Unsloppy

What it is

Unsloppy is a browser fiction studio. The home page calls it "the AI-powered fiction studio for authors who care about their prose" and says it is for full-length novels, screenplays, and branching narratives. The about page is plainer: a manuscript editor with an Agent Mode that talks to a model when a chapter needs help, with a lorebook, branches, and a curated model catalog attached to the draft.

The company line is that general chat models average the public web and hand back stock phrasing, and that a novelist should not have to manage API keys. Unsloppy hosts the models. You spend Ink. The site is in English, Chinese, Japanese, and German. Support email on the marketing pages is support@unsloppy.ai.

Who it's for

• Novelists in romance, fantasy, thriller, and dark fiction, the genres the about page names as getting a "permissive" model that stays in character.
• Fanfic writers and anyone on a long draft who wants the records kept without filling a lorebook by hand before chapter one.
• Writers who already tried a chatbot and lost a name, a scar, or a weapon between chapters. That is the failure the home page is selling against.

It is a weak fit if you want to bring your own API key, run a local model, or get a developmental edit that talks about structure. The public pages do not advertise those jobs. It is also a weak fit if you need a shared project: the terms say stories are private to the account and Unsloppy does not provide public story pages or story-sharing links.

Key features in practice

• Story Canon. On Pro and Premium, the home page says the agent reads chapters you save once you pause and suggests notes: voice, look, habits, places, world rules, and threads you have not paid off. Each note arrives with the line it came from. You keep it with a click or dismiss it. "Nothing becomes canon without your yes." On Free, you fill the same record yourself. The about page calls this a lorebook that stays attached to the draft.
• Selective recall. The home page's contrast is with tools that send the whole manuscript every time. Unsloppy says it sends a short brief built from the canon: who is in the room, an open promise, a world rule. That is the mechanism it claims will keep a detail stable past ninety thousand words. Treat the word-count claim as the vendor's, not a test we ran.
• A hosted catalog, not a key. The about page names Magnum, Euryale, Anubis, Loki, Hermes, and a Gemma free tier. It says Euryale, Anubis, Loki, and Hermes are built with Meta Llama under the Llama 3 Community License. Romance, fantasy, thriller, and dark fiction are routed to a more permissive model; continuity and revision passes go to a tighter one. The home page's public demo labels two outputs "Gemma 4" and "Euryale" and says every word is real output. Free includes "5 curated models." Pro lists "economic prose models." Premium lists "expanded fiction model access."
• Humanizer. The home page says that when the prose is finished, the Humanizer strips machine tells in English, Chinese, Japanese, and German. It publishes a kill list of phrases (a shiver down the spine, a breath she didn't know she was holding, and similar). The Pro blurb on the home page includes running the Humanizer. The pricing page does not repeat that line.
• Agent Mode is a paid feature on the pricing page. Pricing says Free lets you test the prose editor, and Pro adds Agent Mode, Materials, proposal review, and recovery checkpoints. The home page's free card says 36 Ink a day is "enough to try the editor and the agent tools." Those two sentences do not match. Read the pricing page as the tighter list, and check the app before you assume Agent Mode is free.
• Exports. Free: TXT and Markdown. Pro: EPUB and PDF. Premium: "all formats." The home page also says a full manuscript export is available any time, "clean and unaltered."
• Ownership and training. The terms say Unsloppy does not claim ownership of text, stories, characters, or lore you create or upload. You grant a license to host and process that content to run the service, including third-party AI providers, and not to sell it or make it public. Privacy and terms both say your stories and prompts are not used to train models. Generation requests and outputs may be logged for abuse and debugging and are purged within 30 days. The privacy page says they pick providers that offer API access where submitted content is not used for training. Third-party retention is still the provider's policy.

Pricing (checked 16 October 2026)

Plan	Monthly	Non-sale annual	Ink
Free	$0	$0	36 Ink a day, capped at 36
Pro	$19.99	$179.88/year ($14.99/month)	360/day, plus bonuses below
Premium	$39.99	$359.88/year ($29.99/month)	720/day, plus bonuses below

The pricing page's yearly toggle says "Save 25%," which matches those annual totals. The same page, and a banner on the home page, advertised a launch sale of 50% off annual plans: Pro at $9.99 a month and Premium at $19.99 a month, billed annually. On 16 October 2026 the countdown read about 16 days, and the home page said the campaign price lasts until the countdown hits zero. A later campaign "requires a fresh claim; otherwise the annual price is $14.99." That $14.99 line sits in the Pro section. Confirm the banner before you treat $9.99 as the price.

Ink, from the terms:

• Pro monthly subscribers get a one-time 10,800 Ink signup bonus. Annual Pro prepays 12 months and receives 12 times that bonus (129,600 Ink) up front. While subscribed, Pro also gets a 4,400 Ink grant each month.
• Premium monthly gets a 21,600 Ink signup bonus. Annual Premium gets 12 times that (259,200) up front, plus a 9,200 Ink grant each month. Renewal does not repeat the first-ever signup bonus.
• Top-up: 50,000 Ink for $99, repeatable. Purchased Ink is kept if the subscription lapses. Granted Ink is not a permanent asset.

