Your work and AI
Handing a manuscript to software is an act of trust. This page explains exactly what Chitrakatha does with your writing, in plain language and without hedging.
Your writing is yours
You keep every right to what you write in Chitrakatha. Using the app grants us no ownership of your stories, characters, or worlds.
Nothing is sent to a model until you ask
Your prose sits in your own project until you trigger an AI action — pressing an Assist button, running a review, or generating a draft. Typing, saving, and autosave never call a model.
Only the relevant slice is sent
When you do run an AI action, we send the scene you are working on plus the context needed for continuity: character notes, world rules, and short summaries of nearby scenes. We do not ship your whole manuscript on every request.
We do not train on your work
Chitrakatha does not train, fine-tune, or evaluate any model on your writing. We do not sell it, and we do not share it with anyone other than the AI provider needed to fulfil a request you triggered.
What we record about AI use
For billing and your usage dashboard we store which feature ran, when, and how many tokens it used. The prompt and generated text are not saved in those records.
You can switch AI off
In preferences you can allow full assistance, restrict AI to reviewing and research only, or turn it off completely. The restriction is enforced on our servers, not just hidden in the interface.
Deleting means deleting
Delete a scene, project, or your account and the underlying records go with it. Nothing is retained for training purposes.
Which AI providers we use
When you trigger an AI action, the request goes to one of the model providers we have configured — OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google — or to Azure-hosted equivalents. Which one handles a given request depends on how the app is configured at the time.
Those providers process the request on our behalf and each operate under their own terms. We do not grant them permission to train on your work, and we send only what a request needs.
Telling your readers
If you use AI anywhere in your process, we encourage you to say so when you publish. Readers increasingly expect it, several marketplaces and competitions now require a declaration, and being upfront costs you nothing. Chitrakatha can add a short disclosure note to your exports; you can enable that under Settings, then Preferences.
What counts as disclosure differs by publisher and jurisdiction, so treat our note as a convenience rather than legal advice, and check the rules that apply to where you are publishing.
Staying in control
Some writers want a full collaborator; others want a proofreader that never touches the prose. Both are supported. Under Settings, then Preferences, you can allow full assistance, limit AI to reviewing and research, or switch it off entirely. In the restricted modes the writing buttons disappear and our servers refuse prose-generating requests outright.
Questions about any of this, or something here that reads as unclear? Tell us and we will fix the wording or the behaviour, whichever is wrong.