For novelists · Windows · Coming November 2026

See your whole novel on one board.

Buy it once. Your story lives in your files, on your machine — not on our servers.

The demo runs in your browser — no signup, no install, nothing tracked.
The Plotloft timeline: scene columns with dated stamps, six colored plotlines, and drag-and-drop beat cards — showing Bram Stoker's Dracula plotted as a board.
Bram Stoker's Dracula on the Plotloft timeline — open this exact board in the demo.
The board

Plotlines across, scenes down, beats where they cross.

Every plotting view reads the same living outline — move a beat on the timeline and it moves in the outline, the character pages, the tag index. Nothing to sync, because there's only one story.

A timeline that loves being rearranged

Drag beats between scenes and plotlines. Drag whole scenes — even multi-selected blocks — and the acts renumber themselves. Plotting is re-plotting; the board is built for the tenth reshuffle, not the first draft.

Dragging a beat card between plotline rows on the timeline.

A cast that knows itself

Characters carry the attributes you define — wants, fears, arc stages, anything. Relationships are labeled in both directions, and every character page lists the scenes they appear in, computed straight from the board.

The characters view: profile cards with taglines, categories, and a relationship web.

Notes, places, tags — the connective tissue

Pin the rules of your magic system. Give every location a dossier. Tag beats by theme and see every thread's spine at a glance. Search all of it with one keystroke.

Pinned project notes alongside the places index.
Your files, your machine

The part where we brag about what we don't do.

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Plain files, not a cloud

Each project is a portable .plotloft file in your Documents folder — readable JSON, yours to back up, version, or sync with any Dropbox-style folder you already use.

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Fully offline

No account. No signup. No telemetry. Plotloft doesn't have a server to phone home to — the app works identically on a train, a plane, or a cabin with no Wi-Fi.

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Backups you can see

Rolling local backups on every writing session, plus named draft snapshots whenever you want to try the brave version of Act 2. Your novel never has a single point of failure.

The demo

Browse Dracula, plotted.

We boarded Bram Stoker's Dracula — 21 dated scenes, six plotlines, nine characters, the works — and put it in your browser. Drag things around; get a feel for the board. It's the fastest way to know if Plotloft thinks the way you do.

Open the demo →
Read-only: browse and rearrange. Creating and editing are for the full app.
Pricing

One price. No subscription. We're serious.

Your plotting tool shouldn't charge rent on your own novel. Pay once, own it, plot forever.

$59
one-time purchase · launches November 2026
  • Windows desktop app (macOS coming later)
  • Unlimited projects, plotlines, scenes, characters
  • Your projects as portable files you own
  • Works fully offline, forever
  • Free updates through 1.x
  • 14-day no-questions refund
Join the launch list
People on the list get the launch discount. That's the whole trick — there is no other trick.
Launch list

Be there when it ships.

One email when Plotloft launches, with the launch-week discount. Maybe two or three emails total before then. Unsubscribe anytime.

Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

What platforms does it run on?
Windows 10 and 11 at launch. A macOS version is planned for after launch — it's the same app under the hood — and a Linux build will likely follow on a best-effort basis. Windows is what we test and support at launch.
Where does my story actually live?
In .plotloft files in your Documents folder, plus automatic rolling backups next to them. They're readable JSON — if Plotloft vanished tomorrow, your outline would still be right there, openable in any text editor. No account, no cloud, no lock-in.
Is it really a one-time purchase? What's the catch?
Really. You pay once and the app is yours, with free updates through the 1.x series. If we ever build optional extras that cost us money monthly (like cloud sync between devices), those would be optional add-ons — the app you bought keeps working without them, forever.
What can I do in the free demo?
Browse a complete plotted novel — Bram Stoker's Dracula — across every view: timeline, outline, characters, notes, places, tags. You can drag beats and scenes around to feel the board. Creating projects and editing content are for the full app.
What if I buy it and don't like it?
14-day refund, no questions asked. Email us, get your money back.
Does it work offline?
Completely. Plotloft never needs an internet connection — not to start, not to save, not to keep working next year.