Where your stories grow.
The last writing software you will ever need.
Your idea is the seed.
We provide the fertile ground.
Structure gives it roots.
Imagination does the rest.
NovlHeim is your Yggdrasil. Carve out as many worlds as you will.
Every novel begins the same way: with more in your head than fits on a page. The first question is not what to write. It is where to put it, and how to organise it.
Today the answer is three or four different apps. It should be one.
No matter what kind of writer you are.
You write first and find the shape on the way.
So the writing room comes first: a focus editor with four passes, Compose, Redraft, Revise and Polish, and a chapter list you reorder by dragging. As you add chapters and scenes the structure fills in behind you. The timeline and codex are there when you want them, not before.
Most writers plan a little, write a lot, and change the plan.
In NovlHeim the plan and the prose are one project. Move a scene and the timeline moves. Rename a character in the codex and every chapter follows.
You outline first.
NovlHeim has the planning rooms for that: a timeline with your world's own calendars, an arcs board that follows each character from promise to payoff, and a codex for every person and place. All of it is wired to the manuscript, so when the plan changes the chapters know.
Begin with a scene, a character, a map or a timeline. The other rooms are already there when you need them. When you need a new tool you do not need a new app, and your manuscript and your notes come with you the whole way.
A focus editor that shows only the chapter you are in, and keeps every draft you write.
Every version is kept, so nothing you cut is lost.
A timeline with ages and calendars of your own making, and an arcs board with beats for every character.
Change a date once and every scene that depends on it knows.
A codex for every person, place and thing, with aliases, tags and kin, and maps you draw yourself with pins, regions, labels and layers.
Bring what you have. NovlHeim imports docx, epub, odt, rtf, markdown, html and pdf, and whole folders, as manuscript, notes or codex entries.
Export leaves in the same formats.
Six tools, one project. Open any of them and the others are one step away, sharing the same characters, the same places, the same dates.
Writing
World building
One manuscript, four ways of working on it.
Compose puts the words down. Redraft rewrites a scene beside the old one. Revise and Polish each open the tools that pass needs and put the rest away. Whichever pass you are in, the chapter you are in is the only thing on screen.
How much you wrote today, and how far the book has come.
A count for today and for the scene you are in, a word goal for every book on the shelf, and where each one stands: planning, drafting or complete. Nothing to fill in. It reads off the manuscript.
Everything you take out is kept.
Book notes sit beside the chapter, for the thought that is not prose yet. Cuts hold what you took out of a scene, so a line cut on Tuesday is still there on Thursday. Every draft is kept as well, so nothing you wrote is ever really gone.
See every thread. Shape every turn.
Ages and calendars of your world's own making, events placed in time, and ranges that can be a war or an afternoon.
Follow each arc from promise to payoff.
Each character's thread, its rise and fall act by act, beat by beat, summarised as throughline, wound, need and change.
Every place, remembered.
Maps you draw yourself, with pins that open a place's page, and a wiki entry behind every pin: lore, geography, who lives there, aliases, tags, kin, and every scene it appears in.
A still can only say so much. This is the app itself, moving between the rooms of one open project.
Every character, place and date is one entity. Change it once and the manuscript, the codex and the timeline agree.
Windows today. macOS in work, then iPhone and Android, and tablets that behave like the desktop.
Better tools, not a model: search that understands your world, structure that checks itself.
NovlHeim will never generate your prose, and the core will always be AI-free. Later versions add the option of smarter engines for anyone who wants them: sharpening your own writing, helping with structure, keeping your notes and your world tracked across a manuscript and a shelf. Prose-generating AI is not a thing we left out. It is a thing the app will never have.
Write
The way you already do, with a binder beside you.
The same manuscript, four ways of working on it. Compose puts the words down; Redraft, Revise and Polish each open the tools that pass needs and put the rest away.
Parts, chapters and scenes in the order the book reads. Drag to reorder; the manuscript follows.
Compose hides everything but the chapter you are in. The codex, the plan and the desk are one key away and otherwise out of sight.
The same manuscript, four ways of working on it. Compose puts the words down; Redraft, Revise and Polish each open the tools that pass needs and put the rest away.
The draft you are redrafting against, whole and scrollable. Pull a line across as it stands, or leave it behind: the old draft is never altered.
The new draft, starting empty. Scene by scene you rewrite rather than edit, and both versions are kept, so a second draft never costs you the first.
Every book in the series in order, each with its cover, its word goal and where it stands: planning, drafting or complete.
Every series you have begun, with its volumes counted. A world can carry more than one of them, and they share everything behind the scenes.
The last scenes you touched, whichever volume they belong to, so picking the thread back up takes one click.
Your world's own calendars and ages, not the Gregorian ones. Dates in the manuscript resolve against them.
One event: when, where, who was there, and the scenes that show it. Move it and its scenes keep their links.
Zoom from a dynasty to an afternoon. The ruler keeps the scale readable at every level.
An arc is a promise and its payoff, with the beats between. Each thread is drawn as the shape it makes across the acts.
One turn of the arc, placed where it lands in the book. Unplaced beats sit in the margin until they have a scene.
What the arc is for, stated plainly: the throughline, the wound underneath it, the need it answers, and what the character becomes.
A location with its own page behind the pin: lore, geography, the people tied to it and the scenes set there.
Everything on the map is a layer you can switch off — markers, regions, routes — so one map serves the whole book.
Drop a pin, draw a border, name a sea. The map is yours to make, and the entries hang off it.
There is more to see.
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