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October 1, 2025

In case you missed it, we also posted a community update blog post recently: https://www.novelcrafter.com/blog/2025-09-community-update
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We haven't posted an update in a while, so here's what's new today (plus some fixes we've made over the past few weeks):
🤖 AI Connections
We've updated and enhanced the inner workings of all AI connections:
  • Added a new generic "OpenAI Compatible" provider to support other niche platforms. If we don't have official support for a vendor, you should now be able to use them through this connection!
  • Google AI Studio: Updated the icon to their new official logo—in case it looks different, that’s why!
  • Mistral: Fixed thinking steps in some models flooding your screen with
    [object Object]
    .
  • Mistral: Added support for the “Detect Characters” feature.
  • Updated the model list filtering in various providers to only show supported model types.
  • Removed the legacy “Anyscale Endpoints” connection.
🧑🏻‍💻 Prompting
While we continue to enhance our prompting system (and its documentation), we've cleaned up a few things and added/fixed some functions:
  • New
    min
    and
    max
    functions to get the minimum and maximum value of a list of numbers. For example: when using it in a custom shorten prompt, you can now ensure a min. word count.
  • Fix
    multiply
    not working as expecting - it now returns the full product of all provided numbers.
🔧 Other Changes
  • Fixed timeout-related loading issues with novels that exceed 100MB in total size.
  • Fixed some more rare AI streaming issues in Chat, which turned some messages blank.
  • Fixed placeholder labels in text editors not updating in some cases.
  • Various other fixes and improvements.

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Prompts

AI

August 28, 2025

Here’s what’s new this week:
AI and Prompting
  • We added
    regular GPT-5
    as well as
    Mistral Medium 3.1
    to the system model collections.
  • Added a new “has description” filter to your prompt library.
  • Increased the timeout for Ollama connections from 50sec. to 3min.
Chat
  • Fixed Codex mentions in Chat messages not being highlighted when inside of tables.
  • Fixed blockquotes written by GPT-5 sometimes not being merged correctly.
  • Fixed AI responses in Chat being incorrectly reformatted which caused some block quotes to be split up.
  • Fixed AI responses in Chat that produced wonky nested lists which lead to incorrect indentation.
Other
  • The support diagnostics (accessible via the Help button) now show some warnings to fix common issues yourself.
  • Various other fixes and improvements.

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Chat

Prompts

August 15, 2025

Chat rendering fixes
This update fixes various chat message rendering issues caused by Gemini and other models:
  • Double-nested blockquotes or lists are now merged and/or unpacked properly.
  • Some nested text elements weren’t being matched against your Codex entries.
  • In certain cases, messages failed to render at all, so we fixed that, too.
Other changes
  • Added back the links to our help docs, Discord and YouTube channel to the onboarding pages.
  • Fixed
    isNumber
    in custom prompts not working with
    chapter.number
    and similar functions.
  • Fixed too many context selections / inputs in chat overflowing the screen - we now added a height limit.
  • Added more detailed diagnostic data for support (to be found in the Help menu).
  • Various other fixes and improvements.

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Codex

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Collaboration

August 7, 2025

✨ Updated System Model Collections
It’s been a while since we updated the model collections that come by default with Novelcrafter. If you wanted to use any of the newer models (like Claude 4), you had to clone and customize them.
The new model collections have been reorganized a bit (we now group by
Popular
,
Other
and
NSFW
) and any deprecated/retired models have been removed.
Because there’s been a lot of issues around the Free models on OpenRouter (they frequently get swapped out, or have bad quality), and the ones left are likely to use your data for training, we also decided to remove them from the default lists. If you want to use free models, you can add them back as a custom model collection.
If you want to go back to the previous collections, we kept them over here.
🧪 New Experiment: Exclusions and Case-Sensitive Matching for Codex entries
This release also adds an experimental version of a “case-sensitive” mode for matching your codex entries (like when your character is named “Hope” you can enable this option to not match for “against all hope”).
Also, Codex entries can now have a list of phrases you want to exclude during matching. So when your character is called “Don”, you can now tell the system to ignore “don’t” as a phrase - same with the name “May” in “how may I help you”.
Learn more about this experiment (and how to sign up for it) on our Discord.
🔧 Other Changes
  • Made the more optimized Codex tracking system the new default (and removed/replaced the experiment).
  • Fixed tracking for Codex entry names and aliases with mixed regular and curly double quotes.
  • Fixed invitees being unable to upload Codex entry thumbnails inside a shared novel or series.
  • Fixed an issue with going back to the Novel Library when having certain Ad-Blockers on.
  • Fixed some Table rendering issues in Chat when using DeepSeek V3.
  • Fixed 400 errors when using Featherless as AI provider.
  • Various other fixes and improvements.

