Write novels. Build worlds. Own everything.

Local-first writing software with serious worldbuilding tools — a distraction-free editor, entity relationship graphs, timelines, boards, revision history, and Scrivener-grade compile & export. All on-device. No accounts, no cloud, no lock-in.

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Free for individual authors — personal, non-commercial use, forever.

For writers who outgrew flat Markdown editors and refuse to rent their workflow from a subscription cloud. Your project is a folder on disk — a portable .world bundle containing your database, assets, revisions, and backups. Open it, back it up, sync it however you like.

Features

Manuscript

Books, parts, chapters and scenes with a distraction-free editor, focus mode, typewriter scrolling, scrivenings view and per-scene word targets. Corkboard and outliner views, project-wide find & replace, and a ⌘K command palette.

Worldbuilding

Typed entities — characters, locations, factions, items, creatures — with custom attributes, tags, relationship graphs, timelines, calendars and family trees. Track everything that matters in your world.

Relationship graph

Visualize connections between characters, places and factions. Filter by relationship type, trace alliances and rivalries across your story.

History & safety

Revision snapshots with diff viewing and restore, rolling auto-backup on close, and scheduled encrypted archives to a local folder, Dropbox or S3.

Compile & export

Reusable Scrivener-style compile formats targeting DOCX, PDF, EPUB, HTML, Markdown, Shunn manuscripts and Scrivener bundles — checksummed exports, with matching imports back in.

Productivity

Writing targets, a stats dashboard (words/day, streaks, chapter lengths), readability stats, a consistency checker, series tracking, project templates and name generation.

Also in the box: native desktop menus with About / Keyboard Shortcuts / What's New · dark & light themes · recent projects with auto-open · automatic updates from GitHub Releases.

See it in action

Novoforge manuscript editor showing an open scene with outline, scrivenings and per-scene word targets
Manuscript — outline, editor and inspector
Novoforge worldbuilding entity editor with typed characters, locations and custom attributes
Worldbuilding — typed entities and custom attributes
Novoforge relationship graph visualizing connections between characters and locations
Relationship graph
Novoforge writing stats dashboard with words per day, streaks and targets
Stats — words per day, streaks and targets
Novoforge planning boards for organizing scenes and chapters
Boards — plan scenes and chapters
Novoforge backup settings with local and Dropbox encrypted archive options
Backups — local or Dropbox, encrypted

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