Fortelling - Story Writing App
Book & novel: world plotting
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Novelist, are you ready to start writing your next amazing novel? Fortelling provides the tools you need to plot & write your book.
Plotting Tools
Our advanced plotting tools allow you to organize your book and guide you in writing the best version of your story.
World-building Tools
Create characters, languages, species & items. Keep everything consistent while writing and plotting.
Detailed Plotting
Create sublocations and document your unique universe. Remove the overwhelm while plotting your book.
Create Drafts for your Novel
Keeping your story safe is one of Fortelling's top priorities. You can create multiple draft versions of your book chapters.
Create an Overview
Link all your story elements together to create one giant board with related items. Describe their relations and keep your plotting elements organized.
Write your Novel
Make the dream of holding your story as a real book a reality. You can even write your novel within Fortelling. Use our writing statistics and version history to stay in control.
Collaborate
Working together on a story has never been easier. Through our real-time collaboration feature, you can keep the flow going and plot something amazing together.
Weekly Writing Challenges
Every Friday, we launch a fresh writing prompt to challenge your imagination.
Protect your Book and Story.
You retain full ownership of your novel. Create your book securely; data will never be shared with 3rd parties.
more Update 5.0 introduces many new and improved functionalities:
- Family tree: plot out relationships of entire royal families or dynasties.
- Writing sprints: timed sessions to help you hit your goals.
- Reworked statistics: deeper insight into your writing habits.
- Homescreen widgets: see your word count and streak at a glance.
Curious what changed exactly? Make sure to check the app's changelog.
5.0.3 17 Aug
Update 5.0 introduces many new and improved functionalities:
- Family tree: plot out relationships of entire royal families or dynasties.
- Writing sprints: timed sessions to help you hit your goals.
- Reworked statistics: deeper insight into your writing habits.
- Homescreen widgets: see your word count and streak at a glance.
Curious what changed exactly? Make sure to check the app's changelog.
5.0.2 6 Aug
Update 5.0.0 introduces many new and improved functionalities:
- Family tree: plot out relationships of entire royal families or dynasties.
- Writing sprints: timed sessions to help you hit your goals.
- Reworked statistics: deeper insight into your writing habits.
- Homescreen widgets: see your word count and streak at a glance.
Curious what changed exactly? Make sure to check the app's changelog.
5.0.0 2 Aug
- Automatically select the template when creating a new story element.
- Statistics streak would not calculate the longest streak correctly
- Dropping a folder into a folder kept the loading spinner active
- Wiki did not open for some users
4.4.4 5 Jul
- Select a custom app icon for your homescreen
- Communication preferences center: manage all your email and notification preferences in one place
- Turkish language support
4.4.2 16 Jun
Update 4.4.0:
- New: Free tier for the web version, create and edit projects for free on the web for smaller projects
- New: Redesigned web version project navigation
- Improved: Navigation on the web should be much faster now
- Fixed: Pop-ups didn't close on some occasions
- Fixed: Deleting story element images did not work for some users
- Fixed: Table preview did not show the dropdown value
4.4.0 1 Jun
Update 4.3.13:
- New: Add a timeline event between 2 events
- Improved: Confirm importing InkLink templates
- Improved: Layout improvements when templates are locked
- Improved: Layout improvements when controlling visibility per story element
- Fixed: Clearing the field of a story element kept the previous value
- Fixed: Visibility control for boards not showing on mobile
- Fixed: Timeline no longer resets position after switching to re-order mode
4.3.13 14 Apr
Update 4.3.12:
- New: Add a timeline event between 2 events
- Improved: Confirm importing InkLink templates
- Improved: Layout improvements when templates are locked
- Improved: Layout improvements when controlling visibility per story element
- Fixed: Clearing the field of a story element kept the previous value
- Fixed: Visibility control for boards not showing on mobile
- Fixed: Timeline no longer resets position after switching to re-order mode
4.3.12 8 Apr
We know finding a productive rhythm can be hard. That's why we will now send you a daily writing reminder!
You can select at what time you're the most productive: early morning or late at night, and receive a reminder. If you have a specific schedule (for example, late-night work during the week and early mornings on the weekend), you can set a custom schedule.
4.3.10 31 Mar
We know finding a productive rhythm can be hard. That's why we will now send you a daily writing reminder!
You can select at what time you're the most productive: early morning or late at night, and receive a reminder. If you have a specific schedule (for example, late-night work during the week and early mornings on the weekend), you can set a custom schedule.
4.3.9 26 Mar
We know finding a productive rhythm can be hard. That's why we will now send you a daily writing reminder!
You can select at what time you're the most productive: early morning or late at night, and receive a reminder. If you have a specific schedule (for example, late-night work during the week and early mornings on the weekend), you can set a custom schedule.
4.3.8 24 Mar
We know finding a productive rhythm can be hard. That's why we will now send you a daily writing reminder!
