Write your novel without losing track of your world.
Keep characters, relationships, locations, and events connected to the manuscript you write. Import an existing draft or start in Lokee, then consult and update your story bible without leaving the chapter.
No account required for the demo. Local-first desktop app. AI suggestions are never applied without your approval.
Your manuscript knows the story. Your notes rarely keep up.
Characters change, relationships evolve, events move, and small details disappear across chapters and files. A separate wiki or spreadsheet only works when you have enough time to maintain it manually. Lokee keeps the story bible connected to the work itself.
Scattered context
Character details and lore are spread across documents, notebooks, and memory.
Manual maintenance
Every change in the manuscript creates another update somewhere else.
Broken writing flow
Looking up one detail means leaving the chapter and searching through several tools.
Time-aware world state
Your world doesn’t hold still. Your story bible shouldn’t either.
Most story bibles remember one version of the truth — the latest one. Lokee records when each fact became true, so you can ask what was the case at any moment in your story.
A fact with a moment attached
Record that Aria becomes queen at the Coronation. The chapters before it still say what they said — nothing is overwritten, and you can read any field’s history.
Read the whole vault at any point
Set Viewing to a moment and every entity, attribute and relationship reads as it stood then — the relationship graph included.
What your reader knows, tracked separately
The world’s truth and the reader’s knowledge are two different orders. Lokee keeps both, so a fact can be true by chapter 3 and still be a secret in chapter 12.
Contradictions flagged, never silently fixed
When your order and your dates disagree, or a change lands where nothing can place it, Lokee says so and changes nothing. Every check can be switched off in settings.
Dates are optional throughout. Order is what counts — use a calendar you invented, real dates, both, or neither.
Less switching between a word processor and a separate world wiki.
| Workflow | Separate writing app + notes/wiki | Lokee |
|---|---|---|
| Write the manuscript | In one tool | In Writer |
| Check a character | Search another document or app | Open beside the chapter |
| Update the story bible | Manual duplicate work | Connected entity workflow |
| Build from existing prose | Manual entry | Review-assisted extraction |
| View relationships | Manual chart or plugin | Relationship graph |
| Check chronology | Separate spreadsheet or timeline | Connected story timeline |
| See a character as of chapter 12 | Reread and reconstruct | Set Viewing to that point |
| Keep local ownership | Varies by tool | Local-first vault and exports |
| Check your world on your phone | Varies by tool | Android app that opens your synced vaults |
| See where everyone is at a point in the story | A separate map tool, updated by hand | Maps where people and borders follow your timeline |
See how Lokee compares to Scrivener, Novelium, Notion, and Obsidian →
One workflow from manuscript to world model.
Write or import
Start a manuscript in Lokee or bring in an existing Word document. Keep the work you already created.
Connect
Mention characters and other entities directly in the text. Open their context without leaving the chapter.
Review
Extract characters, relationships, attributes, and events from a chapter or selection. Accept, reject, or edit every suggestion.
Explore
See the same world through entity cards, relationship maps, timelines, and boards.
Your writing tool and story bible should not drift apart.
Lokee Writer is built on the same entities, relationships, and timelines as the rest of the vault. Rename a character without losing the reference. Check a relationship without opening another application. Extract new facts from the chapter you just wrote and decide what becomes canon.
- Markdown-based manuscript storage
- Chapter and scene organization
- Entity mentions with stable links
- Entity context sidebar
- Extraction from selected text or chapters
- Word, PDF, and Markdown export
Public demo
Explore a complete story vault before creating an account.
Open a sample novel project containing a manuscript, characters, relationships, locations, and a relationship graph. Edit the demo freely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded and you can reset it at any time.
Open the public demo →Stored only in this browser. No signup. No installer.
What Lokee shows you
Character context while writing
Open a character’s attributes, aliases, relationships, and timeline facts beside the chapter.
Relationship map & family tree
See alliances, rivalries, organizations, and dependencies as an interactive graph, plus a dedicated generational family tree with species/ancestry percentage markers for fantasy lineages.
Story timeline & world chronology
Order the moments your world turns on — with dates, without them, or in a calendar you invented — and see events, periods and every recorded change on the same chronology. Branch an alternate version when a draft needs one.
Manuscript extraction
Turn existing prose into reviewable entity, relationship, attribute, and event suggestions instead of rebuilding the story bible manually.
Notes
A dedicated freeform space for ideas, research, and planning — organize with folders and tags, link straight to entities, boards, and chapters, and capture notes by voice.
The Sticky Mindmap canvas is also available for free-form brainstorming, linked straight to your vault entities.
Your unpublished work should remain under your control.
Lokee's local desktop vault works without a cloud account. Your project files remain readable and portable. Cloud sync and managed AI are optional. When AI is used, Lokee shows what will be processed and places results in a review step before anything becomes part of the vault.
- Local vault available without subscription
- Readable project files
- Cloud use is optional
- AI actions are explicit
- AI results require review
- Standard export paths
Pricing
Local is free forever. Sync takes your story everywhere; Pro brings in your circle.
Use Lokee locally at no cost. Add Sync for the same vaults in the browser, the desktop app and on your phone, or Pro to share them with a co-author, an editor and beta readers. Pay monthly, or yearly and save 17%.
Local
For writers who want a private story bible on one computer.
Write, organize, and explore your story locally without an account or subscription.
