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.




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 25 alternatives to World Anvil and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to World Anvil are Lore Forge, Aevon, kanka.io and Fortelling.
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.




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




Aevon is the all-in-one workspace where authors manage manuscripts, characters, maps, lore, and items — all connected and always in sync. Now with comics!!!




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.








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).




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.




A most awesome tool to outline and write novels, stories, scripts and keep track of all your characters, locations, notes and ideas.




A campaign planner and manager with loads of world building tools. The online campaign manager has system flexibility with features include:




A 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.



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.




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.




Free, open-source and good performance