Every great story has DNA. Build yours.
StoryDNA isn’t a writing app. It’s what makes the story worth writing. 900+ questions, drawn from what storytellers have been figuring out for thousands of years. Every answer feeds the next — change your protagonist’s fear, and the ending changes with it. Reports and the Scene Builder turn your answers into the backbone of a novel or screenplay. You make every decision. You just stop guessing what comes next.
You have the idea. So why does the manuscript fall apart?
An idea is not a story
The distance between a compelling concept and a fully realized narrative is vast, and it’s filled with hundreds of invisible decisions.
Hundreds of invisible decisions
Moral foundation, character purpose, conflict layers, fractal structure—no one ever walks you through the asking.
Drafts that feel flat
Writers can’t articulate why their manuscript feels broken because they skipped the deep architectural work.
The missing bridge
Between the spark of an idea and a manuscript worth writing, there’s a gap most storytellers fall into.
From blank page to finished treatment
Inside StoryDNA
Answer guided questions
Work through carefully sequenced questions that draw out every layer of your narrative.
Receive expert guidance
Every question includes rich context explaining the storytelling concept and why it matters.
See real-story examples
Learn from timeless stories across genres and eras with curated examples at every step.
Brainstorm when you’re stuck
Stuck on an answer? Open the idea pool for a few angles drawn from your own story so far. Suggestions are yours to pull from or ignore—it assists your thinking, never writes for you.
Watch context unfold
Contextual statements show how each new decision lives alongside everything else you’ve created.
Generate reports
Step back and see your story from every angle—treatments, conflict maps, character networks.
Explore Story Insights
Go beyond a single builder. Story Insights runs cross-cutting analysis across your whole story—health checks, archetype constellations, character-web ecosystems, and rewrite-priority diagnostics.
Build every scene
The Scene Builder takes everything you’ve built across 900+ questions and focuses it scene by scene. For each of your 72 scenes, StoryDNA gathers the relevant desires, fears, goals, dilemmas, and layers of conflict—showing you exactly why this scene matters, what needs to happen, and what emotions are at stake. It’s the bridge between your story’s deep architecture and a fully fleshed-out treatment.
Export your treatment
When you’re ready, StoryDNA assembles your finished scenes into one continuous, export-ready document—download it as TXT, Markdown, PDF, or DOCX and take it straight to the page.
Built for Writers Who Think Deeply
Over 900 Guided Questions
Draw out every layer of your story—from moral foundation to scene-level beats.
Learn as You Build
Rich guidance explains every storytelling concept with detailed context.
See How the Greats Did It
Every question includes examples from timeless stories across genres and eras.
Everything Connects
Contextual statements show how each answer lives alongside the rest of your narrative.
Reports From Every Angle
Generate treatments and breakdowns that reveal how your choices interact.
Your Voice, Amplified
Story DNA amplifies your creative effort—it never replaces it.
Scene Builder
All the work you’ve done across builders converges into focused, scene-level guidance—the bridge from deep architecture to a manuscript-ready treatment.
Let’s Clear the Air
Story DNA doesn’t write your story. It makes sure that when you write it, it’s worth reading.
Your Workspace, Your Way
Just some of the handcrafted themes you can switch between instantly—with more added all the time.
See this button? It rides along on every page. Tap it any time to re-theme your whole workspace in a click—go ahead, try it now.