What Changed in Sudowrite These Past 3 Months?

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What Changed in Sudowrite Lately?
A Quick, Practical Catch-Up

If you haven’t checked Sudowrite in a bit, a handful of small-but-useful updates landed over the past few months. Nothing here is “rewrites your novel while you sleep” territory, but it does add up—especially if you use Sudowrite regularly and care about workflow friction.

Below is a clean rundown of what’s changed, what it means day-to-day, and who’s most likely to care.

Where to find updates (without guessing)

Before we get into features: the easiest way to keep up is the official changelog. There’s also a mirror of the same updates in the Discord announcements, so you can just scan one place and stay current.

If you like fewer surprises, it’s worth checking those once in a while—especially when models and limits change.

The “Create Chapters” button is back

This one’s simple: people missed the button that lets you move from outline → chapter creation more directly, and it returned.

Why it matters:

• Less hunting around the interface after outlining
• A smoother “okay, now let’s draft” handoff
• Fewer clicks when you’re in production mode

It’s one of those features you only notice when it’s gone… and immediately appreciate when it’s back.

Automatic dark mode (finally behaves like the rest of your apps)

Sudowrite added automatic dark mode, which follows whatever your computer is set to use. If your system switches themes based on time of day, Sudowrite will switch too.

This is the kind of quality-of-life setting that doesn’t change your writing—but it does reduce eye strain and keeps the UI consistent.

More model options (and a few worth testing)

Over the past few weeks, more models were added to the lineup, including returning favorites and new options. If you like experimenting, this is a good moment to poke around.

Here’s the practical takeaway:

Airoboros returned (with a small “use it differently” note)

Airoboros is back, and it’s still known for immersive, longer outputs. The advice here was to keep your style instructions minimal—basic things like POV and tense—because overloading the style box can throw the model off.

If you liked Airoboros for “make this more vivid” passes, it’s worth retesting it with lighter guidance.

DeepSeek Instant is free (and got faster)

DeepSeek Instant is currently free, and it was also tuned to be faster. That makes it a solid option for quick passes and low-stakes iteration when you don’t want to burn through credits.

Good uses:

• fast rewrites
• quick brainstorming
• “try three variations” without worrying about cost

DeepSeek R1 is… a mood

R1 is one of those models people either love or don’t. It can produce excellent prose, but it can also take longer to generate. Translation: don’t use it when you’re in a hurry.

Starcannon and Mistral Large joined the party

If you like having more options for different tones and use-cases, these expand the sandbox. The main point isn’t that you need them—it’s that Sudowrite is giving you more levers.

Rewrite got a big upgrade: 650 words → 6,000 words

This is the headline change for a lot of writers.

Previously, rewrite was capped at a pretty small highlight range. Now you can rewrite up to 6,000 words at once. That opens up some real use-cases:

• smoothing transitions across multiple scenes
• making a short story more coherent as a whole
• aligning voice across a chapter chunk
• fixing pacing in a section without doing 12 tiny rewrites

And the cost in the example shared was still pretty reasonable (a few thousand credits for nearly the full 6,000-word rewrite), which makes this feature feel usable—not just theoretical.

The custom rewrite box also expanded

The customization box for rewrite also got bigger. Instead of squeezing in a tiny instruction, you can now add a more detailed mini-brief (things like “change the ending,” “remove dialogue tags,” “limit metaphors,” etc.).

Practical tip: don’t stuff 10 instructions in there at once. Pick two or three priorities, run it, then do another pass if needed.

So… should you revisit Sudowrite?

If you bounced off earlier because the workflow felt clunky or rewrite felt too limited, these updates directly address that. The interface improvements (dark mode + chapters button) reduce friction, and the rewrite expansion is genuinely useful for real editing work.

And if you’re brand new, starting with Sudowrite plus a habit of checking the changelog once in a while will keep you from missing the features that actually make your writing life easier.