A calm writing app for books, stories and essays. Lay your story out as cards you can move around, then open any card to write on a clean, quiet page. Your work stays on your own device, with no account and no AI.
Storyphernalia keeps the big picture and the sentence in front of you side by side. You move between them with a click.
Each project gets its own board, with columns for Ideas, Drafting, Editing and Done. Every scene, chapter or post is a card that shows its title, a short preview and its word count. Rename the columns, add your own and color them.
Open a card and you’re on a clean page set in Literata, a typeface made for long reading. Headings, bold and italic, lists, quotes and scene breaks are a click away, and smart quotes and dashes appear as you type. It saves every time you pause.
Every project has a story bible for characters, places, things and notes. Give an entry its other names, like “Margaret, Maggie,” and Storyphernalia finds them in your writing and gives them a soft underline. Ctrl-click or ⌘-click a name to open its notes right beside the page.
Storyphernalia keeps a copy of each card every 15 minutes while you write, and before any big change. Name a version you want to keep, compare any version with today’s text word by word, and restore it with one click. Restoring saves the current text first, so nothing is lost.
Bring your work in from Word, Scrivener, Google Docs, Markdown, plain text, RTF or web pages. Storyphernalia can split a document into cards at its headings or scene breaks, and shows you a preview first.
When you’re ready, the manuscript view joins your cards into one continuous document. Story order is separate from the board, so a scene can sit in Drafting and still be chapter one.
A month calendar shows card due dates and project deadlines, colored by project, with a “Coming up” list beside it. Each day is shaded by how much you wrote.
Your manuscript is yours. Storyphernalia keeps it on your own device and never sends it anywhere.
Projects are saved in your browser on your own computer, tablet or phone. They’re never uploaded.
Nothing to sign up for and no password to remember. Open it and start writing.
Every word comes from you. Nothing reads, suggests or rewrites your work.
After the first visit it opens and saves without the internet. There’s no tracking, here or in the app.
Because your writing lives on your device, Storyphernalia works hard to keep it safe.
Storyphernalia runs in your web browser, so there’s no app store and nothing to download. Install it and it opens in its own window, even without the internet.
On a Mac with Safari, choose File, then Add to Dock.
Each computer or phone keeps its own projects. A backup file is how you move your writing from one to another.
Free while in early access. Purchases open soon.
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Yes. Your projects are stored only in your browser, on your own device. Nothing you write is uploaded, and there’s no account, no analytics and no advertising. Comments you leave for yourself are never included when you export.
Yes. After your first visit, Storyphernalia opens and saves without an internet connection. Install it and it opens in its own window like any other app. When an update is ready, a small banner lets you reload to get it.
Your writing lives on the device you write on, so it won’t move over by itself. Before you switch, open Settings, go to Backup & safety, and choose Download backup now. That saves one file with all your projects, version history included.
On the new device, open Storyphernalia, go to the same place, choose Restore from a file, and pick that file. If you’ve set up automatic backups to a folder in Dropbox or iCloud Drive, the latest file will already be waiting there.
No. Every word comes from you. Nothing reads your work, suggests sentences or writes for you.
Storyphernalia will be $29.99, one time, with no subscription. It’s free while in early access, and purchases open soon. You don’t need an account or a card to try it.
Yes. Storyphernalia imports Word files, zipped Scrivener projects (keeping the order of your Draft folder), Google Docs downloads, Markdown, plain text, RTF and web pages. You see a preview before anything is added, and you can put the result in a new project or an existing one.
Yes, Storyphernalia used to be called Longhand. If you wrote at longhand-writer.pages.dev, open it there once. A banner will download a full backup and open the new address, so you can bring everything across. Nothing at the old address is deleted.
Open Storyphernalia, look around the sample story, then start your own.
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