Sudowrite Release Notes

We just added a batch of formatting improvements that will give you more control over paragraph spacing and make copy/paste more reliable.

Set your own paragraph spacing

There’s a new Paragraph Spacing setting in your account settings (under the gear ⚙️ icon in the upper right). Choose your preferred paragraph spacing, and it applies consistently across your projects—no more hand-inserting blank lines for readability.

Tidy up empty lines in one click

If you (or a prior import) left empty “spacer” lines to provide a visual buffer, a new toolbar button will collapse them for you—either at the document or project level—so you can use the new paragraph spacing settings instead.

Copy and paste that preserves your formatting

Pasting into Sudowrite from Word, Google Docs, ChatGPT, or Claude now preserves formatting far more reliably. And copying out of Sudowrite will no longer double your line breaks. Imports come in cleaner too, without phantom empty paragraphs.

A more polished editor all around

Headings now scale with your text size and match your chosen font. Nested bullets now use proper markers with tighter spacing. And your formatting—bullets included—should now appear in the editor exactly the same as it does in cards in your History section.

Big thanks to everyone in the community who flagged these copy/paste and spacing issues in recent months. This one’s for you.

The team has been hard at work on fixes and key improvements this week. Here’s what’s new.

Draft won’t charge you more than its estimate

We improved the Draft tool’s estimates recently, and in doing so made that estimated range into a promise. You’ll no longer see credit charges in excess of the estimate’s ceiling in the Draft planning step. Hooray!

One note: While making this update earlier this week, we briefly broke the retired My Voice model options in Draft. My Voice users hit a credit-estimation error and couldn’t generate. The issue lasted about a day, but it’s fully fixed now. Sorry about that!

Chat Improvements

Chat reads and inserts more reliably

We fixed a batch of issues that made it difficult for Chat to read your document or insert its edits. Reading and inserting are more reliable now.

Failed plans shouldn’t use your credits

It was possible for a complex multi-step plan like a complete manuscript review to fail and still charge you credits. We fixed that, and you won’t be charged in those cases.

Reduced internal jargon in your messages

Chat’s own reasoning sometimes includes noisy jargon—document IDs, “tool” references, etc. We tweaked it so it would stop referencing that in conversation.

Other Improvements & Fixes

Write now completes the sentence

The Write button previously prioritized your word count preference over completeness of thought—meaning it could stop mid-sentence. It now runs to the nearest complete sentence, even if that means a few extra words.

Custom Rewrite instructions stick around

The Rewrite button’s “Customize” instructions had quietly become single-use. We made it work like it used to, so they stay put for repeated rewrites.

The highlight toolbar waits to appear

When you select text, the pop-up toolbar now appears after you release the mouse button instead of mid-drag—so it stops obscuring the lines around your selection.

Find and Replace now handles doc switching

We changed Find and Replace so that if you have a term entered when switching documents, it re-runs automatically in the new doc.

New titles stay put

Typing a title too quickly in a brand-new project could sometimes snap the title back to “Untitled.” Your title now sticks.

A cleaner document list

We improved the document list in your left bar—giving a bit more space, improving contrast for accessibility purposes, and making (•••) menus and toggles only show up when you need them.

Undo no longer undoes more than it should

We fixed a bug with undo where it could reverse the past few edits rather than just your most recent edit. Meanwhile, the editor’s Undo button now works on the first click after you insert text from a card. (Did you know there’s an Undo button in the editor toolbar? I didn’t, and I write these!)

It’s also worth calling out a noteworthy fix on the Sudowrite mobile app this week:

We fixed the cursor jump in Story Bible

On mobile, the cursor was jumping to the end of certain Story Bible fields after each character, making them frustratingly difficult to edit. We fixed that!

Some fresh improvements to report: a nice price drop on a couple of our OpenAI models, and another round of Chat improvements based on your feedback.

💸 GPT‑5.6 models just got cheaper

OpenAI recently lowered its prices on some of its models, and we're passing the savings on to you. GPT‑5.6 Luna now uses 70% fewer credits on Sudowrite, while GPT‑5.6 Terra uses 10% fewer. We tweaked GPT‑5.5 while we were at it, and it now uses about 12% fewer credits. You don’t have to change anything to benefit from this—if you write with any of these AI models in Write, Draft, or Plugins, your credits will just go further now.

