Ghostwriter Studio v0.2.0 - Renamed to Ghostwriter Studio, with a clear no-warranty disclaimer

Ghostwriter Studio v0.2.0

Renamed to Ghostwriter Studio, with a clear no-warranty disclaimer.

This release rebrands the app and makes its "as is, no liability" terms visible where users actually see them. No functional changes to the editor, AI drafting, or project format — projects and .ghostwriter/config.json files remain fully compatible.

Highlights

• New name: Ghostwriter Studio. The user-facing name changes throughout — window title, About dialog, menus, docs, and the web UI — for trademark clarity. Your existing books need no changes.
• Warranty & liability disclaimer. A plain-language statement that the software is provided "as is", without warranty, and that the authors accept no liability for damage or data loss, now appears in three places:
  • the README,
  • an in-app About Ghostwriter Studio dialog (macOS app menu; Help menu on Windows/Linux),
  • an installer license shown by the macOS DMG and the Windows installer before install.

Changed

• Rebranded user-facing strings across the Electron shell, server startup banner, and client (folder-mapper and sidebar).
• Added Ghostwriter Studio brand assets (logo/icon).
• Bumped version to 0.2.0.

Unchanged / compatibility

• Project format, the .ghostwriter/ config directory, and the ghostwriter-config format identifier are unchanged — v0.1.0 books open as-is.

Notes

• The macOS .dmg and its license agreement must be built on macOS (the DMG step needs macOS-only tooling); the Linux AppImage has no install-time license prompt, so the README and in-app About cover Linux users.

Ghostwriter v0.1.0 - Initial Beta Release

Write a whole book with an AI collaborator that never takes the pen out of your hand.

Ghostwriter is a local-first writing studio for novelists and long-form authors. Your book stays a folder of plain Markdown on your own disk — versioned with git, nothing locked in a proprietary format or a cloud you can't see — while an AI drafts and reviews to your plan, in your voice.

Highlights
✍️ Outline-driven AI drafting — draft the next paragraph inline, or a whole chapter from its outline + your codified voice. Streamed token-by-token, with a separate "thinking" channel for reasoning models.
🧭 Honest editorial review — a no-sycophancy editor pass over any chapter, each note with a one-click Implement suggestion that applies the rewrite in place.
🔒 Local-first & private — the server binds to 127.0.0.1 only. Draft against a local model (Ollama / LM Studio) or a hosted API (Anthropic / OpenAI); keys live in ~/.ghostwriter/config.json, never in the project.
📖 The whole book in view — block editor, chapter organiser with word-count target, character bible, and a timeline with key events auto-pulled from your outlines.
✒️ Voice & lint — an editable voice guide plus a house-style prose linter (the "signs of AI writing" checks) with a live panel.
🔀 Git built in — status, commit, and history/diff you can scope to the current chapter or the whole project, with opt-in auto-commit-on-save.
🎨 Light, dark & auto themes — prose sits on a calm, paper-like surface; the tools recede.
📂 Open any folder — point it at any Markdown folder; auto-discovery infers chapter order and titles, and a mapping dialog handles non-standard layouts via a portable .ghostwriter/config.json.
Run it
Runs in your browser (served locally) or as an Electron desktop app.

npm install
npm run dev # web app: http://localhost:8787
Ships with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (public domain) as a sample project, so there's something to open on first run. See the README for desktop builds and full setup.