Free Tools Directory
Free, open-source tools for people who make stories.
Writing apps, worldbuilding wikis, ebook builders, audiobook voices, interactive fiction engines, maps, local AI. Every tool here is free to use, its licence is checked against the project's own files, and we name the paid tool it can replace.
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Ten hand-checked picks for each kind of creator. Every one is free, truly open source and actively used.
Best picks by section
Three editor's picks per section. Open "See all" for everything else we list there.
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How we pick and check
A tool gets in when it is free to use and its source is public. We read the licence from the project's own repository, not a summary site. Open source (OSI) means an OSI-approved licence. Source-available means you can read the code but the licence limits reuse or commercial use; those cards carry a warning. Stars and last-commit dates come from the repository and are refreshed regularly. "Replaces" is our honest read of the closest paid tool, not a claim of feature parity.
We leave out piracy tools and "AI writes your whole book" generators.
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