Roadmap

Where PullAtlas is heading

What we’re building now, what shipped in the last few weeks, and where it goes from there. The future carries no dates, we’d rather ship things properly, and what writers ask for decides the order.

Building

A steadier, faster workspace

Before the next new tools, the workspace underneath them: every change showing the moment you make it, every tool working the same in every book, and nothing you have written lost when a connection drops.

Shipped

Version 1.24.2

Shipped 18 September 2026. 77 changes since July.

See what shipped

Exploring

Where it goes next

Further out, undated, and open to being reordered.

What we’re weighing

Shipped

Recently shipped

Every release is a version with its notes, newest first and open. Older releases fold to their titles, and the work from before the log sits at the end, by month. Features vary by plan, see Pricing.

Version 1.24.2 · 18 September 2026Sharing is retired

Inviting collaborators and live co-editing are gone. Nobody was using them, they had quietly switched off seven features on shared books, and removing them lets every tool work on every book. Your books are visible to your account only.
We have updated the Terms and the Privacy Policy to match.

Version 1.24.1 · 15 September 2026Cleaner imports and entry pages

Entries imported from Obsidian, World Anvil or Novelcrafter read their About text once, as plain text.
An entry's page matches its design: plain tabs, lighter headings, quieter buttons, and connections on one line.

Version 1.24 · 14 September 2026Every entry gets its own page

An Atlas entry opens as a page beside the entries list instead of a window over the Atlas. Below a comfortable width the page fills the pane and the list steps aside, with one way back.
The open entry is part of the address, so refresh keeps it and a link reaches it. Closing it returns you to the map, timeline, grid or Plan you opened it from, and focus lands back on the card you left. Previous and Next walk the list in its order.
One card for the grid and the list: the whole card opens the entry, one line says what it is, whether it is unresolved or archived and where it first appears, and one of its current facts shows at a glance.
Open in Atlas in the Write rail opens an entry's full page, an entry made with New entry opens onto its page, and Open in chapter takes you to the chapter you were in with the entry beside it.
Escape closes the nearest thing first across the workspace: a menu or list before the dialog behind it, a dialog before the page. Escape in a connection's note abandons the edit instead of saving it.
In the light theme, secondary text and the stat chips on Plan and Review now meet the WCAG AA contrast floor on every background.

Version 1.23.2 · 11 September 2026Pages load quickly again, and live status

Sign in, registration, pricing and your Library load quickly again. Since 1.23.1 a setting in our error monitoring had been slowing every page built on request, by more than a second on some; it is off, and a test keeps it off.
PullAtlas has a live status page at status.pullatlas.com, checked automatically every minute and linked from the site footer and the reliability page, which now says what the checks can and cannot see.

Version 1.23.1 · 10 September 2026The frameworks underneath, patched

Next.js, the image library it leans on and the editor framework are updated for four advisories published on 8 September, two of them rated critical. None of them reached pullatlas.com the way it is hosted, and nothing in the app itself changes; the release takes the patched versions the day the audit flagged them.

Version 1.23 · 10 September 2026The tools that work without a key

Replace all, Fix all and a smart rename offer Undo in the toast for ten seconds and put every rewritten chapter back exactly as it was. After that, each chapter's previous version is still in Version history.
The Atlas timeline keeps its entry names in view while the chapter strip scrolls, the way the Plan grid does. Show all has a Show fewer now, and the button no longer scrolls away with the rows.
A scene can be merged into the one before it, so a wrong split is one click to mend. Scene titles, POV, Where and When save as you type, so switching chapters by shortcut no longer loses the edit.
Without an AI key, no button is a dead end: AI actions stand aside where a plain action does the job, and where there is none a single line says what a key would add and where to add it. The plan check that decides this never hides a working button when the check itself cannot answer.
The name check and the missing-entries check say when a pass found more than they show, Ignore is one click to undo, and every name you have taught them is listed under Loose threads, a click from coming back.
On a shared project the two checks stay in view, disabled, with the reason: they read saved text that lags what a collaborator is typing live. Sharing was retired in 1.24.2.
Export says in plain text why This chapter is unavailable, a plan check that fails offers a retry instead of a dead button, and the unfinished-import note says the resume is per device. The empty Outline offers New chapter, and the archived grid says why it cannot be reordered.
Fixed: an action that reached the server could remount the whole workspace a moment later, putting you back on the Tasks tab or the first panel. The release's own test run found it.
Fixed: a change made while another was still saving could vanish without a word (a cast note typed straight after linking the entry, the second of two quick clicks). Changes now wait their turn and run in order.
Fixed: Undo straight after a scene split, merge or reorder reverts only that change, not the edit typed just before it, on solo and shared chapters alike.
Retired: the shareable progress image. It never painted the app's own typefaces and nothing led to it. The idea comes back with richer writing analytics.

