you set it up while online, in Chrome or Edge, or per file on a phone.Source [4]Source [5]
Story bible linked to the book	Characters, places, factions and items, a click from the page.	Notes in tabs or other documents, linked by hand.Source [7]
Checks the book against your notes	Built in, no AI: warns when a dead character acts or a lost item turns up again.	No check of a manuscript against recorded facts found.Source [1]
Ebook and paperback files	EPUB, Word, Markdown and PDF, and paperback interiors at three trim sizes.	Download as Word, EPUB, PDF or Markdown. No print interior layout.Source [8]Source [9]
AI, and training on your writing	Optional and off for every book. Bring your own. Never used to train AI.	Gemini in eligible plans. Google says Workspace customer data is not used for model training without prior permission or instruction.Source [11]Source [13]
Getting your work out	Every book exports whole, at any time, on any plan.	Download any document, or everything through Google Takeout.Source [10]Source [14]

Where Google Docs is better

Real-time co-editing with editors and beta readers, with comments and revision history.Source [1]
Free online document editing with phone apps.Source [1]

Choose Google Docs if

You co-write in real time, or your beta readers comment in a shared document.Source [1]
You want one free document that opens anywhere and do not need novel structure.Source [1]

Choose Onwarder if

You want the story bible, recorded story events and a continuity check beside the manuscript, with no AI needed.
You want everything for writing free, on any computer or phone, with no account and no time limit.
You want the ebook and the paperback interior from the same place you wrote the book.

Try it with one chapter, free

Questions.

Can I move my book from Google Docs?

Export it as a Word document and import that into Onwarder; it keeps chapters, headings, bold and italics. Start with a copy of one chapter, and keep your original until you are happy. We do not promise to carry over every other tool's notes, links or formatting.

Do I need AI to use Onwarder?

No. Writing, planning, the continuity check and Finishing all work without AI. If you connect your own AI, it is off for every book until you allow it, and Onwarder never uses your writing to train AI.

What does Onwarder cost?

Free for good, with no account. Cloud is $10 a month or $99 a year.

Sources, all opened 17 October 2026

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