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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 26.1.2·July 25, 2026

Release Notes

Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes a race condition when searching across multiple documents, restores the application's taskbar icon on Windows, and fixes a font setting that failed to load on older versions of Qt. Japanese and Russian translations have also been updated. Detailed Changelog Bugfixes

  • Fixed a race condition when searching through multiple documents that could cause a crash if the next match button was pressed too quickly. Issue #2809. PR #2811.
  • Fixed the application icon not showing on the Windows taskbar. Issue #2728. PR #2824.
  • Fixed loading of a font setting saved with Qt 6.11 when running on older versions of Qt. PR #2849. Internationalisation
  • Japanese translation updated by @hebekeg. PR #2897.
  • Russian translation updated by Kuro Ryuu (kuroryuu) and Konstantin Tan (@k1kimosha). PR #2897.

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 (17)

26.1.1
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