Version 1.22.1 · 8 September 2026The caret stays where you put it

Clicking into a chapter the instant it opens no longer throws the caret to the end of the document: the editor was reloading the text it already held, and the reload moved the selection. Found by a test that failed on a slow machine and passed on a fast one.

Version 1.22 · 7 September 2026Guides, and where to find us

The guides open on a ruled contents page, and every article carries numbered sections, a margin contents, asides, numbered figures and fenced code. Guides is the fifth link in the public navigation, beside Docs.
Sign in and register are a chapter opening: a full-height endpaper with the lockup, a statement and a plate from the workspace, and the form beside it. No topbar and no footer on those pages; the lockup is the way home.
The landing's captures are re-shot in the light theme, and each still now picks the version that matches your theme.
Settings > About links to PullAtlas on X, the Discord and the YouTube channel. The profile card and Help name Docs and Guides as two links, where one link used to reach only the docs.
The Typography panel's writing-aid switches are pills again, on a radius token reserved for switch tracks.
The cookie and privacy policies describe the local-first copy of your work on your device, how it is removed, and the first-touch note of which campaign or guide brought you here.

Version 1.21 · 5 September 2026Light mode, rebuilt

Light mode is rebuilt on a neutral near-white set, and dark keeps its charcoal ladder. Every panel, tool card and floating menu now sits on its own ground, so a hover and a focus ring are visible wherever they land.
Warnings wear an ochre ink, so a caution no longer reads as a failure.
The timeline draws same-chapter changes as one bracketed stack, so a busy chapter reads as one event with parts, not a pile.
Plan: "Add and open" creates a beat and puts it in front of you, cast and all. Mod+Enter in the composer does the same from the keyboard.
Every scene card in the rail carries its word count, and its target when you have set one, expanded or collapsed.
Opening the workspace no longer flashes the public cream, or a moment of the wrong theme, before your own theme paints.
On the billing page each plan's action is its own button, and the alert speaks as a warning rather than a fault.

Version 1.20 · 30 August 2026Archive means archive, and delete means delete

Archiving a chapter or an Atlas entry now genuinely puts it away. Its links stop appearing on entry pages, chapter casts, beat casts, connections, counts and the relationship map. Restore it and every one of them comes back exactly as you left it.
Archived chapters and Atlas entries can now be deleted for good, from the same place you restore them. The confirm says exactly what goes with it and what survives, and nothing you are still working on can be deleted in one step.
A whole book can go too, once it is archived, and only its owner can do it. That confirm asks you to type the title, counts everything that goes with it, offers you a backup first, and says plainly that any collaborators lose their copy as well.
A book's cover belongs to whoever owns the book. A cover added by a collaborator used to be visible to nobody but them, which left the owner looking at a broken cover on their own shelf.
Continuity checks say while they are working, and a check that finds something opens the panel on its findings instead of leaving you a note about where to go and look.

Version 1.19 · 28 August 2026Your book moves in

Drop a PullAtlas backup, a Word, Markdown or TXT manuscript, a NovelCrafter export, a World Anvil export page, or an Obsidian vault. PullAtlas works out what it is, and shows exactly what an import creates before anything is created.
Story bibles arrive typed: folders and templates map to Atlas types with your overrides, aliases and custom fields survive, and wikilinks, codex relations and World Anvil relationships become connections.
Long serials arrive in chapter batches; if the connection drops mid-import, dropping the same file resumes with nothing duplicated.
An import can also merge into a book you already started, matched by name and alias, filling only what is empty, never overwriting your writing.
Every import ends with a report of what arrived and what could not make the trip, plus a free check for recurring names that have no entry yet.
Your story bible also leaves as an Obsidian vault now, one markdown note per entry, on every plan.
Three migration guides to walk the move: Obsidian, NovelCrafter, and World Anvil.

