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No servers. No tracking. Your stories stay on your device forever.
Introducing Novel Mage, first 100% local AI Novel Writing Software No Risk of Corporate Surveillance.
We can't access your work, even if we wanted to.
Novel MageYour next chapter is one download away. Own Your Story Own Your Tool
What other people are saying about us
Unedited, from our subreddit and Discord.
I’ve been enjoying the software and I’m glad that I’m an early adopter. It’s helped me start writing again and I’m excited to see it continue to develop and improve. And as capable AI models get cheaper and cheaper, it doesn’t make sense to pay the high monthly subscription prices of the competitors. I’ve been looking at Sudowrite for a long time and could never justify the monthly fee. Glad I found Novel Mage so writing isn’t a monthly expense I have to work into my budget.
I am so happy to be here! Found this 3 days ago and honestly enamored by it.
I’m loving NovelMage so far. Looking forward to see what you do with it.
I have been working on Novelmage ever since it is Beta. Good to see where it has reached now. 🙂
Every Tool You Need to Get From
Chapter 1 to "The End"
Every feature in Novel Mage exists because writers with full lives hit a specific wall losing track of characters, not knowing what comes next, or coming back after a break and not knowing where to start.
The Codex: Your Novel's Memory, Built Automatically
By chapter 40 you have 30 characters, 12 locations, and a magic system you invented in chapter 3. The Codex auto-links every reference across your manuscript so you never break continuity again.
Auto Create the CodexTell the Agent. It Does the Work
Give high-level instructions 'summarize all scenes with this character' or 'find everywhere I mentioned the sword' and watch the agent search, retrieve, and act. It understands your entire novel structure and works directly on your local files.
Open ChatQuick Manuscript Review
The review system scans the full manuscript for continuity contradictions, dialogue balance and tags, POV consistency, show vs tell, overused phrases, sensory gaps, and fixes them before a beta reader ever sees the draft.
Review my manuscriptInterview Any Character. They Always Know
When you hit a wall, open an interview with any character and ask what they'd do, why they lied, what they're afraid of. It's the fastest way to break through plot blocks and stay consistent with who they are.
Start an interviewLock In Your Voice Across Every Chapter
Build voice presets from your own writing and apply them across chapters. Define your rhythm, word choices, and tone then stay consistent from the first page to the last. Your voice. Your rules.
Try Writer's VoiceWorks on Windows, Mac & Linux · Offline-first · Your files never leave your machine
Download Novel Mage - Works OfflineClick around the real app.Nothing to install.
Demo of the Novel Mage interface, the loaded data is a sample novel.
Your Novel Isn't Unfinished.
Your Tool Is.
Same genre of AI writing software — wildly different math, privacy, and what happens when you cancel. Here's the side-by-side.
| Feature | Novel Mage | Sudowrite | Novelcrafter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $111 once · lifetime | $19–$59/mo subscription | $4–$20/mo subscription |
| Cost after 1 year (most popular tier) | $111 total | ~$348 ($29/mo × 12) | ~$168 ($14/mo × 12) |
| Works offline | Yes, fully offline | No, cloud only | No, cloud-based |
| Local AI (Ollama, LM Studio) | Yes | No | Yes, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint |
| Proofreading: show vs tell analysis, dialogue analysis and more | Yes | No | No |
| Where your manuscript lives | On your machine | Their servers / cloud AI | Their servers |
| If you stop paying | You own it, nothing changes | Lose access | Read-only access to your work |
| AI prose & rewrite | Yes (local + BYOK) | Yes (their cloud) | Yes (BYOK + subscription) |
| Character development | Character interviews (AI agent) | Story Bible | Manually write prompts |
| Codex / lorebook | Auto codex system (Ai Codex Maintainer) | Story Bible | Manual Codex |
| Future updates | Included forever | Only while subscribed | Only while subscribed |
Most-popular tiers: Sudowrite Professional ($29/mo), Novelcrafter Artisan ($14/mo). Full ranges: Sudowrite $19–$59/mo, Novelcrafter $4–$20/mo (Specialist adds teams).
Same one year — what you actually pay
Break-even: You match Novel Mage's $111 lifetime price in 3.8 months of Sudowrite Professional
or 7.9 months of Novelcrafter Artisan.
No subscription required. No credit card. No cloud required. Your work lives on your machine.
