Every tool a working novelist needs.
Nine areas. One desktop app. Pick one to dig into.
Characters, places, and things. Not just text.
An editor that knows your cast. Highlights every character, place, and thing in its own colour, skips them in spell check, and gives you a right-click to every reference.
See itEvery character has a file.
The panel where the world of your novel lives. Descriptions, aliases, pinned excerpts, free notes, ◆ checkpoints. Anchored to the text and travels with edits.
See itStory-time, not document-time.
Time Flow Manager, time-break nodes, ◆ state markers, and resolved state at the cursor. A flashback before Chapter 1 still resolves before Chapter 1.
See itFrom plan to page.
Kanban in three modes: chapters, entities, freeform. Planning notes that show up in the editor when you open the chapter they belong to.
See itMap your cast. On a tree, or on a canvas.
An ancestry-style family tree for genealogies. A freeform, Lucidchart-style graph for everything else. Every node links to a real entity in your manuscript.
See itFind a feeling. Not just a phrase.
Plain text in five modes. Dialogue-only search. Relationship search. And semantic search that runs on your machine. Describe the passage and NovelNix finds it.
See itTwelve writing analysis tools.
Word frequency, cluster finder, similar phrasing, adverb density, dialogue percentage, readability, chapter analysis, entity heatmap, pacing waveform, paragraph length, and Comparative Works against famous books.
See itSet the type. Pick the trim. Print the book.
DOCX/EPUB import with smart chapter detection. EPUB 3.0 export. Typst-compiled print PDFs. The Format & Layout editor with trim sizes, drop caps, headers, semantic roles.
See itOne file. On your machine. Forever.
A single portable .iwe SQLite file. Auto-backups. On-device ONNX for semantic search. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry, no generative AI. Not now, not ever.
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