Comparison

Story Wiki vs Lorebind

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Story Wiki

Organize your creative universe with a searchable notebook for characters, locations, and lore. Link entries with wiki-style connections and create custom templates. Export your worldbuilding to PDF and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Wiki-style connections and backlinks
  • Custom templates with custom fields
  • Export to PDF
  • Full accessibility support
  • Dark Mode
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Story Wiki is a quiet, reliable notebook for your creative universe. Built for writers, game designers, and worldbuilders, it helps you organize characters, locations, lore, and events in one searchable place. It is fully accessible, exportable, and never asks you for a monthly fee. Features: • Connect your universe: Link related entries and jump through your world with wiki-style connections and backlinks. • Custom layouts: Create reusable templates with custom fields for characters, species, or magic systems. • Export to PDF: Turn your entire wiki, or a hand-picked selection of entries, into a polished PDF for printing or sharing. • Fully accessible: Built natively to support Apple's VoiceOver, strict keyboard navigation, and extra-large Dynamic Type text. • Dark Mode: Switch to a high-contrast dark theme across all menus and sheets. • Stay synced: iCloud automatically keeps your writing updated across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

About

Lorebind

Organize your creative worldbuilding projects with a fast and simple "second brain." Effortlessly manage characters, places, and timelines, and use fuzzy search to find anything. Auto-generate starter worlds and visualize connections to overcome writer's block.

Highlights
  • Organize entries by type (characters, places, etc.)
  • Fuzzy search across all worlds
  • Auto-generate starter worlds
  • Link entries with internal references
  • Visualize relationships with a map
  • Timeline with fictional calendar support
  • Offline and privacy-first data storage
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Bring your scattered "settings" into one world When you build a long story, your characters, places, organizations, terms, and historical timeline end up scattered across memos and spreadsheets. "Where did I write that character again?" — that search kills your creative momentum. Lorebind is a "second brain" for your worldbuilding, made for novelists, TTRPG game masters, and every kind of creator. Not a heavy, complex tool — we focused on being fast and simple. How worlds work - One story = one world. Put a whole novel or a whole campaign into a single world. - Even if you only half-remember a name, fuzzy search finds it — inside a world, or across all of them. As your projects grow, you never have to remember which world you wrote something in. What you can do - Organize characters / places / organizations / items / terms / events by type - Answer a few questions and auto-generate a starter world (characters, places, relationships, timeline) — no more blank page - Turn names in your text into links with "[[" or "@". Jump to related entries instantly, and see what references them with backlinks - Visualize how characters and factions connect with a relationship map - Fuzzy search and tags to solve "what was that character again?" - A timeline that supports fictional calendars - Attach images like portraits and covers (Plus) - Drop pins on a map image to see how places relate (Plus) - Export your whole world to Markdown for backup (free). Formatted PDF export is Plus Fully offline and privacy-first Write anywhere: on the train, on a plane, with no signal. Your data is stored on your device and never sent to our servers. No ads, no tracking. (If you're signed in to iCloud, you can share your worlds between your own devices via Apple's servers. Nothing is sent or received until you tap a button in Settings. Using iCloud is free.) Pricing Create one world for free and use the core features (entries, links, search, timeline, relationship map, world generation, Markdown export). For those who want more, there is the paid plan "Lorebind Plus": - Lorebind Plus: unlimited worlds / image attachments / map view / PDF export - Choose monthly, yearly (with a 7-day free trial), or a one-time purchase (yours forever) - Payment is charged to your App Store account - Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - You can manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Even after canceling, the worlds and images you have created remain available Bring the world in your head into your pocket. Build your story world, more freely, with Lorebind. Lorebind Plus (auto-renewable subscription) - Monthly / Yearly plans (a one-time purchase is also available) - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase - Renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Manage or cancel anytime in Settings > your Apple ID > Subscriptions Terms of Use (EULA): https://kabosuburi5555-commits.github.io/lorebind-legal/terms_en.html Privacy Policy: https://kabosuburi5555-commits.github.io/lorebind-legal/privacy_en.html

Screenshots

Story Wiki3 screens
Lorebind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Lorebind at 4.0 against Story Wiki's 3.7. Lorebind also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Story Wiki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lorebind sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lorebind holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Story Wiki ships an update every 10 days, Lorebind every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Story Wiki versus Lorebind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStory WikiLorebind
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)4.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperColin WrightYuichiro Suzuki

Customer experience

Story Wiki

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lorebind

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Story Wiki

One-time1
  • Pro$4.99
3 purchases

Lorebind

Subscriptions2
  • Lorebind Plus(月額)$2.991 Month
  • Lorebind Plus(年額)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lorebind Plus(買い切り)$49.99

Questions

Is Story Wiki free?
Story Wiki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lorebind free?
Lorebind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Story Wiki or Lorebind?
Lorebind is rated higher. Story Wiki averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Lorebind averages 4.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Story Wiki or Lorebind have ads?
Neither Story Wiki nor Lorebind shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Story Wiki or Lorebind?
Story Wiki ships an update every 10 days, and Lorebind every 5 days. Most recently, Story Wiki was updated on September 23, 2026 and Lorebind on September 29, 2026.

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