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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 26.2·September 5, 2026

Release Notes

Release Notes The 2026.2 release is based on the features added in 2026.2 Beta 1, Beta 2, RC 1. See the website for complete Release Notes. Detailed Changelog Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug on macOS where using the system's native font selection dialog did not apply the selected font, since Qt's native panel does not confirm the choice with an OK button. By @kkostov. PR #2970.
  • Fixed a bug from the Beta 1 release where tab widgets could show a border despite having flat tabs enabled. By @vkbo. PR #2971.
  • Fixed a bug from the Beta 1 release where pasting rich text could repeat formatting unnecessarily when the source contained overlapping hidden formats. Restored the ability to paste as plain text, now bound to Ctrl+Shift+V, which was lost when rich text paste was introduced. By @vkbo. Issues #2978 and #2979. PR #2980.
  • Fixed missing theme colours in the Dark Arts and Ruby Night themes added in the Beta 2 release. By @HeyMyian. PR #3003. User Interface
  • Changed the default line height from 1.0 to 1.15, the default font on Windows to Segoe UI, and reduced the default application font size from 10pt to 9pt. By @HeyMyian. Discussed in #2955. PR #2998. Other Changes
  • Bumped the project file format version to 1.6 to block the project from being opened by older versions of novelWriter that cannot read it correctly anyway. By @vkbo. PR #2984. Packaging
  • Rewrote the Debian package build to publish through a package registry, with build versions now selectable and Linux Mint added as a supported target. By @vkbo. PRs #2986 and #2990. Internationalisation
  • The Norwegian, US English, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese translations are now complete, and the Catalan translation has been updated. Translations are contributed via Crowdin. PR #2968. Downloads Debian and Wheel packages are no longer added to the GitHub release. They can be downloaded from:
  • Debian/Ubuntu/Mint: https://broadcasts.cloudsmith.com/saga-soft/stable
  • Wheel: https://pypi.org/project/novelWriter

Installer type: inno

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Details

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

Tags

articledocsdocumenteditorfictionmarkdownnoteswriting

Older versions (18)

26.1.2
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