You can select at what time you're the most productive: early morning or late at night, and receive a reminder. If you have a specific schedule (for example, late-night work during the week and early mornings on the weekend), you can set a custom schedule.
4.3.7 23 Mar
We know finding a productive rhythm can be hard. That's why we will now send you a daily writing reminder!
You can select at what time you're the most productive: early morning or late at night, and receive a reminder. If you have a specific schedule (for example, late-night work during the week and early mornings on the weekend), you can set a custom schedule.
4.3.5 21 Mar
We know finding a productive rhythm can be hard. That's why we will now send you a daily writing reminder!
You can select at what time you're the most productive: early morning or late at night, and receive a reminder. If you have a specific schedule (for example, late-night work during the week and early mornings on the weekend), you can set a custom schedule.
4.3.3 3 Mar
We know finding a productive rhythm can be hard. That's why we will now send you a daily writing reminder!
You can select at what time you're the most productive: early morning or late at night, and receive a reminder. If you have a specific schedule (for example, late-night work during the week and early mornings on the weekend), you can set a custom schedule.
4.3.2 26 Feb
We know finding a productive rhythm can be hard. That's why we will now send you a daily writing reminder!
You can select at what time you're the most productive: early morning or late at night, and receive a reminder. If you have a specific schedule (for example, late-night work during the week and early mornings on the weekend), you can set a custom schedule.
4.3.1 20 Feb
We know finding a productive rhythm can be hard. That's why we will now send you a daily writing reminder!
You can select at what time you're the most productive: early morning or late at night, and receive a reminder. If you have a specific schedule (for example, late-night work during the week and early mornings on the weekend), you can set a custom schedule.
4.3.0 18 Feb
Update 4.2.3:
- New: Duplicate story elements inside a project
- New: Add images to notes in the files tool
- New: Upload multiple images at once
- New: Show a grid or a listview of files
- New: Gallery view of all images in a folder in the files tool
- New: Select multiple files and delete/move all of them at once
- New: Show file extension in info sheet
- New: Preview .pdf files in the app
- New: Follow Fortelling on Tumblr (find the link in the follow sheet in the main menu)
- Improved: Image/file upload experience/speed improvements
- Improved: Speed for moving items to a new folder
- Improved: Dismiss popups will no longer show when no edits have been made
- Improved: Increased text scale range
- Improved: The icons of uploaded files and notes are now visually more different
- Improved: New icon for removing an element as a favorite
- Improved: Control the visibility of individual tools within a project
- Improved: Set all story elements of a tool to a specific visibility at once
- Fixed: Info link opens files wiki page instead of other unrelated page
- Fixed: Wrong username and image for the last edited user in the file info sheet
- Fixed: Filtering items was not working in the files tool
- Fixed: Sorting items was not working in the files tool
- Fixed: Sometimes new chapters would not be added to the right book
- Fixed: Search not working while in custom order mode.
- Fixed: Wiki badge is now clickable for more info
- Fixed: Updated support email address in the help sheet (support@fortelling.app)
- Fixed: Password reset sheet showing black screen on mobile
4.2.4 1 Feb
Update 4.2.3:
- New: Duplicate story elements inside a project
- New: Add images to notes in the files tool
- New: Upload multiple images at once
- New: Show a grid or a listview of files
- New: Gallery view of all images in a folder in the files tool
- New: Select multiple files and delete/move all of them at once
- New: Show file extension in info sheet
- New: Preview .pdf files in the app
- New: Follow Fortelling on Tumblr (find the link in the follow sheet in the main menu)
- Improved: Image/file upload experience/speed improvements
- Improved: Speed for moving items to a new folder
- Improved: Dismiss popups will no longer show when no edits have been made
- Improved: Increased text scale range
- Improved: The icons of uploaded files and notes are now visually more different
- Improved: New icon for removing an element as a favorite
- Improved: Control the visibility of individual tools within a project
- Improved: Set all story elements of a tool to a specific visibility at once
- Fixed: Info link opens files wiki page instead of other unrelated page
- Fixed: Wrong username and image for the last edited user in the file info sheet
- Fixed: Filtering items was not working in the files tool
- Fixed: Sorting items was not working in the files tool
- Fixed: Sometimes new chapters would not be added to the right book
- Fixed: Search not working while in custom order mode.
