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
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online




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.
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.








LegendKeeper makes it easy to build immersive worlds for stories and RPG campaigns.



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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...




A feature-packed Notion template built to help novelists, screenwriters, video game writers, and other storytellers flesh out their worlds, stories, and characters.




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.




I find it more useful than WA for handling my TTRPG campaigns