Cancel from billing settings. Access lasts until the period ends. Subscription fees are non-refundable, the terms say, and a refund policy is linked from there. After the period, the Ink balance is frozen for a 30-day grace. Resubscribe inside that window and it comes back. After 30 days, granted Ink above a protected floor is forfeited. The floor is the greater of 36 Ink or the Ink you bought in top-ups. The account returns to Free.

The pricing page also says no contracts, cancel anytime, and secure payments. It does not define how many words one Ink buys. Do not budget a novel from the daily grant until you have spent it on your own scene.

Using it as a writer

1. Start on the free tier with a chapter you already know, not a premise. The pricing page's free plan is the prose editor, five models, unlimited stories, and basic export. That is enough to see whether a hosted model sounds like your book.
2. If you pay, read the canon notes before you keep them. The product's own rule is that nothing is canon without your yes. A wrong note you approve becomes the brief for the next scene.
3. Treat the Humanizer as a cliché pass, not a line edit. It is aimed at stock AI phrasing. It will not tell you the scene is in the wrong place.
4. Export before you depend on the account. TXT and Markdown are on Free. EPUB and PDF start at Pro. The terms say you can export; do it while the billing period is still open.
5. Do not open a second account for more free Ink. The terms forbid abusing the Ink system that way.

Strengths

• No API key. The about page is explicit that the model menu is Unsloppy's job. That is the opposite of a bring-your-own-key studio.
• Canon is proposed from the draft, with a source line, and you can dismiss it. On Free you still have the record; you just fill it yourself.
• A plain training answer. Stories and prompts are not used to train models, and logs are purged within 30 days. Read the privacy policy anyway before an unpublished book goes up.
• The manuscript is yours on the terms page, and there is no public story link for someone else to open.
• A free tier with no card, so the first test does not require the launch-sale price.

Weaknesses

• Ink has no public word rate. Daily grants, signup bonuses, and a $99 top-up are all listed. What a scene costs is not.
• Free versus Pro is blurry on the marketing pages. Home says the free Ink can try the agent tools. Pricing says Agent Mode arrives with Pro.
• Granted Ink expires in practice. After cancel, you have the rest of the period plus 30 days. Then the grants above the floor are gone. Purchased top-ups are the part that stays.
• Not a developmental editor. Proposal review is named. A structural report, a line edit, and a "is this chapter working" pass are not what the pages describe.
• No bring-your-own-key and no local model on the public pages. If the hosted catalog is wrong for your book, there is nowhere else to point the draft.
• The launch price is a countdown. The terms' annual totals ($179.88 and $359.88) are the numbers that survive the banner.

How it compares

• Unsloppy vs Sudowrite. Both are fiction studios with a story record and models in the price. Sudowrite sells a monthly credit subscription and a Story Bible you maintain. Unsloppy's pitch is that the canon notes are suggested from chapters you save, and that you should not bring a key. Compare the prose on the same scene. See the Sudowrite review.
• Unsloppy vs Novelcrafter. Novelcrafter's depth is the codex plus your own key, including a local model, from the Hobbyist plan up. Unsloppy's about page is written against that chore. You trade the key for a catalog you do not control. See the Novelcrafter review.
• Unsloppy vs Loreon. Loreon charges credits for checks against a bible and leaves the editor free. Unsloppy is built to draft with the model in the loop and to spend Ink on generation. If the job is a continuity finding that quotes the page, read Loreon. If the job is the next scene, Unsloppy is the closer claim. See the Loreon review.
• Unsloppy vs ProseEngine. ProseEngine is made by the person who runs this site. See the disclosure above. It is also a fiction studio with a codex and scene generation. We are not scoring that matchup. Run the same chapter in each.

Verdict

Unsloppy is a hosted fiction desk: a canon you approve, a short brief per scene, and models the vendor picked. That is a coherent answer to "the chatbot forgot the gun." It is not a cheap way to generate a book you have not written, and the Ink math is unpublished.

Use the free tier on a chapter you can judge. If the voice is wrong, stop; there is no key to swap in. If it is right, read the terms' annual price ($179.88 or $359.88) and only then look at the launch banner. The countdown is not the plan.

FAQ

Is Unsloppy free? Yes. The pricing page lists a free plan with 36 Ink a day, capped at 36, five models, unlimited stories, and TXT and Markdown export. No card is required to start, the home page says.

How much is Pro? On 16 October 2026 the monthly card was $19.99. The terms list $179.88 a year. A launch-sale banner the same day showed $9.99 a month billed annually. Confirm which price checkout is charging.

Does Unsloppy train on my manuscript? The privacy policy and the terms say no. Requests go to third-party providers to generate the output you asked for, and logs are purged within 30 days.

Can I bring an API key? The public pages do not offer that. The about page says the catalog is hosted and that you should not have to manage keys.

What happens to Ink if I cancel? You keep paid features until the period ends. Granted Ink is then frozen for 30 days. After that, grants above a protected floor are forfeited. Ink you bought in a top-up is kept.