Vellum
Vellum is a book formatting and self-publishing tool for macOS designed to help authors create professional-looking ebooks and print-ready books without extensive design knowledge. It automates common publishing workflows like margin setup, page numbering, headers and footers, and cover design. The app supports importing manuscripts from Word documents and can export to multiple ebook formats as well as print-ready PDF. Vellum is popular among independent authors and small publishers who want to maintain control over book appearance while avoiding the complexity of traditional design software or the limitations of simpler publishing platforms.
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1 suggestionWe could not find explicit confirmation in the available search results about whether Vellum has a native Apple Silicon build. The official Vellum website and help documentation do not clearly state architecture support, and there are no recent announcements about a Universal Binary release. Contact the Vellum developer directly at vellum.pub to ask whether a native Apple Silicon version is available or planned. If the app remains Intel-only and you need an alternative, consider checking Atticus (for fiction formatting), Scrivener (which does support Apple Silicon and includes publishing tools), or examining your ebook platform's native tools — but reach out to Vellum first, as the developer may have already quietly released a native build.
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