💬 Chat fixes & improvements

We remain hard at work, making Chat behave the way you expect:

• See Chat's thought process in Chat Only — The “working” box now shows up in Chat Only mode, just like in Allow Edits.
• Narrow questions stay narrow — Asking about one specific thing no longer kicks off a full Feedback sweep across every review type, so you won't burn credits you didn't mean to spend.
• Resend actually resends — If a response stalled, hitting Resend could sometimes throw an error instead of retrying. It now consistently retries.
• More accurate document edits — We made it so when Chat inserts changes into your manuscript, it places them more precisely.
• Fewer false "stuck in a loop" messages — Chat would occasionally claim it was stuck in a loop even after finishing the task. We've cut those way down.
• Story Bible shortcuts in your current chat — Hitting a generate button in Story Bible no longer creates a brand-new chat thread. We made it so the prompt box now pops into your current chat.

🛠️ Other improvements & fixes

• Generate Scenes costs less on long projects — We’ve optimized the Generate Scenes feature. It now pulls less redundant context, which reduces the cost of scene generation on longer projects.
• Clearer Draft limit warning — We reworded the Draft input‑limit warning—occasionally triggered in super large projects—so it's less alarming and easier to address.
• Resizable comment column — We changed the comment column so that it’s fully resizable. Just drag it to your preferred width and it’ll stay that way.

Keep the feedback coming folks! 🫡

Since our last roundup we’ve added a new AI model, made Chat way better at knowing which words you’re talking about, and fixed a batch of bugs you reported. Here’s what’s new.

🆕 New model: Kimi K3

We’ve added Kimi K3 to Write, Draft, and Plugins. Kimi K3 is a new AI model praised for its creative writing chops, sitting at #2 on EQ-Bench’s creative writing leaderboard (second only to Claude Opus 5, which we added last week). It’s apparently quite good at register: ask for hardboiled or lush and it changes its sentence rhythm, rather than just adjectives. Audition it on a scene with a strong voice and let us know how the prose lands.

↩️ Better, safer Undo

We improved the way Undo handles Chat-based edits. If Chat had edited your manuscript earlier in a session, pressing Ctrl/Cmd + Z later could roll the document back to before that Chat edit instead of undoing only more recent manual edits. Undo now reverses the most recent change chronologically, the way it should.

💬 Chat reliability improvements

We’ve been very focused on improving how Chat handles your instructions.

• No more “your manuscript is empty” - It was possible for Chat to write you a useful chapter critique… and then discard it in favor of telling you your manuscript was empty. We fixed that!
• Highlights stick to the correct document - When you highlighted text and asked Chat about it, it was possible for Chat to reference a different file in your sidebar—or claim it couldn’t load your chapter at all. We fixed that too, and it should better understand that highlights are associated with your active document.
• Accurate word and mention counts - Ask how long a document or project is, or how many times a word appears in a document, and Chat now actually counts instead of estimating.
• Pasting editable text into Chat - Pasted text was turning into an uneditable chip instead of dropping into the message box as plain, editable text. We changed that so it remains editable.
• Long requests don’t vanish - A big Chat request that ran for many minutes could end in a bare “Load failed” with nothing saved, forcing you to start over. We made long-running requests like that preserve their work.
• Comment replies are reliable again - Sometimes @Sudowrite replies in document comments could fail with a generic “I wasn’t able to generate a reply” error. We’ve resolved that issue.

🛠️ More improvements & fixes

• Complete sentences from Brainstorm - Long Brainstorm ideas were being truncated, leaving sentences incomplete in some cases. You’ll get a complete idea from now on.
• Worldbuilding trait edits persist - We fixed an issue that caused Worldbuilding traits to overwrite themselves as you typed into them. (Autosave was a little overeager, but it’s tamed now.)
• Smart Dictation (on mobile) preserves nicknames - Inside a project, Smart Dictation was “helpfully” expanding a spoken first name or nickname into a character’s full Character Card name. It now writes the name as you said it.

