Download Ream and write as much as you want — the editor, your files, your streak, and your version history are free, forever. A subscription brings the room to life: your panel of AI editors, story-bible checks, and autocomplete. It’s metered and capped, so the price on the box is the price you pay — no locked files, no runaway API bill.
Heavy month? Top up any time — 500, 2,000, or 8,000 ink, priced so the bigger packs cost less. Cancel whenever — the editor keeps working and your files stay yours; you just pause the AI.
Ink is how Ream meters AI use: one ink is roughly a thousand words the model reads or writes for you. A rewrite or a chat reply with an editor is usually one to three ink. Starter’s ~300 a month covers steady daily writing; Pro’s ~1,500 is sized to draft a full novel with room to spare. You always see your balance in-app — and can top up any time.
No. That’s the whole point. Your editors are included and run through Ream’s hosted proxy — there’s nothing to sign up for, wire in, or top up with a credit card you forgot about. The model key never ships in the app.
On your disk, as plain Markdown, in a folder you pick. Editing, search, and version history are fully local — Obsidian can open the same folder. Only the text you send to an editor ever leaves your machine.
You keep the app and every file you wrote — they were never locked up. You just lose the bundled AI ink. Re-subscribe any time and pick up where you left off.
Yes — every new account gets free ink every day for its first 10 days, no card. Enough to put your editors to work on a real chapter of your own manuscript before you subscribe. Download the app, open Settings → AI & account, and enter your email to claim it. It refills daily through those 10 days (one account per email); after that, a subscription keeps the ink coming.
Coming. If you’re a writing group, publisher, or studio that wants seats and shared bibles, email [email protected].