Novellis

The Intelligent Framework for World-Building and Narrative Intelligence

Novellis is a privacy-first, local-LLM-powered workspace designed for storytellers, world-builders, and narrative designers. Transform static manuscripts into interactive, AI-powered knowledge bases while keeping your creative work entirely on your own machine.

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Important

Beta Release: Novellis is currently in public beta. We are actively refining our narrative engines and stability. Your feedback and bug reports are invaluable at this stage.

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🌌 Core Features

• Local-First Narrative AI: Seamlessly connect to Ollama for a 100% private, offline experience, or use cloud providers like OpenAI/Anthropic for intensive analysis.
• Narrative Intelligence & Timeline: Automatically visualize story arcs and temporal sequences across your entire novel.
• Visual Knowledge Graph: Map and explore complex relationships between characters, locations, and events in a dynamic graph view.
• AI Copilot & Ingestion: Ingest manuscripts to create a "brain" for your story that understands characters, plot points, and consistency.
• Privacy-First Architecture: Your work stay where it belongs—on your hardware. No cloud sync required for core features.

📜 Community & Pricing

Novellis is built with a commitment to the writing community:

• Free Community Edition: Professional-grade story-building tools will remain free forever for individuals.
• Professional Features: Deep-analysis tools (large-scale consistency checks, narrative arc clustering) are available in our Pro tier to support the project's continued development.

📥 Getting Started

1. Visit the Releases page.
2. Download the specialized installer for your system:
   • macOS (arm64): For Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4).
   • macOS (x64): For Intel-based Macs.
   • Windows (x64): Standard Windows installer.
3. Security Notice: As a community-built tool, our binaries are currently unsigned.
   • macOS: Right-click the app and select "Open" to bypass Gatekeeper.
   • Windows: Click "More info" -> "Run anyway" if prompted by SmartScreen.
4. (Optional) Install Ollama to run AI models locally for maximum privacy.

🤝 Join the Journey

• Found a bug? Open an Issue.
• Have an idea? Join the Feature Requests discussion.
• Need help? Check our documentation on the Landing Page.

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