Saved on your computer.
Your project records and images live locally in the desktop app. Online AI services are used when you choose to connect them.
A DESKTOP APP FOR WRITERS AND WORLDBUILDERS
Build your world.
Bring it to life.
Write your novel, develop a game world, or explore a creative project. Keep characters, places, stories and visual references together in ArkaneMatter.
See the appA LOOK INSIDE
Worlds, stories and visuals.
Explore the tools
for building your world.
Keep the details of your world together.
Organize characters, places, species and more. Give each entry its own notes, images and connections to the rest of your project.
Give each character more than a name.
Develop their biography, role and defining traits. Keep design notes, relationships and reference images with the character they describe.
Organize your manuscript into chapters and scenes.
Plan the outline and write the prose in the same project as your world. Move between scenes with the chapter navigator.
Set a visual direction you can reuse.
Define style rules for your project and its characters, places or objects. ArkaneMatter includes those rules in image prompts for your connected AI provider.
Explore how your world could look.
Generate images from a character or place in your world. Bring its details, your style rules and reference images into the prompt, then choose the results that fit your vision.
Keep visual explorations with the ideas behind them.
Browse the images attached to a character or place. Keep different directions together and choose a cover image for its record.
Develop ideas with an assistant that knows your project.
Discuss your world, work through story ideas and ask for changes to its records. Use Propose mode to review those changes before applying them.
Choose what your AI should keep in mind.
Set the premise, tone and creative priorities of your world. Pin important entries for fuller context and see the project brief your assistant receives.
Find a character you would not have planned.
Mix traits such as occupation, species and temperament to explore new combinations. Illustrate promising candidates and add the ones you want to develop to your Codex.
Keep your storytelling craft close.
Explore a library of story structures, character roles, genres and techniques. Collect the guidance that helps you shape the stories and worlds you want to make.
Give the first spark somewhere to grow.
Capture a scene, a question, a setting or a half-formed idea. Keep notes alongside your world and return to them as your vision takes shape.
Screenshots from the desktop app in development.
HOW IT WORKS
Made for your desktop.
Writing and worldbuilding, together.
Your manuscript, world entries and visual references belong to the same project. Keep the background details close while you write or develop a game concept.
Connect the AI you use.
Use supported API keys or subscription connections for text and images. You decide what to generate and what to keep.
IN DEVELOPMENT
ArkaneMatter is coming soon.
Desktop downloads will be available here when the first release is ready.