AI fiction tools cover open adventures, novel editors, and character chat. They share a prompt box and almost nothing else. A dungeon game keeps state as a story. A novelist tool keeps state as a manuscript. A character chat keeps state as a persona.
Switching between them drops the manuscript or the chat history. Local front-ends in this list talk to a model on your machine, so the license and the hardware are the product. Hosted rows are a subscription and a content policy. Read the status field before you recommend a row that has stopped taking new work.