Never lose a scene, a chapter, or a whole draft

Writer Studio is a writing app with version history built in, alongside three other safety mechanisms: autosave with crash recovery, a restorable Trash, and full-project backups. Each one covers exactly one kind of loss, so there's always a clear answer to "how do I get that back" — and no reason to write cautiously.

What happens if the app crashes mid-sentence?

Your text and structure save continuously while you write, so a crash costs you nothing. When Writer Studio reopens, your latest edits are already there — no recovery dialog, no "restore unsaved changes" prompt to click through.

If a save ever fails — a disk error, a locked file — the editor shows a clear in-context error and keeps your unsaved text safe while it retries. Your words are never silently dropped, and you can always copy them out by hand. This autosave and crash recovery runs by default; there's nothing to configure and nothing to remember to do.

What happens when I delete a scene or character by mistake?

It goes to Trash, not away. Deleting a scene, chapter, part, character, location, plotline, note, image, or a whole book moves it into the Trash panel instead of erasing it.

A trashed item disappears from structure, navigation, search, export, and AI context — but links to it never break; they simply show as pointing to a deleted item. Restore brings the item back in one action, exactly where it was. Delete a container (a chapter, say) and its contents go with it as one unit; restore it and everything comes back together. Only permanent delete, which asks you to confirm, removes an item for good — from that point, a backup or a full project rollback are the only ways back.

Can I compare and restore one scene with version history?

Yes — that's what per-scene version history is for. Open Version History from any scene and you'll see its earlier versions in order, each one you can view, diff against your current text, or restore.

Restoring replaces only that scene's text; nothing else in your book changes. The timeline builds itself automatically as you write, and you can mark a version with a label at a moment worth remembering. Restoring is itself reversible — Writer Studio records your current state as a version first, so you can always step back to where you were. A version captures a scene's prose together with its own cast and point of view, and restoring never touches your Book Wiki cards.

What if I lose the whole project — a dead drive, a corrupted folder?

That's what backups are for — the one mechanism that lives outside your working files entirely. A backup is a complete copy of the whole project, including its version history and current Trash, so restoring from one brings back your history, not just your latest text.

Because a backup is independent of the live project, it can rebuild your book even after the working folder itself is gone. Where and how often backups are made is a per-device setting, since a backup's storage path is a property of your machine, not your manuscript.

The four mechanisms at a glance

What you lost	Mechanism	What it restores
Unsaved edits after a crash	Autosave + crash recovery	Your latest text, automatically, on reopen
A deleted scene, entity, or note	Trash + restore	The item, in one action, exactly where it was
An earlier draft of one scene	Version History	That scene's text and cast — nothing else in the book
The whole project, or a purged item	Backup	A full project copy, history and Trash included

Under the hood, per-scene version history runs on a version-control engine — but you'll never see commits, branches, or remotes. Writer Studio calls a saved point a version, full stop, and every restore stays visible and reviewable before it takes effect.

This safety net is what makes the rest of the app usable without hesitation: restructure freely in the manuscript structure view, or read the full mechanics in the safety and recovery docs. When you're ready to write with that net under you, download Writer Studio — free.