Write the story. Keep its world in order.
Polyquill is a writing studio and a story timeline in one app. Chapters, characters, places and every dated event live together, in one file on your own computer.
$50 once. Try it free for 30 days.
14 Thawmoon 1202
The ferry
The bell on the ferry rang twice, which it never did. Maren counted the lights on the far shore the way her father had taught her, and came up one short.
By the time the second bell faded, the water had gone flat and silver, and the boatman had stopped rowing.
- Early thaw, 1202Maren leaves the lighthouseChapter 1
- 14 Thawmoon 1202The ferry goes down off Calder PointChapter 4
- Both moons full, Ashfall 1202The council meets at AshgroveChapter 9
- Midwinter 1203Maren comes homeChapter 22
Two halves of one book
Most writers keep the manuscript in one program and the history of their world in another. Polyquill joins them: an event on the timeline opens the scene it happens in.
The writing
- A binder of chapters, scenes, characters, places and research
- A rich text editor with full-screen composition mode
- A corkboard of index cards and an outliner
- Snapshots of any scene, and undo for the whole project
- Word targets and a writing history with charts
The chronology
- Calendars of your own: months, weeks, eras and moons
- Events linked to scenes, characters and places
- Arcs, and lanes by character or place
- Each character's age at every event, from their birth date
- Export the timeline as a spreadsheet, picture or PDF
For every kind of storyteller
- Novelists
- Draft in chapters and scenes, move them on a corkboard, set word targets and watch the book grow day by day. Export a standard manuscript for an agent, or a Word file, PDF or EPUB.
- Worldbuilders
- Give a world its own calendar, months, eras and moons. Keep its characters, places and centuries of history in one project, with every event on a timeline you can read at a glance.
- Game masters
- Keep session notes, people, places and factions together, and put the campaign's events on a timeline in the setting's own calendar, so the players' past is always in front of you.
Your work is a file
A Polyquill project is one ordinary file. Keep it where you like, copy it, back it up, or put it in a synced folder. There is no account to create and no server your writing depends on.
Polyquill saves as you write, keeps dated backups, and exports your manuscript to Word, PDF, EPUB, OpenDocument, RTF, Markdown, a web page or plain text whenever you want it somewhere else.
$50, once
One licence for two computers. Every 1.x update is free, and the Mac version will be included when it arrives.