Best Plotting Apps

Orange Chart - character maps

quick relationship maps maker

Free

Create relationship diagrams, mind maps, and character charts with an easy-to-use tool. Organize ideas, plan stories, or map family connections. Offers offline functionality and private data storage.

CardBeat – Plot Your Story

Virtual Cork Board for Writers

Free

This app provides a digital cork board for writers to plot novels, screenplays, or short stories. It allows users to break down stories into acts, sequences, and scenes, and rearrange them freely. Users can customize cards with colors, lines, or grids, and choose from various drawing tools or keyboard input.

Novalist - Novel Writing

The workspace for novelists

Free

A dedicated writing environment for novelists to plan, build worlds, and write manuscripts. It offers a clean editor with advanced features, a comprehensive world-building codex, and flexible organizational tools. Your writing is stored in plain files on your device, ensuring ownership and longevity.

Lauritzen Story Arc

Plot, Outline & Finish Stories

$4.99

This app helps writers structure their narratives, plan plot points, and organize subplots. It offers flexible outlining tools and visual development maps to keep stories on track. Supports multiple project formats and exports to common text files.

Radar Plotting

by Giacomo Gabriele

$7.99

This app offers advanced radar plotting for maritime navigation. It allows users to calculate critical encounter data, plan maneuvers, and analyze complex scenarios with interactive visualizations. Designed for training and decision support, it aids in understanding vessel interactions.

Daviz

by Mike Wesemann

Free

This tool allows users to create data visualizations on iOS devices. It supports data input via URLs, including text files, and integrates with iOS sharing features for direct data transfer.

Plotline Screenwriting Tool

Create anytime anywhere.

$1.99

Organize your screenplay with an intuitive index card system. Visualize ideas with writing patterns, access IMDb data instantly, and set personalized writing reminders to stay on track with your creative process.

FindMyShadow

Sun shadow scene plotting tool

$0.99

Visualize sun shadows for custom scenes you draw. Calculate sun position and shadow casting for any location and date. Useful for gardening, construction, photography, and solar panel planning.

Calculator of Formulas

Includes graphical plots

Free

This application calculates and graphs mathematical formulas with multiple variables. It allows for programming complex equations, plotting graphs with variable manipulation, and saving frequently used formulas. It also generates tables of results for easy export.

Nola: Story Planner & Writing

Novels, plots, characters—app

Free

This writing app helps authors organize their creative process, from initial themes and plot development to character building and worldbuilding notes. It offers cloud synchronization, a draft editor, and tools to visualize character relationships and design avatars.

Metes and Bounds Basic

by Sandy Knoll Software, LLC

$4.99

Transform property deeds and legal descriptions into visual plat drawings. Supports various units of measurement, calculates area and perimeter, and can auto-complete tracts. Easily share drawings via email with the computer version.