Fabula. Story Planner
August 30, 2024
More About Fabula. Story Planner
Every writer spends a lot of time thinking about a novel. Perhaps you are doing some research. You are calculating how the story will develop. You brainstorm, hear how the characters speak: it’s the essential part of creating a book. Your book has already formed in your head, and you are ready to sit down and start writing.
Organize your books
Before you get down to business, you should deal with organizational issues. It would be best to write down all the ideas in a form that you can then use. But why? Because our memory is unreliable and because your story (like any other that is at the same stage) has many holes that need to be patched before you start working. It would be best if you created a plan for the novel: in this case, it will not discourage you from writing.
“Snowflake Method”
The Fabula app is based on the “snowflake method” invented by Randy Ingermanson. You can quickly write novels, stories, fairy tales, fanfiction, any story. In just nine easy steps, you can create an outline for your book and start writing your first draft.
Fabula is your book writing assistant.
Latest Version
3.2.7
August 30, 2024
Natasha B.
IT Tools
Android
878,890
Free
com.fabula.app
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User Reviews
Pheonix
2 years ago
I really like this app, it's the best app for organizing and creating writing projects that I've found so far, but recently I'm finding glitches in the character section, I love that the character appearance section is no longer as limited as it used to be and it works much better now, but the character list's order not saving or properly working at all when I try to organize a list of characters.
Julia Schroeder
1 year ago
This is really disappointing. There is a glitch in the scenes tab where the app says I have 90 scenes, but only 74 show up and my tags are missing. I have contacted the support email and sent screen shots and have followed up twice, but there is still no acknowledgement of my email. I really wanted to like this app but this glitch and the unresponsiveness have been truly disappointing.
Michael Ireland
3 years ago
I have tried every program in the store to be able to do what I want and this is by far the best and easiest. But I'm going to hold off on the last Star in hopes that you can earn it. What I would like to see. 1. Is a way to duplicate a story so I could use one as a template or at least access to the file and I could just copy it myself. 2. Away to import my exported file. Which could also solve #1 above. 3. I would like to be able to use multiple tags and maybe tags in other places. 4. Desktop
ドライバあきの
3 years ago
The concept was and still is amazing. There is just one little hiccup that has colossal sized consequences. Because I (probably like alot of other people) was never prompted to log in with an email I just wrote my story as is until an update happened and dumped all of my data, where did it go ? Who knows. It had to have saved somewhere since it still showed up day in and day out from using the app. But after that hours and hours of creation went down the drain
K.C. Alazam
3 years ago
I've tried many of the highly-rated writer's apps on the store and honestly, this is the best one. It has a plus button for whenever an idea strikes you, is wonderfully organized into several sections such as characters and their attributes, book series and the books in said series, scenes that can be easily rearranged, and you can also add categories. As a writer, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for to keep my ideas very organized in categories writers would typically use.
Heather Marcus
2 years ago
So far I really like the app. The UI is easy to navigate and it seems like a great way to organize my ideas. The only feature I would love to have added is the ability to add images and text editing (like bolding, italics, etc.) to the scenes section. Otherwise, I love that you can just click and drag scenes around as you piece together what makes sense. I really like all of the details and the relationship diagram in the character section.
Aurora
3 years ago
Fabula is a great, simplistic app. The steps it gives you is a cool feature, but can be rather annoying. This app is mostly free, but does occasionally ask for a subscription. My primary complaint would be not being able to change the already set values under the 'charater' such as the 'conflict' and 'motivation'. It isn't a big deal, but would be nice.
Tanya Colorado
4 years ago
I really like this app. Google docs gets annoying since it doesn't offer organization (though it's probably not meant for writing??). This app has a bit of sarcasm (which I found to be amusing) and has plenty of organization formats. I really like it. It doesn't have "plus", I don't think, and I like that since it would make you view a video instead for the least used features. The viewing of a video was to insert an image, but that was fine and this is a great app!
A Alaman
3 years ago
I love it! This app helped motivate me to continue the novel I've been working on and off for 3 years now. I like some of the other ideas presented from other ratings, so I hope to see those soon! One thing I would like to add is having the ability to rearrange each added details for the character section (I haven't checked the other sections yet, so anything similar to this too). I really like to keep things in neccessary order. Thank you so much for your hardwork!
