Fortelling - Story Writing

AJP Digital Tools B.V.

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

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; there are no AI tools in Fortelling.

Ratings and reviews

I have enjoyed this app immensely for around a year and a half, and it has been my favorite tool for writing. I love the concept of for writers by writers, and the interface is incredibly easy to use right off the bat. There is a paid tier which does offer more features, but the free tier is amazing and there are no ads ever which is something I really appreciate. Though I have not purchased the pro tier(I'm just way too cheap)this app has been crucial to my writing process. Thanks for creating.

This would easily be 5 stars but there's ONE thing that keeps me from rating it that way. When editing characters and inputting new information, the text cursor is virtually non-existent. It's only there when I start a new text but if I try to go back and edit something it only highlights either the word or the entire text so I can't even type anything else unless I delete it all and just retype everything to get to the point I want. It's one very small flaw that makes it unbearable to use.

By far one of the most in depth and versatile sources I have used to organize stories. I've searched for years for this with half of the organizational properties of Foretelling, and I'm frankly surprised by the amount of free features. None of the things behind a paywall inhibit you from using the app to its full potential which is honestly the best part. I can soundly say that the default fields given have pleasantly surprised me, some things I genuinely wouldn't have thought of on my own.

What’s new

New in version 5.1:
- New styling options for labels: icons, gradients, and outlined styles
- New: Reorder labels or images on the story element page by long-pressing and dragging them to a new position
- New: Occasional tooltips for new features
- Improved: Label selector no longer requires you to press save after selecting labels; they are now saved automatically
- Improved: Filter will now stay active on story element lists when you return later