Keep the codex. Drop the subscription.
Bring the lorebook across and it keeps working the way you expect — except you stop maintaining it by hand: Auto Codex reads each chapter back and updates your codex in one click. The app runs with the Wi-Fi off, and it is $149 once. No renewal, and no read-only mode if you ever stop paying.
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.
Everything you actually use Novelcrafter for
Codex + Auto Codex
Everything your Novelcrafter codex holds — characters, locations, lore, world rules — imported and linked across the manuscript. From then on you do not file entries by hand: finish a chapter, press once, and Auto Codex reads it back and updates the codex with the new characters and events.
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.
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.
No subscription, and no Wi-Fi either
Run a model in Ollama or LM Studio and the whole app works with the connection off — on a plane, in a cabin, wherever. Nothing uploads because there is nowhere to upload it, nothing is metered, and nothing goes read-only the month you stop paying. Prefer a frontier model? Bring your own key and pay only the tokens.
$149 once, against
$168 a year forever
One price for every novel you will ever write. At the Artisan tier you spend $168 a year, every year — five years of it is $840. Novel Mage is $149 once, and year two costs nothing.
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.