Pencil
2 known investors
Pencil is a self-publishing platform that lets writers write, publish, and sell books in paperback and ebook formats, and offers a marketplace where authors can pitch their books or story concepts to studios for screen adaptations. It also includes reader features, video courses, and community tools for discovering and monetizing written work.
Also known as Pencil · The Pencil App
Investors · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Pencil operates a web-based self-publishing platform positioned around removing intermediaries between writers and audiences. Its core offering provides the tools needed to write, publish and sell a book in both paperback and ebook formats for worldwide distribution.
Alongside publishing, Pencil runs a marketplace for screen adaptations. Authors who hold the rights to a completed book can submit a story concept for consideration by studios, while writers without a finished book can submit a logline and synopsis for a film or web series concept through the same marketplace.
Business model
Pencil provides writers with publishing tools for paperback and ebook production and sale, and operates a marketplace connecting authors and story concepts with studios seeking material for screen adaptation.
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Market position
The company positions the platform as operating without gatekeepers or intermediaries, and combines self-publishing tools with a direct pitching channel to studios for film and web-series adaptations.
Go-to-market
Writers and authors seeking to publish and sell books independently, and writers with story or film concepts seeking studio interest; studios looking for material to adapt for screen.
Geography
The platform states that books published through it can be sold worldwide in paperback and ebook formats.
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primary sources listed
- Pencilthepencilapp.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Pencil do?
- Pencil is a self-publishing platform where writers publish books and pitch stories to studios for screen adaptation.
- Who are Pencil's investors?
- Pencil's investors include JITO Angel Network, SucSEED Indovation.