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Learn the Novus apps
Core, step-by-step guidance for the tools, grouped by app and written to stand on its own. Each app has a deeper library inside the product itself; these are the essentials. For the full reference see the documentation, and for the stories behind the builds, the product blog.
App
Topic
Level
NSS Background Remover
- Getting started
How to remove a background from an image with NSS Background Remover
A complete walkthrough of NSS Background Remover: upload an image, let the on-device AI cut the subject, then either refine and export right on the tool page or open the full editor for layers, filters, upscaling, and more.
7 min · BeginnerStart - Getting started
Install NSS Background Remover as an app and use it offline
NSS Background Remover is a progressive web app: install it from the browser in two clicks, pre-download the AI models you use, and keep removing backgrounds with no internet connection at all.
5 min · BeginnerStart
Novus Visualizers
- Getting started
How to make a music visualizer video with Novus Visualizers
A complete walkthrough of Novus Visualizers: upload a track, pick an engine and mode, tune the visuals and beat-sync in the editor, then export a release-ready MP4 or WebM up to 4K, all in your browser.
7 min · BeginnerStart - Getting started
How to save projects and drafts in Novus Visualizers
Create a free account, save a visualizer as a draft or project, and reopen it later with every setting intact, on any device. The work persists; the rendering still happens on yours.
6 min · BeginnerStart - Getting started
Accounts, passkeys, and a cross-device library in Novus Visualizers
Creating and exporting still needs no account. A free one adds durable saved projects, albums, passkeys, recovery codes, and the ability to reopen a document on another device.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Novus PDF Studio
Novus Convert
- Getting started
How to convert and compress files privately with Novus Convert
A complete first workflow for Novus Convert: choose an active route, add supported files, set per-file outputs, compress images, handle failures, and download validated results.
8 min · BeginnerStart - Getting started
Find any conversion in the /conversions directory
Use the /conversions directory as the authoritative map of every active Novus Convert route (now over a thousand pairs across images, video, audio, documents, archives, ebooks, vector, CAD, and fonts) and confirm your exact input-to-output pair before you commit any files.
8 min · BeginnerStart
Novus Learn
- Getting started
Getting started with Novus Learn: from search to source
Learn the core Novus Learn flow (Search, Select, Inspect) by taking one query all the way to its source: type a topic, pick the exact Wikipedia edition and page you mean, then read it and follow a single claim to the citation behind it.
8 min · BeginnerStart - Getting started
Read the citations: verify claims and judge sources in Novus Learn
The heart of source-grounded reading: how Novus Learn attaches a source identity to every topic and a citation to individual claims, how to follow a single statement to the reference behind it, and how to judge whether that reference actually holds the claim up.
8 min · BeginnerStart - Getting started
Start from Featured: a curated way into Novus Learn
When you do not have a specific query in mind, Featured is the browse-first door into Novus Learn: a curated set of real, source-grounded topics you can open directly, read with citations attached, and branch from into your own search.
6 min · BeginnerStart - Getting started
Read a URL in Novus Learn: turn any web page into a cited project
Paste a link at /read and Novus Learn treats that page the way it treats an encyclopedia topic: claims extracted from its own sentences, notes and cards built from those claims, and nothing invented to fill the gaps.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Novus Examples
- Getting started
Getting started with Novus Examples: find and download a sample file
Novus Examples is a free library of 2,558 test files across 17 categories and 221 distinct extensions, generated by deterministic scripts rather than collected, so each one is copyright-clean and ships with an exact spec sheet. This guide covers what the catalog holds, how to find the right sample for the tool you are testing, and how to download it in your browser with no account.
7 min · BeginnerStart - Getting started
Browse by purpose: find fixtures by what you are testing
The /for routes skip the format taxonomy entirely. Pick OCR, ASR, segmentation, CSV parsing, schema validation, or JWT and get the fixtures that exercise that specific thing.
6 min · BeginnerStart - Getting started
Read a spec sheet and use what it tells you
Every file in the library ships with its exact properties: noise sigma, silence timestamps, form fields, encodings, dimensions, and the seed that produced it. Here is how to use them.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Novus Striker
Novus AI Stats
- Getting started
Getting started with Novus AI Stats: demo to dashboard
Open the Novus AI Stats PWA, explore demonstration data, understand local-first imports across all seven supported sources, and set up an account, free, with no payment information required.
7 min · BeginnerStart - Getting started
Import AI providers into Novus AI Stats
Import ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Claude Code, Codex CLI/Desktop, Gemini CLI, and Cursor history into Novus AI Stats from user-approved exports and files, with local-first parsing and no silent folder scanning.
9 min · BeginnerStart