# Narrativ Timeline — Plan your story

> Plan your story (iPhone/iPad app by EIRIK ANDRE STEEN.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/narrativ-timeline/id6771859862 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [EIRIK ANDRE STEEN](https://appshunter.io/developer/6771859864)
- Category: Productivity, Books
- Price: $24.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 20 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-11
- Data updated: 2026-08-25
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/narrativ-timeline/id6771859862/reviews.md

## What is Narrativ Timeline?

Narrativ is a planning tool for creative writers. Map out the shape of your story. Add a cast, sketch your plotlines, create locations, note important world events, and link it all to the timeline so you can get a clear picture of the structure of your story.

Plan your cast
Build characters with photos, roles, traits, relationships, and the connections that make them more than a list of names. See who knows whom in a graph. Track who appears in which scene.

Plan your scenes
Scenes with summaries, tension, cast, and plotline tags. View them as cards, on a timeline, or in story order. This is where the story takes shape. The manuscript comes later, in your writing app of choice.

Plan your world
The story is ten per cent on the page. The world is the ninety per cent underneath. World Events is where that ninety per cent lives. Everything you know about your world that the reader never sees. Add events with your own when-labels and link them to the scenes that show them.

Capture loose thoughts
Not every idea is ready to become a character or a scene. Notepad is where it waits until it is. Write one note or a hundred, right inside the story you're planning.

Plan a series
A universe holds multiple stories that share characters, locations, and world events. Add a story and it inherits the cast. The bundled Sherlock Holmes example shows a three-book universe in action.

See the connections
The character graph maps your cast as a force-directed network. Characters who share scenes pull closer together, loosely connected characters drift apart. Tap a node to open a character card. Tap a line to see the scenes they share. The graph shows you where relationships are overloaded, where they are thin, and where a connection is missing that the story needs.

Wherever the idea strikes
Narrativ is universal across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you can work at your desk or on the go. Your work syncs through iCloud.
One-time purchase, no subscription.

Exports
When the planning is done, export everything as a story bible. Choose PDF, Word, Markdown, or plain text. Select which sections to include: characters, scenes, plotlines, world events, or the full document. A clean reference to keep open while you write.

Go dark
With Narrativ, you can choose between light and dark mode, or let the app follow your system settings.

Before the story, there's Narrativ.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.2 — 2026-07-09

Notepad
• Note formatting (bold, italic, links) now carries over correctly when exporting to Word and PDF
• On iPad and Mac, the note list stays open beside the editor, so switching notes is a single tap

Timeline
• Pinch-to-zoom is smoother and more reliable on iPhone and iPad
• Dragging a character or location onto a scene now reliably links it

Character Graph
• Hold a character to dim everyone more than two steps away, so you can focus on their immediate relationships
• Added haptic feedback on iPhone, iPad, and Mac trackpads

Mac
• File > Save and File > Save a Copy are now available from the menu bar
• Saving to disk is now the primary export option, with sharing as a secondary choice

Also in this update
• Fixed stray asterisks in a few story framework beat descriptions
• Fixed an inaccurate drift indicator on the Timeline's beat lane
• Added VoiceOver labels to icon-only buttons
• Faster search on Home in large projects

### 1.1.1 — 2026-07-07

Bug fixes and general improvements like:
• Smoother pinch-to-zoom on the Timeline and Character Graph, now continuous like a video editor.
• Scene reordering makes room as you drag, so you can see exactly where a scene will land.
• Notepad formatting fixes: bold, italic, and strikethrough no longer leave stray characters.
• DOCX import now extracts your document's text, and rare issues with project files have been fixed.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-06-25

This version comes with some fixes and a new feature:
• New notepad feature for you to jot down general ideas and notes that might not fit anywhere else or be ready to be implemented into cards yet. Use @ to link to cards.
• General stability and bug fixes

### 1.0.1 — 2026-06-19

A few bug fixes and general updates including:
- Character role labels wrapped onto multiple lines on iPhone when the name was long.
-The "Custom" role gets a more intuitive way to edit
-Cards flickered slightly when scrolling in dark mode
-Settings had an unnecessary animation on open

No new features this time, just a smoother experience.

Before the story, there's Narrativ.

### 1.0 — 2026-06-11

No release notes.

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