Character & Story Bible for Writers
"Was his name Aldric or Aldrick?"
Writers lose track of their own stories. Penpoint keeps everything searchable, visual, and in one place.
The problems every writer faces
"What was that guy's name?"
Forgetting character details buried 200 pages ago.
"Who is carrying a sword?"
Tracking each character's possessions over time.
"My notes are everywhere!"
Post-its, Google Docs, random text files, sticky notes.
"I can't visualize how everyone connects."
Complex character webs that won't fit in your head.
Penpoint organizes your story into five simple categories:
And then connects them—so renaming your protagonist doesn't break fifty pages of notes.
It's all coming together.
Characters link to chapters. Items belong to owners. Locations nest inside each other. As you fill in the details, Penpoint weaves them into one living, cross-referenced world.
Your ideas will find you.
Introducing the Glorious Searchbar. Instantly search every character, location, item, chapter, and note in your project. Stop scrolling through documents. Just start typing and the Glorious Searchbar works its magic.
Visualize how they all connect.
Complex character webs refuse to stay in your head. See who's connected to whom at a glance with visual relationship mapping. Finally understand how everyone connects.
One click to see it all.
Tags are your power tools. Tag anything: characters, locations, items, chapters, notes. Click a tag and see everything connected to it in one place. Your factions, your plotlines, your plot twists, organized.
Let your story arcs be arcs.
Plot structure lives in your head until you see it. Penpoint turns your narrative into visual curves; main arcs, subplots, and character fortunes — so you can see at a glance where your story rises, falls, and transforms.
Your stories are yours, forever.
Your work belongs to you, not us. No subscriptions, no cloud accounts, no lock-in, ever. Export everything to document form whenever you want.
Pay once, own forever.
"Everything Penpoint offers has made my authorship 100 times easier and 1000 times more organized and fun."
Penpoint is the freaking best!!! It has expedited my entire writing process by leaps and bounds. Need to create a new character with a custom-made template? Done. 2 seconds. Need to create a new LitRPG legendary artifact that I can tab to my main character. Done. 3 seconds. Everything Penpoint offers has made my authorship 100 times easier and 1000 times more organized and fun. I'll be using this until the heat death of the universe, and perhaps even after that.
The features you actually need
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a character bible?
It's basically a reference sheet for every character in your story — names, traits, relationships, backstories, eye color, all of it. The goal is consistency. When you're 300 pages deep and can't remember if your protagonist's mentor had a limp or a scar, the character bible knows.
What is a story bible?
Same idea as a character bible, but for your whole world. Locations, timelines, plot threads, worldbuilding — everything. Some people call them series bibles or show bibles. They're especially useful when you're writing book 3 and need to remember what happened in book 1.
What is Penpoint?
A desktop app for fiction writers who need to keep track of characters, locations, relationships, and all the little details that pile up across a book or series. Character bible + story bible + search, in one place.
Who is Penpoint for?
Writers, mostly. Fiction authors are the core audience, but people also use it for nonfiction, historical research, and tabletop RPG campaigns. Whether you've got five characters or five hundred, it's just a good place to keep everything about your project in one spot.
What makes Penpoint different from Notion or Scrivener?
Notion is a general-purpose wiki — great for a lot of things, but not built for fiction. Scrivener is a drafting tool. Penpoint is neither. It's specifically for tracking your story: relationship maps, visual filtering, cross-referenced characters and locations. One job, done well.
Does Penpoint work offline?
Completely. Everything lives on your computer. No internet, no account, no cloud. Your story details don't leave your machine unless you export them yourself.
Can I manage multiple books or a series?
Yes — there's a multi-book library built in. Transfer characters and locations between books, filter by installment, or just view everything across the whole series at once.
What is Flowstate?
A writing mode where sentences lock behind you as you type. You literally can't go back and rewrite the same paragraph for the tenth time. Timed cycles alternate between writing sprints and editing windows. It's brutal, but it works.
How much does Penpoint cost?
$40, once. No subscription. We're currently in beta — join the waitlist to get early access.
What platforms does Penpoint support?
Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), and Linux. It's a native desktop app — not a web app running in a browser.
Can I import my existing character notes?
There's an import wizard, but fair warning — it currently reads Penpoint's own export format, not files from other apps. So you can export from one Penpoint project and import into another, but you can't drag in a Scrivener file and have it just work. For notes from other tools, copy-paste is still the move for now. If enough people want import support for a specific app, we're open to building it.
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