Story Writing Tools

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

Distraction-free Markdown editor for Mac with live preview, customizable typography, open format file storage, and one-click export to ePub, PDF, and HTML.

novelWriter is a Markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It uses its own flavor of Markdown that supports a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis and cross-referencing between files.

Free offline worldbuilding and story creation tool with dozens of templates, complex tagging options, document linking, and project-wide search. Template examples: characters, places, events, religions, currencies, magic, species, languages.

Ellipsus is a collaborative writing tool purpose-built for creative writers. Designed for seamless collaboration and fearless creativity, Ellipsus makes it easier than ever to write, edit, and share stories—with anyone and on any device.

Focus on your words not the interface. Quoll Writer is a writing application that helps you focus on your words. Clean and uncluttered. Feature rich. Features are where you would expect them to be.

A simple tool for building stories and the worlds they live in.

Free, open-source writing app for plotters. Import your outline from Scrivener, Plottr, yWriter, or Obsidian — then draft with your scene beats, character notes, and story structure visible alongside your prose. No AI, no subscription, no cloud.

Trelby is simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple. It is infinitely configurable.

Cloud novel editor with binder, corkboard, character sheets, mind maps, auto chapter import, export to PDF, DOCX, EPUB, multilingual, free trial.

Organize your ideas, create memorable characters, build immersive worlds, and write captivating stories. Tintero is your ideal companion to take your creative projects to the next level, from planning to book generation.

Nonprofit platform offering open-source, ad-free hosting for fanfiction, fanart, and other transformative works with advanced tagging, search, and privacy tools.

Fortelling provides the tools you need to plot & write your book.

Scrite is an open-source screenwriting application based in Bengaluru, India. Unlike most screenwriting tools designed primarily for English, Scrite natively supports Indian language screenwriting; at launch it supported 11 Indian languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada...

Aevon is the all-in-one workspace where authors manage manuscripts, characters, maps, lore, and items — all connected and always in sync. Now with comics!!!

Terminal-based tool for fiction writing with local plain text storage, tree-style storylines, keyboard workflow, Markdown export, and imports from other AI writing tools.

Use your creative energy to focus on the content; let Final Draft take care of the style. Final Draft is the number-one selling word processor specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics and stage plays.

A powerful online and offline writing tool accessible from any device with chapter organization, advanced grammar check, and version history features.

Automated archive supporting user-submitted stories in over 30 languages, with categories for genres and crossovers, reviews, profiles, and community forums.

an easy-to-use online tool to write basic interactive stories that can be shared or converted to the ink scripting language and then integrated with Unity.

Campfire provides a one-stop-shop for novelists: organizational and writing tools (Campfire Write), a hub of writing resources (Campfire Learn), & a writing and reading platform for building an audience and sharing your work (Campfire Explore).

Fullscreen software that tracks writing targets from start to finish, promoting focus by limiting text visibility and offering customizable goal setting.

Got a story in mind, but not sure how to write it? Bookwiz's AI creates your entire book, step-by-step, from synopsis to chapters. We lay out the roadmap; you steer the course.

Novel Goggles assists writers of fiction with writing cohesive, impactful stories by allowing writers to view and update their plot outline while they're writing, and providing tools for characters, locations, settings, and timelines.

Write your novel with AI. Outline, draft chapters with your approval, review revisions, and export EPUB or DOCX for Kindle. Start free, use your own AI keys, or upgrade to Pro.