- Fixed: Wiki badge is now clickable for more info
- Fixed: Updated support email address in the help sheet (support@fortelling.app)
- Fixed: Password reset sheet showing black screen on mobile
4.2.3 27 Jan
Update 4.2.2:
- New: Duplicate story elements inside a project
- New: Add images to notes in the files tool
- New: Upload multiple images at once
- New: Show a grid or a listview of files
- New: Gallery view of all images in a folder in the files tool
- New: Select multiple files and delete/move all of them at once
- New: Show file extension in info sheet
- New: Preview .pdf files in the app
- New: Follow Fortelling on Tumblr (find the link in the follow sheet in the main menu)
- Improved: Image/file upload experience/speed improvements
- Improved: Speed for moving items to a new folder
- Improved: Dismiss popups will no longer show when no edits have been made
- Improved: Increased text scale range
- Improved: The icons of uploaded files and notes are now visually more different
- Improved: New icon for removing an element as a favorite
- Improved: Control the visibility of individual tools within a project
- Improved: Set all story elements of a tool to a specific visibility at once
- Fixed: Info link opens files wiki page instead of other unrelated page
- Fixed: Wrong username and image for the last edited user in the file info sheet
- Fixed: Filtering items was not working in the files tool
- Fixed: Sorting items was not working in the files tool
- Fixed: Sometimes new chapters would not be added to the right book
- Fixed: Search not working while in custom order mode.
- Fixed: Wiki badge is now clickable for more info
- Fixed: Updated support email address in the help sheet (support@fortelling.app)
- Fixed: Password reset sheet showing black screen on mobile
4.2.2 21 Jan
Update 4.2:
- New: Duplicate story elements inside a project
- New: Add images to notes in the files tool
- New: Upload multiple images at once
- New: Show a grid or a listview of files
- New: Gallery view of all images in a folder in the files tool
- New: Select multiple files and delete/move all of them at once
- New: Show file extension in info sheet
- New: Preview .pdf files in the app
- New: Follow Fortelling on Tumblr (find the link in the follow sheet in the main menu)
- Improved: Image/file upload experience/speed improvements
- Improved: Speed for moving items to a new folder
- Improved: Dismiss popups will no longer show when no edits have been made
- Improved: Increased text scale range
- Improved: The icons of uploaded files and notes are now visually more different
- Improved: New icon for removing an element as a favorite
- Improved: Control the visibility of individual tools within a project
- Improved: Set all story elements of a tool to a specific visibility at once
- Fixed: Info link opens files wiki page instead of other unrelated page
- Fixed: Wrong username and image for the last edited user in the file info sheet
- Fixed: Filtering items was not working in the files tool
- Fixed: Sorting items was not working in the files tool
- Fixed: Sometimes new chapters would not be added to the right book
- Fixed: Search not working while in custom order mode.
- Fixed: Wiki badge is now clickable for more info
- Fixed: Updated support email address in the help sheet (support@fortelling.app)
4.2.1 20 Jan
Update 4.2.0:
- New: Duplicate story elements inside a project
- New: Add images to notes in the files tool
- New: Upload multiple images at once
- New: Show a grid or a listview of files
- New: Gallery view of all images in a folder in the files tool
- New: Select multiple files and delete/move all of them at once
- New: Show file extension in info sheet
- New: Preview .pdf files in the app
- New: Follow Fortelling on Tumblr (find the link in the follow sheet in the main menu)
- Improved: Image/file upload experience/speed improvements
- Improved: Speed for moving items to a new folder
- Improved: Dismiss popups will no longer show when no edits have been made
- Improved: Increased text scale range
- Improved: The icons of uploaded files and notes are now visually more different
- Improved: New icon for removing an element as a favorite
- Improved: Control the visibility of individual tools within a project
- Improved: Set all story elements of a tool to a specific visibility at once
- Fixed: Info link opens files wiki page instead of other unrelated page
- Fixed: Wrong username and image for the last edited user in the file info sheet
- Fixed: Filtering items was not working in the files tool
- Fixed: Sorting items was not working in the files tool
- Fixed: Sometimes new chapters would not be added to the right book
- Fixed: Search not working while in custom order mode.
- Fixed: Wiki badge is now clickable for more info
- Fixed: Updated support email address in the help sheet (support@fortelling.app)
4.2.0 8 Jan
Performance improvements
4.1.5 04/12/2025
- New: Leave challenge suggestions
- New: Subscribe to the newsletter in the menu
- Fixed: Found a significant memory leak that could cause crashes on some devices
- Fixed: EULA text not completely visible
- Fixed: Table cell editing not working on mobile
- Fixed: Some icons not showing in the correct category
4.1.2 17/10/2025
- New: Select one of the 12 new themes for the app (Pro feature)
- New: Create a custom theme for the app
- New: Select one of the 12 fonts for the layout (OpenDyslexic font and more; Pro feature)
- New: Scale the font size of the app
- New: Test lab with experimental features
- New: Blogs are now embedded in the app for more direct communication
- Improved: Subscribe to the newsletter in the menu
- Fixed: Set a template as the default for a tool on mobile
- Fixed: Restoring timelines from trash was not working
4.1.1 02/10/2025
Update 5.0 introduces many new and improved functionalities:
- Family tree: plot out relationships of entire royal families or dynasties.
- Writing sprints: timed sessions to help you hit your goals.
- Reworked statistics: deeper insight into your writing habits.
- Homescreen widgets: see your word count and streak at a glance.
Curious what changed exactly? Make sure to check the app's changelog.
more Version 5.0.3 17 Aug
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