Changelog

We’re excited to share a batch of long-requested updates. Sudowrite now has full image support in the editor, in chat, and beyond.

Recently we added image support to some new places in Sudowrite: first in your Story Bible with Character Portraits and Worldbuilding Images, then book covers on your homepage. Today we're bringing images into Chat, your manuscript, and a brand-new home of their own.

Chat can now see your images
Now when you drop an image into Chat, it knows what it’s looking at. Share a pic of your childhood bedroom for your memoir, a detailed map of your protagonist’s village, or a stock photo that looks exactly like your romantic lead. Chat can describe it, pick out key details, and use those either to enrich your prose or to create Worldbuilding or Character cards in your Story Bible. Chat can even transcribe your handwritten notes or transform your sketches.

Chat can make images, too
Chat can now use the Visualize tool to generate images. Ask for a portrait of your protagonist or for an illustration of a selected scene, and Chat will create it right in the conversation, no separate tool required.

All your images, in one place
We’ve also added a new Images library in the left sidebar, which you can toggle to from your documents. Your uploads, Character Portraits, Worldbuilding images, and anything Chat creates all live there, so you can find, reuse, and manage all of your images without hunting through cards and chats. You can control whether they’re in a list or thumbnail format, and how big they appear too. (Chat can see your library, so you can also ask it to find or reference an image you've already saved.)

Images in your manuscript
This one has been a long time coming. You can now add your own images directly to your documents in the editor—whether you created those images inside of Sudowrite or not. Just put your cursor where you want one, and click the new image icon in your toolbar to upload.

Image support is available now! Give it a try, and share what you make with us in our Discord community.

We just gave your Sudowrite homepage a makeover. Your projects now appear as actual books, featuring your very own cover art.

Upload any image as a project’s book cover: your actual cover art, a photo of a vintage store dummy that creeped you out, or just some wallpaper for vibes. You can click the three dots (•••) that appear when hovering on a project to upload art. Your cover art also appears in the top-left whenever you’re working inside a project, so you can click there to add or swap it anytime too.

Shelf Publishing

Folders and series now appear as shelves lined with the books contained within. Click any book’s thumbnail to open that project, or click the shelf itself to open the whole series or folder.

Easier All Around

Project, series, and folder names can now be edited with a single click. Just hover over a name until you see the outline, click, and type.

We also made it way easier to start something new or import your work in progress. Just click the book-sized New button and choose how you’d like to work.

We can’t wait to see how you choose to personalize your workspace! Please share what you come up with in our Discord. (And for those of you who would rather generate cover art than upload from elsewhere… stay tuned!)

Last week your cast got their close-ups with the introduction of Character Portraits. Now it's time to pull focus on the rest of your story world.

Image support is now available in your Story Bible's Worldbuilding section. The crumbling citadel, the neon-soaked night market, the cursed dagger that also speaks for some reason: you can now generate images straight from your Worldbuilding cards (or upload art you already have), so that every place and thing in your story has a consistent visual reference to match.

One-click generation

Like Character Portraits, Worldbuilding images can be generated with one click, no prompting required. Just select the thumbnail on any Worldbuilding card, choose a style (or four), and hit Generate. Your cards’ existing trait fields are used as reference. Want more control? Add details about the mood, lighting, angle, or whatever else you have in mind.

Your world, at a glance

Every image is saved to that card's gallery, so you can generate options and compare. Set your favorite as the card's thumbnail, and your Story Bible becomes a visual atlas of your world: something to glance at mid-scene when you need to remember where the dagger’s mouth even is.

Worldbuilding images are available now! We hope you'll share your favorites with us in our Discord community!