The only app you'll need to write your novels and build your worlds. Organize your thoughts and cross-reference anything at any time.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
United StatesPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
+4
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 25 alternatives to World Anvil and many of them are World Building Games so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting World Building Game alternatives to World Anvil are Aevon, kanka.io, Fortelling and LegendKeeper.
Alternatives list
63 Lore Forge alternatives
63 Aevon alternativesAevon is the all-in-one workspace where authors manage manuscripts, characters, maps, lore, and items — all connected and always in sync. Now with comics!!!
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
+3
33 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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Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+3
18 LegendKeeper alternativesLegendKeeper makes it easy to build immersive worlds for stories and RPG campaigns.
88 Campfire Write alternativesCampfire 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 types
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Windows
- Mac
- iPad
- Android Tablet
+9
56 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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
+1
70 Story Planner for Writers alternativesStory 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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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 types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Notion
- Web Browser
+4
27 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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
18 Chronica alternativesA 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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I find it more useful than WA for handling my TTRPG campaigns