For writers & storybuilders · Mac source beta
Your story.
Your world.
Your own.
Some stories need more than a blank page.
Make room for the people, places, possibilities
and words that make yours.
01Free on Mac, forever.
02Open source.
03Yours, offline.
One story. Room for every part of it.
A little structure.
A lot of possibility.
Ideas, Plan, Board, Write, Revise and World. Six spaces that work together, without telling you how to write.
A world worth getting lost in.
Give characters, places and lore a shared home. Capture a passage from your draft, develop it into a Wiki entry, and keep the route back to its source.
Find the shape of the story.
Arrange books, chapters and scenes. Connect plot beats, follow parallel threads, and set word targets where they belong: beside the plan.
Let ideas find each other.
Move notes freely. Let them overlap, gather into groups, or stay a little messy. Your board is a place to think before you know what comes next.
Stay with the sentence.
A drafting space with rich text, continuous chapters, references and a typewriter feel. Your world is always close at hand.
Catch an idea. Trace a plot. Write a chapter. Review a draft. Follow a character back into the world. Pick up wherever your story needs you.
A tour of the source beta
See the story
take shape.
A two-minute captioned preview using the Wonderland demo.
Down the rabbit hole
Start with a story
you already know.
Explore all twelve chapters of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, alongside a sample character Wiki, connected plot and movable idea board.
Carroll’s original story is public domain in the United States. The planning and Wiki notes are illustrative additions made for this demo. Check your local copyright rules elsewhere.
Explore the demo project Story text & attributionA promise, not a pricing plan.
Free on Mac, forever.
Because the story is yours.
No subscriptions. No accounts. No activation checks. No paid unlocks. The official StoryShape Mac app will stay free.
Once installed, writing, planning and worldbuilding work without an internet connection. Your projects live in files on your computer. There is no story-upload service or automatic telemetry.
And the code is open under the Apache 2.0 license. You can inspect it, build it and make it your own.
Mac source beta
Your next world
starts here.
Build all six workspaces from the public source today. Packaged downloads are still in development.
In-development beta. Keep separate backups of important work. Save early, save often, and test with a copy before bringing in an irreplaceable manuscript.
Keep the candle burning.
Support the project.
If StoryShape helps your stories take shape, you can help support its development. Contributions are optional. The Mac app stays free either way.
Payments are handled by Stripe. Your story files stay on your computer.