Storyfolio is where your rough idea becomes a storyboard, your storyboard becomes a dummy book, and your dummy book becomes a manuscript ready for editors. One quiet place to make the book — no AI slop, no tabs juggled, no story lost in the margins.
Free to start. No signup. Your work stays on your machine.
Here is The Quiet Hour — a picture book about a grandmother teaching a child to notice the moment between day and night — moving through Storyfolio from the first note to the ready-to-send submission.
Start with a premise, a feeling, or an opening line. Paste in a manuscript you've been drafting in Scrivener. The synopsis and title live at the top of every view — it's the north star.
A picture book lives in 32 pages, which is 16 spreads. Storyfolio gives you the whole book as a grid — drag, insert, reorder, lock. See the whole arc before you commit to any single page.
Open a spread. Write the beat, the manuscript, and the art notes. Upload sketches — every version is kept — and iterate without losing earlier directions. Locking a spread marks it final.
Characters get their own profiles — personality, visual tags, reference images, and MJ parameter strings — so Nana stays Nana from cover to end.
When you're stuck, share your storyboard with your Creative Partner. It reads what you've made — sketches and all — and gives you the honest note a trusted friend would. Not a yes-machine.
Export a book dummy PDF, a clean manuscript, and a one-page statement — the three documents agents and editors actually ask for. Lock the spreads you want included and press publish.
Every feature started as something the maker wished existed. Nothing is here to fill a grid — if it's in the app, it earned its keep.
Drop in a .docx or paste your draft. Storyfolio suggests spread breaks — you review, accept, and edit. Your words, already paginated.
One card per character: personality tags, visual tags, reference image, and the exact Midjourney params to keep them consistent across every spread.
A project-scoped AI that can see your storyboard when you choose to share it. Bring your own API key (Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Kimi).
Three exports agents actually want: book dummy, manuscript with art notes, and a one-page logline/POV/comparables statement.
Paint by feeling. Pick swatches and mood keywords; Storyfolio threads them into every scene prompt.
Upload as many passes as you like. Label them "rough", "refined", "final". Nothing is ever overwritten.
Projects live on your device. No cloud to leak from. Export to PDF or Markdown anytime.
Storyfolio is a tool, not a service. The whole craft surface is free, forever — share it with your critique group. Pay once when you need a clean, professional deliverable.
The whole craft surface. Unlimited everything. The tier you share with your critique group.
No signup. No card. Open it and begin.
When it's time to send to agents or hand a clean dummy to an editor. Done once, not operated forever.
Pro is launching soon. Email me to be first in line — $49 lifetime when it ships.
No subscriptions. No seats. No “AI credits.” If you buy Pro and hate it, email the maker within 30 days for a full refund — no questions.
I burned out. Really burned out — the kind where the colors leave the world for a while. When I came back to myself, I went looking for what had made me feel alive before I had a job, before I had a title. What I found, at the bottom of a box, was a picture book I'd drawn at eight: a bear and a wren watching the snow.
So I started drawing again. Writing small stories about love, and friendship, and family. Stories for children, and for the adults who remember being children. The tools were all wrong — too clinical, too loud, built for the wrong kind of work. So I made this one, for myself, and then for anyone else like me.
Storyfolio is not about productivity. It is about sitting down, quietly, and making the small thing that matters to you.
— the maker of storyfolio
Storyfolio is free to start. No signup. No card. Just open it, and begin.
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