1 credit = 1 Map.
Buy as many as you like — the more you buy, the lower the price per Map, applied automatically. Credits never expire, and you can mix subgenres across Maps.
New here? See two free sample Maps before you buy one.
Try your lane free first — the Lite Map
See your subgenre's live opportunity score, greenlight band, market economics and length sweet spot before you spend a cent. Then decide if the full $15 Map — the ranked trope stack, comps, cover direction and a step-by-step plan for your specific book — is worth it.
Live engine data, no email required. This is the free preview — the paid Map goes deeper for your exact book.
Buy credits — the volume plan
Choose how many Maps you want. Bigger quantities drop the per-credit price automatically — no packs to pick, no plan to lock into. Write 3, 6 or 12 books a year and Tropesmith gets cheaper per book the more you write. Compare that to a one-time desktop tool: pay once, and the read is frozen the day you bought it. Every Tropesmith credit reads the market as it stands right now.
Every credit unlocks one full Map — a complete pre-launch blueprint: a go/no-go opportunity score, the ranked trope stack with demand-vs-supply, FMC + MMC archetypes, the open gap, comps three ways, cover & title direction, character & place names, the book-length sweet spot, reader vocabulary, market economics, risk flags and a step-by-step plan.
✨ New Every Map now includes a launch-video toolkit — the trending hashtags & sounds for your lane, ready for your BookTok and Reels.
Keep your lane alive with the Live Board.
Your Map is a snapshot of the market today. The Live Board keeps that exact lane updated as tropes rise and cool — so you write toward where readers are heading. Add it to any Map you own, and email us once per book to swap the lane.
- Your bought lane, refreshed as the market moves
- One lane swap per book — just email us
- View-only — added right from your Map or library
Every Map reads the entire corpus — over six million reader signals.
Free trope lists give you what was selling two years ago. A $15 Map gives you what readers are actively asking for this month — cross-referenced against what's already over-published, so the gap is the brief.
$15 to know if a book is worth three months of your life. A single bad trope decision — the wrong heat level, an over-published archetype, a setting readers have moved past — can cost an indie author months of work and a launch that disappears. A Map costs less than a paperback. It's the cheapest insurance against writing into a saturated lane, and the price per Map only drops as you buy more.
Every Map — whether you buy one credit or many — runs against the full corpus.
What Tropesmith has actually read
Every figure on this page is a row count against our own corpus, not an estimate. The counters above animate for visitors but ship their final values in the page source, so a search engine or an AI assistant reads exactly the same numbers you do. Here is the whole set in one place.
Counted 2026-09-25 09:42 UTC by direct query against the Tropesmith corpus. Method: how we read reader demand · how a Map is built.
