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World by World. No AI.

The all-in-one workspace for novelists and world-builders. Organize characters, plot interactive timelines, and write distraction-free.

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Everything you need

A Powerhouse for Your Imagination

Stop wrestling with scattered notes. Quill Forge brings structure to your creativity without stifling it.

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Complex Timelines

Visualize your story's history. Create Eras, Arcs, and plot key events with chronological precision. Never lose track of a plot thread again.

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Story Element Database

Build deep element sheets for your cast, locations, items, events and lore. Auto-detected from your prose and linked directly to the scenes where they appear.

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Focus Mode Editor

A clean, distraction-free writing environment. Organize by chapters and scenes.

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Mind Map

Map your plot and story on a canvas, connect the dots as you explore your story.

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World Map

Draw continents, stamp terrain, and pin locations from your story bible onto a living fantasy atlas.

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Smart Hyperlink

Elements mentioned in a scene are hyperlinked to their element sheet. Your story elements, at your fingertips.

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Scribe

Grammar and dictionary in the editor, on your device. No cloud, no AI. Included with Wordsmith and Worldbuilder.

Master Time and Cause

Every epic story has a complex history. Our timeline tool lets you visualize eras, overlap story arcs, and pinpoint events down to the minute.

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    Nested Eras & Arcs

    Define the "Third Age of Sun Elves" and track multiple conflict arcs within it.

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    Event Cards

    Rich details for every event, including participants, location, and key item acquisition.

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    Custom Dating Systems

    Use standard dates or invent your own fantasy calendar (e.g., Year 245, Bloomtide 12).

The Emergence of Magic
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The Shattering of the Sky
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A sudden, cataclysmic tear in the high ...

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The Siege of Mooncrest
calendar_today 3 OF JULY, 1425

The Shadow-Orc legions launch a surp...

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Coronation of the Boy King
calendar_today 11 OF OCTOBER, 1426

Following the mysterious poisoning of...

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The Great Convergence
calendar_today 1 OF SEPTEMBER, 1428

The three moons align perfectly for th...

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The Awakening of Ignis
calendar_today 24 OF JANUARY, 1431

The dormant volcano at the center of t...

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Elias Thorne

Character
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Sunken Citadel

Location
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Amulet of Kael

Item
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War of Ash

Lore
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Fall of the Citadel

Event

Forge Every Character, Place, and Legend

Character sheets, locations, items, events, and lore — all built in the Forge, all wired into what you write.

Custom Attributes

Build your story elements the way you want — add any label and value, on any element, with no fixed schema to fight against.

Auto-Detected As You Write

Type a character or place name into your prose and Quill Forge finds it automatically — underlined in that element's color and linked straight back to its sheet. No manual tagging.

Appearances, Tracked for You

Every element keeps a running list of every chapter and scene it shows up in — built automatically from what you write, not something you maintain by hand. Tap any appearance to jump straight there.

Write With Your World Beside You

Your Manuscript, Fully Wired In

Every character, place, item, and event you've built lights up the moment you write it — click through and the full sheet opens right beside your prose.

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Elements Underlined As You Write

Characters, locations, items, lore, and events each get their own underline color the instant you type their name — no tagging, no breaking flow.

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Full Detail Panel, Without Leaving the Page

Click any underlined mention and its complete sheet opens beside your manuscript — every field editable, right where you're writing.

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One Sidebar, Seven Views

Flip between Event, Spark, Outline, Plot, Elements, Comments, and Scribe without ever closing the manuscript you're working on.

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Scribe Beside the Page

Open the Scribe tab in the chapter sidebar to check grammar and look up words without leaving the scene you're writing.

Chapter Structure

Outline Before You Write — Or As You Go

Scenes and beats stay tied to the chapter you're drafting — plan the shape, check beats off, and keep writing without losing the thread.

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Scenes & Nested Beats

Scene cards with expandable beat trees and checkboxes — structure stays visible while you draft.

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Tied to the Manuscript

Outline scenes map to real chapter scenes — the same Ash Over the Canopy you write is the one you plan.

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Plan Without Leaving the Story

Add scenes and beats as ideas land; collapse what you're not working on and keep moving.

