Visual story planning

Build the story behind every scene.

Storiis is visual story planning software for Mac. Turn storylines into beats, beats into scenes, and scenes into a connected plan you can understand before you begin drafting.

Coming soonMac App Store

See how a Plan comes together

Planning, not manuscript writing

Storiis is where you work out the story. When the plan is ready, export it to Scrivener, Word, a spreadsheet, or the drafting workflow you already use. Use AI? Directly connect to your plan with Cloud AI Access.

Built for novelists, screenwriters, and series writers managing more characters, subplots, and story details than a linear outline can comfortably hold.

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Start with the dramatic threads

Follow every storyline from question to resolution.

Build the central conflict, a character arc, a relationship, a mystery, or any thread that develops across the story. Give each one a dramatic question, a goal, and the beats that carry it forward.

Shape the progressionStart with a familiar story-structure template or create your own beats, then add, rename, and reorder them as the story changes using an intuitive drag and drop interface.

Let one scene do several jobsAdd beats from multiple storylines to a scene and identify the primary development that gives that scene its purpose.

Follow the threadsUse filters on the Plan to follow one subplot or character arc and see exactly where its momentum disappears.

Main plot, character arcs, relationships, and subplots—developing together in one Plan.

Build the story scene by scene

Give every scene a purpose, a change, and a place in the story.

A title and a sentence are enough to begin. When you are ready to go deeper, Storiis helps you answer the questions that turn an idea for a scene into something you can actually write.

01 · Purpose

Why is it here?

Narrative function, story beats, storyline interaction, scene type, tone, and pace.

02 · Action

What happens?

Scene goal, core events, conflict or obstacle, turning point, and subtext.

03 · Context

Who, what, where and when?

Cast, point of view, locations, timing, duration, and the canonical facts revealed to the audience.

04 · Change

What’s changed?

Entry and exit states, character development, new knowledge, and placement within the act, sequence, or chapter.

The Storiis Scene Editor showing its narrative, events, complications, characters, locations, and notes panels in context

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Build lightly at first. Add detail only when it helps you understand or draft the scene.

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Build manually or ask for another perspective.

Brainstorm one missing scene, propose a first scene structure, or review the Plan you already have. Nothing becomes part of your story until you choose it, and every AI feature can be hidden. Explore using AI for crafting scenes →

Visually arrange your story

Edit your story like you’re editing the movie based on it.

Scenes run in the order your audience experiences them. The people, places, beats, reveals, and timing connected to each scene stay visible beneath it. Work on one moment without losing sight of the whole.

Drag to reorderChange narrative order without rebuilding the scene.

Edit in contextOpen connected story elements without leaving the Plan.

Follow one threadFilter by storylines, characters or sequence.

See the structureGroup scenes into acts and sequences or chapters.

Make it all make sense

See your story from multiple perspectives.

Timeline, Cards, and Summary.
Powerfully different ways of understanding the same Plan.

Timeline

See when everything actually happens. Narrative order and story-world order are not always the same. Lay out relative timing, duration, simultaneous events, flashbacks, and contextual non-scene events along one chronology.

Spot impossible travel, accidental overlaps, knowledge that arrives too early, and long gaps that viewing your story by scene order alone can hide.

Cards

Step back without losing the scenes. Open the Plan into larger cards that surface your scene’s key information in an easy to digest format.

A compact chronology above the cards lets you compare when a scene is told with when it actually happens.

Summary

Stop moving boxes and read the story. Scene Flow turns the information in your Plan into a continuous reading experience, no AI required. Use AI Scene Summary to get a more fluid reading of your Plan.

Find gaps in causality, repeated moments, weak transitions, or a storyline that looked busy on the board but disappears on the page.

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One connected Plan. Multiple ways to understand it.

Learn the details

Plan overview Scenes Storylines & beats Timeline Cards Summary

Your idea into the solid path you can follow

Plan the story to know what comes next.

Build a visual plot grid from storylines, beats, and scenes. Rearrange the reading order, compare arcs and see how each scene advances the story before you draft.

Coming soonMac App Store