A credit balance is not a writing environment
BookNova sells plans by the generated word: 50,000 a month on Lite, 200,000 on Platinum. Novel Mage is not sold by output at all. It is the desk you write the book at - codex, voice, structure and revision - running on your own machine.
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.
Words are the easy part
Codex + Auto Codex
Characters, locations, lore and world rules, linked across the manuscript and fed to the AI automatically — and kept up to date for you, since Auto Codex reads each finished chapter back and files the new characters and events itself. Generating more text is easy. Generating text that still fits chapter three is the actual problem.
Writer's Voice, then a full review pass
Build a voice preset from your own writing, apply it across chapters, then point the built-in review at the finished draft for POV slips, continuity breaks and the phrase you have used nine times. This is the half of the work that producing more words does not touch.
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.
Run it locally and the word count stops mattering
With a local model through Ollama or LM Studio, generation is limited by your laptop rather than by a monthly balance. Rewrite the same scene thirty times. Nobody is counting, nothing uploads, and no connection is needed at all.
$149 for the workspace,
not for the word count
Both are one-time purchases. The difference is what you are buying: a monthly allowance of generated words, or the environment you write the book in — no allowance, no top-ups, and no deciding whether a scene is worth spending words on.
Three ways you cannot lose money here
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.
7-day refund, no questions
Buy it, change your mind, email us. Money back, and you never have to explain why.
It cannot be taken away
Your files are local and the licence is yours. The app keeps working even if we shut down tomorrow.
7 days, every feature, no credit card. Keep it for $149 once, or walk away.