Upload a Word or PDF manuscript. Galley edits it like a seasoned copyeditor and hands you tracked changes you accept or reject — line by line.
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Chapter One
It was a unusually an unusually warm evening, and Mara could not of have known that the letter waiting on her desk would change everything on her desk would change everything.
“could not of” → “could not have.” A classic homophone slip — have, not of.
Four steps from a rough manuscript to a clean, professionally edited file you can publish or hand to your team.
Drop in a Word (.docx) or PDF file — a chapter or a whole book. Chapters and headings are detected automatically.
It reads like a copyeditor — grammar, punctuation, clarity, word choice and line‑level craft — and explains each change in the margin.
Every mark is yours to keep or discard — one at a time, by category, or all at once. You always hold the pencil.
Download a clean manuscript, or a real Word redline with native tracked changes you can keep working in.
Surgical, explained, reversible. Galley assists the way a good human editor would — never a black‑box rewrite.
Minimal, precise edits that fix the issue without flattening your style. No wholesale rewrites.
Proofread, copyedit, line edit — or a single Full Edit that does everything at once.
Every change comes with a short reason, plus a developmental assessment of the whole manuscript.
Accept or reject each mark. Nothing changes in your book unless you say so.
Export native tracked changes — open in Microsoft Word and keep accepting or rejecting there.
Tune the editor to your genre so it honors the conventions of fiction, scripture, scholarship and more.
Start free on a full manuscript. Upgrade when you're editing at volume. Limits reset every month.
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For sentence‑level work — grammar, punctuation, clarity, consistency and line craft — Galley is genuinely strong and does the job of a professional copyedit and proofread. For deep developmental work like restructuring plot or argument, it gives you an assessment and notes, but a human editor's judgment still leads. Think of it as a tireless copyeditor that hands you a clean redline to review.
Word documents (.docx) and PDFs. Word files keep their structure most faithfully; PDF chapter detection is approximate. You can export a clean Word file or a native tracked‑changes redline.
Never. Galley only proposes edits as tracked changes. Nothing is altered in your manuscript until you accept it — individually, by category, or all at once.
Your text is processed only to generate your edits and is never used to train models. We recommend operators publish a clear privacy policy and terms before launch.
Editing a manuscript runs in sections. Your plan includes a generous monthly allowance — roughly measured in manuscripts — and it resets at the start of each month. You can always see what you've used in the editor.
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