Thanks as always—and please keep the bug reports coming.

Anthropic just released Claude Opus 5, their newest Opus-class model, and we've added it to Sudowrite.

According to Anthropic, Opus 5 comes close to the intelligence of their flagship Fable 5 model at half the price. It's a big jump over Opus 4.8 on reasoning and instruction-following benchmarks—which, for authors, means better Story Bible adherence and less plot drift. Early testers also report that Opus 5 may be more permissive than other models.

We haven't put Opus 5 through its paces on long-form fiction just yet, so we’re not ready to attest to its prose. The Opus line has historically been a favorite among Sudowrite authors for its warmth and character voice though, and on paper this is the strongest one yet—but you'll be finding out alongside us. Claude Opus 5 is available now in Write, Draft, and Plugins. Give it a spin and let us know what you think.

Since our last update we've focused on speed, reliability, and a few more model options. Here's what's new.

⚡️ A faster, more responsive Sudowrite

This week we made the Sudowrite web app load faster and feel snappier, especially on lower-end devices and slower connections. We optimized things so that both the homepage and the editor start up quicker, and you spend less time staring at a loading screen. Even scrolling now uses 60% less of your computer's processing power than it used to!

🆕 More model options: GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra & Luna)

We've added OpenAI's newest GPT-5.6 model suite—Sol, Terra, and Luna—to Sudowrite, giving you even more AI model options so you can find the voice and style that fits your story. Try them today in Write, Draft, or your very own Plugins.

💬 Smoother, more reliable Chat & editing

We resolved a handful of issues you reported with Chat to help make it a better writing partner.

• Edits insert more reliably - We reworked the flow that applies AI rewrites into your document, so approved changes land where they should far more consistently.
• No more code or "thinking" text - Chat will no longer blurt out its internal reasoning or stray code in its replies.
• Streamlined conversations - Prose analysis and change descriptions now read naturally in the conversation instead of showing up as boxes in the chat. Chat will no longer derail a planning discussion just because you mention a chapter number.

✍️ Draft improvements

We fixed an issue where chapter prose could stop generating after the first scene (or in some cases, after 8+ scenes), and improved how Draft handles longer scene instructions so generations consistently complete as expected with all Prose Modes. If you do encounter an issue with Draft when using an experimental AI model (like the new GPT-5.6 suite), please submit a bug report so we can fix that.

🛠️ Even more improvements & fixes

• Story Bible now stays put - We tweaked Story Bible so that it stays open or closed based on your preference, rather than popping open on hover.
• Clearer sidebar icons - We’ve added more descriptive icons for the collapsible columns on either side of the editor, making it easier to restore your documents, history, or chat from a collapsed state. We also fixed a bug with resizing the editor when those are collapsed.
• Dark theme chat toggle visibility - We fixed an issue where the Chat Only / Allow Edits toggle in Chat was hard to read in dark themes.
• Selection menu clipping - We fixed a longstanding issue with the menu that appears when you highlight text, where if it was too long (or your screen was too small) it was clipped by the editor’s frame. It will now extend beyond the edge of the editor if necessary.
• Unpublish shared documents - We resolved a document sharing issue that prevented the ••• (more) menu from opening. That means you can once again unpublish a previously shared link.
• Trait text entry fix - We fixed an issue that was causing lag or text deletion while typing in Character and Worldbuilding trait fields.

We’ve got even more on the way. Keep the feedback coming!

Hey folks! The team has been busy, and we’ve got a whole bunch of exciting new features and fixes to share with you.

🆕 Claude Sonnet 5 is Here!

Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 5, their most powerful Sonnet-class AI model yet, and we just added it to Sudowrite.

Sonnet 5 delivers quality approaching Anthropic's flagship Opus 4.8—with notably sharper instruction-following—at a much more reasonable credit cost. That makes it a strong everyday choice for authors looking for great prose and strong instruction-following. Try it now in Write, Draft, or Plugins, and be sure to let us know what you think!

