# Fortelling - Story Writing App

> Book & novel: world plotting

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1503524513](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1503524513)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1503524513`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** AJP Digital Tools B.V.
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (1,017 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.0.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-31
- **First published:** 2020-12-15
- **Size:** 116 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fortelling-story-writing-app/id1503524513)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://fortelling.app/privacy-policy](https://fortelling.app/privacy-policy)

## Description

**Fortelling** is a novel writing and story-planning app designed for authors, novelists, and creative writing teams. Organize your ideas with advanced plotting tools, detailed worldbuilding, character profiles, languages, species, items, locations, and interactive family trees.

Write your novel directly in the app, create multiple chapter drafts, track writing statistics, review version history, and connect story elements on visual overview boards. Use stickers and relationship maps to explore how characters and plot points interact. Fortelling also supports real-time collaboration and offers weekly writing challenges with fresh prompts. Your book remains yours, with secure story creation and no sharing of data with third parties.

## Rankings

- #55,336 — Overall
- #1 — writing tool
- #3 — author
- #5 — writing tools
- #7 — writing
- #39 — tool

## Review summary

Fortelling is praised for its deep world-building, rich organization tools, and writer-friendly templates, with many features available for free. Reviewers highlight strong plotting capabilities and cross-platform usefulness. However, onboarding and login crashes, ongoing bugs, and some paywalled web editing lessen the experience for new users. Overall, the app is powerful for writers who can tolerate occasional stability and access limits.

### Pros

- In-depth world-building and plotting tools with strong organization features (characters, family trees, outlines, and synopses).
- Many features are available for free with minimal paywalls, allowing exploration without constant purchases.
- Helpful templates and tools for writers, with ongoing improvements and responsiveness to user feedback.
- Cross-platform flexibility, including a web version that complements the mobile app.

### Cons

- Crashes and instability, especially during onboarding and sign-up, making it hard to start using the app.
- Web editing is gated behind a subscription paywall, limiting online editing compared to the mobile app.
- Recurring bugs and performance issues that cause crashes or freezes during use.
- File management and export limitations, such as difficulty organizing or downloading multiple files at once.

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