Michael Strong
3 years ago
I have terrible executive functioning problems and have never been able to successfully plot out a story, even though I've been trying for 35 years. This app makes use of The Snowflake Method and has finally enabled me to fully plot a story. I've even tried this method in the past, using Google Docs, but because the app breaks it down into small, separate pieces and auto-saves (it's not all lumped together in one, long document), I've been able to use it successfully and couldn't be happier.
Cat Lady
1 year ago
I really like the app, it has been helpful for planning out my story, but their is an issue that has started to annoy me a little. When completing my extended synopsis, I'd scroll back to fix some typos, and as I did so, it would keep scrolling down to the bottom even when I'm not intending, too. I've never really had this problem typing anywhere else, and I ask that you guys please fix this bug. It makes it impossible for me to complete my story. Other than this issue, the app has been amazing
April R-S
3 years ago
So far, this app is very useful and elegant with just a couple functionality suggestions. I would love it if there was a way to rearrange items (like character appearance tags), import information from one book to another (like copying reoccurring characters in a series), and a specific section for setting/world building descriptions. Also please add dark mode! Aside those minor tweaks, this app is awesome!
Jaz A
1 year ago
I really like this app, but it has room for improvement. For one, when you create a series, the characters change throughout. The goals in book 1 aren't going to be the same as in book 3. But there is no way to set new goals without creating a whole new character sheet for each book. When you have 50 characters it becomes really tedious. There is also a duplication glitch. Next, the relationship chart loads sooo sloooow. I wish there were multiple chart options so you can make family trees.
Sai Horton
1 year ago
I've been using this app for the past year now and made many varieties of stories but now, I think there is a bug issue. I got a new phone and downloaded Fabula and uninstalled it immediately because it keeps scrolling on me when I'm typing. No matter how many times I keep bringing it back to the top to fix some typos it would immediately go to the bottom. EDIT: It's still acting crazy and I'm unsure of what to do. The update fixes the bugs but it still scrolls it down to the bottom after.
Arts Fan
3 years ago
This app truly is fantastic so far, great looking AND responsive UI and the app system is not too intrusive. My only gripes are I believe the character category system is limiting. For example, I primarily use it for super heroes and I wish I could edit the categories so I could just make an "Abilities" tab instead of having to fit it into biography or personal. With that I wish a couple quality of life additions like the ability to edit font (bold, italics, etc) were available.
Ines Santana
2 years ago
Edit to 3 stars: I wrote 10 scenes over the period of a few days, and today all that content is gone. So disappointing. I don't know if this is the kind of thing I ever want to risk happening again.... I love the app. It helps you develop the pieces of the story and in so doing, more ideas come, and eventually when you write the general plot will be there, the characters , conflicts and scenes and you just have to expertly weave it together and tell the story.
Mel Z
1 year ago
I've tried all the writing apps, and this one is hands down the best. After a few days I was ready to try the pro version. I opted to try it for 5 days and pay for a yearly subscription. So far I have no plans to cancel my purchase. It's a great tool that I find handy to use. There is a scroll issue in some text areas. But it's not bothersome enough for me to ditch the app. Hopefully an update at some point will fix it.
Elayna Stetson
1 year ago
I absolutely loved this app. Its user friendly, well made, and is exactly what I need for organizing my thoughts and ideas before I forget them. I would love to give five stars, however, unfortunately it keeps deleting my scenes 😔 It happened once and I was willing to write it off as a glitch and move on but then it happened 2 or 3 more times. I write them down, leave the app, and next time I go in it's deleted all the words. I can't get those back now and spent a long time writing them 😔
gray kitten
1 year ago
Amazing app best writing app I found with many features and it's the easiest to use and not extremely complicated. Love the features and tools and that some of stuff behind a paywall can be assessed from ad viewing instead. The only thing that I feel needs improving is the option to sort stories like by completion amount or alphabetically and also allowing characters to have multiple relationships types with the same characters like one-sided love and friendship or friendship and one-sided envy.
Alysha Vandermark
10 months ago
This app has helped me for years. I use it to store all of my data. Tons and tons of data. It was a five star app... Until it stopped letting me view my character details. Now it behaves as if I'm creating a new character not clicking into one that I already created. I emailed technical support, but this is humongously important to me so I'm putting a review too. I'm praying there's a way to fix this because I've worked so hard. Anyway, it's partially my fault for not having a backup plan.
