Buy it once. Your story lives in your files, on your machine — not on our servers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Each project is a portable .plotloft file — in your Documents folder, or any folder you pick. Readable JSON, yours to back up, version, or keep in a Dropbox-style folder you already sync.
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.
Rolling local backups on every writing session, undo for every change, plus named versions to come back to whenever you want to try the brave version of Act 2. Your novel never has a single point of failure.
Open your .pltr file from the library. Plotlines, chapters, cards, characters, places, tags and notes come across as a Plotloft board, and a series arrives one book per manuscript. Your Plottr file is only read, never changed, so you can run both side by side while you decide.
Plotloft holds the plan; you write wherever you already write. Export the whole outline — acts, scenes, beats, who's in them — as a Word document, as Markdown, or as OPML that Scrivener turns straight into a binder. Or print the board, or save it as a PDF.
The export formats →We boarded Bram Stoker's Dracula — 21 dated scenes, six plotlines, nine characters, the works — and put it in your browser. The demo isn't a tour: edit anything, add beats, invent characters, tear Act 3 apart. It's the fastest way to know if Plotloft thinks the way you do.
Your plotting tool shouldn't charge rent on your own novel. Pay once, own it, plot forever.
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.plotloft file per project — in your Documents folder by default, or any folder you choose, like one Dropbox or OneDrive already syncs — plus automatic rolling backups. 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. Every path, spelled out..pltr file: plotlines, chapters, cards, characters, places, tags and notes all come across, and a series arrives as one manuscript per book. Your Plottr file is only read, never changed. What comes across, and the one difference to know.