FoxQuill 1.7.2

Which file do I need

Your computer	File
Windows	FoxQuill-Setup.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer)	FoxQuill-Mac.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor	FoxQuill-Mac-Intel.dmg
Linux	FoxQuill.AppImage

The other files are the same installers with the version in their names, and what FoxQuill uses to update itself.

Release notes

Build from notes

• With AI features enabled, paste your loose ideas or drop in a file, and FoxQuill builds cards, acts and scenes from them and more.
• In Flow, Suggest choices does the same for a book that already has scenes.

Game Projects

• Flow boxes show each scene's first lines, and you can add a line from the side panel, with the speaker picked from your Character cards.
• Playtest walks your story in Flow: pick choices, watch conditions and flags change, step back, and see the path light up on the map.
• Arrows show a choice's condition, and beats linked to a scene show on its box and along the path you play.

Flow in other books

• In a novel, short story or blank book, Flow is a map of your scenes with their summaries, and the summary can be edited from the panel. A script shows each scene's heading and who speaks in it.
• Conditions and flags stay out of sight until you add one with Add a condition. Script and blank books have Flow from the start.

Planning

• Edit a scene's summary in place on the corkboard and in the outline.

Writing

• Long chapters open and type faster.

FoxQuill 1.7.1

Which file do I need

Your computer	File
Windows	FoxQuill-Setup.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer)	FoxQuill-Mac.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor	FoxQuill-Mac-Intel.dmg
Linux	FoxQuill.AppImage

The other files are the same installers with the version in their names, and what FoxQuill uses to update itself.

Release notes

Flow

• Click a scene in Flow to edit its choices right there: the words, where each leads, and its conditions. Add a choice, branch to a new scene, or start a side quest as its own chapter.
• Drag from a scene's handle to another scene to link them with a choice.
• Leave a chapter or scene out of Flow, such as a brainstorm, from Flow or the chapter's menu. A button brings them back.
• Scenes are tinted by chapter, and Flow can focus on one chapter at a time.
• Flow fills the window, and has a full screen mode for big maps.

Library

• Cards can show as a list as well as a grid.
• Folders fold away, and a folder can sit inside another.
• Filter cards by tag, and group them by folder, category or tag.
• Select several cards to move, tag or recategorize them at once.
• A card's picture can be framed separately for its tile in the grid, and framing no longer resets when you switch between Card and Tile.
• Pictures open larger, and full screen.

Export

• Export is simpler: pick what to make, pick a file, and press one button.

FoxQuill 1.7.0

Which file do I need

Your computer	File
Windows	FoxQuill-Setup.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer)	FoxQuill-Mac.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor	FoxQuill-Mac-Intel.dmg
Linux	FoxQuill.AppImage

The other files are the same installers with the version in their names, and what FoxQuill uses to update itself.

Release notes

Other kinds of book

• A new book can be a novel, novella, short story, game, script or blank book, or start with the same setup as one of your books. Novels start just as before, and your books keep what they have. Settings > Book changes the kind and can add what a kind starts with.
• A book can call its chapters and scenes by its own words, such as Act and Scene, in Settings > Writing > Words. A new short story says Section, and a new game or script says Act.
• A short story shows its length, from flash fiction to novella, and has a Submissions tab to track where it has been sent and what came back.
• Game and Script books are not asked their genre, start in script format, and have their tools from the start. Any book can turn them on with Advanced features.

Games

• A Game book writes as a dialogue sheet: each speaker's name over their lines, directions in brackets, and names that finish themselves as you type. Enter after a line starts the next speaker.
• A scene can hold choices that lead to other scenes. A choice can wait on a condition and set flags and numbers, as you type them.
• Plan opens on the Flow view, which maps the scenes and choices and lists every name the choices use.
• Export as Ink or game JSON, with each line's speaker, or as a Dialogue sheet for recording voices.
• Statistics show who speaks and how much, and the places the scenes are set.

Scripts

• Script format lays the page out as a screenplay. Tab and Enter work as in Final Draft, character names and scene headings finish themselves, and CONT'D appears on its own.
• The word count shows pages and minutes when you point at it.
• Fountain files go in and out, so a screenplay moves to and from other screenwriting apps.

