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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
Pricing
- Starting price
- $4 USD monthly
- Pricing checked
- 2026-09-19
Scribe
$4 USD monthly
- Unlimited Books
- Series & Universes
- Basic Review features
Hobbyist
$8 USD monthly
- All from Scribe, plus:
- AI (Bring your own Key)
Artisan
$14 USD monthly
- All from Hobbyist, plus:
- Chat Features
- Advanced Review features
Specialist
$20 USD monthly
- All from Artisan, plus:
- Collaborative writing
- Create and manage teams