The month at a glance
- NovaSoft Labs launched with 40 free courses, 400 workplace scenarios, an evacuation diagram builder and 15 tools in total.
- NovaSoft Orbit paid plans opened. Free stays at A$0, with Starter at A$9.90 and Pro at A$19.90 a month.
- NovaSoft Evacuation moved into Labs, alongside the new training and client IT tools.
- The Help Centre grew to 66 guides, including new guides on mailbox rules after an email hack and testing that a backup restores.
| Product | Status in November |
|---|---|
| NovaSoft Labs | Live and free |
| NovaSoft Orbit | Live: Free, Starter and Pro. Orbit Clinical coming soon |
| NovaSoft One | Live on the web. iPhone and iPad app coming soon |
| NovaSoft Sites | Free publishing live. New paid subscriptions paused |
| WordHeld | Windows development preview, joining Orbit |
| UPly, LifeTabs, MindSafe, MemoryMate | On the App Store |
NovaSoft Labs: free training and practical tools
Labs is a new home for free tools from NovaSoft. Its two flagships are staff training and the evacuation diagram builder.
Training has 40 short courses on scams, accounts, devices, privacy, AI and everyday tech. Ten of them are new Staff essentials courses written for workplaces, covering personal information, data breaches, social engineering, physical security, customer verification and more. Each course has learning objectives and ten realistic scenarios with an explanation for every answer. Pass with 8 out of 10 to print a named certificate. Ready-made learning paths cover staff induction, customer-facing teams, managers and an annual refresher.
The evacuation diagram builder turns a floor plan into a print-ready diagram with routes, exits, fire equipment and an assembly area. The rest of Labs covers client IT records (handovers, network diagrams, rack plans, Wi-Fi surveys, device repairs and backup recovery drills) plus room, event and property planning.
Everything runs in the browser, and projects and quiz progress stay on your device. Certificates record self-directed learning. They are not an accredited qualification.
About NovaSoft Labs · Browse the courses · Read the launch article
NovaSoft Orbit: paid plans are open
Orbit is our AI workspace for chat, documents, source-linked research and projects. Since 2 November you can subscribe from Account and billing inside Orbit. Free costs A$0 and includes a monthly allowance. Starter is A$9.90 a month and adds the Flow model and cloud audio transcription. Pro is A$19.90 a month and adds the Emi model with a larger shared allowance.
Orbit says zero data retention applies to configured AI model requests on every cloud plan. If a request would go past your allowance, Orbit declines it and explains why rather than charging more. Orbit Clinical, a separate clinical workspace, is still in development and not open for subscriptions.
NovaSoft One: CRM for teams
One brings customers, deals, quotes, jobs and service into one shared web workspace. It is free for up to 2 people. Paid plans are priced per active user per month, excluding GST: Starter A$15, Professional A$39 and Business A$69. You can cancel from Settings, with no lock-in.
The iPhone and iPad app is still coming soon. We will link to it from the One page when it is available on the App Store.
NovaSoft Sites: free publishing, paid plans paused
Sites lets you build a website on a visual canvas from a template. Free publishing is live for one eligible page. New Starter (A$9.99) and Essential (A$21) subscriptions are temporarily paused while we complete a live payment check, and the Grow and Expand plans are still coming soon. You can still explore richer Pro templates in private drafts.
WordHeld: becoming part of Orbit
WordHeld, our on-device transcription app for Windows, remains a development preview with evaluation access by request. We are bringing its transcription into Orbit, which already has a general transcript workspace for meetings, interviews and lectures. The merge is not finished yet, and WordHeld is not publicly released.
Our iPhone apps
UPly, LifeTabs, MindSafe and MemoryMate are on the App Store. UPly is free, with client records, follow-ups and invoices on the phone. LifeTabs plans tasks, notes and the week. MindSafe captures and organises ideas. MemoryMate is a free app with daily guides and reminders for people living with dementia and their carers.
UPly · LifeTabs · MindSafe · MemoryMate
Five new Help Centre guides
The free Help Centre now has 66 practical guides. New this month:
What comes next
We will keep adding courses and improving the Labs tools, open more of Orbit as features are ready, and bring the One mobile app and Sites paid publishing online when they pass their checks. We don’t put dates on features until they are ready, so the product pages are always the best guide to what works today.
Questions about any product? Talk to NovaSoft.