What's new?

New

• Plot planner: a grid of storylines and chapters with drag-and-drop scene cards, four structure templates (three-act, hero's journey, 15 beats, 7 points) with a planned-vs-actual comparison, and a tension curve across the whole book.
• Plot planner hints about dormant storylines or characters who haven't appeared for a while.
• Project statistics with the tabs Overview, Writing flow, Text and Mentions. Your writing history can be shown by day, week or month.
• Six color themes (Faustica, Sage, Ink, Rosewood, Lavender, Graphite), each in light and dark.
• Feedback from the app: send questions, ideas and bug reports straight to me, with images if you like.

Improved

• Export in a single dialog: format, scope with chapter selection, table of contents and formatting.
• Compendium: reading view with tabs for details, notes, mentions and relationships.
• Relationship graph with cards, descriptions for relationships and your own annotations.
• Timeline: storylines as colored columns, with optional images on the cards.
• Notes as calm reading cards, editing happens in a dialog.
• Settings redesigned. Ctrl+S or ⌘S saves instantly.
• “Go to passage” now also jumps to other chapters.

Safety & fixes

• Crash-safe saving: the previous state is kept as a backup, and a damaged file is detected instead of being overwritten. Faustica always saves first when you quit.
• Fixes for word count, undo/redo, relative dates and dialog sizes.
• Microsoft Store: images now always display reliably.

• New splash screen.
• The trial only starts after a short notice showing the current price from the store.
• When restoring a backup from another device, your own backup folder is kept.
• Microsoft Store: images are visible right from the first session.

• The full version is unlocked right after purchase, no restart needed.

• First versions of Faustica and launch in the Microsoft Store.
• Purchase and trial directly through the store, refined taskbar icon.