Novelist
Your Novel's Full Creative Team·novelist-app.com
Novelist is a novel writing studio for Windows with an AI assistant that knows the writer's story — characters, plot, codex, and more. It supports 10 AI providers (bring your own API key) and can work fully offline via Ollama. It includes a rich text editor, chapter/scene structuring, character relationship mapping, plot timeline and corkboard views, and a lore/codex system for world-building.
What it's for
Features 15
- AI writing assistant with context-awareness (characters, plot, codex)
- Bring your own API key for AI providers
- Chapter and scene structure with drag-to-reorder
- Character profiles and relationship map with visual canvas
- Daily writing goals and streak tracking
- Data stored locally, never sent to Novelist's servers
- Export to DOCX and TXT
- Find and replace across entire manuscript
- Live word count
- Lore and codex for world-building
- Notes attached to scenes, characters, or chapters
- Plot timeline and corkboard view
- Rich text editor with auto-save every 1.5 seconds
- Support for 10 AI providers: Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, Groq, DeepSeek, Mistral, xAI, Perplexity, Cohere, Ollama
- Works fully offline with Ollama — no internet required
At a glance
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Pricing
Novelist is sold as a one-time $49 purchase (lifetime license), not a monthly subscription. Includes a 14-day free trial requiring no payment info, and a 30-day money-back guarantee after purchase.
$49 one-time purchase, no subscription or renewal. 30-day money-back guarantee. Preceded by a 14-day free trial with no payment info required.
One license per device