Worldbuilding Websites and Apps

Websites and apps used to create worlds for story's, video games, and RPG campaigns.

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  1. Write articles to detail and keep track of everything in your world! Choose from over 25 templates designed to inspire you with prompts and deepen your worldbuilding! Embed your maps, and include images, music and sound effects, and even secrets and spoiler markers, for an...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  2. ChronoGrapher is an extremely flexible worldbuilding tool for writers, worldbuilders and game masters. It boasts a freeform notetaking wiki, interactive maps, tile map editor, extensive time and history tracking features and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    ChronoGrapher screenshot 1
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. World Scribe eases the creation process by letting you keep track of every important element in your fictional setting, including the ways in which they're connected.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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  5. Realm Works is a database software and worldbuilding tool for roleplaying games.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
  6. Campfire Pro is a pre-writing software for writers. Its features include character sheets, an endless narrative timeline, and map support for world building.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
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  7. Notebook is a set of tools for writers, game designers, and roleplayers to create magnificent universes — and everything within them.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    Notebook.ai screenshot 1
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    Scabard is a rules neutral RPG campaign manager and planner. We have campaigns for D&D (various versions), Pathfinder, Traveller, Savage Worlds, Warhammer, and a host of others.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. kanka.io icon
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    Kanka is an easy and flexible tool to worldbuild and manage your RPG campaign online. Create and organize people, places, organizations, events and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Desktop dashboard
    Character view
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