The only app you'll need to write your novels and build your worlds. Organize your thoughts and cross-reference anything at any time.
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World Anvil AlternativesOnly apps categorised as World Building Games
The best World Building alternative to World Anvil is Lore Forge, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to World Anvil and 18 are World Building Games so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting World Building Game alternatives to World Anvil are kanka.io, LegendKeeper, Fortelling and Campfire Write.
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- 49 Lore Forge alternatives
21 kanka.io alternativesKanka is an easy and flexible tool to worldbuild and manage your RPG campaign online. Create and organize people, places, organizations, events and much more.
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Comments about kanka.io as an Alternative to World Anvil
UfthackIts the best, its constantly updated and really customizable for whatever weird needs you need for your original world
Most users think kanka.io is a great World Anvil alternative.
- kanka.io is Freemium and Proprietary
- kanka.io is Lightweight
14 LegendKeeper alternativesLegendKeeper makes it easy to build immersive worlds for stories and RPG campaigns.
Comments about LegendKeeper as an Alternative to World Anvil
Bobby WalamackIt makes being a dungeon master 10 times easier in how it auto-links pages for you and you can share it with your players so they can see the whole world you're building together!
Almost everyone thinks LegendKeeper is a great World Anvil alternative.
- LegendKeeper is Paid and Proprietary
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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Campfire provides a one-stop-shop for novelists: organizational and writing tools (Campfire Write), a hub of writing resources (Campfire Learn), & a writing and reading platform for building an audience and sharing your work (Campfire Explore).
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Windows
- Mac
- iPad
- Android Tablet
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Comments about Campfire Write as an Alternative to World Anvil
Lalo MartinsThis is for writing a book, World Anvil is for creating a world (for a book, series, RPG, game, or any other reason). There's some feature overlap but not much.
- Campfire Write is Freemium and Proprietary
42 Plottr alternativesVisual story plotting software for planning novels with drag and drop scenes, timeline and outline views, centralized notes, features for making characters and locations, color coding, tagging, syncing across devices, and exporting to multiple formats.
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Comments about Plottr as an Alternative to World Anvil
Lalo MartinsThis is for writing a book, World Anvil is for creating a world (for a book, series, RPG, game, or any other reason). There's some feature overlap but not much.
Ryan ZeePlottr also providing world building tools like Characters & Places, among a host of other features for organizing your writing and helping your plan a book.
- Plottr is Paid and Proprietary
- Plottr is Customizable
Story Planner is a focused, flexible app to outline all kind of stories. Used by writers, screenwriters, producers, directors and all kind of story tellers, Story Planner has quick and easy-to-use story organization, with sync on all your devices and export options to help you...
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26 Chronicler Pro alternativesA versatile, cross-platform worldbuilding app that can be used as a simple note-taking app, a private local wiki, a writing tool for a novel, or a TTRPG campaign manager.
A feature-packed Notion template built to help novelists, screenwriters, video game writers, and other storytellers flesh out their worlds, stories, and characters.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Notion
- Web Browser
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A campaign planner and manager with loads of world building tools. The online campaign manager has system flexibility with features include:
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The Goblin's Notebook is a single-pane view of your tabletop RPG campaign notes for pre-session planning, in-session note taking and post-session recapping.
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WorldLoom is a application which allows user to create articles, maps, scenes and timelines to tell about their story. Afterwards user can extract their project as a wiki in website format.
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I find it more useful than WA for handling my TTRPG campaigns