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.
Open the page and write. The shape can come later, or not at all.
Nothing on screen but the chapter you're in, and a list of chapters you can drag into a better order when one turns up. The shape fills in behind you as you go. The timeline and the codex wait quietly until you want them.
Lay the chapters out first, scene by scene, and fill them in when you're ready.
The whole book as an outline, summaries and all, and the scenes as cards you move by hand until the order is right. Every chapter you fill in lands in the manuscript where the outline put it.
Put the turning points in order, and follow each character from promise to payoff.
A timeline that keeps your world's own calendar, and an arcs board with beats for every character. The manuscript is wired to all of it, so when the plan changes, the chapters know.
Begin with the place: its people, its history, its map. The book grows out of it.
A page for every person, place and thing, and maps you draw yourself with pins that open a place's page. Every scene set there finds its way back to it.
A manuscript and its notes, a world wiki, or the whole folder at once.
The chapters and scenes come in as you had them, with the notes beside them; wiki pages become codex entries with their links kept; a folder is sorted into manuscript, notes and codex on the way. docx, epub, odt, rtf, markdown, html and pdf come in. Everything leaves the same way.
Five sets of tools, one project. Open any of them and the others are one step away, sharing the same characters, the same places and the same dates.
Writing
World building
The way you already do, with a binder beside you.
A page that behaves like the one you're used to, and nothing else on screen but the chapter you're in. Beside it, the binder: parts, chapters and scenes, dragged into whatever order the book turns out to want.
One world, many books.
Your books on one shelf, in order, each with its own goal and how far along it is. Characters, places and calendars are shared across the shelf, so book four still remembers book one.
Where the book stands, in numbers you set yourself.
A word goal for the book and for the day, a count that reads off the manuscript as you write, and the shape of the whole thing at a glance. Nothing to fill in.
See every thread. Shape every turn.
Ages and calendars of your world's own making, with every event placed where it belongs. A range can be a war or an afternoon.
Every place, remembered.
Maps you draw yourself, with pins that open a place's page. Behind every pin, everything you know about that place: its lore, its geography, who lives there, 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.
What's out now is the beta: the app as it stands today. At launch it becomes NovlHeim Core, the same app finished, with what the beta taught us built in. We call it Core because it's the foundation everything later stands on; smart tools will come on top of it in time.
One thing holds through all of it: we will never use generative AI to write the novel, or any part of it, for you.
Projects live on your own computer, as files you can see and back up.
Sync between your devices comes later, without moving your work into a cloud you don't control, and a version for the browser is on the road after that, for the days you're away from your desk.
Manuscripts, notes and world wikis come in from the formats you already use, and leave the same way.
Nothing of yours is locked to us. docx, epub, odt, rtf, markdown, html, pdf and whole folders come in; everything leaves in the same formats.
We've done everything we could to make it solid and natural to use.
Like any new tool still being built, it will have bugs and corners that don't work the way you'd expect. When you find one, tell us. Every note shapes what Core ships with.
We want this to be the number one tool for authors. No questions asked.
Core is the first step, built with the writers in the beta.
Just as a tree grows and branches out, a story grows too. The roots have to be secure and strong, and then it grows, sometimes in ways you didn't expect.
NovlHeim is there to help you find the best routes as it does. Everything in it connects to everything else: a person to the places they've been, a place to the scenes set there, a date to every chapter that hangs on it.
This is a tree of life. We want your story to be alive and growing, reaching ever higher.
What grows from the blank page is yours.
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.
Read on
