Storyline holds your worlds, characters, scenes and timelines in one place, so the page is always the first thing, and never the only thing you’re keeping track of.
Thus he lay, planning death for the wooers in his heart; but his own heart growled within him, as a hound stands over her tender whelps growling, when she spies a man she knows not, and is fain to fight.
“Endure, my heart; a baser thing thou once didst bear, on the day when the Cyclops, unrestrained in fury, devoured the mighty men of my company.
The scene editor is the heart of Storyline. Characters, plot points and world detail surface right where you’re typing, a keystroke away, never a context-switch. Nothing pulls you out of the sentence you’re in the middle of.
Even as a man before a great blazing fire turns a paunch, full of fat and blood, this way and that, and longs to have it roasted quickly, so Odysseus tossed from side to side, pondering how he might stretch forth his hands upon the shameless wooers.
“Have patience now, my heart,” he said within him; and his heart abode steadfast in obedience, but he himself still lay tossing to and fro.
A clean, typeset page that puts your words first. Focus mode dims everything but the paragraph you’re writing.
Who’s in this scene, what came before, where it sits in the timeline. All readable without leaving the draft.
Start with a blank page. Worlds, stories and characters grow around your writing only as you need them.
Characters exist because they appear in scenes. Storyline keeps each one’s voice, traits, relationships and every appearance in one profile, built from the prose you’ve already written, not a form you have to fill in.
“Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear.”
Your story is a network, not a list. Every character is a line and every shared moment an interchange, so you can see who a beat touches, where two threads cross, and the moment a character couldn’t possibly have been in two places at once, before a reader does.
As you write, Storyline keeps a quiet record of how the work took shape. The app never logs keystrokes; it saves a snapshot every few minutes. A provenance score reflects how much of a manuscript grew here, in your own hand, and can be shared as a public certificate of authorship.
Storyline will never write your prose. The only AI here reads: it can spot the characters in a draft or notice where a scene breaks, and it stays off until you switch it on. Every one of those features has a toggle, and every toggle can go dark.
Read the full privacy policy →No generated paragraphs, no “continue” button, no ghost-written sentences. Every word in your manuscript is one you put there. That’s the whole point.
Assistive features (like finding characters in a draft) are opt-in and off by default. The AI only reads what you point it at, and only when you ask.
Your writing is never used to train models and never sold. Fine-grained privacy settings decide what’s shared, what’s public, and what stays only with you.
Everything else (the worlds, the cast, the timeline, the proof it’s yours) grows from there.
Start writing, it’s free