A free tool
Structure Map
Paste your draft and see its architecture: how the scenes lengthen and contract, which ones sit far from the rest, where the talk goes silent, and which threads start strong and then quietly drop. It reads the shape and never changes a word of it.
Your text is analysed entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or sent to any AI.
A map describes the country. It does not tell you where to go.
Most structure tools confirm what you already know: they hand back an outline of scenes you wrote and remember. The harder thing is to see the pattern you cannot hold in your head, the seventh setup with no payoff, the character who carries chapter two and then vanishes for a hundred pages.
This map surfaces those as plain facts: a scene three times the median length, a name that clusters and goes quiet. It never says fix it. A long scene might be the still centre of the book, and a dropped thread might be exactly the silence you intended. Seeing where they are is what lets you decide on purpose. The deciding stays yours.
See also: the Pacing X-ray, for the rhythm inside a single scene
- What does the Structure Map show?
- It splits your text into scenes and chapters, then reports the shape as numbers: how long each scene is against the median, which scenes sit far from the rest, which have no dialogue, the word balance across chapters, and which recurring names cluster and then fall silent for a long stretch. Every line is a measurement, not a verdict.
- Is this a reverse outline tool?
- Yes, with one difference. A reverse outline lists what each scene contains, which confirms the structure you already know. The Structure Map adds the part that reveals: it surfaces length outliers and dropped threads as facts, the kind of thing you would otherwise only catch by reading the whole draft with a pencil. It never rewrites a word.
- Does it tell me what to fix?
- No, on purpose. A long scene can be the best in the book and a quiet thread can be a deliberate absence. The map only shows you where those things are; whether they are problems is a judgement only re-reading makes, and that judgement stays yours.
- Is it free, and does my text get uploaded?
- It is free with no sign-up, and nothing is uploaded. The whole analysis runs in your browser, so your manuscript never leaves your device and is never used to train any model. There is no AI call involved at all.
- How is this different from DraftProse itself?
- This tool reads a pasted fragment. DraftProse, the full writing studio, runs the same structural read plus pacing and character-voice reads across your entire manuscript, where dropped threads and length swings actually show. Like this tool, it never generates prose. The workspace is free; the Reader is the paid part.