Name: Novelcrafter
Price: 4.0 USD

What Novelcrafter makes and what you get

✓ Model choice
– Commercial use
– No watermark (free)
– API
– Official MCP server
– MCP client
– Agent Skills
– Brand kit
✓ Teams
– Content Credentials
– Mobile app
– 20+ languages

Features and rights come from Novelcrafter's own pricing and terms pages; check them before you publish commercially. Compare commercial use and watermarks across apps.

AI models inside Novelcrafter

Models you can pick when you generate in Novelcrafter, from the vendor's documentation. Compare every app on the model map.

What is Novelcrafter?

What it is

Novelcrafter is a writing app for novelists that combines a manuscript editor, a planning board and a Codex (a wiki-style story bible). You connect your own AI provider and use it to summarise scenes, extract characters, draft from scene beats and brainstorm in a Workshop chat. It supports novels, non-fiction, screenplays, poetry and fan fiction.

Key features

Codex that tracks characters, locations and lore and links them automatically
Planning views to spot plot holes and continuity problems
AI scene summaries, character extraction and scene-beat drafting (Hobbyist and up)
Workshop Chat for brainstorming and revision (Artisan and up)
Series support with a shared Codex
Co-author and editor sharing; team management on Specialist

Models inside

Novelcrafter is bring-your-own-key: it connects to OpenAI (GPT-5), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), Meta (Llama), Mistral and OpenRouter's 300+ models, and to local models through Ollama or LM Studio.

Pricing and rights

As of September 2026, all plans have a 21-day free trial without a card, unlimited books, the Codex and series support. Scribe costs $4/month (no AI), Hobbyist $8/month (AI with your own key), Artisan $14/month (adds Workshop Chat) and Specialist $20/month (teams and collaboration). No AI credits are included, so model usage is billed by the provider you connect. Novelcrafter says it runs no sales or discounts. Downgraded accounts keep read-only access. Output rights depend on the AI provider you connect; the pricing page does not claim any rights in your writing.

Who it is for

Novelists and series authors who want a strong story bible and full control over which AI model they use and how much they pay for it.

Verdict

Novelcrafter is a flexible, well-priced writing environment and a good fit for authors who like to choose their own models. The BYOK setup adds friction and separate AI bills, which beginners may find confusing.

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