# Intrs - Novel Writing App — Foreshadowing · Outlines

> Foreshadowing · Outlines (iPhone/iPad app by 相呈 宋.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/intrs-novel-writing-app/id6797488367 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [相呈 宋](https://appshunter.io/developer/6782610317)
- Category: Productivity, Books
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 62 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-22
- Data updated: 2026-11-07

## What is Intrs?

If you…

· often forget foreshadowing and need clear, visible reminders…
· want to plan chapter outlines before you start writing…
· sync across multiple devices and want chapter-by-chapter version control…
· often regret deleting content and want to recover chapters/novels…
· don’t want your writing used for AI training or entangled in copyright ownership issues…
· want to share your writing promptly without worrying about social app text limits…
· want a clean writing interface and a smooth writing experience…
· want to export directly to Word when you’re done, while adjusting formatting right there…

Then Intrs is worth a try!

【Intrs+】Early-bird one-time purchase price on sale now!

· Offers a one-time purchase that unlocks all full features and includes ongoing content updates and fixes
· Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
· Privacy Policy: https://app.sslime.dev/intrs/privacy/
· Need help: https://app.sslime.dev/intrs/support/
· Feedback: https://atomgit.com/sslime/Intrs/issues

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intrs+ Lifetime | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Intrs safe?

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## Is Intrs legit?

Intrs - Novel Writing App has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Intrs is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4 — 2026-11-02

【i18n】
- Improved display copy for some languages

【Sidebar】
- Fixed frame drops and stuttering when the sidebar is expanded
- Fixed an issue where the system keyboard would not dismiss after creating a new volume and tapping a blank area to exit volume name editing

【Sensitive Words】
- Improved the style of sensitive words in body text by lightening their color
- Added batch import for sensitive words; the import format aligns with open-source sensitive word libraries, .txt file, one word per line

【Editor】
- Added an onboarding guide to improve the experience; it can be reopened in Settings
- Word count no longer includes punctuation
- The outline title bar now supports displaying the outline word count
- Added support for custom editor backgrounds (Intrs+)
- Improved the foreshadowing list and foreshadowing preview display in long paragraphs
- Added gestures for quickly switching chapters: swipe right to return to the previous chapter, swipe left to go to the next chapter; if the next chapter does not exist, a prompt to create one appears; gestures are not yet supported in the outline view
- Added support for adding/removing tool buttons in the floating button (long press to remove after entering edit mode)
- Fixed inconsistent display between the book page preview and the editor when there is no custom background in long-title scenarios
- Added a new text-on-screen effect, “Bubbling”; removed the “Falling” effect
- Fixed the editor bouncing up and down when typing at the end of an article in a 4,000-word scenario
- Editing strategies now apply to the note-editing section of annotations
- Improved the writing progress curve display
- Long-image export and writing progress now support one-tap sharing
- Improved style descriptions and layout in the long-image export section

【Bookshelf】
- Added batch editing: batch replace/delete covers, export Word documents, and move books to the recycle bin
- The cloud sync screen now supports displaying custom book covers

【Atmosphere】
- Improved the light beams shining down from the water surface in the “Lake Light” atmosphere to enhance style randomness
- Improved the atmosphere list and added a simple animation to the selected atmosphere
- Removed the Hot Spring atmosphere

【Dynamic Island】
- Added i18n

### 1.3 — 2026-10-17

【Usage Analytics with TelemetryDeck】
- Added analytics for Ambience, Foreshadowing, Long Image Export, Auto Formatting, and more. Analytics is only used to record feature usage frequency; it does not include actual user content, package, or upload user assets.

【Sidebar】
- Fixed vertical jitter when switching between the chapter outline and manuscript lists.
- You can now tap the sidebar title to update the book title.
- Improved the long-press background of volume/chapter items when moving volumes/chapters.
- Fixed an issue where, after scrolling in the sidebar, long-pressing a chapter caused offset misalignment and made it impossible to select and move.
- Added automatic renumbering for volumes/chapters.

