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Turn your book's best lines into scroll-stopping screenshots.

Paste a scene, drag a highlighter across the lines that hook, add strikes, circles and character text bubbles — then export a clean e-reader page sized for reels.

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"Guests?" Jaxon asked, brow raised. "Plural?"

"He brought two women with him."

"Of course he did," Jaxon tsked, shaking his head.

"You won't be amused when I tell you he flooded his original room last night. Showerhead incident. We had to move him and the women into the spare room."

They both glanced at me for a split second, and Jaxon sighed.

"Which means..."

Oh no.

No, you have got to be kidding me.

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Just like your readers see it

How it works

Three steps to your next post

01

Paste your scene

Drop in any passage from your manuscript. A book is added once by ISBN or ASIN and its cover, author and summary fill themselves in.

02

Mark it up

Drag the highlighter across the lines that hook. Underline, strike and circle with any colour — or let your trigger words strike themselves.

03

Export and post

Get a clean PNG sized for your feed, stories or reels — or drop it onto a Kindle and open-book mockup with a transparent background.

Highlighter

Mark it up like a real reader

Drag across any line to highlight, underline, strike through or circle — then pick your colour, including any custom shade with the colour wheel.

  • Highlights, strikes, underlines and circles
  • Saved swatches per mark type
  • Undo, redo and erase without touching the words

"You won't be amused when I tell you he flooded his original room last night. Showerhead incident. We had to move him and the women into the spare room."

They both glanced at me for a split second, and Jaxon sighed.

"Which means..."

Oh no.

No, you have got to be kidding me.

Trigger words

Trigger words strike themselves

Add a word to your trigger list once — every time it appears in a passage, it's automatically struck through on the screenshot. Curated word lists are ready to toggle on or off.

  • Per-account trigger list that follows you across books
  • Curated lists you can deselect from
  • Strikes render in the editor, preview and export

The showerhead dripped all night.

Mira tightened the wrench and tried again.

The showerhead hissed back at her.

Mira surrendered to the plumbing gods.

Text messages

Let your characters text

Add message bubbles between paragraphs so your characters can argue, flirt and confess inside the scene — left or right side, names, bubble and text colours.

  • Place bubbles before, after or between paragraphs
  • Left and right sides with custom colours
  • Rendered in the editor, preview and every export

Jaxon had exactly one rule about guests: they didn't touch his kitchen.

MayaYou flooded the spare room. Again.
JaxonThe plumbing started it.

By sunrise, there was a canoe where the island used to be.

Mira was already typing.

Make it yours

Type it your way

Choose a Kindle reading font like Bookerly or Baskerville, adjust the text size, line height, paragraph gap and indentation — even flip the page to dark.

  • Ten Kindle reading fonts
  • Page and text colours, dark mode included
  • Portrait, square and story-size presets

He said the words like a promise and a threat, both at once.

The room went quiet enough to hear the clock.

She smiled anyway.

Your library

A home for every book, not one giant pile of screenshots

One shelf per book

Every book gets its own page, so screenshots never end up in one jumble. Sort your shelf by date, screenshot count or drag it into your own order.

Add a book by ISBN or ASIN

Type an ISBN or Amazon ASIN and the cover, author name and summary fill themselves in — edit anything you want, or add the cover from your camera roll.

Tags and search

Tag screenshots with tropes and moments — first kiss, forced proximity — then search any book's shelf by name or tag.

Alternate versions

Duplicate a screenshot to try different markups, colours or messages without touching the original.

Mockups

Put your screenshot in someone's hands

Drop any finished screenshot onto a Kindle or an open two-page book. Pick the device colour, choose single or spread, and export with a transparent background — ready to layer into reels, carousels and promo graphics.

  • Kindle mockups with adjustable device colour
  • Single-page and open-book spreads
  • Transparent PNG exports
KindleDevice colour of your choice
Open bookTwo-page spread, like a real paperback

Your next viral post is one highlight away.

Create your shelf, add your first book, and turn a passage into a post in minutes.

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