Plan and Library

• Beats on the Threads board can link to cards and scenes, and a card's page lists the beats that name it.
• Books in a series can share one Library of cards. Set it up in Settings > Book.
• Drag Library folders and cards, note folders and notes, and threads on the Plan board into the order you want, with the mouse or the keyboard. Card exports follow the Library's order.
• Card categories have many more icons, in groups such as Nature and Creatures, and a category's icon can be changed at any time.
• A chapter, a card, the cover, the background art or a picture in the text can use any picture already in the book.

Writing

• FoxQuill opens where you left off, and Write takes you back there from Plan or the Library. Plan marks the scene you were writing.
• Background art has a new look: the page lies on the picture like paper on a desk, and the panels float over it as frosted glass. A Picture slider in Settings > Look sets how much of the picture shows.
• Typewriter scrolling stays still while you select text, and while you make it bold or italic.
• The AI writes in a game's or a script's own form, and the genre question is asked once, when a book is new.
• Find local AI also finds llama.cpp, vLLM, KoboldCpp, Jan and other local servers, connects to the first one it finds, and says which model is in use.

FoxQuill 1.6.1

Which file do I need

Your computer	File
Windows	FoxQuill-Setup.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer)	FoxQuill-Mac.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor	FoxQuill-Mac-Intel.dmg
Linux	FoxQuill.AppImage

The other files are the same installers with the version in their names, and what FoxQuill uses to update itself.

Release notes

• Quick patch to change how the theme is changed. There is now an ink spot transition when changing themes.

FoxQuill 1.6.0

Which file do I need

Your computer	File
Windows	FoxQuill-Setup.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer)	FoxQuill-Mac.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor	FoxQuill-Mac-Intel.dmg
Linux	FoxQuill.AppImage

The other files are the same installers with the version in their names, and what FoxQuill uses to update itself.

Release notes

Writing

• The page steps back while you type: the bars and panels fade out and return when you move the mouse. A closed panel slides in from the window edge.
• Enter on a second empty line starts a new scene, and Ctrl+Z joins it back. New chapter is one click, and chapters number themselves.
• Indented paragraphs and a drop cap, as in a printed book, also in PDF and EPUB. New books start this way; your books keep their look.
• Set aside cuts words but keeps them, ready to restore. Ctrl+Shift+X drops a flag with a note. Both live in the side panel's Kept tab.
• The bottom bar counts the words in the chapter or in the whole book. Click the count to turn it over, or point at it to see about how many pages that is.
• The goal ring marks the moment you reach your goal.
• View > Spelling (Ctrl+;) turns spell check on and off.
• Find's whole-book list keeps up as you replace and write.
• Open a card from the side panel and every mention of it in the text lights up.
• Plan's outline and corkboard move scenes and chapters with the keyboard too.
• Typing in a long chapter is quicker, and FoxQuill opens faster.
• Many small fixes to spacing, alignment and long names on every screen.

Your books

• Books without a cover get one drawn from their title. A New book tile ends the shelf, and the page greets you by name.
• The book menu shows the book you are in as a small card with its cover, and lists your other books to switch to. Rename a book from the pencil there.
• First run asks your name and how a page should look. New installs start simple; Settings > This app > Advanced features brings the rest.
• Your theme follows you across all your books, and a new one spreads from where you click. A book can keep its own.
• Plan opens on the corkboard. Statistics shows today and your goals first.
• A book with many narrators keeps the corkboard's point of view filter to one line: the busiest five show, and the rest are a search away.
• Import a book from the book list by dropping a file on it. Markdown keeps its italics and bold.
• Save a dated copy (PDF) with a fingerprint of the text on its title page.
• Each field on a card has its own remove button, and a character arc comes off in one go. Anything you filled in stays.
• Setting up AI is simpler: use a model on your computer, sign in with OpenRouter, paste a Claude or OpenAI key, or use any compatible server. AI stays off until you turn it on.
• Long field names on a card wrap instead of trailing off. Drag the line between names and answers to give the names more room.
• Long names and titles everywhere wrap or show in full when you point at them: threads, beats, notes, tags, link types, book details and more.
• Settings is simpler: new books take their look from Writing with one button, and the dictionary sits beside spelling.
• Quiet motion throughout: books turn on the shelf to show their pages, dialogs and menus settle into place, and pages fade in. Your system's reduce motion setting turns it off.

