Your manuscript, in the hands
of the readers you trust.
DraftCircle is where authors share a work in progress with a small circle of beta readers — and get the honest, in-context response that actually makes the next draft better. Notes in the margin, letters at the end of a chapter, and a clear picture of how each reader moved through the book.
Every note and letter, gathered
Margin notes and longer end-of-chapter letters collect into a single feedback console, grouped by chapter and version and filterable by reader. No ratings, no stars — just the considered response you asked for, in one calm place.
Know who read what — and which draft
Track follows every reader chapter by chapter and version by version: who is still reading, who finished, how long they spent, and the notes they left. Revise a chapter and readers are nudged to the new version — while their old notes stay pinned to the draft they actually read.
A reading room, not a comment box
Your draft is set as real pages — a drop cap, proper indentation, adjustable type and spacing. A Zen mode hides every marker, note and rail when a reader just wants the prose, and brings the conversation back with a tap. Never in the way of the story.
Private by invite
One link goes to the readers you choose. No public page, no profile, nothing to find by accident.
Write under any name
Your real name, a pen name, or initials — readers see one quiet byline under the title.
A room, not a feed
No discovery, no trending, no vanity metrics. Just a manuscript and a few trusted readers.
Free for 30 days. Then $9 a month.
Try every feature free for a month, then keep going for $9/mo. The readers you invite never pay and never see a paywall.
“The most useful note I ever got on a draft was a single sentence, written in the margin by someone who had been reading for an hour without speaking.”
From the DraftCircle notebook