Naninovel Alternatives

Naninovel is described as 'Full-featured, writer-friendly and completely customizable visual novel engine' and is an app in the news & books category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Naninovel for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Steam apps. The best Naninovel alternative is Twine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Naninovel are Dream Novel, Ren'Py, Inky by Inkle and Tuesday JS.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Naninovel alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Twine icon
     89 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

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

    52 Twine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • Twine is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Naninovel.

    • Twine is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Naninovel.

    • Twine is Free and Open SourceNaninovel is Paid and Proprietary
    • Twine is LightweightNaninovel is not according to our users
  2. Dream Novel icon
     9 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Dream Novel is an AI-powered visual novel platform where every story adapts to your choices. Create dynamic, branching narratives with evolving characters and immersive worlds - no two playthroughs are the same.

    33 Dream Novel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Ren'Py icon
     72 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    a visual novel engine that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers, mobile devices, and the web.

    46 Ren'Py alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Inky by Inkle icon
     6 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    editor that uses the Ink narrative scripting language and allows you to play and test your interactive (game) narrative stories on the fly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Tuesday JS icon
     10 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Tuesday is a free open source engine for creating visual novels, interactive stories and text-based adventure games. Written in JavaScript without using any third party libraries. There is support for the Apache Cordova framework for building native mobile and desktop...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Tuesday JS is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Naninovel.

    • Tuesday JS is Free and Open SourceNaninovel is Paid and Proprietary
  6. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    A free visual novel creation tool — perfect for commercial use. Easily publish your game across all platforms, including PC, web browsers, smartphones (iPhone & Android), and tablets.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  7. TilBuci icon
     3 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    TilBuci is a free, open source tool to create interactive content. From a visual web interface, you can gather your media, texts, and all content in the form of interactive "movies" that can be exported as websites, embedded via iframes, made available as PWA apps or...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  8. QuestJS icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Quest 6 is a full re-write of Quest, an interactive fiction app, to pure JavaScript. It's a framework for creating parser-based text adventures.

    47 QuestJS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    A revolutionary new tool for Visual Novel Creation aimed towards aspiring artists and writers to bring their stories to life.

    22 Visual Novel Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Visual Novel Maker is the most popular commercial alternative to Naninovel.

    • Visual Novel Maker is Paid and ProprietaryNaninovel is also Paid and Proprietary
  10. Novelty icon
     4 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Novelty is a free game maker tailored for making visual novels.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Visual Novel Engine is a cross-platform tool that lets you create visual novels through a simple, flexible and powerful tagging system, no programming skills required.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Steam
     
    • Visual Novel Engine is the most popular Android alternative to Naninovel.

    • Visual Novel Engine is Paid and ProprietaryNaninovel is also Paid and Proprietary
12 of 17 Naninovel alternatives