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Novelcrafter
Novelcrafter is a web writing platform for planning, drafting, reviewing, and organizing books with optional AI assistance.
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
- October 19, 2026
Added Gemini 4 Argon and a “Recently released” model picker section, improved model search, and fixed novel import issues.
- Model Updates and AI Improvements
Refreshed system model collections, added a search modal, and enabled choosing one-off models for Chat threads.
- 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.
Capabilities
Pricing
- Starting price
- $4/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-11-06
Scribe
- $4.00 USD monthly
- $40.00 annually
- Unlimited Books
- Series & Universes
- Basic Review features
Hobbyist
- $8.00 USD monthly
- $80.00 annually
- All from Scribe
- AI (Bring your own Key)
Artisan
- $14.00 USD monthly
- $140.00 annually
- All from Hobbyist
- Chat Features
- Advanced Review features
Specialist
- $20.00 USD monthly
- $200.00 annually
- All from Artisan
- Collaborative writing
- Create and manage teams