Alternatives to NovelAI
An online service for AI-assisted story writing and anime-style image generation. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
NovelAI
An online service for AI-assisted story writing and anime-style image generation.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as NovelAI.
Sudowrite
A web-based AI writing partner built for novelists and fiction writers.
Sudowrite focuses on fiction drafting with its Muse model and a chat assistant that edits the draft, but has no image generation.
Novelcrafter
A browser-based novel-writing workspace with a story wiki called the Codex and optional AI drafting.
Novelcrafter tracks story elements in a Codex wiki and connects to AI models of your choice, but is paid after a 21-day trial.
SillyTavern
A locally-installed front end for language models aimed at long-form roleplay and character-driven writing.
SillyTavern is a free AGPL-licensed local front end for long-form roleplay, keeping history on your machine but requiring your own model backend.
KoboldAI Lite
A standalone browser interface for chatting with and writing alongside language models from many backends.
KoboldAI Lite is a free browser front end for writing with models from KoboldCpp, AI Horde or OpenAI, and needs a separate backend.
Type
An AI-assisted document editor for writing books, screenplays and other long-form stories.
Type is a document editor for fiction and screenplays with story context, offline mode, version history and exports, without image generation.
Squibler
A web-based AI writing tool for drafting books, novels and screenplays from an idea.
Squibler generates full book and screenplay drafts with outlines and characters from an idea, rather than co-authoring passage by passage.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
AutoCrit
An online platform for planning, writing and editing fiction with manuscript analysis and feedback.
Marlowe
An AI manuscript analysis service that reads a novel draft and produces developmental feedback reports.
ProWritingAid
A grammar checker and style editor with planning and critique tools aimed at fiction writers.
Easy-Peasy.AI
A web platform bundling AI writing templates, image, video and audio generators, and AI agents.
