Why Narrativ
The planning tool for writers. Outline your story.
Many writers plan in a dozen different places. A notes app for character ideas. A spreadsheet for scene order. A document for world history. A whiteboard for the timeline. None of it talks to each other, and none of it shows you the whole picture.
Narrativ is a story planning tool that puts all of it in one place. Connected the way your story actually works.
What does Narrativ do?
Narrativ gives you five types of cards: Characters, scenes, plotlines, locations and world events. It connects them to each other. A character links to the scenes they appear in, the plotlines they drive, and the relationships they have with other characters. A scene links to its location, its cast, and its place in the story order. A plotline links to its beats and the scenes that pay them off.
Everything you know about your story lives in one place, and you can see it from any angle, as cards on a board, on a timeline, or as a relationship graph.
Who is it for?
Narrativ is built for writers who plan before they write. Novelists mapping a cast of twenty characters across three acts. Screenwriters tracking subplot threads through a hundred scenes. Game writers building a world with its own history, factions, and timeline.
If you have ever lost track of when a character first appeared, or forgotten which scene was supposed to pay off a plot beat you set up in chapter two, Narrativ is built for you.
How is it different?
Most writing tools are built around the manuscript. Narrativ is built around everything that comes before it. There is no text editor, no word count, no formatting. Just the planning space. Calm, structured, and connected.
It is also a one-time purchase. No subscription, no monthly fee. Buy it once and it is yours, across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, synced via iCloud or stored locally as a .narrativ file.
Download Narrativ from the App Store and load the Sherlock Holmes example universe. It shows three stories sharing the same cast, the same London locations, and the same world timeline. A good way to see what the app can do before you start building your own story.
