When we describe Blogboat to people, the first thing they hear is "AI blog writing." That's accurate — but it's not the whole picture, and for a meaningful number of writers, it's the part that almost made them not try it.
Some writers don't want AI to draft for them. They know what they want to say. They've been writing for years. They want a tool that handles the publishing and distribution pain, not the writing itself.
So we built Write Manually as a first-class mode inside Blogboat — and it's not an afterthought.
What Write Manually actually is
Write Manually is a full rich-text editor built directly into Blogboat. It supports headings, bold, italic, lists, links, code blocks, image insertion, and everything else you'd expect from a modern writing environment.
What it also supports is everything Blogboat does on the back end: one-click publishing to 15+ platforms, canonical URL management so your content is protected for SEO, export to Word/PDF/HTML/Markdown, and the same privacy model where your platform credentials never leave your device.
The difference from AI mode is simply that the draft starts with you. You write it. You own it completely.
Why we built it
The honest reason: we built Blogboat for the workflow problem first. The hardest part of publishing a blog isn't writing the post — for many people, it's everything that comes after. Reformatting for Medium. Re-uploading images to Hashnode. Remembering that LinkedIn strips your markdown. Deciding whether to use canonical URLs and then correctly implementing them across five platforms.
AI writing is one solution to one part of the problem. Manual writing with AI-powered distribution solves the other part for everyone.
We didn't want Blogboat to be a tool for people who want AI to write for them. We wanted it to be the tool for people who want to stop wasting three hours on post-writing logistics every time they publish.
The thing AI writing people miss
There's also a third group: writers who use AI for some parts of the process and not others. They might write the post manually, then use AI to regenerate a single weak section. Or they write the draft by hand, then let AI suggest a better headline.
Because Blogboat's editing is block-level — you can edit any individual section without touching the others — manual writers can drop into AI assistance exactly where they want it, without handing over the whole post.
The two modes aren't separate workflows. They're the same editor with different starting points.
For writers who've been put off by "AI writing"
If Blogboat sounded like something that wasn't for you because you write your own posts — it is for you.
The AI is available. You don't have to use it. The publishing infrastructure is there either way.
twRty Software Services built Blogboat to make the publish-everywhere workflow fast and correct, regardless of how the words got there.
Try it at twrty.org/blogboat, on iOS, or on Android.
