Fortelling User Reviews

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Best app for authors

It was so good and helpful to used and helped my best weakness in character development. It also helped me organize my character groups and timeline of events. This has helped my with my four stories I’m writing as of right now. It is amazing and I recommend.

Perfect for writing but a little over complex

You can keep track of basically everything but it can be abit over complex although that can be great if you want to write complex characters and add lots that will be hard to remember

I love this app

I love this app very very much!!!! It has saved me and it works for all writing purposes!!!!

My FAVORITE writing tool

I downloaded Fortelling out of desperation, trying to find a space where I could flesh out my characters the way I wanted, and was instantly overwhelmed. I nearly deleted the app but decided last minute to keep it and keep trying, and goodness was that a great choice. There is so much I can do with this app, I haven’t even scratched the surface! I can create my characters by answering the premade questions and then if I have anything else I want to add, I can just add more sections. The timeline tool is ALSO very handy, giving me a space to work out my stories’ plots. The ‘LINK’ ability is also amazing because it allows me to connect my characters, leading to clear character relationship references. Oh course, every app has it’s issues. There was an issue where the app wouldn’t let me delete an accidental project, no matter if I was connected to the WiFi or not, so I reported it to the developers and the issue was corrected within a few days.
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Good but needs some fixes

I actually really enjoy this app and I think there’s a lot of good here, but there’s a couple of bugs that really need to be fixed. If I’m trying to delete a member from a character group, the whole app freezes and goes gray and the only thing I can do is close the app and nothing is deleted. The other thing is the app reloads constantly. If I click off of it for a moment to answer a text, the app will reload and anything that wasn’t saved is lost. Obviously I don’t expect the app to stay open for hours or anything, but it shouldn’t reload in under a minute, no other app I have does that. It’s so useful and better than any writing organization app I’ve used thus far, but it does need some big fixes.
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Great but keeps crashing??

Love this app to death but for some reason I’m unable to do things cuz it keeps crashing? Like, I accidentally added a note to a character but everytime I try to unlink it the app crashes. Like what?

Best app for all writers

This app is amazing. It’s perfect for world building and keeping track of what you have made. I love it!

Best app for planning your story!

There’s nothing bad about this app. It’s amazing. It doesn’t even need a subscription!! It has every feature you could want, such as characters, and detailed descriptions, image gallery, boards, notes, truly EVERYTHING you’ll need to make your story yours!! I definitely recommend it, as there is no other story planning app out there better than it!
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Make sure to save

Needs an auto save feature, even if you don’t close out of the app and leave it open in the background while opening another app it will delete all of your writing. Lost an hours worth of writing to search a word and definition on safari.. went back to the open app to finish a paragraph and all of the writing I spent all my time on was gone..
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not just for novels!

this app is wonderful, its super user friendly and has everything a person could want when planning a fictional world.

I use it for dungeons and dragons world building as i can have all of my notes about a campaign in one place, it even has sections for items, creatures, locations, and languages!

I would 100% recommend for any dm that keeps thinking of campaign ideas while out and about as its super easy to jot down while on the go!
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