Tellustory

Android, iOS, Windows and macOS · offline · no account

The order you write in isn't the order you're read in.

Tellustory is the planning notebook for your novel: the world, the characters, the places, the scenes, the chapters and the manuscript in one place. Every scene has two positions — where it will be read, and where you write it — and the two are kept apart.

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Free mobile app, no account, no ads, no AI.

A project's dashboard, in the mobile app.

Offline, no account

Everything works without a connection and without signing up. Sync is optional, end-to-end encrypted, and only links your own devices.

Nothing gets lost

Every evening the text has changed, a version of the whole book is kept. Go back to a paragraph from ten minutes ago, or to the book as it was last Tuesday.

No AI

Your text stays yours. No suggestions, no rewriting, no grading: the app notices and shows, then keeps quiet.

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Five screens, and you'll know if it's for you

The excerpts below come from the app, on a novel being written: “Ce que l'eau prendra”, 91 scenes, 38 chapters.

01 · Cards

A card reads like a page, not like a form

World, characters, places, glossary, notes, plots — and the lists you invent: creatures, factions, objects. You open it, you read it; you tap the pencil when you want to change something.

  • The layout is set from the card itself — add a field, move it, create a box: text, number, date, choice, coloured labels, image gallery.
  • Links that say something — “is the sister of”, “betrayed” — and a relationship map showing who is linked to whom.
  • As the book goes on — a field can change from a given scene: “blond” until chapter 4, “shaved” after that.
A character card: what you read, its fields, its links.

02 · The double order

Two independent orders: the heart of the app

A scene written 84th can open the book. Reordering the story's timeline moves nothing in your writing order, and the reverse is true too.

  • A timeline you state — “after this one”, “at the same time as”, “three days later”: the app guesses nothing, it checks what you said.
  • The ribbon — the book laid out vertically, simultaneous scenes side by side, chapters as headings; drag a scene to move it.
  • Set aside from the manuscript — the scene you don't keep leaves the book, the word count and the export, without being deleted.
The story timeline: a scene written 84th opens the book.

03 · Writing

The scene is written where its card lives

Full screen, saved continuously. Typography falls into place as you type — curly apostrophes, dialogue dashes, quotation marks, ellipses — and a backspace undoes the correction if you didn't want it.

  • @ to mention a card — type @Ant… and the name becomes a link to Antonin's card; “,,pem” expands to “Élise Martin”.
  • To rework — flag a sentence to rework later with one gesture, without stopping writing.
  • History for every text — the last twenty versions, plus the ones you name, with the differences highlighted.
  • Spell checker — French and English, and it knows the proper nouns of your world.
The writing space: a link to a card, the scene counter.

04 · Stepping back

It counts, it doesn't judge

Four readings of the whole book, all in the same direction: chapter by chapter, left to right. No grade, no score, no suggested rewrite.

  • What contradicts itself — a character in two places at once, a duration that doesn't add up, a name spelled two ways.
  • What runs through the book — your plots: the threads that move forward, the ones that stall, the ones that never return.
  • Distribution — who is most present, who vanishes for a long time, who never meets whom.
  • Rhythm — scenes weighed against this book's usual length: where it drags, where it rushes.
“What contradicts itself” — the app notices, and writes nothing in red.

05 · Progress

One square a day, and no streak to break

The calendar fills in with what you wrote that day. No streak, no penalty: a day without writing stays an empty square.

  • A word goal — with a gauge, if you want one — and nothing shown if you don't.
  • The dashboard — where you are, the next scene to write, the book's word count.
  • A home screen widget — where you are, and the next scene, without opening the app.
“Progress” — the days you wrote, week by week.

On desktop

Write on your phone, pick up on your computer

The desktop app is designed for a window: the book's outline on the left, the text in the middle, the scene's card on the right, and Ctrl K to search everywhere. Both orders of the book sit side by side in the same window. Sync brings back what you wrote on the train.

The writing desk on Windows and macOS. 30-day free trial, then a perpetual licence for up to 3 machines.

The project dashboard on desktop: where you are, the next scene, and the whole workshop within reach.
Both orders side by side: the story timeline on the left, the writing order on the right.

And everything a book needs around the text

Import a manuscript

A .docx or a text file: chapters and scenes are split from the headings, and Word comments are kept.

Proofread

Ten checks on a scene — repetitions, long sentences, your writing tics — and a Reading mode with a table of contents, a bookmark and read-aloud.

Search everywhere

Cards, texts, notes, documents, tags, even on part of a word. And find-and-replace across the whole manuscript, with preview and undo.

Series

Several volumes in order, with a running word total. A card shared between volumes is corrected in one place.

Beta readers

You export a few chapters to Word; their comments land back on your scenes.

Spreadsheets and attachments

A list of characters imports and exports as .xlsx, and research documents are filed in the project.

Pricing

The app is free. What you pay for is the server and the desktop.

Free never holds the book back: no limit on projects, words, exports or backups. What you buy is syncing several books across several devices, and the desktop app.

Free

A backup and a restore: one book, one device.

0 €

forever

  • Synced books 1
  • Devices 1
  • Storage 500 MiB
Nothing to buy: the app downloads and opens.

Tellustory subscription

Unlimited books and devices, synced everywhere.

6.99 € / month

or 59 € / year

  • Synced books unlimited
  • Devices unlimited
  • Storage 2 GiB
Subscribed and cancelled from Google Play or the App Store, on your phone.

Desktop licence

The desktop application, bought once, yours for good.

49 €

one-time purchase

  • Offline writing
  • Updates included
  • One-time purchase, no subscription
Bought through the Microsoft Store or the Mac App Store. The licence belongs to your account.

Prices include VAT. Purchases and subscriptions go exclusively through Google Play, the App Store, the Microsoft Store and the Mac App Store. The subscription does not include the desktop licence: they are two separate purchases, and a subscription that ends locks nothing — the manuscript stays whole on the device. Details are in the terms of sale.

Questions we get asked

Do I need an account to write?

No. The app installs and opens on an empty book, offline. The account is only used for sync, and you sign in with Google. What goes to the server is end-to-end encrypted.

Does an AI write for me?

None. Tellustory counts, organises and flags contradictions; it drafts nothing, rewrites nothing, suggests nothing. Your text is sent nowhere, except to your own sync if you turn it on.

Which devices does it work on?

Android and iOS for the full app, on phones and tablets alike, and Windows or macOS for the desktop app.

What happens if I stop paying?

The manuscript stays whole on the device. Only sync stops: nothing is locked, nothing is erased, export keeps working.

Can I take my text elsewhere?

Yes, at any time: export the manuscript to Word, PDF (novel layout) or EPUB, the whole book, a few chapters or the scenes with a given status. And a full backup of the project as a .zip.

What if I delete a scene by mistake?

An “Undo” banner shows for five seconds. Beyond that, every evening the text has changed keeps a version of the whole book: restore a text, a card — which comes back with all its links — or the whole project.

Can several people write together?

No. Sync links your devices, not several people. Feedback from beta readers goes through a Word file: their comments land back on your scenes.

Your novel, from the first idea to the manuscript.

Free on Android and iOS, offline, no account and no ads. The account is only for syncing, end-to-end encrypted, and only if you want it.

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