Account & plans

Your account #

Your avatar in the top-right opens the account menu, and Preferences live in there. The account page holds your name, email, password and profile picture, which you can crop in place rather than accepting whatever the upload produced.

You can also claim a handle and get a public writer profile at charc.app/@yourhandle, showing your published work, works in progress and a year of writing activity. It is optional and off by default.

Themes and appearance #

Light and dark themes, an accent color, and — the setting people miss — interface text size and font set separately from your manuscript. You can draft in 12pt Times while the app itself stays small and out of the way.

Appearance layers: a theme sets everything, and any individual control you change overrides the theme. Reset to defaults returns a control to the theme's value.

Editor preferences #

Which view opens by default, whether the page scrolls to keep your cursor centered, how far paragraphs indent, how wide the column runs, and how much the world dims in focus mode.

These are yours, not the book's. Page size, margins and export typography live in Project settings instead.

Panels and sidebars #

Which panels remember being open, whether the drafting sidebar and reference panel start collapsed, and what the sidebar shows.

What the limits govern #

Free covers three projects, 1 GB of storage, ten saved snapshots, two weeks of automatic saves and a week of change history, plus a team of one coauthor, two editors and five alpha readers.

Plus lifts the project cap, raises storage and snapshot counts, keeps a month of history, allows bigger teams and adds custom tabs beyond Research. The current numbers for every plan are on the pricing page, which is the one place they are kept.

Nothing is deleted when you reach a limit. A save that would exceed one is refused and tells you why, and your work stays on the device until there is room.

Your data #

Everything syncs to every device you are signed in on. Sign out and the local copy is cleared from that browser; your work stays on the server.

A Charc Backup export is the whole project in one file and restores completely. It is worth taking one periodically — good practice with any tool, this one included.