Instant Score for Romance AuthorsFree
Instant Score gives you a fast, objective read on where your manuscript stands. It runs nine craft measurements across the full text — lexical variety, repetition, filter words, adverb density and more — and hands back a clean scorecard in minutes.
Run Instant Score →What Instant Score does
Because the measurements are deterministic, the same book always scores the same — so you can track real improvement draft over draft instead of guessing.
What you get
- Nine craft metrics across the whole manuscript
- A single, easy-to-read scorecard
- Repeatable: track improvement draft to draft
- Results in minutes, no waiting on a human edit
FAQ
What does it measure?
Lexical variety, word and phrase repetition, filter words, adverb density and other objective craft signals across the full manuscript.
Will the same book score the same twice?
Yes — the measurements are deterministic, so it's a reliable baseline for tracking progress.
Is this an edit?
No, it's a diagnostic. For the actual fixes, pair it with Line Edit or Developmental Critique.
What it costsFree
Instant Score costs nothing to run. There is no card, no trial clock and no subscription — you create a free Cadet account so the report has somewhere to land, and that is the whole gate. Everything else on the Starport is pay-as-you-go, priced per run.
It is measured against the same corpus as the paid tools: 1,105,457 hook mentions extracted from real reader reviews and 5,338 reader personas built from that data. Authors have run 40 free Scorecards here. Counted from our own databases on 16 September 2026.
Run Instant Score free →Free tools elsewhere in the estate
Authors Starport is one of four sites Coral Hart Group runs for romance authors. These are free too — no account, no card.
- The 2026 Romance Demand Report — the long-form read on what romance readers are asking for this year and where the shelf is not answering. Free, no signup.
- TropeSmith — Trending — which romance tropes are rising and cooling in reader demand this week.
- TropeSmith — Reader Demand — what readers keep asking for that nobody is writing.
- TropeSmith — Category Checker — every Amazon category a book actually ranks in.
- PlotProse — free writing tools — trope-stack, title, pen-name and character-name generators, the trope library and the reader demand report.