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Write whenever you want, wherever you are.\n\nTrusted by over 2 million writers.\n\nTake your book with you everywhere you go. Write on the couch at home, on the train, or out in the countryside, and pick up exactly where you left off on any device.\n\nFeatures overview:\n• Story management with chapters and scenes\n• Interactive corkboard with smart scene summaries\n• Timeline management for multi-storyline novels\n• Character Moods: see how your characters feel in each scene\n• Characters and locations with auto-updating links\n• Assistant features (tone detection, text transformation, summaries)\n• Writing goals and progress tracking\n• Tasks and labels to organize your work\n• Scene images: illustrations, mood images, custom scene breakers\n• Rich text editor with spell and grammar check\n• Automatic, end-to-end encrypted sync across your Apple devices\n• Export to MS Word and LibreOffice Writer\n\nOrganize your book with chapters and scenes\nBreak your book into chapters and scenes for a clear overview. Scribble ideas on the built-in corkboard, drag cards around, and let the assistant add scene summaries.\n• Dynamic story corkboard with cards\n• Drag and drop to reorder\n• Add scenes and chapters on the fly\n• Smart scene summaries\n\nTimeline management for complex stories\nPlan novels with several plot threads. Create multiple timelines, assign scenes with times or ranges, and view everything chronologically.\n• Multiple storylines for plot threads\n• Assign scenes to timelines\n• Chronological timeline view\n\nCharacter Moods: bring your characters to life\nMyStory.today analyzes your scenes and detects the mood of each character. Lock moods you want to keep and read smart explanations for each suggestion.\n• Mood detection per scene\n• Lock moods to protect them\n• Smart explanations for each suggestion\n• Quick cleanup of unused characters\n\nCharacters and locations with smart linking\nCreate characters and locations and drop them into your text. Rename one and every reference updates automatically.\n• Simple character and location profiles\n• Auto-updating links in your text\n\nAssistant features\nDetect and adjust tone, transform text, and generate summaries for your corkboard. Turn all assistant features off in settings if you'd rather rely on your own creativity.\n• Tone detection and analysis\n• Intelligent text transformation\n• Scene summaries for the corkboard\n• Switch all assistant features off anytime\n\nWriting goals, tasks and labels\nSet daily or project goals and watch your progress grow. Use tasks and labels to keep chapters, scenes and ideas organized.\n\nRich text editor with spell check\nWrite distraction-free with bold, italic and indented text, full-screen mode, and built-in spelling and grammar checking.\n\nScene images\nExtend your novel with illustrations, mood images or custom scene breakers. Upload from your device and keep writing across iPhone, iPad and Mac.\n\nExport your book\nExport all chapters and scenes to MS Word or LibreOffice Writer, for sharing or as a backup.\n\nSynchronize across your Apple devices\nWith your free account, your work is available on iPhone, iPad and Mac, automatically and end-to-end encrypted.\n\nDownload the free app today and start your book.","facts":{"developer_id":1028854120,"developer_url":"https://mystory.today","first_released":"2018-04-09T22:46:08Z","support_url":"https://mystory.today/contact/","privacy_url":"https://mystory.today/privacy/","website_url":"https://mystory.today/","app_version":"1.41.0","release_notes":"Behind-the-scenes update\n\n• No fancy buttons or new animations this time, but groundwork for some amazing upcoming features.","rating_current_version":4.482,"rating_count_current_version":2556,"star_counts":[111,45,120,505,1774],"genres":["Productivity","Books"],"languages":["EN"],"content_advisories":null,"device_families":["iphone","ipad","ipod"],"made_for_iphone_duo":false,"chart":null},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-11-03T06:50:12.989Z","catalog_read_at":"2026-10-28T06:31:13.384Z","reviews_checked_at":null,"summary_written_at":"2026-10-25T03:10:12.945Z","placed_at":"2026-10-19T09:07:11.793Z","scored_at":"2026-11-04T02:30:13.009Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"Writing app for novels, short stories and screenplays with chapters, scenes, a corkboard, timelines and character tools.","what_is":"MyStory.today is a writing app for short stories, novels and screenplays on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 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