Paste a chapter or a whole book: cast and who fades out, POV and tense by chapter, contradictions, repeated phrasing, Story Health. No AI, nothing stored.
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Paste a manuscript — one chapter or the whole book — or upload a .txt, .md, .docx or .epub file, and Story X-ray reads it in seconds. It splits on chapter headings ("Chapter 1", "1.", "Part One"; without them the text is read as one chapter) and reports the cast and who fades out, point of view and tense chapter by chapter, time markers, contradictions between chapters, phrasing the book leans on, a Story Health score, how the prose sounds, and what is likely to break by chapter 20. It is rule-based: no AI call and nothing spent. The text is read on our server and not stored.
Rule-based analyzers catch patterns human eyes skim past—especially in AI drafts where filter words, adverbs, and passive voice cluster predictably. Use metrics to prioritize revision, not to flatten your voice. Run a chapter first, fix the worst offenders, then scan the full manuscript.
Five-pass revision order · AI manuscript editing · Manuscript cleanup
No. It is rule-based analysis: no AI call, and nothing is taken from any allowance.
No. The text is sent to our server to be read and the report comes back; the manuscript itself is not saved.
Up to 400,000 characters as a guest and 1.5 million signed in. Guests can run 12 X-rays an hour, signed-in authors 60.
They help. Lines such as "Chapter 1", "1." or "Part One" split the text so POV, tense and contradictions are reported chapter by chapter; without them the whole paste is read as one chapter.
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