A first reader for the whole chapter.
Most AI in a writing app answers a question about a paragraph. An advanced reading does the other thing: it takes an entire chapter and comes back the way a reader would — what works, what does not, and what those pages are promising the person who turns them.
Typetoe pays for it. Your own key is neither needed nor used, and two readings come with every account, including the free one.
What it does
A whole chapter, read in one go.
The strongest model available reads the chapter end to end, with your project's memory beside it: the story bible it has built from your own text, the Charter rules you have accepted, and the synopses of what came before. It answers on the scale of the chapter — pacing, what the scene is doing, where a promise is made and whether it is kept — rather than on the scale of the sentence.
The answer is about a thousand words. That is deliberate: an editorial note that closes two or three things properly is worth more than one that opens ten and stops mid-sentence.
Because it is one turn of the assistant, the reading arrives in the chat you already use, and you can keep talking to it afterwards. Asking it to go back and defend a judgement costs nothing extra.
Not a scan
Two different jobs, and only one of them is an opinion.
The Scan and the reading are often confused, and they are almost opposites. A scan collects facts; a reading forms a view.
The Scan reads a document and files what it finds: a synopsis, the characters, the places, the periods.
It is free on every plan, with a weekly allowance, and re-reading unchanged text costs nothing.
You run it on everything, so the assistant knows your book.
A reading files nothing. It hands you a report and leaves your story bible untouched.
It runs on the strongest model available, which is why it is counted one at a time.
You spend it on a chapter you are unsure about.
A reading is better once a chapter has been scanned, because the memory the scan built is what lets it talk about the rest of the book instead of the pages in front of it.
What is included
Two with every account, and two a month on the yearly plan.
Every account gets two advanced readings, free plan included, and they do not expire. They are not a trial that runs out on a date: they sit in the account until you spend them.
Typetoe Pro on the yearly plan adds two a month. Those are an allowance rather than a gift — they stop accruing once six are saved up, so they reward using them rather than hoarding them, and they lapse if the subscription ends. The monthly plan does not include them; it is the one difference between the two, and it is why the year costs what it costs.
When more than one kind is available they are spent in the order that loses you least: the monthly ones first, because those are the ones that would lapse, then the two that came with the account, and anything you bought last of all.
When you are offered one
Not on an empty page, and never twice in a day.
The two that come with an account are offered rather than advertised, and only where a reading can actually work. The chapter needs to be about eight hundred words or more, and something in the project must have been scanned — a reading spent on two paragraphs is not thrift, it is a demonstration that cannot demonstrate anything.
The offer comes in two shapes. On a chapter you have not discussed, Typetoe writes the question. On one you have already asked something about, it offers to put your own question to the stronger model, so the two answers sit side by side and nobody has to describe the difference.
Either way the question arrives in the chat as a draft you can edit before you send it — it is yours, and the wording is not worth being clever about. And you can decline: the card goes away for a week, and after an answered one it stays quiet for a day. It is an offer, not a countdown.
Buying more
Packs of five or ten, for subscribers.
When the ones your plan gives you are gone, Typetoe Pro subscribers can buy more in packs of five or ten. They are sold to subscribers only, and that rule is enforced in front of the money rather than after it.
Bought readings behave differently from the included ones in the way that matters: they never expire, they survive cancelling the subscription, and they are always spent last — after everything your plan has already given you. Topping up early can never waste what you already had.
The purchase goes through the App Store on iPhone and iPad, and through Typetoe's payment provider on the web. Either way it lands in the same balance: readings bought on the phone are there on the laptop a moment later.
The counter
The number is on screen wherever you could spend it.
A small counter marks the readings you have: beside the manuscript in the editor, in the document list, and in the assistant's composer. It shows the total, not a breakdown — which reading gets spent is the ledger's business and changes nothing about using one.
The full picture is in Subscription, behind your avatar: how many are left, what the plan adds each month, and the ceiling it stops at. Top up sits there, on the counter itself, and in the message you get when the balance reaches zero.
Busy days
There is a daily limit, and it is ours, not yours.
Typetoe funds the readings it gives away, so there is a ceiling on what it hands out in a single day. On a day that reaches it the offer says Typetoe is busy and asks you to come back tomorrow.
It never touches readings you bought: those are yours, Typetoe's budget has nothing to say about them, and they can be spent on the busiest day of the year. And nothing is taken from your balance when this happens — the reading you were about to have is still there in the morning.