bibisco is an open source application for writing novels.
bibisco is a personal project, made with love.
We love books and we want to help writers to write beautiful novels.
With bibisco you can organize chapters and scenes, manage revisions, export novel in pdf or rtf, and write with a fully featured text editor.
You can create a novel structure, define premise, fabula, narrative strands and settings: geographic, temporal and social context.
And, most of all, with bibisco you can know everything about your characters. Because your novel works only if its characters are believable, that is when you understand their human nature's complexity.
Download bibisco for your operating system at https://github.com/andreafeccomandi/bibisco/releases
bibisco doesn't need to be installed. After download:
- unzip downloaded file
- if your operating system is windows launch bibisco.exe; if your operating system is linux launch bibisco
- write your novel
- on System Preferences -> Security and Privacy, you must have "Allow apps downloaded from" set to "Anywhere."
- open downloaded dmg file
- follow the istructions
- write your novel
Note! bibisco is a java application and ships its own JRE (Java Runtime Environment). You don't need to install or update JRE.
If you upgrade bibisco from version 1.3.0 or next:
- Download new version
- In the new version of bibisco choose the directory that already contains your projects: they will be automatically imported
If you upgrade bibisco from version 1.2.1 or previous:
- From the version you're using, export your project as archive: section export -> button export as archive
- Download new version
- In the new version of bibisco import your projects: after bibisco start up -> button import the first project or button import a new project
You can support bibisco in various ways:
- report bugs or ideas.
- translate bibisco in missing languages, write to info@bibisco.com to get more info.
- star Github repository.
- like bibisco Facebook page.
- like bibisco alternativeTo page.
- follow bibisco Twitter account.
- donate with Paypal.
bibisco is licensed under the terms of GNU GPL License.
To contribute to bibisco development you need to:
- download bibisco Individual Contributor Assignment Agreement or bibisco Entity Contributor Assignment Agreement
- sign the Agreement
- email the signed agreement to info@bibisco.com