Offline AI writing software

A co-author, editor and proofreader that runs on your own laptop

No servers. No subscription. Nothing about your novel ever leaves your machine. 94% of writers finish chapter one in their first 7 days.

4,000+ authors started94% finish chapter 1 in 7 daysNo Credit Card Required
The Salt Road — draft61,204 words
Chapter Seven

The harbour had emptied by the time Irene reached the customs house, and the lamps along the quay were already guttering in the wind.

She had rehearsed the lie for three days. It still did not sound like something she would say.

Behind her, the bell of St. Anne's counted out the hour, and she understood that whatever she said next would be the thing he remembered her by.

ContinueRewriteIn my voice
Offline · no networkLocal model · llama 3
Four things you get · offline, every day

Everything the $149 buys you

No servers, no account, no connection

The whole app works with the Wi-Fi off

Run a model in Ollama or LM Studio and every AI feature here works offline — on a plane, in a cabin, on a machine that has never been online. Nothing uploads, because there is nowhere for it to go. Prefer a frontier model? Bring your own key and pay that provider only.

AI Provider
Ollama · llama 3
On this machine
Connected
LM Studio
On this machine
Available
Claude · your own key
Leaves your machine
Optional
A lorebook that lives on your disk

Codex + Auto Codex

Characters, places, lore and world rules, linked across the manuscript and fed to the local model automatically — and kept current for you, since Auto Codex reads each finished chapter back and files the new characters and events itself. It is a file on your drive, not a row in someone's database.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, sir," Jennings... Watson all nervous energy...
Character
Dr. John Watson
Incidental Character
It has read the whole book, not just this chapter

Assistant chat + interview any character

Ask the assistant to find every mention of the sword or summarise each scene a character appears in, and it searches the manuscript and acts. Or drop into the character and ask why she lied and what frightens her — answers that stay consistent with the codex you already wrote her into.

Agent Chat
Tools
You
Find all scenes mentioning Watson and summarize.
Agent
Searching scenes… calling tools: get_novel, search_scenes…
Both ends of the draft, one app

Plan the acts, then let it review the draft

Lay the novel out in acts and scenes with word counts and status on each, then point the built-in review system at the finished manuscript: POV slips, continuity breaks, dialogue balance, pacing and the phrase you have used nine times without noticing.

Manuscript Review
61,204 words · 2m
POV
Chapter 12 slips into Marcus mid-scene.
Continuity
Irene's scar is on the left hand in ch. 3, right in ch. 19.
Pacing
Four consecutive scenes open with dialogue.
Overused
“barely audible” appears 9 times.

You get all of it for $149
once

One price for every novel you will ever write. The same tools are rented monthly elsewhere, on servers you do not control; this is $149 once, on your own machine.

Novel MageOnce. Every novel you ever write.
$149
Sudowrite Professional$29 a month, every month
$348 / year
Novelcrafter Artisan$14 a month, every month
$168 / year

Three ways you cannot lose money here

01

Try it before you pay

7 days of full access, free. We never ask for a card, so there is nothing to forget to cancel.

02

7-day refund, no questions

Buy it, change your mind, email us. Money back, and you never have to explain why.

03

It cannot be taken away

Your files are local and the licence is yours. The app keeps working even if we shut down tomorrow.

Try Novel Mage Free

7 days, every feature, no credit card. Keep it for $149 once, or walk away.