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Codex

AI

Export

July 24, 2025

  • Added a "wide" mode to scene card width for the plan and matrix views.
  • Added a button to clone custom Codex categories for when you quickly want to create a category for each dropdown detail value.
  • The Codex tag selection dropdown will now stay open while selecting.
  • Fixed "hidden from AI" entries being pulled in chat when using options like “All entries”, “all entries by a type”, “all entries for a category”, etc..
  • Fixed underlined and strikethrough text not being formatted correctly in
    .docx
    exports.
  • Fixed colorized/highlighted scene contents not being formatted correctly in
    .docx
    exports (scene summaries are still missing highlighting during export).
  • Other fixes and improvements.

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Write

Codex

Prompts

July 10, 2025

Today's update is all about fixing some annoying bugs:
  • Fixed duplicated custom details showing up in Codex entries when using progressions without adding the custom detail first.
  • Fixed escape key in manuscript command popover.
  • Fixed scrolling issue with iPad OS in modals/dialogs.
  • Fixed Chat prompts not showing up in the ‘recently used’ prompts list
  • Other fixes and improvements.

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Write

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Snippets

July 5, 2025

This update might not be as important for existing users, but it contains a new onboarding flow!
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Here’s what’s new:
  • When creating a new account, you’ll see a streamlined landing page to make it easier to start a novel right away.
  • We added a little tutorial system that has steps for the most common things people do (creating a story, adding a Codex entry, writing a snippet, … that kind of stuff).
  • Added a couple more hints to set up AI to places where it would’ve shown an error before.
  • Updated AI vendor list order, and marked ‘Anyscale’ as a deprecated connection.
  • Other fixes and improvements.
Experiment: Full-View Snippets
  • Made this feature enabled by default for all accounts.
  • Fixed some formatting issues with the design being tied to the manuscript settings.
  • Fixed highlighted text being indicated in the wrong position in the timeline/scroll bar.

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Snippets

July 3, 2025

Today, we added a bunch of quality of life improvements to the app, especially for beginners:
  • Added little help bubbles around the app to tell you more about certain features and behaviors!
  • When creating a new novel, you can now set its language from the creation screen.
  • Added a way to only show specific label groups in your Plan → Matrix view.
  • Fixed an issue where having “../” or “..\” in your text might cause save issues.
  • Minor improvements to the “surprise me” novel title generator.
  • Other fixes and improvements.
Experiment: Full-page snippets
  • Snippets will now use the regular design, instead of the manuscript formatting.
Experiment: Multi-Category Codex entries
  • Allow different categories to match against the same detail or tag.

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Write

Codex

June 25, 2025

We just released an updated with a few quality of life-improvements! Here's what's new:
  • Updated the action menus for acts, chapters, scenes, … to use a new "switch" for settings that are an on/off toggle. The previous changing of a label, or a checkbox was not clear enough.
  • Fixed copying text from inside a section missing the first letter.
  • Fixed archived Codex entries inside of relations showing up as "deleted".
  • Added an error message when the checkout couldn't load properly.
  • Other various fixes and improvements.

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Chat

Write

Prompts

AI

June 11, 2025

Due to all the time-off/holidays, conferences and such, it’s been a while since we have done an app update. Today, we’ve finally deployed a couple improvements and fixes:
  • Fixed being unable to remove ‘heading’ formatting from text
  • Fixed not being able to select a model when only a single model is available
  • Other various bug fixes and improvements
Stay tuned for more updates throughout June :)
After the big May update we also made a lot of tweaks based on your initial feedback and bug reports. For transparency, here’s what we fixed right after the release and throughout May:
Notable changes:
  • Added a “create snippet from section” button to sections
  • Made panels pin-able on smaller screens (1920x1080px min. size)
  • Fixed sluggish typing for larger novels with big Codexes
  • Fixed scene beats pulling in Codex entries from prior beats
  • Fixed sections excluded from word counting still being counted
  • Fixed sending additional AI context twice in certain cases
Other changes:
  • Added a link to the prompt update FAQ
  • Fixed long scene summaries in Write mode overlapping
  • Fixed context options in Chat not showing up in Safari
  • Fixed chat not scrolling to the end on Firefox
  • Fixed being unable to use custom codex Tags in additional AI context
  • Fixed being unable to clone system model collections
  • Fixed the current draft Chat user message missing in prompt preview
  • Fixed not including existing preset inputs when creating a new one
  • Fixed summarization not working via presets using specific models
  • Fixed
    prompt.model
    returning nothing
  • Fixed
    is/has
    filters for codex functions not using current context
  • Fixed prompt updater widget still showing for archived prompts
  • Fixed importing issues with novel HTML files that contain styling and scripts
  • Other various bug fixes and improvements
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