Before you start

You need a Bitcoin wallet with sats available on mainnet, and about ten minutes. The app uses a two-address model: a payment address that funds transactions and an ordinals address that holds inscriptions. Both are yours; both live in your wallet.

A practice run in the Practice Studio costs nothing and shows every screen before you touch real funds.

The short version

1. Connect your wallet in the app. Approve the popup in the extension.
2. Open the Inscribe workspace and pick the Text sub-tab.
3. Type your content. The quote updates live: network fee, service fee, and the 546 sats of postage that stays yours.
4. Review the quote. The final in-app quote is authoritative; the numbers in guides and planners are previews.
5. Pay the commit address exactly. The app watches for your payment and runs the reveal.
6. Wait for confirmations. The order page shows the lifecycle: created, paid, committed, revealed, complete.

What the wallet review shows

Before you sign anything, your wallet lists the destination, the amount, and the fee. Check all three against the order page. The app never asks a wallet to sign without showing the same numbers first.

If it stops moving

Payments can take longer than the quote timer, reveals can fail and retry, and tabs can be closed by accident. The Recovery Navigator diagnoses your exact situation and names the next action. The one thing it will never suggest is sending a second full payment.