【Annotations (Foreshadowing)】
- Free quota adjusted to 10 entries per book.
- Fixed cross-chapter foreshadowing jumps not landing in the correct position in one go.

【Editor】
- Fixed an issue where the copy effect did not work when a chapter exceeded 100,000 characters and the cursor was in the latter half of the chapter.
- Improved keyboard awareness: when the cursor is in the lower half of the viewport, the keyboard no longer covers it after tapping to edit.
- The punctuation bar now detects unmatched symbols at the cursor position and prompts completion.
- Text input sound effects in the punctuation bar and dictionary bar now use system sounds, synchronized with the iOS keyboard sound.
- Simplified the “return to original position after jump” button in the floating window to keep only one stack level.
- Fixed a slight line-height jump in multi-line editing when chapter title editing is triggered.
- Added support for importing custom fonts.
- The bottom-right floating button can now be long-pressed to edit its position.
- Removed the leftmost indent button from the punctuation bar.
- The typing speed floating ball now shows the character count of the currently selected text.

【Long Image Export】
- Exported images can now be fine-tuned in place and no longer reset to the initial position.
- Fixed a small area at the very bottom of a long image being obscured when zooming in during export.
- Export now supports including the current ambience effect (currently only for paginated export).

【Statistics】
- Fixed part of the data curve at the top of the Today’s Writing preview image being obscured.
- Improved typing speed tracking: timing stops after 5 seconds of inactivity.
- Improved typing speed display; the floating window now shows typing speed trends.
- Removed the daily writing goal. The line chart at the bottom-right of the book page is replaced with a writing progress curve, with switchable display windows.
- Added data curves for Yesterday, This Week, and Last 30 Days.
- Today’s writing record curve remains visible; if there is no writing record, the data shows 0.
- Writing cards now support rendering ambience appearances.

【Paywall】
- UI improvements.
- Added an optional pre-trial-expiry reminder for new subscription scenarios.

【Import/Export】
- Added Word import.
- Added a manual chapter splitting mechanism, allowing users to split chapters manually.
- Removed zip and folder import.
- Removed export as zip.

【iCloud Sync】
- Improved the interaction flow when iCloud permission is turned off/on while the app is in use.

【Sensitive Words】New!
- Sensitive words in the main text are marked with strikethrough.
- Supports custom sensitive word lists (stored locally only).

【Dynamic Island / Lock Screen】New!
- Shows the current book and chapter being edited on the Dynamic Island / Lock Screen.
- Shows today’s word count and typing speed on the Dynamic Island / Lock Screen.
- Can be enabled in Settings > Dynamic Island / Lock Screen Display; off by default.

【Ambience】
- Supports setting the sound for each ambience separately.    
- Supports selectively toggling animation and sound, including sound-only display.

### 1.2 — 2026-10-10

[New Ambience - ASMR]
· Hot Spring
· Thunderstorm
· Cold Wind
· Lake Light

[Writing Speed Statistics]
· Supports writing speed statistics
· Supports sharing your writing journey

[Bug Fixes]
· Fixed an issue where entering text with an IME could affect the color of subsequent foreshadowing
· Fixed an issue where typing effects were interrupted by the IME
· Fixed an issue where setting foreshadowing across multiple lines only applied to the first line
· Fixed an issue where moving the cursor did not scroll the page
· Fixed lag when editing a single chapter with more than 80,000 characters
· Fixed an issue where punctuation bar key sounds caused abnormal iOS keyboard sounds

