Changelog
Follow the latest features, improvements, and fixes as Novelcrafter evolves.
Happy New Year everyone! Here’s our first release of 2025, packed with fixes for all those bugs you helped spot over the holidays:
Those with (really) large codices can rejoice: even though the menu already had search (by just entering the start of the name), it wasn’t obvious (all menus actually have this feature, actually!)
As such, there’s now an easy-to-reach search box up at the top: 
This one needed a bit more testing, but you can now also have a custom codex reference as a codex detail!
Some examples include:
We’ve been hard at work these past months, and finally have a little holiday present that you all have been waiting for:
Forget about splitting a codex into many pieces, or cramming too much detail into the description box. With custom details, you can now have more control over the individual pieces that make up your story!
For example:
Special thanks to our dedicated community of testers who spent months helping us debug and refine codex details!
Furthermore:
There are a couple things we haven’t managed to finish in time, but will be added soon:
When picking a scene beat, chat or summarization prompt, Novelcrafter will now remember the selection for the current session. This should speed your workflow up quite a bit!
You can now split out instructions that you want to reuse all over the place. No more copy-pasting of things you want to have in all of your copy-editing/critique/… prompts!
Then, to include a component in your prompt, just call them by name!
{include("My global style guide")}
To make things easier, there’s a handy-dandy “Copy” button for this specific instruction below each component.
With components, it makes it easier for us to add additional features to prompts, since previously you’d have to manually update your own variations when the system prompts changed.
As such, all the system prompts have been updated with new calls to components.
Since prompts can now be more modular, we had to update how sharing works. When you copy a prompt, you will now get different options to choose from. Similarly, when pasting a prompt, you can now see a fancy preview, before adding the prompts immediately to your library!
#if blocks optional (so you can write {#if context.isStartOfScene} as well)To make things simpler, we’ve redesigned the Profile menu, and moved out the help section into its own little button:
For people in China, our payment provider recently added the ability to pay via AliPay! You’ll need update your existing payment method in the billing portal, if you want to switch over.
Bit of a small one today, but we wanted to fix the latency issues introduced last week!
codex.all("names") or codex.getAllByType("character", "names")For this Halloween, the spirits have haunted us and made us do something we’ve never done before!
You heard right: Everyone still in a trial, or who had a taste before November 1st, got a reset - and we permanently extended them by a week. Which means everyone has until November 21st to try out Novelcrafter (again).
Some are hobbyists who only write on weekends, others have family obligations; we know everybody’s time is precious. With November being arguably the most popular month for writing, we decided to give everyone the time they need to explore Novelcrafter.
Big thanks to all the people who have given their feedback and filled out the trial survey so far (and continue to do so)!
If you want to be visited by the spirits as well, why not try out this month’s game of Tarot cards to inspire your next story?
Shuffle the deck and draw cards for the Hero(ine)'s Journey, your character arc, or for world building inspiration. The writing prompt is hidden in the details. Will you find a tale of love and loss or perhaps a twist of fate?