Local-first writing platform

Your world.
Alive on the page.

Write your story. Build your world.
Local-first. No subscriptions. Your work stays yours.

Every name you type becomes a living entity — with a face, a history, and a place in your world. Write and watch it grow, or build your world first and write into it.

Two ways in
01
The Writer's Path

Just write. As your prose grows, Verdenstory reads it — extracting characters, locations, and factions into your Codex automatically. Hover over any name and see their face and lore, right where you're writing.

Write AI extracts Codex populates Hover to see
02
The Planner's Path

Build your world before you write it. Generate a character from scratch, build their portrait, and watch them land in your Codex — ready to appear the moment you mention their name in Canvas.

Generate Build image Into Codex Live in Canvas
Everything a novelist needs. Nothing you don't.
Canvas
Writing
Give writers a powerful, distraction-free environment where writing and analysis happen in the same place.
  • Full prose editor with chapter management, focus mode, and typewriter mode
  • Works for any genre — fiction, fantasy, thriller, romance, horror, sci-fi, literary, and beyond
  • Live word count with real-time tracking of character, location, and faction mentions
  • Built-in prose analytics — readability score, reading ease, sentence rhythm, passive voice, adverb density, and word frequency
  • Style mentor panel for anachronism, pacing, and voice analysis
  • Estimated read time, unique word count, sentence and paragraph counts
  • No uploading. All local. All yours.
Codex
Lore
Make sure every character, place, and relationship in your story is always findable, always accurate, and always in sync with what you've written.
  • Structured entity database — characters, locations, factions, artifacts, creatures, and more
  • Each entity carries descriptions, aliases, attributes, relationships, and full mention history
  • Entities linked to every chapter where they appear
  • Hover over any name in Canvas to see their full profile and image inline
  • Auto-populates as you write via the Ollama pipeline — or add entries manually
  • Works for any setting — contemporary, historical, speculative, fantastical, or otherwise
  • No uploading. All local. All yours.
Generators
World
Help planners and worldbuilders create fully realized characters, cultures, and concepts before the first word hits the page.
  • Build characters, factions, cultures, and concepts from scratch
  • Pool-based prompt assembly generates names, backstories, cultural details, roles, and personalities
  • Adaptable to any setting — contemporary, historical, speculative, or fantastical
  • Everything generated feeds directly into the Codex, ready to appear in Canvas the moment you write their name
  • No uploading. All local. All yours.
Image Studio
Image
Put a face to every name and a visual to every place, without ever leaving your writing environment or sending your work to the cloud.
  • Connected to a local Stable Diffusion instance — fully offline, fully private
  • Generate character portraits, scene illustrations, location visuals, faction imagery, and concept art
  • Not limited to any genre or visual style
  • Images attach directly to Codex entries
  • Appear inline automatically when you hover over an entity's name in Canvas
  • No uploading. All local. All yours.
StyleForge
Prose
Give writers complete control over the tone, voice, and feel of every scene without ever losing the story underneath.
  • Rewrite any passage in any style, tone, or voice — scene by scene, moment by moment
  • Adapts to any genre — action, romance, horror, literary fiction, thriller, drama
  • Never invents motivation or emotion not already present in your source text
  • Full creative control without losing what makes your story yours
  • No uploading. All local. All yours.
Timeline COMING SOON
World
Map the full history of your story's world so that when and what are never in conflict.
  • Chronicle events, eras, and character arcs across your story's timeline
  • Tied directly to the Codex so continuity stays intact across every chapter, every era, every storyline

Be first through the door.

Write your story. Build your world.

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