**🆕 **Export an Entire Folder at Once

We just added an option to export a whole document folder in one click. Now when you click on a folder’s three dot (•••) more menu inside of a project, you have the option of exporting all of the documents in that folder as a .zip or as a single (merged) .docx file. This makes it easier than ever to export just what you need—a single file exclusively containing your entire final manuscript, or a .zip file of the supporting research you’d compiled with help from Chat.

🆕 Accessible Document Reordering

We made it so that you can reorder your document list using your keyboard. While holding Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) use Up/Down to reorder, Right to nest an item inside a folder, and Left to move it back out. It’s faster than dragging and fully screen-reader friendly, with each move announced as you go.

Recent fixes

Use the Sudowrite mobile app on either iOS or Android?We just released an update that resolves some widely reported loading issues and persistent crashes. Please update your app to the latest version: 2026.26.16.

Other fixes include:

• Write Guidance Persistence - We fixed a Write (Guided) bug where dismissing the custom prompt menu by clicking outside the field could delete your guidance. Your in-progress prompt will now persist until you choose to change or submit it.
• Stale Browser Bug - We fixed an issue where the editor might display an unusual “Cannot Get” error in a stale browser tab. Refreshing fixed it—but now you don’t have to.
• Too Many Comments Fix - Feedback made it possible to receive hundreds of comments on a single document, which could result in performance issues such as freezing. We’ve resolved this issue by changing how comments load. They now appear in batches as you scroll.
• Feedback Text Preservation - We fixed a Feedback bug where leaving the page or switching chapters could make manuscript text appear missing when you came back. Your chapter text will now remain visible.
• Comment Allow Edit Bug - When asking @Sudowrite for help in comment replies, the response would sometimes mistakenly suggest you need to toggle your Chat mode to Allow Edits. We’ve fixed that, and you can tag away to get help without interruption now.
• Series Chat History - We fixed a bug where your Chat history from books later in a large Series folder could be missing. Series-level chat retrieval will now include books beyond the first 16.
• Quick Edit Usability - We fixed Quick Edit layout and readability issues where buttons could overlap and highlighted text could be hard to read in some themes. Quick Edit suggestions should now be easier to review and accept.
• Draft Generation Fix - We fixed a Draft generation bug where failed or partially completed scene output could still charge estimated credit amounts. Partial or failed scene generations will no longer cost the same as successful complete generations.
• Import Novel Character Detection - We fixed an import issue where Sudowrite could detect Worldbuilding but silently miss Characters in some cases. The Import Novel flow will now retry rather than producing zero Character cards.
• …and a whole bunch more!

Most of these fixes and improvements are a direct result of your feedback. Thank you—and please keep it coming!

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We’ve got a huge update for you this week, with a few headline items below you definitely don’t want to miss.

Excellent Credit Efficiency

Earlier this week we launched Ballad 1.1, Sudowrite’s very own new AI model powering the Excellent Prose Mode. The response has been incredible, with many of you saying it has quickly become your daily driver. There was constructive feedback too, however—primarily that the credit cost of generating multiple Write cards could really add up (especially with big Story Bibles or longer chapters linked in continuity).

Based on that feedback, we made some key changes to how Excellent works. The result? You’ll now save up to 70% on credit costs when generating multiple Write cards with Excellent. The more cards at once, the bigger the savings.

Improved Plugin Editor

If you’ve ever clicked “Create Plugin” in the More Tools menu, you know how simple that first step is—say what you need, and Sudowrite builds it for you. Finalizing your custom writing tool in the editor was less intuitive though, so we just launched an improved Plugin editor that dramatically simplifies the process.

We’ve done away with a complex table of variables, and made it easy to pick from a selector which story inputs you want your plugin to use. New input fields will appear below the Plugin Instructions only for the story inputs you want your plugin to use—so you can force someone to select at least a hundred words to use it, or increase the limit so your Plugin can read a complete manuscript.

Updates to our documentation, including a video walkthrough of this new Plugin creation flow, are coming very soon!

Other Improvements

Claude Opus 4.8 - We’ve added Anthropic’s latest, “greatest” AI model to Sudowrite. Early reviews suggest improvements in prose quality, instruction-following, and consistency across longer outputs—but feedback differs based on genre. Try it out now in Write, Draft or Plugins.

