A
IDE
Hack anything, version control, syntax highlighting
But not built for prose
About Slima
Tools matter to writers, too.
Slima is a free creative environment built for people who write. We don't think writing software should be stuck between "too simple" and "too closed."
— 01 · How Slima started
I couldn't find a writing tool that fit me.
I'm a writer. Every time I opened Word, Scrivener, or Notion, something felt off — the formatting, the rigidity, the way it didn't match how my brain works.
I'm also a coder. The freedom of an IDE — change anything, syntax highlighting, version control, hack into any corner — is something coders take for granted. Open a writing app and none of that exists.
Writing tools shouldn't be stuck between "too simple" and "too closed."
I wanted something with the freedom of an IDE and the focus of a writing app. I couldn't find one, so I built it.
Slima is that tool.
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Tim Tsai
Founder, Slima
— 02 · Where we sit
Between IDE freedom and writing-tool focus.
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Word / Scrivener / Notion
Built for prose, manuscript management
But closed, not extensible, low flexibility
A + B
Slima
Both sides' upsides, made for writers
What we're here for
Better tools
for the people who write.
— 03 · What we believe
Four principles that decide what we ship and what we don't.
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Your work never trains AI
Your writing is encrypted at rest. We don't train models on it — that's a promise written into our terms.
ii
The editor is free, forever
The whole writing flow, cloud sync, version control, exports — none of it costs anything. We charge only for AI compute.
iii
AI is a coach, not a replacement
AI doesn't write for you. It reads your whole book, asks questions, points out gaps, polishes a line — but the words are always yours.
iv
As free as an IDE
Scene reordering, chapter folding, cross-file search, keyboard shortcuts, structure templates — the control coders expect, given to writers.
— 04 · What we make
Three studios, one writing environment.
From long-form fiction to scripts to structured editorial reports — one account, one cloud, one AI coach.
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Writing Studio
Long-form editor with full-book memory, AI coach who has read your manuscript
Tour the studio →C
Script Studio
Hollywood ↔ Taiwanese dual-format, corkboard, structure templates
See screenwriting →B
Beta Reader
Structured editorial reports with chapter-level inline notes
See a sample report →— 05 · Behind the scenes
Engineers writing fiction, novelists writing code.
The team is small. We spend as much time reading as we spend coding. Some of us are revising draft 20 at 3 AM; some are sneaking dialogue into a corner of a code review. That overlap is the lens we design every feature through.
Writing tools shouldn't be designed by people who don't write.
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We don't write for you. We just keep your soul from drowning in busywork.
— The Slima creative philosophy
The tool is here. The story's on you.
Free includes the full editing flow, cloud sync, and version control — first sentence to publication-ready file.
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