[Experience Improvements]
· Added the ability to set text color when exporting as a long image
· Improved the style of the collapse button in the sidebar
· Improved the entrance animations for the punctuation bar and dictionary bar
· Enhanced the floating button in the bottom-right corner; swipe left to show quick action buttons
· Added undo and redo buttons to the bottom-left corner of the editor
· Improved the style of the dictionary entry input field
· Split editor settings into categories
· Improved the bookshelf page when there are no books
· Long-press the copy button in the top-right corner of the editor to set ambience and light/dark mode
· Added buttons on either side of the daily writing goal to increase/decrease by 100 characters
· The update progress line chart is now displayed directly in the bottom-right corner of the book page
· Added quick jump-to-top/bottom buttons in the bottom-left corner of the editor, shown when not editing
· Made the appearance and dismissal of the punctuation bar and dictionary bar more fluid

[Feature Changes]
· Removed the selected-text card export feature
· Renamed "Full Chapter Export" to "Long Image Export" and removed the xhs export template
· Added a cloud sync audit view to help review and resolve conflicts during cloud sync
· Added selective toggles for input optimization strategies

[Localization]
· French support added; completion strategy to be optimized

### 1.1 — 2026-10-01

v1.1 Release!

This update includes 10 bug fixes, 8 experience improvements, 5 useful new features, and 2 new writing effects.
The "Rain Window" ambience has also been added to the Novelist plan (default plan, Free)!

Details:

【iPad Adaptation】
· This version provides preliminary iPad support. Users can download and try it on iPad.

【Ambience - Free!】
· "Rain Window" ambience has passed long-term stability testing. The iPhone overheating issue is basically resolved (tested on iPhone 17), and it is now available for free!

【New Text Display Effect - "Swing" is now available with Plus subscription】
· "Swing"
· Supports text effect previews

【New Text Deletion Effect - "Sink" is now available with Plus subscription】
· "Sink"

【New Foreshadowing Feature】
· Supports selecting text in the body to set foreshadowing
· Supports previewing and jumping to foreshadowing context

【New Dictionary Feature】
· Supports adding and recording proper nouns by selecting text
· Supports renaming proper nouns

【New Import Feature】
· Supports importing via zip archive. The directory structure uses book title and volume name, and chapters are archived as .txt files.

【New Trash / Version Management】
· Supports recovering deleted novels/volumes/chapters from Trash
· Supports chapter version management

【Bug Fixes】
· Fixed an issue in the sidebar table of contents where creating multiple volumes in a row could silently fail.
· Fixed an issue where the book cover was misaligned when returning from the editor to the bookshelf after enabling ambience.
· Fixed an issue on the bookshelf page where the status button in the upper-right corner flickered during cloud sync.
· Fixed native iOS keyboard features: three-finger pinch to copy, three-finger spread to paste.
· Fixed an issue with native iOS input where the undo/redo stack for three-finger swipe left/right only had one level.
· Fixed an issue where, after exporting selected text as a card, exporting the full text still exported the selected content.
· Fixed an issue where the book cover rendered incorrectly when exiting and re-entering the app with ambience enabled.
· Fixed an issue where, after returning to the bookshelf from the chapter outline/outline, entering the editor from the bookshelf did not return to the chapter outline/outline, but went back to the body text.
· Fixed frequent bouncing at the bottom of the input area when typing after the edited content grows large.
· Fixed an issue where, after exiting the app from the chapter outline/outline screen, re-entering the app did not return directly to the chapter outline/outline.

【Experience Improvements】
· When exporting the full text as a card, supports pinch-to-zoom preview.
· Added click sound effects to the punctuation bar.
· Outline and chapter outline floating window states are now managed separately and no longer affect each other.
· The back button in the upper-left corner of the editor now supports long-press to bring up a list, which can return directly to the bookshelf or open a previously viewed chapter.
· The book page supports infinite carousel switching; swipe left from the last book to return to the first book.
· During subscription, emphasize that "the subscription will continue unless canceled" to reduce unexpected charges.
· Simplified the feature introduction for first-time use, replacing pop-ups with toast reminders.
· Supports reordering chapters/volumes and moving them across volumes in the sidebar.

【Localization】
· Added Traditional Chinese support.
· Added English support. Input optimization strategy is in development.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-23

No release notes.

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