Storyfolk Novel Planner App

An educational and creative novel planner that guides you through the process and turns your plan into an organized PDF guidebook you can print out!

Do you have a story percolating in the back of your mind? Let's plan it out!

Introducing our human-made app for writers who want a simple, easy-to-use tool that makes planning their fantasy or fiction novel fun! It's filled with intentional prompts and exercises designed to help widen your scope of your plot, characters, and their world! We believe having a solid story foundation not only makes drafting easier, but helps you overcome those pesky writer's block moments. When you're done planning, export your story as a lovely PDF guidebook!

Story Development:

• Create a story project & assign title, genre, blurb, and cover
• Set your word count goal and track your daily writing progress
• Follow guided prompts to outline your plot using the Three Act Structure
• Export your entire story plan as a formatted & print-ready PDF

Character Builder:

• Assign each character a role, archetype, and personal goal.
• Flesh out their appearance, backstory, and quirks.
• Map their character arc for deeper storytelling.
• Create a romance arc for characters marked as a "love interest".
• Explore how your villains became villains & assign them a badness level.

World-Building:

• Design settings ranging from ships to cafes or entire realms and oceans.
• Use prompts to explore history, culture, politics, and society.
• Assign locations/settings to your scene cards.

Fauna Field Guide:

• Log your world’s races, creatures, and species.
• Define their appearance, behaviour, environment, and habitats.

Magic System:

• Build a structured magic system with clear rules and limitations.
• Develop spells, curses, mystical artifacts, deities, lore, and more.
• Rank each magical element from Trivial to All-Powerful.

Plotting

• Organize your story by chapter, assign a character POV and plot point.
• Create scenes within the chapters
• Move your scenes in a visual timeline of events.
• Assign characters, settings, dates, and event tags to scenes

Additional Details:

• Your story information is your own, we do not access your data or information.
• Works on your phone or tablet. Manually export and import your story data across devices.
• No wifi required, so do your story planning anywhere!
• Made by humans (specifically my talented husband).