Release notes

What’s new in Plotscribe

Everything that shipped to the desktop app, newest first. The app updates itself and tells you when a new version is ready.

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October 2026

  1. Updates you can’t miss

    Improved

    When a new version is ready, the title bar shows Install version X and a note at the bottom links here to what’s new. Later hides it until the next launch.

  2. Plot line gaps

    New

    By plot line flags a line that goes quiet for too many chapters, with Go to chapter and Intended. Set how many in the line’s menu with Flag gaps longer than….

  3. Viewpoint in Chapter context

    New

    Choose whose eyes a chapter is told through, one character or several. The Plan’s Outline shows it on each chapter.

  4. Word frequency

    New

    Word frequency…, under Aa or in Go to, lists the words you use most in a chapter or the whole book. Choose one to highlight it and step through each use.

  5. Writing history

    New

    Choose Today for your last 30 days of words in this World on this device, with goal days marked, This week and Last 30 days totals, and your streak.

  6. Chapter word targets

    New

    Set word target… in a chapter’s More menu or Chapter context gives it its own target, shown under the page as “1,840 / 3,000 words · 61%”.

  7. Typewriter scrolling

    New

    Keeps the line you’re writing in the middle of the window. Turn it on under Aa or in Focus’s bar.

  8. Needs attention and Cast by chapter

    New

    Under World in the sidebar: settle unrecorded names, possible duplicates and point-of-view gaps, and see which records each chapter names.

  9. Move to book

    New

    Move to book… in a chapter’s More menu moves it to another book of the same format, with its versions, notes, status and plan links.

  10. Book word targets stay put

    Fixed

    Book word targets no longer disappear when you reorder, add or delete chapters.

  11. Selection word count

    New

    Select text to see “N of M words” under the page.

  12. Book word targets

    New

    Give each book a word target with Set word target…, and watch its progress in Books, the sidebar and the Plan.

  13. Duplicate chapter

    New

    Duplicate chapter… copies a chapter, with its main version and synopsis, right after the original.

  14. Find and replace

    New

    Find and replace in a chapter (Ctrl/Cmd+F), with Match case, Whole word, and This chapter or This book.