Where Stories Come to Life
Campfire is a comprehensive, customizable storytelling platform for authors and readers of all genres. Write, worldbuild, publish, and read across our browser, desktop, and mobile apps!
(No credit card required!)
Plot, Organize, and Draft Your Story
Write your story in the Manuscript Module, then switch to the Index Card View to set word count goals, track your writing stats, and organize your chapters like cards on a digital corkboard.
Keep Your Notes a Click Away
Tag your story elements directly in your manuscript, and toggle open a sidebar to access your notes while drafting. If inspiration strikes in the middle of a writing session, open your project-wide notepad to jot it down for later reference.
Draft Faster with Helpful Templates
Every account has access to free default templates, so you never have to stress about starting with a blank page. Create your own templates and save them so that they populate each time you create a new element!
Put a Twist on Your Story Arcs
The Timeline Module is a multipurpose tool for tracking vast historical timelines, managing multiple timelines, and plotting your novel. Start outlining immediately with one of our 10+ free story structure templates!
Tidy Up Your Search History
There’s room enough in your digital binder to store your browsing history directly in the Research Module. Save weblinks, annotated videos, PDFs, images, and text-based notes, and link them to your other story elements!
Design Unforgettable Characters
Character Sheets
Create detailed character sheets with space for backstories, attributes, stats, artwork, and more.
Relationship Webs
Organize your character relationships and family trees in freestyle flowcharts with the Relationships Module.
Moodboards
Save all your character inspo in aesthetic moodboards with custom layouts so it’s close by when you need it most!
The Writing App That Just Works For Your Brain
Turn Your Focus On
Campfire supports focus mode in every module! Tune the real world out as you write in one of your own making.
Write in Style
Easily design custom themes with your choice of fonts, colors, and background images to suit any of your stories.
Customize Your Canvas
Choose from a selection of panel types and arrange them in custom layouts across your writing project.
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Build Epic Secondary Worlds
From cultures and species to detailed settings and fictional languages, Campfire’s interconnected worldbuilding modules help keep you organized, efficient, and most importantly, inspired!
Make Your Maps Interactive
Upload your fictional maps to the Maps Module, or link them directly from Inkarnate. Add interactive pins for just about any story element, nest other maps, mark up important regions, and leave yourself annotations.
Be the Scribe of Your Setting
The Encyclopedia Module is a Campfire community-favorite! Use it to write wiki-style articles about anything you can imagine—from foods, fashions, and technologies, to world histories, fantasy ledgers, and other in-world documents.
Master Time With Custom Calendars
Use the Calendar Module to track multiple moons; create custom eras, days, weeks, and months; and never forget a character’s birthday ever again. Link it to the Timeline Module for more advanced timekeeping across your story.
Connect the Dots With Flowcharts
Organize groups, factions, and other connections between your story elements with the Systems Module. Freestyle your flowcharts, create a color code, and customize the connections between them for better clarity.
Eighteen Modules
Campfire is made up of modules designed to help you plan, plot, and publish everything from your novel and character sheets to story outlines and interactive maps.
Customize Everything
Campfire modules are built on panels that you can move, resize, and modify to fit various information or images for your story. Try two of them below!
It’s Free to Try
No credit card required to sign up.
Invite Co-Writers and Editors to Collab
Create a private share link for guest viewers or invite collaborators with a Campfire account to work on your writing drafts together. There is no limit or extra cost to do so.
Private
Unless you invite others to your Campfire project, your writing stays private across all apps.
Secure
While you’re dreaming up new worlds, we’ll keep your stories safe with automatic backups.
Yours to Keep
You’ll always have access to read or export your saved elements if you ever downgrade your plan.
What Our Community is Saying
Campfire has made my writing process so much easier! I have been building a huge world for about 15 years now, but I was always getting lost in it. Organising characters [and] locations and finding them [tagged] in my [manuscript] has changed everything for the better.
Infinitely customizable software with a dev team that is responsive to writers' whims and dreams and one of the kindest writing communities on the net, Campfire is like that wonderful summer camp night spent telling fantastic stories with friends.
Campfire has allowed me to take my many, many story ideas and put them down in an organized, readable form... Without it, I would have hundreds of individual documents with no organization. Campfire has helped me write more in a shorter amount of time than I have ever have before [and] I couldn’t be happier.
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