A most awesome tool to outline and write novels, stories, scripts and keep track of all your characters, locations, notes and ideas.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows




World Anvil is described as 'Write articles to detail and keep track of everything in your world! Choose from over 25 templates designed to inspire you with prompts and deepen your worldbuilding! Embed your maps, and include images, music and sound effects, and even secrets and spoiler markers, for an' and is a Novel Authoring tool in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to World Anvil for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Linux and Android apps. The best World Anvil alternative is Scrivener. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Fantasia Archive or Lore Forge. Other World Anvil like games are Aevon, kanka.io, Fortelling and LegendKeeper.
A most awesome tool to outline and write novels, stories, scripts and keep track of all your characters, locations, notes and ideas.




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