Overview
What is NovelAI?
NovelAI is an AI-powered platform for creating anime-style images and written stories. It is designed for users who want to develop characters, scenes, and fictional worlds with AI assistance. For writing, users can work directly in the story editor and generate text as they build a story. Tools such as Memory, Author’s Note, and Lorebook help provide the AI with information about characters, settings, and plot details. Users can also export their stories in several formats. For image creation, NovelAI supports text prompts and visual tags for generating anime-inspired artwork. It also includes tools for editing and refining images, such as Image2Image, inpainting, Vibe Transfer, background removal, line art, sketching, colorization, and other adjustments.
Deep dive
More about NovelAI
How to Get Started
- Sign up free at novelai.net for 30 trial generations
- Choose your workspace: Image Generator or Writing Assistant
- Type a prompt (tags or natural language) and pick a sampler
- Refine with Image2Image, Enhance, or Inpaint
- Try Vibe Transfer to lock a consistent style
- Upgrade to Tablet ($10), Scroll ($15), or Opus ($25) when the free 30 run out
Pricing
- Free Trial: 30 free generations, up to 1024×1024
- Tablet: $10/month Pay As You Go images, 1,000 bonus Anlas
- Scroll: $15/month Pay As You Go images, 1,000 bonus Anlas
- Opus: $25/month Unlimited images (1024×1024, 28 steps), 10,000 bonus Anlas
- Pay-as-you-go Anlas available separately
KEY FEATURES
- AI story writing
- Story Editor
- Memory
- Author’s Note
- Lorebook
- Text Adventure
- AI anime image generation
- Vibe Transfer
- Inpainting
- Multiple character prompts
- Advanced image generation settings
The verdict
Pros & cons
Pros
Story generation is flexible and can adapt to different writing styles.
The Lorebook and Memory tools provide useful control over story context.
The image generator offers detailed prompt and editing controls.
Image-to-image and Vibe Transfer provide additional ways to refine visual results.
The platform supports both text generation and image creation in one service.
Cons
The interface can take time to understand, especially for new users.
Getting consistent writing results may require repeated prompting and adjustments.
The text-generation context is limited by the subscription tier.
Some users consider the subscription expensive for regular use.
Recent image-generation limits have been a concern for users who generate large numbers of images.
