August 7, 2025

✨ Updated System Model Collections
It’s been a while since we updated the model collections that come by default with Novelcrafter. If you wanted to use any of the newer models (like Claude 4), you had to clone and customize them.
The new model collections have been reorganized a bit (we now group by Popular
, Other
 and NSFW
) and any deprecated/retired models have been removed.
Because there’s been a lot of issues around the Free models on OpenRouter (they frequently get swapped out, or have bad quality), and the ones left are likely to use your data for training, we also decided to remove them from the default lists. If you want to use free models, you can add them back as a custom model collection.
If you want to go back to the previous collections, we kept them over here.
🧪 New Experiment: Exclusions and Case-Sensitive Matching for Codex entries
This release also adds an experimental version of a “case-sensitive” mode for matching your codex entries (like when your character is named “Hope” you can enable this option to not match for “against all hope”).
Also, Codex entries can now have a list of phrases you want to exclude during matching. So when your character is called “Don”, you can now tell the system to ignore “don’t” as a phrase - same with the name “May” in “how may I help you”.
Learn more about this experiment (and how to sign up for it) on our Discord.
🔧 Other Changes
Made the more optimized Codex tracking system the new default (and removed/replaced the experiment).
Fixed tracking for Codex entry names and aliases with mixed regular and curly double quotes.
Fixed invitees being unable to upload Codex entry thumbnails inside a shared novel or series.
Fixed an issue with going back to the Novel Library when having certain Ad-Blockers on.
Fixed some Table rendering issues in Chat when using DeepSeek V3.
Fixed 400 errors when using Featherless as AI provider.
Various other fixes and improvements.