Enterprise-grade writing software.Indie-sized price.
How we made that possible
BYOK + local LLMs
Latest models today. Whatever ships tomorrow.
Bring your own API keys and plug in the latest cloud LLMs as they ship, no waiting on us to resell access. Want zero cloud? Run local LLMs on your machine. Same app. You control what you use.
Architecture that doesn’t tax you
No server-farm markup.
Lean design means we are not paying huge cloud providers like Amazon or Google to host your data. We pass on that savings to you.
Your disk. Your manuscript.
Offline. No internet connection required.
No storage costs to host your words. We pass on that savings to you. No worries of SaaS pivots or price hikes.
Privacy baked in
No data is sent to our servers.
All your data , chats, codex, characters, world, etc. stays on your machine. No data is sent to our servers.
That $111.00 keeps Novel Mage alive: shipping fixes, new features, and yes, food on the developers' table. No investors, no data to sell, so we answer only to writers.
You own the tool.
You own your manuscript.
7-day trial · No card · No cloud required
Everything You Just Saw.
$111.00
One Time. No strings attached.
Every month you pay for a subscription tool, you're renting access to your own writing. Cancel and it's gone. Novel Mage: $111.00. Once. You own it. Forever.
Here's what $111.00 buys you once, forever:
- The Codex: character & world memory that builds itself(Sudowrite's Story Bible needs a $19+/month plan)
- Agent Chat: AI that knows your entire novel(Sudowrite starts at $19/month for AI help)
- Story Planner: act structure + scene mapping(Plottr: $60–$99/year)
- Character Interviews: unblock any plot wall in minutes(Character.ai c.ai+: about $10/month)
- Writer's Voice: lock in your style from chapter 1 to "The End"
- Manuscript Review: continuity, POV, dialogue and show vs tell
- 3 devices: laptop, desktop, travel machine
- Fully offline: no Wi-Fi, no outages, no excuses
- Local files: your manuscript is always yours
- Local AI support: Ollama, LM Studio, any local LLM
- All future updates included
Comparable tools: ~$570/year (Sudowrite Pro $348 + Plottr Pro $99 + c.ai+ $120). Over 3 years: ~$1,700. Novel Mage: $111.00. Once.
Start free
You don't have to pay anything to try us. Not even a credit card. 7 days of uninterrupted access — try it. If you like it, you pay; if not, you uninstall and forget about us.
Download Free 7-Day Full Access →One price for all the novels you'll ever write.
Think about what you've spent on writing tools you cancelled. Add it up. Now think about the novel that still isn't written. Subscriptions don't make you write they make you feel guilty when you don't. When you cancel, you are actually giving up.
One purchase is a decision.
A subscription is a maybe.
Novel Mage is how that changes.
Download free. 7 days. No credit card. If you like it, $111.00 once, forever. If you don't, uninstall and move on. But your novel stops waiting the moment you open the app.
No credit card. No cloud required. No subscription required.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the free trial work? What if I don't like it?+
Do I need an AI subscription, API key, or model?+
Does it actually work offline? Is my writing private?+
What does the lifetime license include?+
How many devices can I use it on? Can I transfer my license?+
How is Novel Mage different from Novelcrafter, Sudowrite, or Plot Drive?+
What happens if Novel Mage shuts down someday?+
Most AI novel writing software makes a quiet assumption: that you are always online, always subscribed, and comfortable with your manuscript living on someone else's server. Novel Mage was built for authors who aren't. Every feature the AI agent, the story planner, the character Codex processes and stores data entirely on your own hardware. That means your writing stays yours, your ideas stay private, and nothing stops working the moment your Wi-Fi drops or a company changes its pricing. You download it once, pay once, and it's yours.
If you've looked at tools like Novelcrafter, Sudowrite, or Scrivener, you've probably felt the same friction: another subscription, another cloud account, and another set of privacy terms you have to trust. As a Novelcrafter alternative, Novel Mage is not just cheaper over time it is structurally different. The AI runs locally, the files stay local, and the only person who decides what happens to your novel is you.
Cloud writing tools cost $10–$30 a month. Over three years that quietly becomes $360–$1,080 for software you never fully own and lose access to the moment you stop paying. Novel Mage's lifetime license costs a fraction of that upfront, and the software keeps working whether you write every day or come back to your manuscript after six months away. No renewals. No paywalled features. No pressure.