Your Stories Deserve Their Own Home
Publish serialized fiction on your own branded site. Build your audience. Own your platform.
Everything You Need, Nothing You Don't
Your Brand. 8 Themes. Zero Code.
Choose from 8 professionally designed themes — from clean minimal to premium anime and snow. Your subdomain, your colors, your identity.
Write. Publish. Schedule.
Rich chapter editor, content ratings, cover images. Set your release schedule and chapters drip automatically.
An Immersive Reading Experience
Zen mode, font customization, auto-bookmarks every 30 seconds. Your readers get a distraction-free experience that keeps them coming back.
Understand Your Readers
Track views, completion rates, reader loyalty. See which stories and chapters perform best. Know what your audience reads across the platform.
Monetize with Tiers
Create free and premium tiers. Gate chapters by access level. Sync with Patreon to verify memberships automatically.
Readers Find You
14 tag types, advanced filters, global search. NSFW-safe with content ratings. Your stories are discoverable by the right readers.
Start Your Story Today
Free during early access. No credit card required.
Start WritingBuilt in the Open
We ship real features every week. Here's where we are and where we're going.
Individual Writers
- Story & chapter management with rich editor
- Immersive reader with bookmarks & history
- Global search & advanced filtering
- Branded subdomain with 8 home themes
- Tier system with Patreon integration
- Analytics dashboard with reader insights
Community Features
- Comments & reviews on stories and chapters
- Personal notes & quotations on text passages
- Wiki — interlinked knowledge base per story
- Blog — author journal posts
- Notifications
Platform & Discovery
- Recommendation engine based on reading behavior
- More creator integrations (SubscribeStar, Ko-fi)
- Author collaboration tools
Advanced
- Story builder / outline tool
- Audio book versions
- Translation service
- Import/export (Royal Road, EPUB)
- Custom domains (CNAME)
- Mobile apps
We believe every writer deserves a platform that respects their work.
The web was supposed to give creators independence. Instead, writers are scattered across platforms that don't understand serialized fiction — fighting algorithms, losing readers to feed noise, giving away their data.
Novelist is our answer: a platform built by fiction lovers, for fiction writers. Where your stories live on your branded site. Where analytics help you understand your audience and write better — not chase algorithms.
Novelist is led by an engineer with more than a decade of experience building apps and cloud platforms. In a time where everything is becoming shallow, he decided to invest in something deeper and transformative. He's building in the open, and starting a team to take this project wherever Novelist should be.
Novelist isn't just a tool — it's a movement. Mine, yours, ours. And you deserve to be part of it from the beginning.
— Novelist Lead Engineer
Join the Founding Authors
Every feature request from early authors gets heard. Some get built the same week.
Free during early access. Forever grateful for your feedback.
Start Your Story Today
Free. No credit card. Join the authors building the future of serialized fiction.
Start Writing