Manuscript Editor
Write your paper in the same place you do your research.
A rich-text manuscript editor built for academic writing. Auto-save as you type, validate against submission guidelines before you submit, assign peer reviewers, and collaborate with your team. Your citations, documents, and annotations are all in the same workspace.
3-day Pro trial included · No credit card required
The writing desk
Everything you need to write and submit
Auto-save
Every change is saved automatically as you type. Word count updates in real time. No more lost work from forgotten saves.
Submission guidelines
Set up journal-specific rules like word count limits, required sections, heading depth, image count, reference count, and more. Alfred checks your manuscript against these rules before you submit.
14 validation rule types
Word count, required sections, heading depth, image limits, table limits, forbidden elements, section word counts, reference count, citation style, keywords count, structured abstracts, required declarations, citation cross-references, and bibliography order.
Rich text formatting
Bold, italic, headings, lists, tables, images, and links. Everything an academic paper needs, in a clean editor that stays out of your way.
Math equations
Add inline and block equations without writing LaTeX by hand. Insert from the toolbar, edit in place, and number your block equations when you need to reference them.
Rewrite with AI
Select a passage and rewrite, humanize, expand, or fix its grammar in place. The writing assists stay inside the editor so you never break your train of thought.
AI-detection panel
A panel flags passages that read as AI-generated, so you can review and revise them before an editor or examiner runs their own check.
Writing-health panel
See readability and style signals for your draft as you write, and address weak spots section by section rather than all at the end.
Originality report in the editor
Run an originality check without leaving your manuscript. Overlap is compared across every document on the platform and shown inline, so you can fix it before you submit.
Version history
Every draft is kept as you go. Look back at earlier versions of your manuscript and see how it changed over time.
Peer review tracking
Assign reviewers to your manuscript, collect structured feedback with threaded comments, and track the entire review cycle within your workspace.
Team collaboration
Share manuscripts with co-authors in your workspace. Everyone works on the same document with role-based access controls (Owner, Colleague, Reviewer).
Write your next paper in Alfred Scholar.
Start a manuscript, set your journal's guidelines, and let Alfred handle the formatting checks. 3-day Pro trial included. No credit card required.