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I tried to generate a visual book with my own manuscript, but this wrapper only gives you a "What is your book about?" box. I pasted my manuscript (7,000 characters) into it because I like my writing better than the AI. It then completely rewrote my manuscript into generic AI rubbish with the prose of a robot. It cut out a few of my characters that were in the manuscript. It took it in an entirely different direction.
You can't even get a basic place on the website to sit down at an open editor and actually write, using AI as an assistant. It uses a heavily templated process, so you will lose any voice, style, or prose you think you have and replace it with its own.
This is simply a "let me wow you with a bunch of different writing niche wrappers put into the sidebar" approach while getting away with the bare minimum of features. Good luck getting features implemented that you want. Even seemingly straightforward requests get sent to a voting board, where they can sit buried beneath more popular ideas for months. You'd think the founder would emphasize implementing basic modern 2026 features.
I just can't trust this founder's judgment or ability to take this tool where it needs to go. People have been asking for an API and MCP for months, which is increasingly something I expect from AI software in 2026. There's obviously been a bunch of supporters wanting basic features, but the founder doesn't seem to want to embrace the future ahead of us. So I just don't know if I want to stay on a train that goes nowhere or backward.
I can see another motivated software engineer founder coming to AppSumo with a new writing tool that has MCP and blows this one out of the water with features. If you're already holding back simple modern features, then that's a good enough sign for me to jump off this train and wait for a better one.
In a few months, compared to what new, motivated founders will come out with, this tool could be like using a pager in the cell phone era. It's good for right now and seems high-tech, but in the next several months, I don't know that there will be much reason to have or use this tool.
Artem_Founder_AIWriteBook
Oct 7, 2026Hi Patrick,
Thank you for writing this out in detail. Two of your points I can answer concretely.
1. Your manuscript in a visual book. The "What is your book about?" box is read as a brief, not as final text, so the storyboard writer rephrased your story and made its own cuts. To keep your words, paste the story into that box (it holds up to 10,000 characters) and add a line like "use this text word for word and split it across the pages". Then, before rendering, open each page in the Storyboard step and check its text. That field is exactly what gets printed, so you can paste your own lines back wherever it drifted.
2. Writing yourself, with AI as the assistant. That exists for fiction and non-fiction books. Import your manuscript as a Word .docx and the text comes in unchanged, split into chapters. From there the writing editor is a normal editor: you type, and the AI chat next to each chapter changes only what you ask it to, shown as highlighted edits you accept or reject. If you do let it write a chapter, the Details step takes a sample of your own writing so it follows your voice.
On MCP, my answer to your question stands: it is not built and I can't give you a date. The request is on our public roadmap, and votes there shape what we pick up next: https://aiwritebook.com/app/public-roadmap
I hope it helps!