Storyfold vs Plotscribe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Storyfold
Craft interactive fiction where your choices shape the narrative. Create unique books with custom covers, explore branching storylines, and edit prompts to discover alternate paths. Save scenes, export your work as a PDF, and enjoy a personalized reading experience.
- Interactive fiction creation
- Branching storyline exploration
- Custom book and cover design
- Prompt editing for alternate paths
- PDF export of written passages
- AI-generated text and images
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Write a story that begins with your idea. Storyfold turns your prompts into interactive fiction, with choices that let you guide the next passage. Create your own book and an illustrated cover. Read at your pace, continue with a suggested action or type your own direction. Edit an earlier prompt to replace its passage, or choose New branch to keep the original route and continue along a different path. Try another turn in your characters’ lives and explore what could have been—one choice, many possible futures. Capture a scene as a saved photo, zoom into covers and illustrations, listen with your device’s system voice, share your story, and export the passages you have written as a PDF. Your reading place is saved for the next visit. Storyfold uses Star Coins for story creation, new passages, images, PDF export and branch actions. Optional monthly and yearly memberships provide 1000 Star Coins each month. You can also buy coin packs or earn coins from available rewarded ads. Prices are shown before paid actions. Generated text and images are created by AI and may be inaccurate. Your stories are saved on your device. Terms of Use: https://caitty.com/storyfold/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://caitty.com/storyfold/privacy/
Plotscribe
This app helps you plan, write, and organize your novel. It keeps all your story elements, like characters and locations, linked together in a dedicated world. You can write offline and export your work in various formats.
- Offline writing and planning
- Linked character and place records
- Customizable fields for details
- Visual planning board
- Mood boards and world maps
- Optional cloud sync for collaboration
- Multiple export formats
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Plan, write and finish your novel in one place. Plotscribe keeps your chapters, characters, places and lore together in a World, and every name you write links back to its record. You write every word. FREE, AND IT WORKS OFFLINE • No account and no sign-in: open the app and start writing • Write anywhere, with or without a signal. Nothing waits on the internet • Your Worlds are files on your iPhone or iPad, in the Files app under On My iPhone › Plotscribe EXPORT ANY TIME • Export from the dock on iPhone or the sidebar on iPad • Standard manuscript (.docx), styled Word, Print PDF, EPUB, a submission package or Markdown • Exports are always free and save to Files, ready to share KNOW YOUR WORLD • Tap a character's name in your prose to open their record • Keep the details you need: your own fields, notes, aliases and relationships • Plot every thread on the planning board, chapter by chapter • Mood boards of images, colors, quotes and notes, linked to chapters and characters • Maps of your world, with your characters and places pinned on them ADD SYNC WHEN YOU WANT IT • Sync carries your Worlds between your iPhone, iPad, computers and the web • Pick up the chapter you left on your computer, right where you stopped • Invite co-authors to write in the same World, live; readers you invite don't need a subscription • Try Sync free for 7 days YOUR BOOK STAYS YOURS • Your writing is private and never used to train AI • The desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux is free too, with no account Terms of Service: https://plotscribe.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://plotscribe.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Plotscribe at none against Storyfold's shown. Plotscribe also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Storyfold sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Plotscribe sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Storyfold against 5.0 for Plotscribe. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Storyfold ships an update every 10 days, Plotscribe every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Storyfold | Plotscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 传立 甘 | Robert Boyd |
Customer experience
Storyfold
Plotscribe
In-app purchases
Storyfold
- Storyfold Monthly$9.991 Month
- Storyfold Yearly$99.991 Year
- 100 Star Coins$0.99
- 250 Star Coins$2.49
- 500 Star Coins$4.99
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- 1000 Star Coins$9.99
- 2500 Star Coins$24.99
- 5000 Star Coins$49.99
- 10000 Star Coins$99.99
Plotscribe
- Plotscribe Sync7 Days trial$6.001 Month
- Plotscribe Sync Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year