Model Context on History Cards - Can’t remember if you used Opus 4.7 or 4.8 on that last Write click? We just added a new Model chiclet to the Write and Draft cards that appear in your History column, so you’ll always know which AI model wrote the card in question.

Chat Web Research - We heard your feedback that Chat being able to search the web would be a game changer, so we gave it the ability to do so. You can now ask Chat to go research and synthesize things from the internet. Try it with genre conventions or trope data.

Fixes

Rewrite Error Fix - We fixed an issue earlier this week that caused some of you to get a “Something went wrong” error when trying to use Rewrite.

Word Count While Drafting - The word count was not updating consistently while the Draft tool was generating chapter prose. We fixed that and it now gives you a much better real-time picture of your document length during generation.

POV Persistence - We fixed an issue where, after manually setting the chapter POVs in your Story Bible’s Outline, refreshing the page or navigating away could result in those being reset. Your POV will now persist as intended.

Chat History Cutoff - We fixed a bug that was preventing people with very long chat exchanges from scrolling all the way back to the beginning of their chat thread.

More Menu Dismissal - Clicking the three-dot (•••) More menu on a History card would expand a menu with a delete option that could not be dismissed. We fixed that and made it easier to dismiss that menu if you didn’t want to delete your History card.

Large Project Duplication - Projects with over 150 documents could get stuck during the duplication process, but still display a “success” message. We fixed that so large projects work as expected now, but also, if a duplication fails the message is now correct.

Thanks as always for bringing these issues to our attention. Keep the great feedback coming!

Recently the widely beloved AI model that powered the Excellent Prose Mode was discontinued. We were determined to minimize the disruption to your workflow, so we rolled out a replacement modeled closely after it—Sudowrite’s second in-house model, called Ballad. It eased the transition for sure, but you let us know exactly where there was still room for improvement.

We took your feedback, and today we’re introducing Ballad 1.1, a brilliant new model that preserves everything you loved about Excellent while dramatically improving its voice and instruction-following capacity.

Our early testers have confirmed our own results with Ballad 1.1, sharing detailed feedback on the improvements they noticed.

• It actually follows your Extra Instructions - Those specific notes you leave to try and tune your prose results (yes, even “no em dashes”) are way more likely to be incorporated in your results now.
• Capacity for unflinching intimacy - If you write romance or anything steamy, you may have noticed Ballad getting shy in the heat of the moment. Ballad 1.1 understands the importance of those scenes, and doesn’t cut away. (By our estimates it’s also about 40% more willing to use the vulgar terminology you want, when asked.)
• Improved POV and Tense adherence - You shared instances where Ballad’s prose would drift from your defined POV or Tense, sometimes mid-chapter. With Ballad 1.1 we’ve fixed that, and it now sticks to the POV and Tense you’re writing in rather than using its own.
• Significantly reduced repetition - Many of you encountered “echoes” with the original Ballad, where scenes or phrasing might replay within a chapter. We’ve eliminated that phenomenon with Ballad 1.1.
• Less robotic all around - In the same vein, it was possible for Ballad to parrot your own wording back word-for-word. It’s now more original, transforming your scenes into something that reads naturally—something fresh, and ready for the page.
• **…a certain je ne sais quoi **- Creating a voice that sounds just the way you want is more art than science. Our testers have confirmed that Ballad 1.1 has “it,” even though “it” may sound different from author to author.

One final note: We took Ballad 1.1 away from our testers briefly to address their final feedback, and they were super eager to get it back. As JD said in Discord, “Going back to [the old] Excellent… feels like a painful downgrade after some of my Ballad [1.1] results.”

Well, good news for our testers and you: The Excellent Prose Mode is now officially powered by Ballad 1.1. Just select Excellent in either the Write or Draft tool, and you’re writing with Ballad. We can’t wait to hear what you think.

Good news for bad spellers (like me 😅). Sudowrite now includes built-in, Story Bible-aware spelling and grammar checking—on by default, right inside your editor, and totally free to use.

How it works

As you write, misspelled words are underlined in red, and grammar issues are underlined in blue inside your document. Click any underlined word or phrase to see a suggested correction, then approve it with one click or ignore it and move on.

