BUILT FOR MUSICIANS|Independent artists & bands — your releases, your fans, your rules
Drop the first listen. Keep every dollar.
Publish an artist site with your releases, shows and merch in one place, share an early listen with your inner circle before the drop, and keep a mailing list no label can touch. Sell merch and digital releases with your own payment link — you keep every dollar.
Your own payment link — we never take a cut
Autosave with version history
14-Day Free Trial, No Card
The Complete Musician Toolkit
Every tool a musician needs. None of the middlemen.
Stop renting a bio link from Linktree and a mailing list from a platform that could vanish tomorrow. PenCanvas is one workspace for your releases, your shows and your fans.
Release Core
Releases & Early Listens
Share a private early-listen link with your inner circle before a release goes public, and keep notes and lyrics beside each track.
Web Presence
Visual Website Builder
Start from a template and edit it by drag and drop. Your site includes a blog and your own pages, and paid plans add your own domain with SSL.
Monetization
Direct Sales, Zero Cut
Drop your own payment link onto any page, bundle or unlock. Buyers check out there, the money is yours, and PenCanvas never takes a cut.
Audience Growth
Newsletters with double opt-in
Sent through Amazon SES. Subscribers confirm by email, you can tag and segment them, schedule campaigns and build automations. You can send from your own domain once its DKIM records are verified.
FOR MUSICIANS · RELEASE CORE
Share a release before anyone else hears it.
Gate an early listen behind a private link, gather reactions before the public date, and keep lyrics and credits organised beside each track. Attach your payment link to sell merch, stems or digital releases — you keep every dollar.
Early-Listen Links
Gate a track or an album behind a private, watermarked link before the public release date.
Lyrics & Credits
Keep lyrics, credits and production notes organised beside each track.
Release Checklist
Track a release as a status: in progress, mixing, mastered, released.
Autosave & History
Every note and edit saves in the background and keeps a history you can restore from.
Private to your workspace•Autosave
FEATURE 04 · NO-CODE AUTHOR SITES
An author website without writing code.
Pick a template, edit it on a drag-and-drop canvas and publish. Your site gets book pages, a blog and per-page SEO settings, with no code.
8 TEMPLATES INCLUDEDDRAG-AND-DROP EDITOR
Kayla Griffith
Literary suspense
Neon Orbit
Science fiction
Rose & Rue
Contemporary romance
Cold Open
Thriller
Realm & Ruin
Epic fantasy
Clear Path
Non-fiction & business
Custom domain on Published and Bestseller: add your domain, copy the DNS records we show you, and SSL is issued once they resolve
A built-in blog with categories, tags and scheduled posts
Pages you can preview and adjust for mobile and tablet
FEATURE 05 · DIRECT MONETIZATION
Sell direct. Keep every dollar.
Drop in your own payment link — Stripe Payment Links, Gumroad, Ko-fi, whatever you already use — on any page, chapter or bio block. Buyers check out there, the money lands straight in your account, and PenCanvas never takes a cut.
One link block, anywhere: your site, a chapter, a post, your bio page
Bundle several items behind a single link, with gated chapters for each
Retailer links for paperbacks and anywhere else you already sell
FEATURE 08 · MOBILE READER HUB
Link-in-bio for authors.
Give your Instagram and TikTok followers one page for your books, newsletter and links, at your own handle on PenCanvas.
Books & Store Links
Feature your latest release at the top with a product block for your own store, or retailer links such as Amazon, Apple Books and Kobo.
Newsletter Sign-up & Lead Magnets
Add a newsletter sign-up block or a lead-magnet block that links to a free download, and see the clicks on every link.
Included in every plan•Themes & layout options
FEATURE 09 · DIGITAL ASSET ENGINE
One media library for everything you publish.
Upload book covers, character art, videos and downloads once and use them in the editor, your website, your blog and your link-in-bio page. Files are stored on Cloudflare R2.
Cloud Storage with Folders
Covers, character art and downloads live in one library with folders, search, a trash you can restore from, and a storage meter.
Crop & Resize
Crop and resize images before you use them. Smaller preview versions are generated for you.
Focal Point
Pick the focal point of an image so banners crop around what matters.
Import from a URL or Unsplash
Paste an image address, or search Unsplash, and import it into your library.
FEATURE 10 · AUTHOR PUBLICATION CMS
Publish serialized fiction and essays on your own terms.
Write posts in a block editor, schedule them, and publish them on your author site. Add SEO fields to each post, keep revisions, and email a post to your subscribers.
SEO Fields & Clean URLs
Set a meta title and description, a canonical URL and a social image for each post. Posts live on your author site at clean URLs.
Categories, Tags & Reader Access
Organise posts with categories and tags, make a post subscriber-only, and moderate reader comments.
No separate blog subscription•Custom canonical URLs
FEATURE 11 · VISITOR ANALYTICS
See how readers find you.
Page views, top pages, referrers, countries, devices and campaign sources for your author site, plus beta reading, direct sales and newsletter numbers in the same place.
Privacy-Friendly Tracking
Visits are counted without cookies or advertising trackers; visitors are identified only by a hash that changes daily.
Book Performance
See orders and revenue for each of your published books.
TRACKING
No cookies
Daily-rotating visitor hash
INCLUDED
Every plan
Console analytics page
BUILT FOR LAUNCH DAY
How PenCanvas is built.
A few practical details of how your site and manuscript are handled:
Served From the Edge
Author sites are delivered through Cloudflare, and media is stored on Cloudflare R2.
Your Own Domain
On the Published and Bestseller plans, connect yourname.com by adding the DNS records we show you. The SSL certificate is issued through Cloudflare once they resolve.
Your Manuscript Keeps a History
Changes save automatically and chapters keep revisions you can restore, so a bad edit is not final.
Take Your Work With You
Export a book as DOCX, EPUB or HTML, chapters as Markdown, text or HTML, and your subscribers as CSV.
FOR NOVELISTS AND INDIE AUTHORS
Ready to put your whole workflow in one place?
Start drafting your next novel, create your Story Bible, and preview your custom author website today. 14-day free trial, no credit card required.
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Plan and schedule your book posts in one place.
Connect your social accounts, write a post once with options for each network, preview it, and queue it on a calendar. PenCanvas publishes it for you at the scheduled time.
Per-network options and a live preview
Posts go out at the time you pick
Keep ideas, replies and results together