# Story Plotter - idea to plot - — user reviews > 126 indexed App Store user reviews of Story Plotter by Hajime Hata, rated 4.40/5 from 193 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/story-plotter-idea-to-plot/id1491980862/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/story-plotter-idea-to-plot/id1491980862.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 133 · 4★ 29 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Story Plotter? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Helpful for writing and planning - 🚀 Great organizational tools - 💡 Detailed character profiles - 🔒 Secure and password protected - 👍 Clean and easy to navigate - 💡 Excellent for plotting and timelines - 👍 Useful prompts and templates **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes or performance issues - 🔍 Confusing or unclear interface in places - 🔒 Limited free features, need to pay for syncing - 🐛 Bugs with Bluetooth keyboards - 🐛 Data loss issues, stories deleted without warning **Commonly reported bugs** - Deleting previous work without warning - Crashing when trying to edit thumbnails or move characters - Syncing and data transfer issues between devices - Bluetooth keyboard compatibility problems **Most requested features** - Add ability to pull photos from external sources - Implement a collaborative feature for co-writing - Add more customization options for character profiles - Improve the character relationship diagram functionality - Expand timeline options beyond just years/months/days ## Newest reviews (16 of 126) ### 4/5 — Really good app (but a few problems) *2026-05-30* I love this app for visualizing my different stories and the relationships between my characters but I seem to be dealing with an issue of lagging? Maybe the app starts to lag the more stories you create? But either way it’s become extremely difficult to use the app in recent days just due to how much it lags. Hopefully this problem will be fixed soon, because otherwise the app is great! ### 4/5 — Thank you, whoever made this :) *2026-03-11, version 6.70.10* This app is really helpful. I do wish it was easier to transfer stories between devices without having to pay but it’s not impossible if you save the story as a .zip file and email it to yourself, then download from the other device and upload. ### 3/5 — Add ability to pull photos from other locations than your device. *2026-02-22, version 6.70.7* Please add the ability to pull photos from external locations. ### 4/5 — 생각보다 잘쓰고있습니다 *2026-02-07* 웹툰 콘티쓸때 잘사용하고있는데 아... 구독제가 별 맘에 들지 않네요 요즘은 구독제가 유행이니깐 그럴수있긴한데 한번 결제하고 쭉 사용할수있는것도 있었으면 좋겠습니다 ### 4/5 — Very good app! But a few issues. *2026-01-26* Currently using this app for my novel, and it's been a huge help. However my biggest issue is this: The current correlation diagram causes a huge increase in performance drops. I'd love to use it to have a visual breakdown of the characters relationships, but as of now, it's just not worth it, as it causes the app to slow down a lot, even when it's not on screen. Other than that, this app is great and I would recommend! ### 4/5 — It’s very helpful, thank you! *2026-01-02* This app is extremely useful for helping me write and plan things out, and I’m so glad that it’s being frequently updated! I have a request, if that’s okay; could you add a way to make species / races? I have a fantasy world that I’m working on, and there’s a lot of different types of people and creatures! Please forgive me if this is an option already and I’ve just not seen it! 🙏 ### 4/5 — 너무 재밌고 흥미있는데… *2025-08-12* 안녕하세요. 글쓰기를 좋아하는 초등학생입니다. 이 앱을 거의 매일 빠짐없이 사용하는데 초등학생이 읽으면 ‘이게 무슨 뜻이지?’할 단어나 문장이 있어서 처음에 깔았을때 연령대를 물어보고 그 연령에 맞춰 문장을 써줄 수 있는 기능이 있으면 좋겠네요. 나머지는 다 좋습니다. 방금 말한 것도 나쁘다는뜻이 아니라 그러면 더 좋겠다고 말 한 겁니다. 