StoryDNA

StoryDNA is a story outlining app for screenwriters and novelists. It helps you build the story behind your screenplay or novel before you start writing, and learn the craft while you do it.

You work through dozens of Story Builders, each one focused on a different layer of your story: your main character, your antagonist, what's at stake, what the story is really about, and why the ending lands. More than 900 connected questions draw the story out of you, and each one explains why it matters, with examples from well-known films and books. Each answer sits beside the earlier ones it touches, so you can see how one choice ripples through the rest of your story.

When you're ready, the Scene Builder lays your story out scene by scene from your own answers, and the Full Outline puts it all in one document you can export as plain text, Markdown, PDF or Word, then write from in Final Draft, Scrivener or whatever you write in.

The writing is always yours. Optional reports read your choices like a well-read story consultant and give you feedback, but they never write your story for you.

Free to try, no card needed, and it works on your phone.