World Anvil Alternatives

World Anvil

Write articles to detail and keep track of everything in your world! Choose from over 25 templates designed to inspire you with prompts and deepen your worldbuilding! Embed your maps, and include images, music and sound effects, and even secrets and spoiler markers, for an immersive reading experience.

Design Interactive Maps

Maps are great, but you know what's really cool? Linking your worldbuilding directly to a map! Or even linking maps to other maps, going from your world map all the way down to a city or a dungeon!

The maps feature will inspire you during the worldbuilding process, allowing you to quickly create articles you can flesh out later. Then, your readers and players can explore your world in an interactive way like never before!

Cross Reference

Worlds are interconnected, and the rigorous linking system in World Anvil helps you reflect that! You can Link in articles you've already written, Create links for articles you've not yet created (these are added to the to do list!), and Create an article on the fly whilst writing another article and then link it in

You can capture all your ideas, and you'll never lose track of your flashes of inspiration again!

Keep track of everything that's happened in your world with Timelines! Use parallel timelines to track events in a specific country or for a character. Separate your timelines into eras and use a variety of specialized timeline features to display your events the way you want.

When you're writing in flow or mid-game session, you need your information at your fingertips. World Anvil allows you to search and find everything in your world quicker than ever! Search your whole world by typing 3 letters in any search bar. Mark your articles with tags to find them even more easily!