Turn your idea into a finished book. Chapters, scenes, assistant features, timeline and corkboard, all synced across your Apple devices. Your story starts here.
MyStory.today lets you write short stories, novels and screenplays on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Write whenever you want, wherever you are.
Trusted by over 2 million writers.
Take your book with you everywhere you go. Write on the couch at home, on the train, or out in the countryside, and pick up exactly where you left off on any device.
Features overview:
• Story management with chapters and scenes
• Interactive corkboard with smart scene summaries
• Timeline management for multi-storyline novels
• Character Moods: see how your characters feel in each scene
• Characters and locations with auto-updating links
• Assistant features (tone detection, text transformation, summaries)
• Writing goals and progress tracking
• Tasks and labels to organize your work
• Scene images: illustrations, mood images, custom scene breakers
• Rich text editor with spell and grammar check
• Automatic, end-to-end encrypted sync across your Apple devices
• Export to MS Word and LibreOffice Writer
Organize your book with chapters and scenes
Break your book into chapters and scenes for a clear overview. Scribble ideas on the built-in corkboard, drag cards around, and let the assistant add scene summaries.
• Dynamic story corkboard with cards
• Drag and drop to reorder
• Add scenes and chapters on the fly
• Smart scene summaries
Timeline management for complex stories
Plan novels with several plot threads. Create multiple timelines, assign scenes with times or ranges, and view everything chronologically.
• Multiple storylines for plot threads
• Assign scenes to timelines
• Chronological timeline view
Character Moods: bring your characters to life
MyStory.today analyzes your scenes and detects the mood of each character. Lock moods you want to keep and read smart explanations for each suggestion.
• Mood detection per scene
• Lock moods to protect them
• Smart explanations for each suggestion
• Quick cleanup of unused characters
Characters and locations with smart linking
Create characters and locations and drop them into your text. Rename one and every reference updates automatically.
• Simple character and location profiles
• Auto-updating links in your text
Assistant features
Detect and adjust tone, transform text, and generate summaries for your corkboard. Turn all assistant features off in settings if you'd rather rely on your own creativity.
• Tone detection and analysis
• Intelligent text transformation
• Scene summaries for the corkboard
• Switch all assistant features off anytime
Writing goals, tasks and labels
Set daily or project goals and watch your progress grow. Use tasks and labels to keep chapters, scenes and ideas organized.
Rich text editor with spell check
Write distraction-free with bold, italic and indented text, full-screen mode, and built-in spelling and grammar checking.
Scene images
Extend your novel with illustrations, mood images or custom scene breakers. Upload from your device and keep writing across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Export your book
Export all chapters and scenes to MS Word or LibreOffice Writer, for sharing or as a backup.
Synchronize across your Apple devices
With your free account, your work is available on iPhone, iPad and Mac, automatically and end-to-end encrypted.
Download the free app today and start your book.
I’m currently writing a book using this app. And it is doing a amazing job of keeping tack of all my information. Being able to jump over to character summaries and back to writing chapters is nice. The chapters are organized, and when I email myself the manuscript to back it up and edit my latest chapter, everything is organized and laid out almost like a book. It is so much easier to write a book on this app lounging around having it auto fill words, auto correct words. All this while not having to maintain a composed posture behind a keyboard. I have a full time job, and am a full time dad. And yet I’ve been able to write over 18,000 words in the last 10 days! I do have 2 complaints. The first one, I have seen other bring this up too. Having to scroll all the way back to the top of the page to turn on/off italics or change font or whatever when you’re 2000 words deep into a chapter is a huge time waster. So I’ve taken to just writing plainly and then editing after I send the chapter to my computer. The other complaint is that if the app crashes, or even just has a hiccup, I loose everything I was just writing in that chapter. I try to save things periodically. But when the creative juices are flowing eh? A couple times this has happened and I can’t remember exactly what i wrote. This is how you make people go crazy. And that’s it. A solid app. Needs very little change to be the best.
Love it but room for improvement
Usernunberx
I love it! Definitely the best writing app I’ve come across so far. The organizational system is so helpful! It even includes the option to view your work as a story board. The only things it’s missing are 1. Better compatibility with the iPad keyboard cases. As of right now the up/down and left/right arrows do not work in the app removing one of the easiest ways to edit on the ipad. 2. A formate where you can view all the chapters and scenes together as if you were viewing/writing them in a word Document or any document that lets you read and write page by page and 3. A more customisable section where you can add, store, and organize characters. It would be nice if you can add your own custom panels to the characters section and write in them like you can with the chapter scenes. At the moment there are only 2: “short summary” and “main description.” For example, making a new panel/scene and naming it “relationships” or “character flaws” then writing more detail in that section. 4. The ability to copy/duplicate scenes and chapters in case you like the formate of the panels of one and want to use the same set up again or just want to keep a copy of an older version your rewriting. 5. The ability to add pictures. Still, I think this is the best writing app I’ve used since the days of A Novel Idea.
PERFECT APP
Icystripes
This is a great app for writers, it has a whole lot of features, this has been my favorite writing app for six years, I’m currently at 34 books. I have requested many things in my reviews for updates, and then an update comes out with those things 1-2 months later, this app can do no wrong ever, and it is now the only writing app completely free of AI and I hope it stays that way🫶 The app doesn’t deserve the hate reviews from a small bug, all you have to do is mention the problem and the creator will work on fixing it, I have been using the free version ever since I got the app in 2020, the Author subscription only adds a couple features, I hope to one day get the Author subscription because I would love to add covers and finally have aligned paragraphs, having to hit the “I don’t want to support” button every time I enter the app breaks my heart, but I have to wait until I can actually afford a full subscription without having to drop it after a while. Review part aside, I have yet another request, can we have an update on the backups feature? Recently, I lost a big paragraph because my phone died and it didn’t save, it would be really helpful if the backups had a feature that worked faster than the autosave. Thank you for reading, Ginger Wolf 💜
Perfect!
1234Horselover99
This is a great app. I love the chapter and character organization. My only complaint is that I wish I didn’t have to scroll all the way up to italicize my words. But other than that, thank you for this app, I recommend it for authors, even kid authors like me, to use for ideas. Of course, if you really want to get a book published, contact an editor and use things like word documents. That’s what I use, anyways. I did manage to make a book called, “The Star Rider,” about a girl who goes to summer camp, meets a horse, and realizes that she and the horse have a bigger connection than what she realizes, and that she and her horse have magic and that their world is being threatened. She and her friends, Alex and River, set out to save their friends, Katie and Luna, and destroy an evil, extraterrestrial monster that has lived underneath their world in a separate dimension since the beginning of time. Guess where I made this book? On this app! I transferred it to Word for the revision process, and I’m currently on chapter 7 out of 18 chapters. After that I will print it out and contact my agent and my editor most likely. On that note, please be on the lookout for that book especially if you like horses and a bit of magic! Thank you for this app, again, it is my #1 idea source for books/book series’s.
New Focus Mode: Hide all unneeded modules and deep dive into your novel with your ideas and thoughts. This allows you to concentrate on your writing flow and follow your narrative thread better than ever before.
Improved PDF export: See your total page count in your book with the new export options. A streamlined export dialog makes it easier to select your preferences, with configurable page number options like alignment and offsets now available for your novel.
Version 1.39.1
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Information
Seller
Richard Nespithal
Size
16 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
