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Stories are forged,not written

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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Everything you need to build incredible worlds

From 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.

Build Complex and Real Characters

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.

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Visualize the Aesthetic

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.

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Your Personal Wiki

Have your personal Wikipedia. Make the Alexandria's Library look like a kids' game with interconnected lore, history, and culture.

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Thread the Most Intricate Plots

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.

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A Place Like Home

Because creativity flourishes in cozy, inspired spaces. Personalize your environment with music and aesthetic customization.

Custom Calendar

Not every world runs on a normal calendar. Create unique time systems with custom months, days, and lunar phases.

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AEON, YEAR 342
Festival of Stars
WeatherClear skies
MoonsTwin Eclipse
New module — available now

Atelier

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.

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Bring your world with you

Switching apps doesn't mean starting from scratch. Export your notes as Markdown and import them into ForgeTales as characters or wiki entries.

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    Export to Markdown

    Save your notes as .md files from the app you use today.

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    Import characters and wiki entries

    Bring your .md files into ForgeTales as character sheets or wiki entries.

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    Keep building

    Your lore now lives on your device, ready to grow with plots, calendars and moodboards.

Works with any app that can export to Markdown.

Personalization

Fully customizable

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 novel interconnected with your worldbuilding

“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.”
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Write in a free format, no exact chapters

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.

Why ForgeTales?

Although our specialty is words, numbers speak for themselves

Total cost of the full version

5 years

  • ForgeTales€119.98€79.99 + €39.99 Atelier · One-time payment
  • Campfire€378.89One-time payment
  • World Anvil€1,500€300 a year
  • LegendKeeper€450€90 a year
  • Notion€570€114 a year
  • VVD€780€156 a year
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  • Worldbuilding Focused
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Prices updated as of July 2026.

Real worldbuilders, real words

Notes, DMs, and reviews from the writers forging their stories with ForgeTales. The worldbuilding app made for storytellers, not spreadsheets.

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“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”

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SoulReadyAuthor of the upcoming fantasy novel WildFlowerDiscord

“your app will revolut the writing world. I don't exaggerate. I really think what I'm saying.”

Louis DebraskAuthor of the Debrask sagaDiscord

“The perfect all-in-one app for creating my novel's universe”

LunaAuthor of L'Antre des LionsDiscord

“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”

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PachaAuthor of The Power of the BloodDiscord

“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”

SoulReady avatar
SoulReadyAuthor of the upcoming fantasy novel WildFlowerDiscord

“your app will revolut the writing world. I don't exaggerate. I really think what I'm saying.”

Louis DebraskAuthor of the Debrask sagaDiscord

“The perfect all-in-one app for creating my novel's universe”

LunaAuthor of L'Antre des LionsDiscord

“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”

Pacha avatar
PachaAuthor of The Power of the BloodDiscord