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.




Plotiar is described as 'The writing app for authors, academics, and worldbuilders who need to plan, write, and collaborate - all in one place' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Plotiar for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Plotiar alternative is Zettlr, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Plotiar are Manuskript, Scrivener, Dendron and Rentry.co.
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.




Offers fast, distraction-free note-taking via a high-performance editor with real-time Markdown, local-first storage, image support, Kanban task boards, intuitive drag-and-drop, keyboard shortcuts, configurable themes, fast search, and cross-platform access.




Untold Novel is a fresh new approach to planning your next bestseller. It helps you keep all your notes, ideas, characters, locations, and much more organized in one convenient place.




The only app you'll need to write your novels and build your worlds. Organize your thoughts and cross-reference anything at any time.




yWriter is a writing tool that uses "scenes" as a unit of text and allows you to associate that text with all manner of story elements (characters, locations, items) as well as place it and rearrange it within the context of chapters.




Gingko Writer is a text editor that uses a tree-like structure to help you organize and visualize your thoughts, making it easier to outline, draft, and refine complex texts.



MyInfo is a personal information manager for Windows. It will help you capture, organize, edit and share ideas, documents, tasks, and web pages.

oStorybook is a free, open source novel-writing software for creative writers, novelists and authors which will help you to keep an overview of multiple plot-lines while writing texts.



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




A new medium for your ideas—augment your thinking with a text editor designed for structuring lists. Side-by-side views allow 3 modes of thinking.



Lattics is an all-in one knowledge management tool. It offers most of the things in Obsidian, Scrivener and Zotero together.



