What's changed

Plan by hand from the first minute

• A new project's Story Plan opens right where the + button is, so you can add a chapter, name it, and drop scenes in with no brief and no setup.
• Every new project starts with a clean slate of view settings.
• Ask the setup chat to create a chapter and it hands you an Open Story Plan button that takes you straight there.

Revisions you can watch

• Chapter revisions now stream live, with a running word count while the editor works.
• Revisions run smoothly over slow or proxied connections. As long as your model keeps writing, bookmoth keeps listening, however long the chapter takes.
• If a whole-chapter revision can't get through in one pass, bookmoth offers to run it scene by scene, which sends smaller requests.
• Press Stop to cancel a revision cleanly, mid-flow.
• Clearer feedback when a reasoning model spends its response thinking rather than writing.

Your writing stays yours

• Debug snapshots are diagnostics only by default. Your writing and editor chat are included only if you tick a box when saving one, and nothing ever leaves your machine unless you send the file yourself.

Story Plan and Scene View

• The chapter plan becomes the Story Plan, with chapter cards, act dividers, and insert buttons between chapters.
• New Scene View: flip the plan from chapters to scenes and the whole book becomes draggable. Reorder scenes, move one into another chapter, or drag whole chapters. The prose travels with them, and one undo reverses any move.

Polished pasting

• Pasting prose keeps its exact line spacing, and scene counts update the moment the text lands.
• One undo reverses an entire paste.

A sharper editor

• The editor chat follows your request through chapter loads, reads imported chapters, and shows live progress on long waits.
• Codex suggestions from the editor chat flow through the review window, so nothing is saved until you accept it.
• When the editor updates your plan it names exactly what changed, chapter by chapter.

Codex

• Group entries, merge duplicates, and drag entries between groups.
• Import an existing codex, edit tags, and filter by them.

Make it yours

• Custom themes now carry two looks each, one light and one dark, and the toggle flips between them.
• Custom fonts, an editor font selector, and one settings hub for appearance, text size, and models.

Also in this release

• Bold and italics survive export.
• Drafting guards against common AI tells on the voice-profile path.
• A debug snapshot in Settings, so support can diagnose a problem without interrogating you.
• The welcome tour catches up with everything above.

• New project types: essay and article, alongside novel and non-fiction book. Tabs, prompts, and exports all adapt to the type.
• A Research tab for shorter pieces: fetch a link and bookmoth extracts the article, not the page furniture, summarises each source, and lets you tag and filter them. Drafts lean on what you collected.
• An Outline tab with drag-to-reorder sections, and a write-first flow: start typing and the brief builds itself around your draft.
• Piece-shaped export: clipboard, Markdown, Word, or plain text.
• The brief interview grows quick-reply chips and buttons that act, and the editor reads a brief you've pasted in and builds from it.

• The print-ready typeset export gains a front matter pack: title page, copyright page, and dedication.
• Prompt caching makes chat and drafting faster and cheaper across a writing session.
• Voice check and codex auto-scan become opt-in toggles in the write dialog.
• Font work, model routing refinements, and general improvements throughout.

• The Codex Workbench: rich entries with aliases, details, tags, and relations, in a proper master-detail view.
• bookmoth auto-scans new drafts and imported manuscripts for codex candidates, and every suggestion goes through a review queue. Nothing saves itself.
• The codex feeds drafting: relevant entries are pulled into context when the chapter needs them, with per-entry visibility controls.
• Manuscript chat: talk to the editor right beside your prose, with streaming replies and a smoother redraft flow.
• The editor sees the full project every turn: brief, plan, scenes, codex, and voice profile.

• Focus mode keeps your scroll position.
• Duplicate a project from the project list.
• Small labelling and welcome-dialog fixes.

• Scene-tracked manuscripts: your prose knows which scene it belongs to, and the plan and the manuscript stay in sync in both directions.
• Paste your own plan: bring an outline from anywhere and bookmoth maps it into chapters and scenes.
• Chapter detail redesign with collapsible scene cards, summaries, and clearer controls.
• Coming from 1.x? The app migrates your projects automatically, with a backup taken first and a helper for mapping prose to scenes.

• When a local model returns something unexpected, bookmoth explains it in plain words.

• A redesigned about screen, version display fixes, and small UI corrections.

• bookmoth's identity lands: the moth, in the app and in the icons.

• Models that think before they write get the time they need, and a few labels were clarified.

• General improvements to redrafting and the API settings.

• A new Revise chapter flow, editor notes that autosave, reworked API settings, and redraft refinements.

• View and edit your writing examples after adding them.

• Clearer guidance for importing from Google Docs, and the brief gains an explicit word count target.

• Language support for projects, an icon refresh, and routing improvements.

• Cancel a running call, per-provider timeouts, and a model update.

• Advanced model routing (choose which model handles which kind of work), a welcome dialog, and UI polish.

• A unified export dialog and reworked editor notes.

• Tell bookmoth about the earlier books in your series and it keeps characters, world, and threads consistent. Plus a cast view.

• General improvements to provider setup and connection testing.

• The first public build with automatic updates. Everything above grew from here.