If you believe that ignorance is bliss and you’d prefer to disable spelling and grammar checks, just toggle off the purple ABC icon at the very top of the editor.

Your dictionary, your rules

Writing fiction means using invented names, made-up places, and words that just don’t appear in a standard dictionary. That's why:

• Character and Worldbuilding names from your Story Bible are automatically recognized—names, locations, and specific terminology you've already defined in Story Bible won't show up as spelling errors… assuming you spelled them correctly.
• You can add other words to your dictionary with one click.
• You can ignore grammar rules that go against your house style.

Spelling & Grammar Settings

Your custom dictionary and ignored grammar rules are saved in a new account-level Settings menu. This menu also allows you to select your Language and Region preferences—so that whether you live in the UK or the US, we can both believe we are spelling color correctly.

This menu will look slightly different from project-to-project, as it will also display the Character and Worldbuilding entries specific to the project you’re in. Dismiss dictionary entries or ignored grammar rules using the X beside them.

Find this new menu under More Settings via the Settings gear icon in the upper right.

Built for fiction writers

You’ve been asking for this for a long time, and it was really important to us to give you something smart and flexible that works great for fiction authors. We’re excited to make this available to everyone on every plan at no extra cost, and we’re looking forward to your feedback.

Today we’re releasing two of the biggest improvements to Sudowrite ever. Introducing Sudowrite Chat and Feedback, two new features that’ll change the way you write, revise, and prepare to publish your work.

(Re)Introducing Sudowrite Chat

Talking through your story is essential to figuring it all out. But generic chatbots only know what you tell them.

Sudowrite’s new, improved Chat is the good kind of know-it-all, with a complete picture of your characters, your outline, and your whole story world. The best part? Chat can now work alongside you all across Sudowrite.

We’ve given Chat all the tools it needs to be a full-fledged assistant. It already knew your Story Bible, but now it knows your Series. It could already read your documents, but now it can edit them, and even create brand-new ones for you.

Chat can also now use tools like Write and Rewrite, or leave you comments right on your work. It can use the highlighter to point out whatever you need help spotting. And for complex asks, Chat will even propose a multi-step plan for your approval.

To achieve this, Chat has a new “Allow edits” mode that will use credits (just like other features on Sudowrite). But in “Chat only” mode, Sudowrite Chat remains free to use by default.

Brilliant Feedback on Demand

Sudowrite could already get you to a first draft faster than ever, but we haven’t offered a clear pathway to your final draft… until now. Introducing Feedback.

Feedback reads your entire document and leaves you smart, specific comments in the margins—just like a real editor. It allows you to choose your desired edit type, and then goes to work marking up your document with full context from your Story Bible. (That means it won’t suggest you strike a scene in chapter three that would ruin a payoff in chapter nine—at least, not without good reason.)

Choose from over a dozen specific Feedback types—whether you need notes on pacing, structure, plot holes, dialogue, and more—or effortlessly create and save a Custom Feedback type of your own (so you can finally nix your personal prose pet peeves for good).

Sometimes you want a more subjective read-through, so Feedback also includes a Beta Read option. Three distinct readers are available: Maya tracks where the emotions land. Anton watches structure, pacing, and motivation. Joan finds the places where plausibility breaks and your readers would put the book down. Get their notes one at a time, or all at once.

Finally, fix what feedback found with help. Every comment comes with a suggested edit or clear next step. You can even reply @Sudowrite to any comment, and Chat picks up the thread in the reply. Your Feedback pass is just the beginning of the editing conversation.

Feedback is live now and will be exclusive to Professional and Max plans. To celebrate the launch, all Sudowrite subscribers can try Feedback through June 15.

Sudowrite Chat and Feedback are both available now. Whether you're just getting started or putting on the final polish, Sudowrite can now help at every step of the process. We can’t wait to hear what you think.

We’ve been busy! Here’s a look at some of our most recent fixes and improvements.

Rewrite Fix

We resolved an issue yesterday with the Rewrite tool that was causing it to produce a “something went wrong” error. It’s working normally again.

