Finish your draft
without the "Middle-of-the-Novel" meltdown.

Novelative App Interface showing Split View

Own Your Work

Offline-first design ensures your novels, notes, and world data are stored securely on your local device. True data ownership guaranteed.

Structured Freedom

Combine the rigid structure of a file-tree for organization with the limitless freedom of an infinite canvas for plotting and connections.

Designed for Focus

Dark, Light, or Custom themes with intelligent collapsing sidebars and Novelative-only features engineered to simplify your complex projects.

Infinite Canvases

Instantly Grasp Your World's Complexity.

Stop drawing diagrams by hand. Novelative Canvas's help you plot out your ideas on an infinite canvas.

  • Every File Incorporated: Drag and drop character, locations, chapters or any other file directly into a canvas.
  • Nodules: Snap node cards together or add node connection lines to map out complex ideas.
Novelative Canvas System
Novelative App Tagging System
Tagging System

Powerful Organization, Personalized for You

Novelative's tagging system allows you to organize your files YOUR way, integrated systems allthroughout the app make it a breeze to visualize your project in a variety of useful ways.

  • Custom Tags: Customize the appearance of every tag and apply as many tags as needed for every file.
  • Tagging Utility: Tags appear in the hierarchy next to your file's name. But tags are also visualized inside canvases. And use the Graph View to visualize your tagged files in a whole new way.
Graph View

Visualize & Navigate.

Use Novelative's Graph View to navigate and organize your files to get a view of your project.

  • Tag View: Every file is organized into groups of tags, easy for navigating files with certain tags.
  • Link View: Show's the links between all your files that have hyperlinks.
Novelative Graph View
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The "Accidental" App

I never planned to create an app for the public, or to ever launch anything. I was deeply into world-building, and used a professional desktop app to create and store my world. But organizing all my thoughts and ideas was a mess.

So I decided I'd make my own app—just for myself. And it worked!

It wasn't until I realized that my self-made app had solved a REAL problem. It's impossible to navigate your complex worlds with standard tools. Novelative is the answer to that problem.

Built for Writers
Solved by a Writer

Why your voice matters

Since this tool wasn't built in a corporate boardroom, it doesn't have to follow corporate rules. We build what works for us.

  • Catching Bugs: No matter how much we test, real-world usage reveals things we miss.
  • Workflow Refinement: We want to know where the app feels "slow" or "clunky" in your actual writing process.
  • Feature Priority: We have a roadmap, but you tell us which roads to take first.
Roadmap Voting

What should we build next?

Cast your vote to help us prioritize the next major update.

Targets & Analytics

Set project and file word/page count targets with visual progress bars and notification milestones.

Multi-Window Mode

Ability to pop text files and canvases out into separate desktop windows while keeping them linked.

UI Undo/Redo

Add visible buttons for Undo and Redo actions in the toolbar (currently shortcut only).

Join the Community

Connect with other world-builders, chat directly with the developers, and get real-time updates on our Discord server.

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