AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Novel

Open-source Notion-style editor with AI autocomplete

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Novel launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor▲370
2023 · novel.sh · its alternatives →
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novelistAI 2.5▲275
Craft stunning book covers with AI
2024 · its alternatives →
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Notion AI (Alpha)▲1,482
Meet your new partner in thought
2022 · app.notion.com · its alternatives →
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OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion▲381
Hi HN, Nick here. We’re launching OpenKnowledge (https://openknowledge.ai/), a “what you see is what you get” markdown editor that has direct integrations with Claude, Codex, and other agents. Available as MacOS app or Web UI+CLI. Fully free/local and OSS. We built this because we wanted a Notion-like experience for writing and sharing markdown files across our team. Obsidian is the best alternative we tried, but found it doesn’t have a true WYSWIG UI and it didn’t integrate well with Claude/Codex outside of community plugins. So we built OpenKnowledge. It takes…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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novelistAI▲92
Create your own novels and gamebooks with AI
2023 · its alternatives →
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Codex by OpenAI▲955
AI that writes code for you
2021 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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novelistAI 2.0▲95
Your own unique AI-generated books with images and audio
2023 · its alternatives →
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npm i novel – open-source Notion-style editor▲14
2023 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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AiEditor▲589
An open source AI-powered rich text editor
2024 · its alternatives →
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Cursor 1.7▲390
Agent autocomplete, hooks, and team rules
Oct 2025 · cursor.com · its alternatives →
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Dify.AI▲261
Open-source platform for LLMOps, define your AI-native apps
2023 · its alternatives →
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Type▲527
The AI-first document editor
2023 · its alternatives →
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Free AI Writing & Generators Tools▲379
Your ultimate assistant for content creation
2024 · its alternatives →
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Vellum▲416
Build AI agents using plain English to do your boring tasks
Jan 2026 · vellum.ai · its alternatives →
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Notion AI▲427
Tap into the power of AI right inside your notes & docs, now
2023 · its alternatives →
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Tiptap AI Agent▲193
Add Cursor-like AI agent to your rich text editor in minutes
2025 · tiptap.dev · its alternatives →
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Quicky AI▲280
Using AI is made easy, productive and instant on any website
2023 · its alternatives →
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Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic▲134
Libretto (https://libretto.sh) is a Skill+CLI that makes it easy for your coding agent to generate deterministic browser automations and debug existing ones. Key shift is going from “give an agent a prompt at runtime and hope it figures things out” to: “Use coding agents to generate real scripts you can inspect, run, and debug”. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDpIntmHAM. Docs start at https://libretto.sh/docs/get-started/introduction. We spent a year building and maintaining browser automations for EHR and payer portal…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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NovelAI▲85
AI-assisted authorship, storytelling & virtual companionship
2022 · its alternatives →
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AI Toolkit by Tiptap▲175
Build AI that writes IN documents, not next to them
Nov 2025 · tiptap.dev · its alternatives →
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Kuluko▲145
Turn your ideas into 3h+ custom Audiobooks
2024 · its alternatives →
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Orchard▲113
A new kind of AI text editor, designed for thought
2022 · its alternatives →
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Writerly▲74
AI Content Generation and Marketing Automation Platform
2022 · its alternatives →
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NovelPad▲72
A novel new editor for novelists.
2020 · its alternatives →

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