The offline worldbuilding and writing app that brings your stories to life: organize characters, timelines and lore, and build incredible worlds for your novels and RPG campaigns.
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Join our DiscordFrom complex characters and lore-rich wikis to plots and custom calendars, ForgeTales brings every piece of your worldbuilding together in one place, built for novelists and game masters.
Highly curated templates to give life to real characters. Define backstories, habits, traumas, and behaviors. Use MBTI to define personalities and manage intricate relationships between them so you never lose track of an enemy.
Setting the correct mood and tone of your novel is vital. Add colors, images, texts, and music to your moodboard to capture the exact atmosphere you want your readers to feel.
Have your personal Wikipedia. Make the Alexandria's Library look like a kids' game with interconnected lore, history, and culture.
Because creativity flourishes in cozy, inspired spaces. Personalize your environment with music and aesthetic customization.
Organize every event and plot twist easily. Specify involved characters and dates. Don't lose the thread even if you're writing a saga spanning decades.
Not every world runs on a normal calendar. Create unique time systems with custom months, days, and lunar phases.
A long-form writing module built into ForgeTales. Write your novel, campaign or script with your characters, events and wiki notes always at hand — and your manuscript never leaves your device.
The rain reached Verbiana with the tide, and the unlit lighthouse seemed to have been waiting for it for a century. Elara turned up her coat collar and counted the lit windows along the pier: three, just like in the letter.
…across the pier, @Rodric Dane waited in the rain.
Make ForgeTales feel like home. Curated color palettes, font pairings, custom calendars, and lore systems — shape every detail to match the vibe of your world.
Prologue
“A loose dialogue, half a scene, three lines you do not want to lose. The shape does not matter; what matters is that every piece is born connected to your characters, your places and your timeline. Atelier writes inside the world you have already built.”
A scene does not have to be a chapter. It can be a dialogue, an ambience note, half a chapter or three loose lines. In Atelier the format is free: you write the piece that is alive and structure comes later.
Focus Mode leaves only the text, but you never write in an isolated document: every scene is born inside your project, next to your characters, your wiki and your timeline. Your novel and its world, always connected.
| ForgeTales | Campfire | World Anvil | Legend Keeper | Obsidian | Notion | VVD | |
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| 100% Offline | |||||||
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| Setup Time | Low | Medium | Medium | Low | High | High | Low |
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| Premium (1 year) | 79,99€ + 39,99€One-time payment | 378,89€One-time payment | 300€ | 90€ | 114€ | 156€ | |
| Premium (3 years) | 900€ | 270€ | 342€ | 468€ | |||
| Premium (5 years) | 1500€ | 450€ | 570€ | 780€ |
Prices updated as of July 2026.
Notes, DMs, and reviews from the writers forging their stories with ForgeTales. The worldbuilding app made for storytellers, not spreadsheets.
Join our Discord“finally something to organise everything for your stories and so visually and clearly, an app that was made for writers in mind not something like excel or making your own notion to get by”
“your app will revolut the writing world. I don't exaggerate. I really think what I'm saying.”
“The perfect all-in-one app for creating my novel's universe”
“Great stories benefit from great tools that can help build them. ForgeTales is flexible, user friendly, and a great labour of love that keeps growing and catering to the needs of creators, from the smallest idea to the most ambitious world”
“finally something to organise everything for your stories and so visually and clearly, an app that was made for writers in mind not something like excel or making your own notion to get by”
“your app will revolut the writing world. I don't exaggerate. I really think what I'm saying.”
“The perfect all-in-one app for creating my novel's universe”
“Great stories benefit from great tools that can help build them. ForgeTales is flexible, user friendly, and a great labour of love that keeps growing and catering to the needs of creators, from the smallest idea to the most ambitious world”
