Hammer

A simple tool for building stories and worlds they live in.

5.0•3 reviews•

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A simple tool for building stories and worlds they live in.

5.0•3 reviews•

14 followers

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A free, open source story editor for novelists. Scenes you can reorder, an encyclopedia that shows you which scenes your characters are in, a timeline, notes, and stats to help you reach your writing goals. All as plain text files on your own device. Send scenes to your editor for revisions, or share your story with beta readers. Works fully offline on every device you own: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. Use a sync server to keep your work up to date across all devices.

Hammer Reviews

Name: Hammer
Rating: 5.0 (3 reviews)

The community submitted 3 reviews to tell us what they like about Hammer, what Hammer can do better, and more.

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What's great

I've been using it to work on both my stories and board game ideas, and it's worked well for both purposes (though of course it wasn't designed specifically for the latter). Having the encyclopedia and timeline has helped me keep track of the consistency of my plots (and the story progression in my board game idea: it's a "campaign style" board game), and having the notes in the same app and being able to associate all of the objects with each other and search across all of these features has been extremely helpful!

I also love that you can self host the syncing server, though I ended up just deciding to go ahead and use the official sync server for the convenience of it.

What needs improvement

I can't think of anything here - I almost think if more features got added it could get too bloated. I like the narrow focus that it has right now, it's perfect for exactly what I want to use it for, and if it became some large scale or general purpose app it might lose some of its ease of use for story writing purposes.

vs Alternatives

Obsidian

Scrivener

Scrivener has always felt kind of clunky to me, and I feel like Hammer has a more responsive interface and just has a better feel and visual layout to me.

Obsidian is a good general purpose product, but I like Hammer's dedicated story writing features, such as the timeline.

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I have started to use Hammer recently to have a journal for my company story and documentation. I know this is not the main target for the software but the software is really useful for this case also.

I really like the fact that the editor is free, also like the Home Dashboard with all the statistics and the editor of stories.