🚀 Big Releases

• Coaching with The Plottery — we partnered with The Plottery to bring our writers group coaching as a more accessible and affordable way to access a professional writing coach

• Lifetime subscriptions — instead of only offering monthly or annual subscriptions, we have introduced a lifetime pricing option that allows you to pay for Novlr Pro once

• Publish to ebook — you can now publish to .epub directly from your project homepage and access and delete all previously published versions of your ebook from the Publishing page

• Focus mode — we introduced a “proactive focus” UI that fades out automatically and reappears on click

• Split chapter — reintroduced the split chapter function to allow you to create new documents easily from a single, imported document

• Switchable word count tracking — you now choose which word count you want to track from chapter word count, your total words written today, and the total word count for your project

🪡 Improvements

• Saving and version — upgraded our system to provide more reliable saving and version management to reduce duplicate commits or timeouts

• Better performance — vastly improved app performance by avoiding unnecessary re-renders on each keystroke

• Better explanations for version — we have improved the way we show different types of versions in your version history. You’ll find text that explains if a version is an alternate to a simultaneous save, if it’s an offline version, if it is an imported version, or if it was created with a chapter split

• Comment totals — you will now see how many comments are contained in your document via a small number that appears next to the comment icon in the header bar

• Improved UI text — we fixed some minor spelling errors and clarified some of our modal text in our notifications panel, our pricing grid, and success nudges

• Better import — for ease of use, we have added an import button directly to the dashboard. We have also greyed out the import button when no document is selected

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Offline issues and toast popups — some users reported sporadic chapter reordering, uncontrolled toast nudges, and multiple offline popups. You should now be able to drop offline, reorder chapters, come back online with no unexpected changes, and notifications will only show when appropriate

• Fullscreen button on Safari — while this issue is fixed, it will still require some monitoring due to how Safari functions. The fullscreen button is hidden on mobile. To write in full screen on mobile, you will need to add Novlr as an app to your device’s home screen (see this helpdesk article for more info)

• Hidden chapter menus — some users had the chapter menu hidden behind the writing screen when clicking on the three dots next to the chapter title. This issue was isolated to Safari and Firefox users and has now been resolved

• Exporting nested chapter — fixed an issue that prevented nested chapters from being exported

• Sharing lag — Adjusted sharing modal so the UI doesn’t have to wait for the server to change in order to cut down on lag when toggling multiple chapters for sharing

• Timezone issues — resolved a timezone issue that meant analytics and streaks were incorrect for some users

• Imported title — chapter titles including the “&” symbol were converting the symbol to “&” on import. All titles, including a symbol will now import correctly