Free World Anvil AlternativesTop Novel Authoring Tools & World Building Games like World Anvil
The best free alternative to World Anvil is Fantasia Archive, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to World Anvil and 14 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to World Anvil are Lore Forge, kanka.io, Campfire Write and World Scribe.
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World Anvil alternatives are mainly Novel Authoring Tools, but if you're looking for World Building Games or Note-taking Tools you can filter on that. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to World Anvil.- Novel Authoring Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- 24 Fantasia Archive alternatives
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.
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- Free • Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Comments about Fantasia Archive as an Alternative to World Anvil
It's offline and totally free.
- 39 Lore Forge alternatives
The only app you'll need to write your novels and build your worlds. Organize your thoughts and cross-reference anything at any time.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- 17 kanka.io alternatives
Kanka is an easy and flexible tool to worldbuild and manage your RPG campaign online. Create and organize people, places, organizations, events and much more.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
Switzerland
Platforms
- Online
Comments about kanka.io as an Alternative to World Anvil
karugaI find it more useful than WA for handling my TTRPG campaigns
UfthackIts the best, its constantly updated and really customizable for whatever weird needs you need for your original world
- 63 Campfire Write alternatives
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).
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Windows
- Mac
- iPad
- Android Tablet
Campfire Write Features
Comments about Campfire Write as an Alternative to World Anvil
lalomartinsThis 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.
World Scribe eases the creation process by letting you keep track of every important element in your fictional setting, including the ways in which they're connected.
- 77 NovaScriber alternatives
A most awesome tool to outline and write novels, stories, scripts and keep track of all your characters, locations, notes and ideas.
License model
- Free Personal • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
NovaScriber Features
Comments about NovaScriber as an Alternative to World Anvil
lalomartinsThis is for writing a story, 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.
- 50 Fortelling - Writer Tools alternatives
Fortelling provides the tools you need to plot & write your book.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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Country of Origin
Netherlands
EU
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- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Web Browser
The new version of Character Story Planner, planning and building a story cannot be easier with the help with this app. It helps the writer to plan the building of character, relation, group, race, creature, etc with the new template system which let the user fill the...
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
Character Story Planner 2 Features
Comments about Character Story Planner 2 as an Alternative to World Anvil
lalomartinsThis 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.
- 18 Notebook.ai alternatives
Notebook is a set of tools for writers, game designers, and roleplayers to create magnificent universes — and everything within them.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
Notebook.ai Features
Comments about Notebook.ai as an Alternative to World Anvil
Notebook.ai has a way cleaner interface and seems a lot easier to use. You have to pay to get private pages on World Anvil, but that's a free feature on Notebook.ai and it seems to have a lot more features geared towards writing and worldbuilding instead of just playing RPG games.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
Obsidian Portal Features
Free, open-source and good performance