PlotDrip vs NovelHive AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlotDrip
This app is a comprehensive story creation studio that allows users to write, organize, and visualize their narratives. It integrates AI for generating images, video, and custom character voices, and offers features for character interaction and community sharing.
- AI-powered story writing and organization
- Character profile creation and AI chat
- AI image and video generation for scenes
- Custom AI voice design for characters
- Story and eBook import functionality
- Community features for sharing and feedback
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PlotDrip – Write, Perform, and Visualize Your Stories PlotDrip is a complete story studio that helps you write, organize, and bring your characters and scenes to life with AI. Import your eBooks, generate images and video, and give every character a unique voice—all in one place. Write, Organize, and Import Draft stories with chapters and pages that stay in sync across devices. Revise and expand existing works without losing your place or context. Import stories and eBooks into PlotDrip so you can continue writing and editing in the app. Keep everything in a personal library that syncs securely across your devices. Characters That Talk Back Create rich character profiles with roles, personalities, and relationships. Chat with your characters in a dedicated AI conversation screen to explore their voice, test dialogue, and uncover new story ideas. Revisit past conversations and use them as canon or inspiration for future scenes. AI Images, Scenes, and Video Turn descriptions into character and scene images with AI image generation. Attach images to scenes and paragraphs to keep visual references tied to the text. Experiment with cinematic scene and video generation to storyboard key moments in your story. Custom Voices and Audio Design unique AI voices for your characters with the voice design tools. Record samples, refine voice designs, and use advanced text‑to‑speech to hear your dialogue performed. Manage audio for scenes and paragraphs in a dedicated audio manager so you can build fully voiced moments, not just silent pages. Discover, Follow, and Share Browse the Explore section for new stories, themes, and creators. Follow authors you like, view public profiles, and see their public stories. Join story‑specific clubs to discuss works, share feedback, and engage with other writers when you’re ready to share. Whether you’re outlining your first novella, polishing a finished draft, or producing fully voiced scenes, PlotDrip gives you the tools to write, visualize, and perform your stories in one connected workspace. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.plotdrip.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.plotdrip.com/privacy
NovelHive AI
Transform your manuscripts or ebooks into multi-voice audiobooks with AI narration. Supports 38 languages and allows customization of character voices. You can also generate novels from ideas and share them.
- AI audiobook creation
- Multi-voice narration
- Supports 38 languages
- Novel generation from ideas
- Customizable character voices
- EPUB/PDF/TXT upload
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NovelHive AI is an AI audiobook maker for iPhone, iPad and the web. Upload your manuscript or ebook and NovelHive turns it into a multi-voice audiobook, with its own AI voice for each main character. It narrates books in 38 languages. One account everywhere: your NovelHive library and credit balance are the same in this app and on the web at novelhive.ai. UPLOAD YOUR BOOK • Word (.docx or .doc), EPUB, PDF or TXT, up to 25 MB • Pick a file, or use Open in NovelHive from Files or Mail • Written in any of 38 languages; clear chapter headings help • Your uploads stay private to your account 38 LANGUAGES NovelHive narrates books written in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese, each in its own language. The app's screens are in English. CHECK IT BEFORE IT'S SAVED NovelHive finds the chapters, the book's language and the characters who speak. Review the title, author, language, summary and cast, rename anyone, and add voice hints like "gravelly" or "gentle" before anything is saved. VOICES FOR YOUR CAST • Each character gets a suggested AI voice: tap to hear a sample, or pick another • In a book in another language, you pick the narrator and up to five main characters, and NovelHive casts the rest • In a large cast, or a language with fewer voices, minor characters may share a voice • You see the price in credits and your balance before you create the audiobook LISTEN IN THE APP • Playback speed from 0.5x to 2x, a sleep timer, 15-second skips and chapter skips • Keeps playing in the background and on the lock screen • Prefer to read? Switch to the text at any time • Audio streams from your NovelHive library, so listening needs an internet connection NO MANUSCRIPT YET? START FROM AN IDEA Describe a story, like a mystery in Victorian London or a romance on Mars, and NovelHive writes the novel, designs its cover and can narrate it as an audiobook. Share the novels you create in Novel Square, and discover stories other people have shared, some with audio. Uploaded books always stay private. CREDITS, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Creating audiobooks and novels uses credits. Credit packs are one-time in-app purchases: there's no subscription, and purchased credits don't expire. You always see the cost before you confirm. Try before you buy: if your balance is too low, you can hear the first chapter of an uploaded book free, read by its cast. This needs a verified email, covers up to 30,000 characters and is limited per account. Sign in with Apple, Google or email. Terms: https://novelhive.ai/terms-conditions Privacy: https://novelhive.ai/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PlotDrip at 5.0 against NovelHive AI's 4.0. NovelHive AI's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. PlotDrip sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and NovelHive AI sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PlotDrip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | PlotDrip | NovelHive AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 176 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | VecType, LLC | Novela AI LLC |
Customer experience
PlotDrip
NovelHive AI
In-app purchases
PlotDrip
- Spark$5.991 Month
- Studio$12.991 Month
- Spotlight$19.991 Month
- PlotDrip Plus • 9,900 Tokens$0.99
- PlotDrip Plus • 49,900 Tokens$4.99
- PlotDrip Plus • 99,900 Tokens$9.99
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- PlotDrip Plus • 199,900 Tokens$19.99
- PlotDrip Plus • 499,900 Tokens$49.99
- PlotDrip Plus • 999,900 Tokens$99.99
NovelHive AI
- 50 Credits$4.99
- 100 Credits$9.99
- 150 Credits$14.99
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- 250 Credits$24.99
- 500 Credits$49.99
- 1000 Credits$99.99








