Make Books Like You Mean It.

Beautiful EPUBs & print-ready PDFs — from a tool built by a real author.

Free to download. $49.99 for everything. No subscriptions. Ever.

Bindery app screenshot

A complete publishing pipeline in one elegant app.

Bindery turns a finished manuscript into fully validated EPUBs and LaTeX-powered print PDFs — the files real distributors require.

  • EPUB 3.2 with embedded fonts & THEMA metadata
  • Print-ready PDFs (IngramSpark, KDP, offset)
  • Web editions from the same source
  • No cloud, no lock-in, no subscriptions

The .bd Format — A Markdown-based DSL for real books.

Bindery uses a lightweight markup language designed for chapters, epigraphs, hero pages, scene breaks, book metadata, and all the structures real literature requires.

Simple for beginners. Deep for power users. Powered by TeX under the hood.

See the .bd Format →

A modern, native workspace for building books.

Three-Pane Layout

Chapters → Editor → Builder. Everything in view. Nothing hidden.

Instant EPUB

Clean HTML, embedded fonts, perfect navigation in a single click.

Print-Ready PDF

LaTeX typesetting with proper margins, hyphenation, spreads, widow/orphan control.

Fast. Native. Offline.

Tauri + Rust. No network required. No cloud. No subscriptions.

Two Editions. Same price. One purchase covers everything.

App Store Edition

  • Easy installation
  • Apple-managed updates & payments
  • Unlock EPUB/Print in-app

Pro Edition (Direct Download)

  • Mac + Windows
  • Use external TeX engines (LuaTeX, XeTeX, TeXLive)
  • No sandbox restrictions

If you purchased on the App Store, Pro is free. No second charge.

Simple pricing. Perpetual license.

Free

  • Text, DOCX, basic PDF export
  • Full editor + project tools

EPUB Upgrade — $9.99

Professional EPUB generation

Print Upgrade — $39.99

LaTeX-powered print-ready PDF

Complete Bundle — $49.99

Everything Bindery can do. Mac & Windows.

Because authors deserve serious tools.

Bindery replaces Word templates, InDesign pipelines, brittle Pandoc commands, EPUB validators, metadata spreadsheets, and LaTeX chaos — with one clean workflow.

After the writing. Before the distribution. Exactly where publishing happens.

Start building real books today.

Books deserve beautiful software. Now they have it.