- Entity cards, 3D graph, narrative timeline
- Sticky Mindmap canvas
- Dedicated notes section
- Inked maps of your world — shapes, fills, map fonts and your own stamps, all free
- AI extraction (bring your own API key)
- AI proposes changes over time; you review every one
- Events in world time: dates, periods and their effects
- Vault stored as open JSON on your device
- Works fully offline
- 1 free cloud vault — browser access, up to 100 entities, 250 MB of storage, the newest 5 restore points
- No subscription, no lock-in
Sync
Your story, available wherever you write.
Continue in the browser, keep desktop and cloud work connected, and use Lokee across devices without transferring the project manually.
- Continue on another device — open the same cloud vault in the browser, the desktop app, or the Android app
- Your history, notes and event plan sync too — and export whole
- Stop transferring files manually — supported changes stay connected through Sync
- AI voice capture (Whisper transcription + entity extraction)
- Up to 5 cloud vaults, unlimited entities, 1 GB of cloud storage
- The newest 20 restore points for each cloud vault
- Use managed AI without provider setup — 50 credits included every month (600 at once with yearly billing)
- AI-generated entity portraits — no API key needed
- Turn a photo of a hand-drawn map into an editable map — AI proposes, you review
- Share your vaults with 1 person — a co-author or a reviewer, invited by email from the vault
- No ads anywhere in Lokee
Cancel any time. Your local files remain yours.
Pro
Bring in your co-author, editor and beta readers.
Everything in Sync, with room for the people around your book: more vaults, more storage, more AI.
- Everything in Sync
- Unlimited cloud vaults
- Share your vaults with up to 5 people — co-authors or reviewers
- Invite co-authors and reviewers by email, straight from any vault
- Comment notifications in the app and by email, at most one email per vault an hour
- A clean reading view for reviewers, who mark chapters as finished so you see how far they’ve read
- 500 AI credits included every month (6,000 at once with yearly billing)
- 50 GB of cloud storage (fair use)
- Restore points up to 10 GB per vault
Switch plans or billing period any time from your account.
Lokee is independently built. Every paid subscription funds continued development; Sync and Pro are priced around the practical value of cross-device access, sharing and managed services.
Why Lokee exists
Built for a novel that became too large to hold in one person's head.
Lokee began while Paweł Arent was developing the world behind the sequels to his debut novel, Medalion. Characters, facts, drawings, and ideas were spread across files, notebooks, the manuscript, and memory. Existing systems required too much manual setup and maintenance. Lokee was built to organize work that already existed, connect it to the writing process, and make a complex fictional world easier to continue after any break.
Also great for
Beyond fiction writers
Fiction Writers
Keep a living story bible: track characters, plot threads, and lore across a novel series without losing the thread. Build an interconnected world your reader feels — and you never forget.
Worldbuilders
Design continents, cultures, magic systems, and millennia of history. See how every decision cascades through your world in real time.
Game Masters
A campaign tracker for NPCs, factions, locations, and events that stays consistent session to session.
Researchers & Analysts
Link sources, people, and concepts in a structured knowledge graph. Discover connections you would miss in a flat document.
FAQ
Questions writers ask before trying Lokee
Is Lokee a writing app or a worldbuilding app?
Both — Lokee is a connected writing workspace and story bible. Write your manuscript in Lokee Writer while characters, relationships, locations, and events stay linked to the same vault.
Can Lokee track facts that change during the story?
Yes. A fact can be recorded as holding from a given moment onward, so a character’s title, a region’s ruler or the state of a relationship can change without erasing what came before. You can then view the whole vault at any moment in your chronology, and separately mark where your reader learns each thing. Dates are optional throughout — order is what counts.
Can I import a manuscript I already wrote?
Yes. Import an existing .docx file and Lokee proposes a chapter structure you can review, merge, or split before committing it as Markdown chapters.
Does Lokee write my novel with AI?
No. AI extraction proposes characters, relationships, attributes, and events from your writing — you review and accept or reject every suggestion. Lokee never rewrites your manuscript automatically.
Is my manuscript uploaded to the cloud?
Only if you enable Sync. The desktop app's local vault stays on your machine; cloud sync is optional, and only vaults you choose to sync are stored on our servers.
What happens if I stop paying for Sync?
Your local vault and files remain fully accessible. Sync only adds browser access, cross-device sync, and managed AI — cancelling removes those, not your local data.
Can I use Lokee without an account?
The desktop app's local vault requires no account. Browser access and cloud sync require a free account.
What formats can I export?
Word, PDF, and Markdown, including manuscripts and boards.
Does Lokee work on Windows and macOS?
Yes, both. Windows builds are code-signed, and macOS builds are code-signed and notarized by Apple — see the download page for current status.
Is there a mobile app?
Yes — Lokee for Android is free on Google Play. It pairs with Sync: turn on sync for a vault on your computer, sign in on your phone, and the same vault is there to read, edit and add to by voice. An iOS version is coming later. See the mobile app page for details.
Why might my operating system show an installer warning?
Windows may still show a brief SmartScreen prompt while its signing reputation builds — click "More info" then "Run anyway" to proceed. macOS is fully notarized and installs with no Gatekeeper warning. See the trust page for details.
Can I try Lokee before creating an account?
The desktop app is free to download and use without an account. Browser access requires a free account.
Can I use a local AI model instead of the cloud?
On desktop, yes — you can point Import and Writer extraction at an embedded local model or a locally-running Ollama instance instead of the cloud pipeline. This is an early-access feature, so results depend on the model you choose, and it doesn't apply to voice Capture, which always uses Lokee's built-in models.
Keep writing. Keep the world connected.
Download the desktop app for free, or create an account for browser access, cloud sync and the Android app.