너무 잘 쓰고 있습니다! ### 4/5 — Excellent app! However… *2025-05-17* This app is great. The level of detail and options available is unmatched, and I like how you’ve laid out the different sections. I do, however, feel that this would be at its best as a complimentary app to your website which, at the time I’m writing this, does not load. I certainly work better at a desk than on my phone, so restoring the functionality of the website or creating a desktop app would be very much appreciated. Many thanks and best of luck. ### 4/5 — Wow perfect *2025-03-18, version 6.64.5* I really love writing stories and I’m working on a comic book series and an animated series for my Minecraft ocs this really helps me it’s awesome!!! I just don’t like that the ai is limited and you have to wait the next day tho but still it’s cool ### 5/5 — Love *2025-01-08, version 6.62.11* It’s really helpful I enjoy this app so much. It needs to be more obvious in App Store tho ### 5/5 — Amazing *2024-12-05, version 6.62.10* Legit the best app for character plotting, story plotting and generally getting your ideas into sorts. I love it so much I would recommend it over any other one I’ve tried! ### 3/5 — Help *2024-12-03, version 6.62.7* i’m confused my app was reset because I didn’t use it for awhile and now I can’t access all of the things I’ve wrote. Is there no way I can keep the data on the app saved. I’m really confused as reset to default settings and now I’ve lost everything I wrote. ### 3/5 — Great, but annoying *2024-11-24, version 6.61.2* I was so excited to get this app, but it is very confusing, also, I have to pay for extra time with the A.I. which is very annoying. The didn’t have a intro, so I didn’t know where everything is. BUT, it is great for making up story’s. ### 4/5 — export 안됩니다. *2024-10-29* 잘쓰고 있는데 export가 안되네요. 파일 내보내기를 못하면 어떡하죠.. 큰일이네요.. 파일 내보내야하는데 ㅡㅜㅜ ### 5/5 — ¡Excelente! Pero tengo una duda *2024-10-28, version 6.60.3* ¿Si me equivoqué en la longitud de una historia le puedo cambiar la longitud? Es que no encuentro cómo ### 5/5 — BEST FREE APP FOR PLOT ORGANIZATION *2024-10-08, version 6.59.1* FIRST OFF, I want to say: thank you so much for being a free app that gives us, authors, access to SO MANY different tools that really allow you to plan out plot and characters in detail. That being said, I do find the amount of features overwhelming, but it’s mostly just things like graphs in the “environment” section. Graphs stress me out to just look at, so majority of the time I avoid that section. I wish there were an option to hide graph part. Other than that, the app is phenomenal. I love that there are prompts to answer, I love that you can add images, and so so many more features that I could continue praising. Please never change. I hope that this app always stays free. You are giving so many authors a space to map out their concepts exactly how they want and it’s extremely helpful. I can’t thank you enough~ ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Deleted my previous work without warning! *2025-11-29, version 6.67.18* It deleted my previous notes without warning!! I had no idea there was a time limit on how long you could keep your notes in the app! If I’d known this, I’d have never started using this app! This stinks! I lost all my work! Guess it’s time to cancel my subscription and find something else. ### 1/5 — Deleted all of my stories once I bought a subscription. All of them. *2025-02-03, version 6.62.19* What the title says. I am devastated. I tried logging out to see if there’s data left locally, but it isn’t. Everything is gone. I loved this app so much, but it had just destroyed everything I worked so hard on for the past 3 months. ### 1/5 — ⚠️SHOCKED⚠️ *2024-02-08* As an aspiring writer, I was excited to try out this AI storytelling app in the hopes of sparking creativity and receiving valuable story ideas. However, my experience with this app has been nothing short of disappointing. Despite its promise to assist in crafting original and compelling narratives, the AI consistently provided me with false information and unoriginal ideas. One of the most frustrating aspects of using this app was its tendency to generate story elements that lacked depth and creativity. Instead of offering unique and thought-provoking concepts, the AI churned out clichéd and uninspired plot points, leaving me feeling as though I was regurgitating tired narratives rather than crafting something truly original. Furthermore, the app's failure to provide accurate and reliable information severely hindered my writing process. Instead of guiding me towards well-researched and factual details, the AI frequently presented me with inaccurate information, leading to a loss of trust in the app's capabilities. Overall, my experience with this AI storytelling app has been underwhelming and unproductive. I had hoped for a tool that would assist me in developing innovative and engaging stories, but instead, I found myself grappling with false information and unoriginal ideas. As a result, I cannot recommend this app to fellow writers seeking genuine support in their creative endeavors. The only thing this AI was good at, was writing this review….