AN AI WRITING APP FOR NOVELISTS
A novel outgrows a document. Keep chapters and notes in one project, open it on a laptop, tablet or phone, with an AI agent that works across the whole book.
At a glance
An interactive demo of the editor: open a chapter, browse the story folders and see how a suggested edit is marked in the text.
Chapter Draft
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A fantasy novel about Mira, a mapmaker’s apprentice in a kingdom whose borders move overnight. Forty chapters planned, three written…
Your project is ready: chapters on the left, four story folders waiting for notes. Shall we start by putting Mira in Characters and the shifting map in Worldbuilding?
Chapter 3 The Missing River
In the morning the Silver Brook was gone from the map. Mira held the whole sheet of vellum up to the window and found no trace of scraping.
“Rivers don’t walk off on their own,” Master Aurin said. “Someone moved it.”
“Rivers don’t walk off on their own,” Master Aumin said. “Someone moved it.”
She said nothing. Last night she had, in fact, added one more stroke beside the Silver Brook.
What’s Mira’s teacher called again? I think I got it wrong in chapter three.
Your character notes and the first two chapters say “Aumin”; chapter three has “Aurin” once. I’ve marked it in the text for you to decide.
Chapter 3 The Missing River
In the morning the Silver Brook was gone from the map. Mira held the vellum up to the window and found no trace of scraping.
“Rivers don’t walk off on their own,” Master Aumin said. “Someone moved it.”
She said nothing. Last night she had added one more stroke beside the brook.
Laptop
Chapter 3 The Missing River
In the morning the Silver Brook was gone from the map. Mira held the vellum up to the window and found no trace of scraping.
“Rivers don’t walk off on their own,” Master Aumin said.
She said nothing.
Tablet
The Missing River
In the morning the Silver Brook was gone from the map.
“Rivers don’t walk off,” Aumin said.
Phone
Sample novel; interface drawn from current Muses components.
Cloud based novel writing software should not tie your book to one machine. Muses is online novel writing software that runs in your browser: draft on your laptop, then open the same chapter on your tablet or phone. Your chapters and notes stay in one project. On a phone or tablet, add it to your home screen and it opens in its own window.
Your book is a list of chapters. Keep your own notes on characters, worldbuilding and the outline, plus reference material, in the project’s folders, ready to open while you work on a chapter.
The AI is an agent inside your project: it can search the whole manuscript, read the chapters and story notes a scene depends on, then draft or revise the exact passage with timeline, point of view and foreshadowing in mind. It keeps project memory between sessions, and edits to your text arrive as suggestions you accept or reject, saved as a version.
Try a book writing website with a chapter of your own: find a note mid-scene, ask for help with a passage, then export the draft. Here is how those everyday tasks work in Muses.
By chapter twenty a novel stops being a document and becomes a structure. Chapters live in a list you can rename, reorder and group into folders for parts or volumes, so reaching chapter fourteen is one click instead of a long scroll — and the outline can be a mind map when a list stops helping.
You need the name of Mira’s first teacher in the middle of writing their argument. The notes you write about characters, places and the order of events stay in the project’s folders. Ask the AI to look up the detail you need while you keep working on the chapter.
Start the writing timer and it reports the net new words from that session, including anything you kept from the AI. When you cannot get into a scene, ask for a way in: “Read chapter eleven and Mira’s notes on the border survey, then suggest three ways this scene could open.”
Bring in what you have already written as DOCX, TXT or Markdown — a single file, a folder or a ZIP. In the web version, export as DOCX, Markdown, TXT, PDF or EPUB whenever you like, either as one file or a ZIP that keeps your folder structure.
Yes. Muses runs in your browser and saves your manuscript in the cloud. Sign in to open the same project on a laptop, tablet or phone. Long drafting sessions are more comfortable on a bigger screen, where the chapter list, the draft and the AI are all visible at once; a phone is better for reading a scene back, fixing a line or reviewing an edit on the way home.
No to both. Muses runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install and nothing to update, and it is not listed in the mobile app stores. On a phone or tablet, open it in the browser and add it to your home screen from the browser menu; after that it opens from an icon, in its own window.
No. Saving to the cloud and working with AI need an internet connection. For a writing session away from the internet, export a chapter, edit the file locally and import the revised file when you reconnect. Continue in local Word and bring revisions back.
Signing up and starting a novel is free. The free plan includes a monthly AI allowance, and paid plans add more; the Pricing page has the current details for every plan.
Sign in and Muses opens a novel project for that book: a chapter open in the editor, empty story folders waiting for your notes, and an AI panel that already has what you just described, so you can carry straight on from there. You can rename or delete the project at any point.
You write the novel with it, and you decide what happens next. When the AI changes text you have already written, every edit arrives as a suggestion you accept or reject; when it drafts into a chapter that is still empty, the text goes straight into the editor for you to keep, rewrite or delete. Before it drafts, it can look up earlier chapters and your notes, and you can point it at the ones that matter. Every AI model works with a limited amount of text at a time, so in any app the way to keep a long novel consistent is to keep the key facts in your notes and have the AI read them first.
Yes. On this page, choose Upload a manuscript and bring in DOCX, TXT or Markdown as one file, a folder or a ZIP. After you sign in, those files become the chapters of a novel project, and your folder structure is kept. You can also import later from the Muses home page into a project you already have.
Your manuscript is yours, and nothing is locked in. In the web version, export a single chapter or the whole project as DOCX, Markdown, TXT, PDF or EPUB at any point — you never have to finish the book to get your writing out.
An app is easy to judge once your own chapters are in it. Write a working title and one line about the story; you sign in on the next screen and what you wrote comes with you. Look around the project, then open it again tomorrow from wherever you happen to be.
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