ArcWright

▶ Open ArcWright Free, works in any browser, installs to your phone's home screen.

ArcWright is a free writing studio for novelists, built around the world your story needs. Write your chapters, and every character, place, faction and power you name links back to its page. Game masters get the same world-building tools for their campaigns.

New here? Open the sample world from the worlds screen to see how it all connects.

A manuscript editor made for long work

• Chapters and scenes in a binder, with a clean page, italics and bold, and a focus mode.
• Each scene records its point of view, location, story beat and status: draft, revised or final.
• Scene craft notes for each scene: what the POV character wants, what stands in the way, how it turns out, what changes.
• Find and replace across the whole manuscript. Rename a character and their sheet updates with it.
• Word counts for every scene, chapter and the book, plus a daily writing goal.

Story health

• Flags characters who are on the page often but have no want, need or wound written.
• Spots characters who vanish for chapters at a time, and cast members who never appear.
• Points out chapters that run long, and scenes with no outcome or no point of view.
• Every note jumps straight to the scene or sheet it's about.

Your words are safe

• Version history on every scene. Preview an earlier version and restore it in one tap.
• Deleted scenes can be brought back.
• A daily backup of every world, kept on your device.
• If you write on two devices, each scene keeps its latest edit, and both copies are backed up before they're combined.

Import and export

• Import Word (.docx), Markdown or text. Chapters, scene breaks and italics come with it.
• Export a real Word document (.docx) or plain text.

Characters with real depth

• Sheets built around wound, want, need, the lie they believe, and the truth they need.
• Traits, personality, appearance, portrait, philosophy and character arc.
• Relationships that link straight to other characters' sheets.

The world behind the story

• Powers & Abilities: define a magic system or technology once, including its rules, limits, cost and mastery tiers, and link it to every character who uses it.
• Maps: upload a map, pin locations onto it, and nest maps from continent to city to tavern.
• Factions, locations, a lore codex and a story timeline with beat markers.
• Search the whole world at once (Ctrl/⌘ + K).
• QuickNotes for ideas that don't have a home yet.

For game masters

• A tabletop field on every power for dice, damage, cooldowns and stat blocks.
• Factions with ideology, hierarchy and member rosters.
• Nested maps whose pins open the location's notes, ready for use at the table.
• Works offline, so it's there even when the Wi-Fi isn't.

30 themes

• Fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, historical, romance and focus themes, each with its own colors and fonts.
• Every world remembers its own theme.

Works everywhere

• Phone, tablet and desktop, with the same worlds on all of them.
• Works offline, and changes sync when you reconnect.
• iPhone: open the link in Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen.
• Android: open the link in Chrome → ⋮ → Install app.

Privacy ArcWright stores your world data and, if you sign in, your email address. No ads, no trackers, nothing sold. You can delete your account and all of its data from inside the app at any time: Sync → Privacy & your data.

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