Features

A first-class writing tool,
built for whole novels

Novelest pairs a professional novel-writing environment — chapters, scenes, story bible, distraction-free editor — with AI that reads your story and helps you plan, draft, and polish every page.

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The Novelest Write mode — a distraction-free editor showing a novel chapter with the Assistant one click away
Write mode — book-grade typography, your whole manuscript one dropdown away
Eight ways to work

One manuscript, eight writing modes

Switch between purpose-built surfaces for drafting, planning, annotating, and reading — all connected to the same manuscript.

Write

The full editor — a distraction-free rich text environment with inline AI assistance, revisions, and project-wide search.

Auto-Write

Guided AI drafting. Hand the assistant an outline and watch passages stream directly into your manuscript, right where they belong.

Worldbuild

Your story bible: characters, locations, objects, and scenes that inform relevant AI suggestions.

Storyboard

Direct your story visually — arrange scenes and frames like a filmmaker to see structure and pacing at a glance.

Focus

Zen writing. Strip everything away but the words when you need pure momentum.

Notate

Notes and annotations layered over your manuscript — leave yourself edit marks without touching the prose.

Read

Experience your manuscript as a reader would, formatted as a book — the fastest way to hear your own pacing.

Export

Download your manuscript when you are ready to share, submit, or publish. Your work is always yours to take.

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The mode switcher open over the editor, listing all eight writing modes
Every mode, one click from the manuscript
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Storyboard mode showing a chapter broken into scenes with frames
Storyboard — see structure and pacing at a glance
A written scene becoming a cinematic AI video sequence in Novelest Director Mode Director Mode
AI video for storytellers

Direct the scene beyond the page

Turn storyboard frames into cinematic clips with Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0, and Seedance 2.0 Fast. Generate from a prompt, animate an existing frame, or guide the shot with character and location references from your story bible.

Director Mode keeps shot notes, cinematography, reference art, native audio, and finished video connected to the scene that inspired them.

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Worldbuilding

A story bible your AI actually reads

Characters, locations, and objects live in the Worldbuild planner — rich profiles with backstories, motivations, relationships, and imagery. Novelest compiles them with your scenes into a story bible, so suggestions know who your protagonist is, where the scene takes place, and which details matter.

That context is what makes writing a full novel with AI possible: chapter after chapter, the assistant stays consistent with your world.

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The Characters gallery in the Worldbuild planner, with portrait cards for each character
Your cast, with portraits, one Assistant button away
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A character profile with role, age, appearance, personality, backstory, and goals
Profiles the AI reads before every suggestion
AI toolkit

AI assistance at every altitude

From polishing a single paragraph to drafting an entire chapter from an outline — every tool is optional, and every word stays yours.

Paragraph Tools

Shorten, lengthen, revise, split, or spin variations of any paragraph — three alternate takes, side by side.

Critique

Short, actionable feedback on any passage: stilted dialogue, told-not-shown emotion, pacing that drags.

Next Paragraph

Stuck mid-scene? Generate the next beat from everything already on the page and keep your momentum.

Auto-Write Chapters

Turn a scene-by-scene outline into a full draft chapter, written in context with the chapters before it.

Pacing & Continuity

Chapter-level checks for pacing problems and continuity slips, plus dedicated dialogue polish.

Media Generation

Generate character portraits, scene imagery, audio, and video to storyboard and visualize your world.

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The Writing Assistant panel answering a craft question beside the manuscript
Ask anything mid-scene — the Assistant has read every page and your whole story bible
The editor

Made for long-form fiction

Parts, Chapters & Scenes

Structure your manuscript the way novels are actually built, and reorganize without fear.

Revision History

Every version is kept. Experiment boldly and roll back when a direction does not work.

Project-Wide Search

Find any line, character mention, or note across your entire project in an instant.

You Own Everything

Your writing is never used to train AI models, and you can export or delete it at any time.

Themes & Typography

Beautiful book-grade fonts and themes so the page feels like the novel it is becoming.

Write Anywhere

A fast web app that follows you from desk to laptop — your manuscript is always in sync.

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The chapter navigator open over the manuscript, listing chapters with a New Chapter action
Parts, chapters, and pages — always within reach, never in the way

See every feature in action

Full access starts with your paid plan. Standard includes 5,000 monthly AI credits and Pro includes 10,000; extra credits are available anytime.

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