Editor Resizing Fix

With the left and right columns collapsed, you should still be able to resize the main editor column as desired—but that wasn’t working. We fixed that though, and the purple resize handles work consistently now.

Resize Handle Clipping

Speaking of those purple resize handles, we fixed an issue where they could appear on top of the Settings panel if you had that expanded.

Tense Consistency

We resolved an issue where the Write button would occasionally ignore your Tense setting, causing it to write prose in the wrong tense.

Opus 4.6 Punctuation Fix

We fixed an issue where Claude Opus 4.6 was generating backwards quotation marks and apostrophes, especially after em dashes and in contractions.

Visualize in Selection Menu

When we increased the Visualize word limit to 500 words, we didn’t update the Selection Menu. Visualize now appears in that menu whenever you’ve highlighted a right-sized passage.

Share Modal Scrolling

The list of documents in a project’s Share modal was not scrolling like it should. We fixed that so you can finally share those later chapters.

Star Button on Cards

We fixed an issue where the star-shaped Favorite button on History cards was occasionally unresponsive.

Scene Title Length

We fixed a bug where Draft could generate obscenely long scene titles instead of concise ones.

Too Much Trash

It became impossible to empty your project’s trash if you had too many documents in it at once. We fixed that, and you can once again live a peaceful, trash-free life.

Series Folder Deletion

We fixed an issue with deleting Series folders so that all projects inside the folder will stay together when you move it to the trash, making permanent deletion easier.

Faster Find & Replace

We changed the default Find & Replace search scope from Project to Document, which makes it much faster in large projects. (You can still toggle to Story Bible or the full Project scope when you need it!)

Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.7, their most powerful (publicly available) model. We've just added it to Sudowrite.

Anthropic describes Opus 4.7 as "more tasteful and creative" than its predecessor. Some early adopters are calling it a leap forward for fiction, but others note it can be more literal and strict in how it interprets your instructions. If you loved Opus 4.6, you'll likely appreciate 4.7's precision; if you prefer a looser, more imaginative touch, it may take some experimentation to find the sweet spot.

Claude Opus 4.7 is available now in Write, Draft, and Plugins. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

We just made the Import Novel process even better. When you bring your work into Sudowrite, you now get a personalized Import Report—a detailed analysis of your work and a prioritized checklist of what to do next**.**

Import Novel has always been the fastest way to get started in Sudowrite. You bring in your half-finished work, completed draft, or messy pile of notes and Sudowrite creates a Story Bible for you automatically—Characters, Worldbuilding, Outline, and more. But once the import was complete, it was still up to you to figure out what to do next.

Now, as soon as your import finishes, you'll see a new document containing an analysis of your work. It looks at what was imported, provides an executive summary and reaction, and suggests actionable next steps—including which Sudowrite tools might help you most, or where your Story Bible could use some attention.

Think of it as a personalized onboarding guide.

Where to find it:

Just import your work using the existing Import Novel button. The Import Report will appear as its own document in the project’s Left sidebar once the import completes.

The best part? Import Novel doesn’t use any credits, so this super useful new utility is free. We’ve already got some neat ideas on how to make the Import process even better—but in the meantime, let us know what you think!

The team has been working on a bunch of accessibility improvements, and we're excited to share what we’ve shipped so far.

We’ve improved screen reader support across the web app.

That includes updating button labels, ARIA attributes, and keyboard navigation across several key areas of Sudowrite. If you use a screen reader like NVDA, JAWS, or VoiceOver, you should notice a much smoother experience when navigating key areas, including:

• Projects Page - Screen readers now properly announce project names, folders, and actions, making navigation clearer and more predictable.
• Main Menu Bar - We’ve given all menu items and navigation buttons descriptive labels, so screen readers can identify every control.
• Left Sidebar - We've fully labeled chapter lists, document navigation, and sidebar controls, and you can now navigate them entirely by keyboard.

More is on the way!

We're still working on the same improvements for the Editor, Story Bible, Right Sidebar, and Plugins page. We hope to wrap those up and roll them out soon.

You’ve been asking for these improvements for a while, and we're committed to making Sudowrite work great for every writer. If you use assistive technology and run into anything that doesn't work as expected, please reach out—your feedback directly shapes this work.