A map of your story
Characters and their relationships, the family tree and a chronology with your own calendar — all in one place. So you never lose track of who is whose brother, who betrayed whom, and how old the heroine is in chapter six.
Everything that holds a story together
Not another text editor — a visual map of your world that you keep open next to the manuscript.
Timeline
Events on the scale of your world: your own calendar, months and eras. Chapters, flashbacks, long events — all on one scale.
- A world calendar: “14 Frostmonth 342 A.F.”
- Storylines — each on its own lane
- Chapters and plot structure templates
- Every character's age at every event
Relationship web
Characters are medallions, relationships are coloured threads. See at a glance who is allied, who is feuding and who owes whom.
- Custom relationship types, strength and direction
- Secret relationships as dashed lines — hide them from readers
- Labels on the lines: “sworn shield”, “debtor”
- Factions, grouping and a “Tidy up” button
- Time machine: the web at any moment of the plot
Character lanes
Every character gets a lane: where they were and what they did at every moment. Hatching shows when a character isn't born yet or is already dead, and dotted lines connect shared scenes.
Family tree
Mark a relationship as kinship — parent, spouses or siblings — and Lorelines builds the family tree generation by generation. Pick a character to see who their father, mother and brothers are.
A look for every genre
The same book can look like old parchment, a detective’s board or a star chart.
And more
Plot structure templates
Three acts, hero's journey, mystery, romance, thriller — a chapter outline with prompts.
A link for readers
Show your world to beta readers or followers: read-only, with secrets hidden.
World check
Finds contradictions: a character in a scene after their death, in two places at once, a parent younger than their child.
Places
Cities, castles, ships — nested inside each other. Where each event happens and where each character is from.
Character bible
Export to Markdown or print to PDF: everything about your cast in one document.
Cloud and offline
Works without a connection; sign in and your books sync across devices.
Free
Lorelines is free and will stay free: the web, the timeline, the family tree and saving to a file are available to everyone. Supporting the project on Patreon or Boosty helps pay for servers and unlocks extras — more books in the cloud, PDF and high-resolution images.
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