Glava
A book formatter in the browser. Word file in, KDP paperback and ebook out.
- Role Solo, with coding agents.
- Stack React 19, Tiptap, Typst in WebAssembly, Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2, Stripe, Tauri.
- Year 2026
Vellum sets the best self-published pages, and it only runs on a Mac. Glava brings that quality to the browser, so a PC author can format a paperback and an ebook for KDP.
Write on the left, the book on the right
Type in the editor and the page updates beside it. The outline shows each chapter's word count, and the status line counts pages and flags anything KDP would reject.
Typst does the setting
I set my own book in Typst and in Atticus and measured both. Tight lines dropped from 17.4% to 5.4%, and text copied out of the PDF stopped coming back garbled.
17.4% Tight lines, Atticus PDF 5.4% Same book in Typst
Themes and a cover that fits
15 themes, each with its own fonts, chapter openings and running heads, with the author's settings on top. The cover wrap takes its spine width from the page count and paper.
Brand
- Aa Libertinus Serif Wordmark, book pages
- Aa Inter Interface
- #FFFFFF
- #FAFAFA
- #111111
- #737373
- #D9614F
White paper and black ink, like a printer's proof. Red shows up only in the corner mark and on the selected tile.
Result
- getglava.app and the web app are live.
- Free to use, $99 once to export.
- Built in 3 days.
Have a project in mind? Describe it below for a quote within a day, or email me. My own apps live at deeflect.com.