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Novelcrafter
Novelcrafter is a web writing platform for planning, drafting, reviewing, and organizing books with optional AI assistance.
In inglese
Novelcrafter helps fiction and nonfiction writers organize manuscripts, plan scenes, manage characters and world details, and draft or review text. Its Codex works as a story reference system shared across books in a series.
AI features include scene summarization, character extraction, scene-beat generation, and Workshop Chat. AI requires your own provider key on eligible plans, so model-provider charges are separate. The service has a 21-day trial but no permanent free plan.
Features
- Organize characters, places, lore, and other story details in the Codex
- Plan acts, chapters, and scenes using multiple planning views
- Share Codex information across books in a series
- Generate scene text from scene beats
- Summarize scenes and extract characters with AI
- Review manuscripts with basic or advanced review tools
- Connect to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, OpenRouter, LM Studio, and Ollama
- Collaborate on novels and series with teams on Specialist
Use cases
- Plan a novel by organizing acts, chapters, scenes, and beats
- Track characters, locations, and lore across a book series
- Draft scenes using a connected AI provider and custom prompts
- Review a manuscript for plot, continuity, and story issues
- Share a novel with a coauthor, editor, or proofreader
- Run local AI models through LM Studio or Ollama
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- The Big Organization Update
Added options to organize acts, chapters, and scenes from the Plan and Write views.
- New Codex Tracking Options
Added Codex entry tracking options, including case-sensitive matching and support for multiple custom categories.
- List support for Word export
Word exports now support bullets and numbered lists.
- January 9, 2026 - AI Thinking support
Added experimental support for reasoning preferences and levels across Novelcrafter.
- November 18, 2025 - Gemini 3 (Gemini 3)
Added Gemini 3 Pro to system model collections and updated GPT-5 to GPT-5.1 where applicable.
Capabilities
Pricing
- Starting price
- $4/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-09-24
Scribe
- $4.00 monthly
- $40.00 annually
- Unlimited Books
- Series & Universes
- Basic Review features
Hobbyist
- $8.00 monthly
- $80.00 annually
- All from Scribe
- AI (Bring your own Key)
Artisan
- $14.00 monthly
- $140.00 annually
- All from Hobbyist
- Chat Features
- Advanced Review features
Specialist
- $20.00 monthly
- $200.00 annually
- All from Artisan
- Collaborative writing
- Create and manage teams