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novelWriter

novelWriter·vkbo.novelWriter

A markdown-like editor for novels

A markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It is designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organisation of text files and notes, with a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing between files, and built on plain text files for robustness.

winget install --id vkbo.novelWriter --exact --source winget

Latest 26.1.1·June 28, 2026

Release Notes

Release Notes This is a patch release that adds Catalan language to the app, and updates translation files for other languages. Some user interface labels for the Manuscript tool have been improved, and the documentation updated. A small fix resolves an error message printed to the log when launching the app on Linux. Detailed Changelog Bugfixes

  • Fixed a DBus error message from Qt on Linux. PR #2790. Improvements
  • Clarified some of the GUI labels on the Manuscript tool. Issue #2762. PR #2768. Internationalisation
  • Catalan translations added by @jaumeplanas. PR #2793.
  • Norwegian and US English translations updated by @vkbo. PR #2793.
  • Japanese translation updated bu @hebekeg. PR #2793.
  • German translation updated by @HeyMyian. PR #2793.
  • Polish translation updated by @Nauthizz. PR #2793.
  • Dutch translation updated by @risingphoenix73. PR #2793.
  • Italian translation updated by Lou Cyper. PR #2793.
  • Chinese translation updated by wcxu21 and @longqzh. PR #2793. Documentation
  • Fixed some typos in the documentation. PR #2773.
  • Improved the documentation for the Manuscript tool. Issue #2763. PR #2768.
  • Switched the documentation back to using uv for examples. PR #2766.

Installer type: inno

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Details

Homepage
https://novelwriter.io/
License
GPL-3.0
Publisher
novelWriter
Support
https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/issues
Copyright
© Copyright 2018–2026 Veronica Berglyd Olsen.

Tags

articledocsdocumenteditorfictionmarkdownnoteswriting

Older versions (16)

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