Move your novel
forward.

Novelward is a complete workspace for planning, writing, revising, and publishing a novel — and it keeps every chapter, character, thread, and revision on your own device, under your control.

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Return to the manuscript.

A quiet room for the draft

The binder holds parts, chapters, and scenes; the editor holds your attention. Footnotes, focus mode, writing sprints, and a save status that stays out of the way. Bring an existing manuscript in from Word, Scrivener, or EPUB and keep its structure.

The Novelward drafting workspace: a binder of chapters beside a clean manuscript page

Follow this thread.

See the whole story

A plot grid that pivots by scene, chapter, or part. A timeline and chronology that track dependencies. Structure overlays from Three-act to Save the Cat. And a World Bible that keeps characters, places, and canon connected to the scenes where they appear.

The plot grid: storylines woven across chapters in a concordance view

Review the next revision.

Revise without fear

Editorial passes with tasks, comments, and tracked suggestions. Version history that compares and restores — with an automatic safety copy taken before every restore.

A revision pass: margin notes and tracked suggestions beside the manuscript

Build the finished edition.

From manuscript to book

Compile editions to DOCX, EPUB, PDF, or Markdown with styles and scene-break rules. Design a cover, run EPUB certification, and check publication readiness before the manuscript leaves your desk.

The edition builder: a title page prepared for export

Your work is yours.

Local first, always

Everything lives on your device — no account required, nothing sent to a server. Verified rolling backups on desktop, portable .writingapp archives everywhere, and one-click export to open formats, so the door is always open.

The Novelward bookshelf: series and standalone books on one shelf