NovProg

Dedicated to writers, NovProg is an intuitive application that facilitates a user-friendly environment for keeping track of progress when writing books by setting daily goals and monitoring statistics. This way, you can get a better idea of how to manage tasks and time spent working on stories.

Setting it up takes minimal time and effort, since there are no special options, mandatory software products, or third-party components bundled with the installer.

At startup, you're greeted by a small window with a clear-cut structure, where you can fill in details about your novel, such as the name, total and daily goals, start and end date, as well as the minimal number of words to reach.

Once all this information is compiled by the program, it puts together daily and total statistics in two graphs, so you can check out the word count on each day and week spent working on your novel, as well as increase or decrease this number as you make progress.

Unfortunately, there are no settings implemented for printing or exporting these details to file. On the other hand, you can create as many novel entries as you want to instruct the tool to keep track of all at the same time, edit novel properties, or remove any entry from the database if you change your mind. There are no other notable features provided by this application.

We haven't experienced any stability issues in our testing, since it didn't hang, crash or show error messages. Unsurprisingly, it required a low quantity of CPU and memory to work properly, so it didn't hog system resources.

Taking everything into account, NovProg may not have a particularly rich set of options and configuration parameters, but it delivers a straightforward method for monitoring progress made when writing novels. Plus, it's free and open source.