Version 1.17.1 · 22 August 2026A note survives its own sync

A note typed right after leaving a comment no longer vanishes when the comment finishes syncing, and a collaborator's change to a comment no longer clears what you are typing on it.

Version 1.17 · 22 August 2026The workspace became one instrument

One type scale on every surface: seven roles, four weights, from the shelf to the Reader.
Buttons rest on the page. Nothing is filled until you reach for it; hover lights the control.
The title page, unboxed: cover and details on the page, a colophon line, and the story so far beneath.
Show archived is one quiet toggle in every view's header. The rail stays navigation; Outline is where chapters come back.
Tabs and the state timeline brought up to the current design; the plotline grid and relationship map breathe.
On a phone, Add to Atlas and Record a change live in the toolbar: highlight a name, tap, done.
A new front page: the editor closed over the editor open, you drag the bar between them, and a calmer page beneath it.
Password sign-in no longer lands you in a workspace that cannot sync or share. If collaboration sat on Connecting after you signed in, this was why.

Before the logJuly and August 2026

August 2026

Loose threads. Type [brackets] mid-draft and keep moving; every placeholder waits in one inbox, a click from its sentence.
The story bible export. Your whole Atlas as one Markdown file, on every plan, with an optional spoiler-safe cut at any chapter.
The name check. Catches Kestral for Kestrel across the manuscript, with a one-click fix. Plain rules, no AI, and an honesty page that says exactly what it misses.
The Atlas answers where you stand. Hover a name and see the facts as of that chapter; every entry lists its mentions, a click from the sentence.
Relationships with verbs. Who serves whom, who knows about what, and when it changed; the map, the AI, and continuity all follow.
Your world, your fields. Custom Atlas fields per entry type, seeded by genre, plus the System type and faction rank ladders.
Facts that move with the story. Record age: 17 at chapter one and 18 at thirteen; the Atlas, the AI, and continuity checks all follow.
Capture without leaving the page. Select text to add an entry or record a change; the entry opens beside the editor, not over it.
The AI reads your whole Atlas. Structured details, every relationship kind, and richer summaries now ground every AI feature.
Deep read on demand. A whole-manuscript pass for developmental notes, on its own budget lane.

July 2026

Export, rebuilt. Pick the outcome, a manuscript, an ebook, a backup, and watch a live preview assemble it.
Four AI providers, one workspace. ChatGPT, Gemini and OpenRouter join Claude, all native, all on your own key.
Semantic recall. Ask your story finds scenes by what they mean, not just the words they use.
Inline comments. Collaborators leave feedback right in the margin, with a composer that works on a phone.
Progress snapshots. A shareable picture of your writing progress, drawn in the app's own hand.
The relationship map. Your cast as a living web, replayable chapter by chapter.
The revision suite. The Reader, draft compare, track changes, smart rename, chapter briefs and custom cover art.
Scenes. First-class scene structure inside chapters, with continuity checks scoped to the scene.

New here? The full studio is on the front page, and the details live in the docs.

Exploring

On the horizon

Portraits and small galleries for Atlas entries: a face for a character, a map for a place, a sketch of the ship
Consistency checks from the Atlas's own data: an entry still mentioned after it has left the story, a recorded change with no trace on the page, a character who falls silent for chapters on end, with no AI key needed
A review pass that reads your chapters back into the Atlas and queues the differences as proposals: new facts, changed states, missing entries, each one a click to accept or set aside
PullAtlas for desktop, built and working, waiting on the signing certificates and store fees it has to earn first
Deeper story intelligence, more of your manuscript understood at once
Richer writing analytics, and more release presets for more platforms

Your turn

What should we build next?

The order above is not fixed. Tell us what your writing needs at support@pullatlas.com, or through the Feedback tab in the workspace if you already write in PullAtlas. Every message is read.