Safety

• Every night each book is also saved as a plain text file you can open anywhere.
• FoxQuill saves a full copy of your books before an update changes them.
• Typing right after New scene, /scene or a chapter title no longer loses words, and a name typed at the start of a paragraph stays in place.
• Statistics counts the last words you typed, even when FoxQuill closes suddenly.
• Dictated text, or text from a text expander, that ends in quotes, a dash or three dots is no longer cut short.

FoxQuill 1.5.0

Which file do I need

Your computer	File
Windows	FoxQuill-Setup.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer)	FoxQuill-Mac.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor	FoxQuill-Mac-Intel.dmg
Linux	FoxQuill.AppImage

The other files are the same installers with the version in their names, and what FoxQuill uses to update itself.

Release notes

Writing

• Spell check. Right-click a marked word for suggestions, Add to dictionary, or Look up. Turn it on and pick the language in Settings > Writing > Spelling.
• Card names in your prose read as plain text. Point at one to see its card, and Ctrl+click (Cmd+click on a Mac) to open it.
• A deleted scene or draft goes to the Archive with its notes and history, and Restore puts it back where it was.
• A new book opens on Chapter One, ready to type in.
• Scene history has readable dates, and you can read a version before you restore it.
• A scene that could not save is no longer lost, and closing right after typing saves first.

Library, Plan and Statistics

• The book list shows each book’s cover, word count, and when you last wrote in it.
• The sample book is now the opening of Little Women.
• New books start with four card categories (Character, Place, Thing, and Other). Each link reads as one line, such as “Marmee is the mother of Jo March.”
• Card search also looks in a card’s text, tags, and fields, and names on the relationship map keep out of each other’s way.
• Add a scene from the Outline or the Corkboard. The Threads board keeps thread names in view.
• Statistics fit the page, and the year grid shows today.

Exports and sharing

• Standard manuscript follows the usual submission format, with your name, contact details, and word count on page one.
• Print PDFs have a title page and a copyright page, and hyphenate justified English text.
• Exports leave out chapters you have not written yet and are named after your book.
• A shared book shows your title and name at the top, and readers’ comments stay on the right paragraph.
• Word and EPUB files made by FoxQuill import back with the same chapters and scenes.

Backups and the app

• Restore a backup from Settings > Files > Backup. FoxQuill shows what is in it and saves a copy of your books first.
• The window opens where you left it, and the menu adds Plan, Save, and Find.
• Text, links, and fields are easier to read in every theme.
• When a trial ends or a license lapses, your books open read only, so you can still read and export them.

Fixes

• Words like “it’s” count as one word, and the first words of each day count toward your goal.
• Imports no longer lose the first chapter, italics, a foreword, or text in tables.
• Encrypt my data turns on, and a license server outage no longer says your key is invalid.
• Other accounts on the same computer can no longer open your books through FoxQuill’s local address.

FoxQuill 1.4.15

Which file do I need

Your computer	File
Windows	FoxQuill-Setup.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer)	FoxQuill-Mac.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor	FoxQuill-Mac-Intel.dmg
Linux	FoxQuill.AppImage

The other files are the same installers with the version in their names, and what FoxQuill uses to update itself.

Release notes

Planning gets a little easier, and a change that cannot be saved now says so and puts things back.

• You can add a chapter from the Plan tab, in any of its three views, and it shows up in Write as well.
• If a change on the Threads board cannot be saved, the board goes back to what is saved. Deleting a picture works the same way.
• In the Outline, dragging a chapter down no longer shows an error page, and a scene dropped back where it was stays put.
• Replace all, Undo, and restoring an older version wait for the last save to finish, so they always work on your latest words.
• Deleting a picture that another book also uses no longer breaks it in that book.
• Cards, notes, and the Trash say so when a change does not go through.
• Goals for all books leave out books in the Trash.
• EPUB exports follow Include chapter titles.
• Moving a book to another computer no longer fails when a picture has an unusual name.

