🚀 Big Releases
More projects for free users — improved our Standard plan to offer up to five projects, completely free!
New subscription tier — introduced a new Plus plan which allows unlimited project creation for only $5 a month, or $48 a year
More font choices — added a font option selector to the writing settings, which lets you choose a Sans Serif and Monospace font in addition to our default Serif font
More project types — added project types to the project creation flow. You can now choose between a Novel, Novella, Short Story, Poetry, Non-Fiction, or General project type
New writing courses — fully integrated courses are now live! The Tim Clare Couch to 80k Creative Writing Bootcamp is completely free for all users. We also have two paid courses live, Write to Play: Rediscover the Joy of Writing by Carl Burkitt and Write a Non-Fiction Book Proposal by Lydia Yadi. Novlr Pro subscribers get 10% off all course purchases
🪡 Improvements
Better offline notifications — you’ll now see less prominent offline notifications. We replaced offline popups with a less obtrusive offline notification in the top writing bar that works with focus mode
Estimated page counts — introduced a project comparison card to the project view in Analytics. You can now compare your project’s estimated page count compared with famous literary works like Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and the average Dr Seuss book
Better backups — improved Google Drive and Dropbox backups for Novlr Pro users. The sync now creates individual, adaptively updated documents per chapter rather than creating multiple PDFs on each sync
More accurate analytics — removed pasted words from the words written totals to give writers a more accurate overview of your writing analytics. Pasted words will still count toward word count totals, but only words written in Novlr will count toward words written totals, and, therefore, writing pace statistics
Account deletion — added an account deletion button that automates account deletion requests
Better design — improved the design of the dashboards to include illustrated banners
Move visible goals — added active goals to the main dashboard
System adaptive — made Novlr’s favicon adaptable. It will show as lighter if your device or browser is in dark mode, and darker if in light mode
Better formatting on touchscreens — the formatting bar on touchscreen-enabled devices remains sticky and centred at the top of the page
🪲 Bug Fixes
Offline toast spam — improved database optimisation to stop offline prompts and toasts from incorrectly showing when lots of users saved projects at the same time
Import error — fixed an import bug where long titles overlapped the import container on selection
Better mobile menu — improved menu flow for users on mobile when accessing their settings
Indent formatting — shared links now preserve the indent formatting set by the writer
Better version history — improved offline versioning makes it less likely that a live version will replace the offline version as “newer,” saving writers from having to restore offline writing from their version history manually
Lost project synopsis — fixed an error where writing a chapter synopsis was overriding the project synopsis
Incorrect chapter length — fixed an error where notes were counting toward the average chapter length. Average length will now only be calculated based on chapters or docs in your project, and exclude notes from these totals