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"Plottr's intuitive visual interface allows plotting to be the creative process it's supposed to be."
How Plottr Will Help You Outline & Organize Your Books
Visualize Your Plot Points
Plottr helps you easily arrange (and rearrange) your scenes, plots, and character arcs so you can quickly find your way to the end of your tale — no corkboard required.
- Quickly outline your book with visual story cards
- Filter your timeline by characters, places, and tags
- Color-coordinate your storylines to keep them organized
- Flip the timeline to view it vertically or horizontally
Create Your Story Bible
- Visually organize your characters and places
- Link your characters and places to your scenes
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Create custom attributes to track specific details,
like special powers or geographical trivia.
Automate Your Outlines
- Generate an outline automatically based on what you've created while plot planning
- Autosave ensures your work is always safe
- Edit your scenes in outline view and filter them by storylines
- Export your outline to Microsoft Word and Scrivener
Start with Proven Templates
You don’t have to start from scratch. Plottr comes with over a dozen plot planning templates (and counting) based on proven storytelling structures to help move your story from idea to execution.
- Starter templates from Hero's Journey to Romancing the Beat
- Writing to market? Use a genre-specific template
- Create your own plotline and character sheet templates
Export to Word & Scrivener
- Export your outline to MS Word & Scrivener in seconds
- Use your outline as the basis of your manuscript
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FAQ
Plottr is a visual outlining tool built for published and aspiring writers of all kinds – novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, academics, journalists, writing students, and beyond. It helps pantsers just as much as plotters. Pantsers will enjoy the series bible and editing capabilities. Trust us, it's really going to help. Whether you’re an outlining pro or your journey is just beginning, Plottr can help you visually (and creatively) build a plan to write your book!
It helps pantsers just as much as plotters. Pantsers will enjoy the series bible and editing capabilities. Trust me, it's really going to help.
After you write your first draft, you're still going to have to think about the plot and the character arcs and plot holes, etc. and make it all work together. You can do that after your first draft in Plottr just as easily as beforehand.
When you're on book 3 or 7 or 10 of your series, you're just not going to remember what that one character's eye color was, but your readers will. Having a series bible helps you save so much time!
Plottr Pro has all the features of Plottr but also adds cloud-based functionality such as a web app, automatic syncing across platforms (web & desktop), cloud backups, and real-time collaboration.
It is best suited for writers who plan to use Plottr while connected to the internet, don't intend to manage their files locally, and/or need to collaborate with a co-author, coach, or editor.
For Plottr: You can download Plottr on Windows & Mac. Backups are stored on your computer and you can sync files across devices using a 3rd-party storage service (e.g. Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive).
For Plottr Pro: Plottr Pro is available to download for Windows & Mac as well, but you can also use your browser to use Plottr! That means you can use it on a mobile device, Chromebook, Surface Tablets, and any other device with a browser. It backs up to the cloud and syncs instantly between devices just like working with Google Docs.
We provide friendly and sometimes humorous support to all customers from a real, live person via email even on weekends when you need it most. We try to answer within a day, but often it's quicker than that!
We also offer a full suite of educational resources, including:
You can also view (and contribute to) our roadmap here.
Yes. All versions of Plottr are granted unlimited household licenses. You can use it on as many devices as you own!
For Plottr: It's a lifetime license that never expires! You get updates for life. You get access to your projects for life.
For Plottr Pro: If your account expires, you will no longer be able to access your projects or get updates and bug fixes afterwards without renewing.
For Plottr: Backups are stored on your computer as files and it's easy to revert to any stored backup.
For Plottr Pro: Backups are stored in the cloud and you can also save them locally to your device! It's also easy to revert to stored backups.
Both: Backups are made 2x per session per project. The first time is when you open a project for the first time that day. And the second time is when you're finished using a project.
So you will have 2 backups per project for every day that you have worked on it: one before you made any changes that day, and another after your last change.
For Plottr: Backups are stored on your computer as files and we can't access them (not even in the case of a broken computer) though we can help you find them on your computer.
For Plottr Pro: Backups are stored in the cloud and you can also save them locally to your device! We can help you access them and email you a backup file or just show you how to do it yourself.
For Plottr: You can sync files across devices using a 3rd-party storage service (e.g. Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive).
For Plottr Pro: It syncs to the cloud instantly between devices just like working with Google Docs.
We run many different types of events:
- Genre-specific education
- General Writing Craft education
- Plot analysis
- Networking
- Accountability Groups
- Office Hours
- Writing Craft Book Clubs
- And more!
To see what events are coming up, check out our events page!
The Plottr Community is a private community that we host on Mighty Networks. It's not our Facebook group, though we do have one of those and we do enjoy reaching people on there.
This private community site is where we host all our educational events and let you connect and network. It's moderated so that we can maintain a friendly, supportive atmosphere. You can talk with other writers, learn from our coaches, hear some otter puns, and even group into accountability groups.
For right now, only Plottr customers have access unless you have attended one of our educational events. In the future we will be opening this community up to anyone!
The Plottr Community site is a private community that we host on Mighty Networks. It's not our Facebook group, though we do have one of those and we do enjoy reaching people on there.
This private community site is where we host all our educational events and let you connect and network. It's moderated so that we can maintain a friendly, supportive atmosphere. You can talk with other writers, learn from our coaches, hear some otter puns, and even group into accountability groups.
For right now, only people paying for Pro + Community plans have access unless you have attended one of our educational events. In the future we will be opening this community up to anyone!
If you already have Plottr Pro, you don't need to change anything. You get all the same app features as Pro + Community and Plottr Vault members.
You can try out Plottr for free for 30 long days with the free trial!
This should give you plenty of time to try it and decide that it's right for you. Because of that, we don't give refunds after purchase.
If you cancel your subscription, you will still have access until the end of the subscription period, but we don't give prorated refunds for unused time.
Yes, all subscriptions are auto-renewing and we are not able to turn that off. You can contact support to cancel an active subscription at any time.
Yes. Reach out to Support and they can help you with that!