Visual Mapping

See the Whole Story at Once

Plots rarely arrive in order. Drop every thread onto an infinite canvas, draw the connections as you find them, and watch your story's architecture reveal itself.

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The Architect of Yesterday
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Infinite Canvas

Sketch without page limits. Zoom out for the shape of the whole story, zoom into a single card to untangle one knot at a time.

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Color-Coded Layers

Separate plot threads, character arcs, and worldbuilding by layer, then toggle each on or off without losing your place.

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Link Straight to Your Story

Connect any node to a Character, Location, Item, or piece of Lore, then jump straight to the full element sheet in one click.

World Cartography

Draw the Map Your Story Lives On

Continents, regions, routes, and linked locations on one fantasy atlas — handcrafted terrain, no AI filling in the blanks.

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The Architect of Yesterday
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Layered Atlas

Separate continents, political regions, routes, and topography into clear layers — toggle each without losing the whole picture.

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Stamp Terrain

Paint mountains, forests, and lakes with hand-inked stamps so your map reads like a fantasy atlas, not a GIS diagram.

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Link Locations

Drop settlements that open straight into your story-element sheets — the Whispering Canopy on the map is the same one in your bible.

Capture Everything

Catch Every Spark Before It Fades

Sparks is where every stray idea, task, and note lands first — a single capture point that quietly organizes itself as you link it to the characters, chapters, and scenes it belongs to.

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Elias's hidden scar

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Fix pacing in Ch. 12

2/4 subtasks
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Rain motif idea

Inspiration
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"The crown remembers."

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Speak It Before You Lose It

Record a quick voice memo, watch the waveform as you talk, and insert the transcription straight into your spark. No typing required.

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Send Anything Into a Spark

Share a link or a passage from any other app on your phone straight into a new Spark(), using your device's own share sheet.

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Find It a Place In Your Story

Every new Spark starts Unsorted. Link it to a project, book, chapter, or scene and it flips to Utilized.

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Wired Into Your World

Connect a Spark to any scene or chapter and make sure it finds it's place in the story. Check off the spark when you use it in the story.

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Notes, Tasks, or Both

Add a checklist of subtasks, mark High, Medium, or Low priority, or set a due date — the same Spark that caught your idea can carry the to-do that comes with it.

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Find Any Spark in Seconds

Filter by status or type, sort by recent, pending, or completed, and search title and content together — with one tap to clear filters and start fresh.

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Install Quill Forge on your phone

Quill Forge runs in your browser and can be added to your home screen like an app — no Play Store or App Store download.

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Android (Chrome)

  1. Open app.quillforge.com in Chrome.
  2. Sign in and finish the welcome tour, then create your first chapter.
  3. Tap Install when prompted, or use Chrome's menu → Install app / Add to Home screen.
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iPhone / iPad (Safari)

  1. Open app.quillforge.com in Safari.
  2. Tap the Share button (square with arrow).
  3. Choose Add to Home Screen, then tap Add.

iOS does not support one-tap install buttons — the Share menu is required.

Membership

Write free. Build worlds when you're ready.

Wordsmith is the full writing workspace. Worldbuilder is for writers who keep more than one project, pin reference to the page, and draw the map the story lives on.

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Wordsmith

Free

The writer's desk. Finish a novel without paying for the room to write it.

  • One project — unlimited chapters, outlines, and story elements
  • Chapter editor, timeline, mind map, and sparks
  • Scribe — on-device grammar check and dictionary
  • Cover images for projects, books, and elements
  • View and edit world maps that already exist
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For world-builders

Worldbuilder

Everything in Wordsmith, plus room for every book and the tools that make a setting feel real.

  • Unlimited projects
  • Attach images and voice notes to sparks, elements, and mind-map nodes
  • Create world maps — continents, terrain, settlements, linked locations
  • 7-day free trial, then billed monthly
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What changes between Wordsmith and Worldbuilder
Where they differ Wordsmith Worldbuilder
Projects 1 Unlimited
Writing workspaceEditor, Scribe, outline, timeline, sparks, mind map, story bible Included Included
Cover images Included Included
Images & voice notes Not included Sparks, elements, mind-map nodes
World maps View & edit existing Create new maps and grow the atlas

Billing is on the web. Cancel anytime — we keep what you wrote, including extra projects from a paid period.