“I’ve used so many writing apps and platforms, and this one is by far the best! Many of the features this app has for free are expensive on other platforms. It’s also amazing for worldbuilding!”
Jul 9, 2026 – mamamia
Plotting – Plan your world and keep it consistent
Characters, locations, items, languages or your custom tools.
Upload your research, images and reference files, add notes to them, and label and colour-code everything so you find it again later. Create safely with no AI tools. You keep 100% ownership.
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Location templateBiology, culture, politics, history
Writer tools – Build the story bible your world needs
Every story has its own rules. When characters, locations and items aren't enough, create your own template: a magic system with its source, cost and limits, a faction with its leaders and territory, an inventory for every character. Fill it in once per entry, link it to the characters, places and chapters it touches, and it opens beside your text while you write.
Community examples: tools that Fortelling writers built for their own stories.
Invite your co-author to your project and write and plan together. Co-writing is free; Fortelling Pro adds control over what each collaborator can see.
Honestly, this is so well planned out and so useful. I love it so much!
Jan 1, 2026 – BossofBossGuy★★★★★Best writing tool on the App Store!
100% recommend. It has absolutely everything you need, from character descriptions to writing the story itself.
Jan 17, 2026 – Anonymous★★★★★Everything I could hope for
I began writing as a side passion project and have no formal training or guidance beyond what you learn in English comp at school. This app has helped me identify important aspects I was overlooking when it was just me and Microsoft Word. It has everything I could hope for in one easy-to-use app. I love it!
Jul 11, 2026 – Herp-derpson619★★★★★Fantastic
Wow! I keep discovering features that are exactly what I need. I’ve been struggling to find a way to plot my novel, and I’ll consider it a miracle that I found this app! It’s perfect, and I have it on my iPad and my phone.
Jul 9, 2026 – Carlos Cran
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when your story grows.
FreeFortelling Pro
Mobile app and web planEvery tool, on every device
7 days free
$0foreverNo card needed to start.
checkUnlimited writing and plotting on mobile
checkLimited writing and plotting on web
checkCollaboration
checkAdvanced statistics
checkBoard tool
checkOutline and Timeline tool
checkFree plotting templates
checkDark mode
checkAd-free, in 18 languages
checkEverything in Free
checkUnlimited characters, locations and files on web
checkFamily tree board
checkBuild your own tools and templates
checkControl based access for collab and public wiki
Yes. The mobile app is free with unlimited writing and plotting, and the web has a free plan. Fortelling Pro costs $7.49 a month, $74.99 a year or $199 once, with a 7-day free trial. See all plans on the pricing page.
No. Fortelling has no AI tools. Everything in your project is written by you.
You do. You keep 100% ownership of everything you write and upload.
Yes. Fortelling runs on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, and in your browser on the web, and your projects sync between all of them.
Yes. Invite your co-author to your project and write and plan together, with shared storage, writing statistics per author, editor comments and a project chat. Co-writing is free; Fortelling Pro adds control over what each collaborator can see. More on collaboration.
Yes. Free worldbuilding templates give every place its own page, from a whole world down to a single building, next to templates for characters, species, items and languages. Link them to each other and plan your campaign on boards and a timeline.
Scrivener is a paid writing app for Mac, Windows and iOS. Fortelling is free to start on iOS, Android and the web, and keeps your planning next to your manuscript: worldbuilding templates, boards, an outline and a timeline, and co-writing with others. It has no AI tools.
You can, and many writers start there. Fortelling adds what a document can't hold: your outline, timeline, characters and world next to the chapter you're writing, free on phone and web, and you can export to .docx any time.
Give a Fortelling Pro gift card. You'll find them on the gift card page.
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