😑 ### 1/5 — Confusing *2023-10-08, version 6.47.0* It makes no sense and has a lot of irrelevant stuff ### 1/5 — 장난합니까? *2023-07-15* 구독해지 방법알려주세요. 4,900원 한달 결제했는데 이제 끊고싶어요 어디에 숨겨놓으셨나요 몇시간째 찾아봐도 없네요 혈압오르게 하지말고 빨리 구독해지가능하게 만들어주세요 장난합니까? ### 1/5 — No work *2022-10-21, version 6.27.7* I couldn’t find my character that I worked so hard on ### 1/5 — Gibberish *2021-03-24, version 5.1.3* I decided to try this app to help with the process of blocking out my novel’s plot. Big mistake.The app is written in gibberish- non fluent English that is absolutely unintelligible.Go to the tutorials for how to use it, it’s more of the same. Go to the video on YouTube it recommends to teach you in video form, and it’s more of the same in high-speed. The interface is half baked and nonsensical. Absolutely worthless. ### 2/5 — Not exactly user-friendly *2025-11-26, version 6.67.18* Really cumbersome interface that I find more of a hinderance than an inspiration to my writing. I felt really overwhelmed just trying to navigate the app 🙄 ### 2/5 — Good format, very limiting. *2025-11-24, version 6.67.18* My story happens over millions of years. It won’t let me fit that in the the timeline. Specifically an era that begins at age 0 and ends at 4 million. I can’t do because it won’t even let me use 800,000. ### 2/5 — It Was Perfect, Until… *2024-08-09* This app was perfect for all my story ideas. I used the AI frequently to come up with stories for my OC’s and books, until this new update that is. Now, I can’t write stories anymore! Conflict is essential in coming up with a good story, however the slightest inch of conflict in my prompt and it’s immediately flagged as violent. Now I’m not writing anything grotesque, but I am writing a assassin-style story, and I can’t plot or plan it because it keeps getting flagged! Even if I were to write a story about bullying at school (something basic for little kids), it’d probably still get flagged! All I’m asking is that you tone down this new AI a little. This is the one AI I can use without paying some hefty subscription fee, and it actually work pretty well. Please tone down the red flags. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 육각형 관계도 *2026-06-18* 관계도가 사각형이라 여러명일때 화살표가 겹쳐 불편합니다. 다각형으로 정렬하는 기능도 만들어주실 수 있나요? ### 5/5 — Great!!! *2026-02-28, version 6.70.9* It’s the best app ever I highly recommend!! ### 5/5 — 너무 좋아요...... *2026-02-26* 이런걸 찾아 헤멨는데...진짜 기분이 너무 좋아요...사랑합니다 제작자님.. ### 5/5 — Like it *2026-01-21, version 6.69.12* Whoever made this app, your cook it as in a medium rare steak! ### 5/5 — Great! Very helpful *2025-11-04* I’ve been using this app almost everyday and it still is incredibly useful despite being a little laggy because I have a very large amount of information and stories, but I still hold my 5 stars quite happily! You can get very in depth with your characters and story plotting so this app is very well deserved of its name. It’s very clean and easy to get around. Amazing job to the developers! ### 5/5 — Won’t use anything else *2025-09-16, version 6.66.2* Been using for years, I love how thurough it is there is truly everything I could want. Love the tagging feature and idea feature for story fragments ### 5/5 — 너무 조아요 *2025-09-14* 이런거 만들어 주셔서 넘 감사합니다ㅠㅠ 감사할 내용이 너무 많아서 못쓰겠어요 암튼 너무 감사합니다 ### 5/5 — The best writing organizer I’ve ever used *2025-06-30, version 6.65.6* I’ve tried a lot of writing apps over the years and this one is by far the best. So many other apps lock their features behind paywalls or don’t have a good organization system. Not only is Story Plotter free but it’s extremely detailed and very easy to navigate. I can’t imagine choosing a different app. ### 5/5 — GOATED *2025-04-07, version 6.64.6* BEST APP FOR WRITERS OMGGG ### 5/5 — it’s really helpful *2025-01-21, version 6.62.19* the design of the app is pretty clean and neat and the app itself is really useful like the templates for the character sheets are so in-depth! i really like the character diagram and everything is just really helpful for organizing things about your story --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*