FoxQuill 1.4.14

Which file do I need

Your computer	File
Windows	FoxQuill-Setup.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer)	FoxQuill-Mac.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor	FoxQuill-Mac-Intel.dmg
Linux	FoxQuill.AppImage

The other files are the same installers with the version in their names, and what FoxQuill uses to update itself.

Release notes

Saving is steadier: your words always land in the order you typed them, and a change that fails says so.

• A slow save can no longer bring back words you had already changed.
• Splitting a scene with /scene can no longer lose the text after the cursor.
• Changing one setting no longer undoes another you changed on the same visit.
• A change that fails to save says so, and a delete that fails puts the item back.
• A goal for all books counts the words in every book. Deleting a goal asks first.
• Deactivating while offline no longer costs you one of your three computers.
• Deleting a share link also deletes its comments and suggestions, and a new link keeps the book’s title private.
• Export, Compile, and Backup open one save window, not two.
• Brainstorm and Feedback no longer get stuck on Stop, and a problem with the AI setup is shown instead of an empty reply.
• Menus and the relationship map work with the keyboard, and shortcut hints say Cmd on a Mac.
• Smaller fixes: long book titles fit the top bar, Help fits a narrow window, Compile says why Export is grayed out, and an encryption change cut off by a power cut tells you where your backup is.

FoxQuill 1.4.13

Which file do I need

Your computer	File
Windows	FoxQuill-Setup.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer)	FoxQuill-Mac.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor	FoxQuill-Mac-Intel.dmg
Linux	FoxQuill.AppImage

The other files are the same installers with the version in their names, and what FoxQuill uses to update itself.

Release notes

FoxQuill comes to the Mac, a deleted book goes to the Trash, and a whole book can move to another computer.

• Deleting a book puts it in the Trash for 30 days, with every chapter, card, note, and picture, and Restore brings it all back. Delete forever still asks first.
• FoxQuill runs on the Mac, on Apple silicon and on Intel. It is not signed by Apple yet, so the first time you open it you allow it once in System Settings. On a Mac, updates download in your browser.
• You can move a book to another computer. Settings saves the whole book as one file, history and pictures included, and you can protect the file with a password.
• Scrivener imports keep italics, bold, and underline, and a project written on a Mac keeps its paragraphs.
• Italics and bold in a Word file or an EPUB you import now arrive in the book.
• Compile has presets: Standard manuscript, Modern submission, three paperback sizes, Large print, a Beta-reader copy, and Ebook. Save your own setup under a name and pick it again next time.
• The paperback presets make a PDF ready for a print service such as Amazon KDP.
• You can choose the page size, margins, type size, line spacing, and indent, export only the scenes told by one character, and put a watermark on a PDF you share.
• Turning off chapter titles or the title page in Compile now works.
• FoxQuill finds LM Studio or Ollama on your computer by itself, with one button to use it.
• A book’s backup also keeps card fields and folders, the relationship map, note folders, the Plan board, your bookmark, chats, and archived chapters.
• The free trial is now 14 days, up from 7. When it ends, your books still open to read and export, and nothing is deleted.
• Next to Buy monthly, FoxQuill says that the plan renews every month until you cancel, and how to cancel.
• The privacy notice covers the website too, and the terms say where to write if a share link copies someone’s work without permission.
• The terms, the license agreement, and the privacy notice say that FoxQuill is based in Nebraska, in the United States.

FoxQuill 1.4.12

Which file do I need

Your computer	File
Windows	FoxQuill-Setup.exe
Linux	FoxQuill.AppImage

The other files are the same installers with the version in their names, and what FoxQuill uses to update itself.

Release notes

Help now points to the new website, and the legal pages are final.

• Help > FoxQuill on the web opens foxquill.studio.
• The help page about updates no longer mentions a download for Debian. Linux uses the AppImage.
• The terms, the license agreement, and the privacy notice are final, and each one gives the address to write to.