free feature

Vineyard Infinite Canvas

An infinite canvas for mapping relationships, notes, images, arrows, drawings, tables, and reference cards.

short answerVineyard is Novellier’s visual planning canvas. You can drop references onto a board, connect them with relationship data, add arrows, drawings, frames, text, and tables, and organize everything across multiple pages.

best for

Visual planners and worldbuilders.

platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux

status

free

An infinite canvas for your ideas

What it does

See character networks, plot links, and world structure spatially instead of only in lists.

Multi-page canvases

Freehand drawing and frames

Reference nodes with relationship metadata

Built in

Infinite pan and zoom

Named pages

Reference nodes and tables

100-action undo history

People usually search for this when they want

story map software

relationship map for writers

visual novel planning tool

Works well with

Story Bible & Reference Manager

A built-in story bible for characters, locations, concepts, events, scrapbooks, papers, and languages.

Scriptorium Multi-Novel Projects

Manage multiple novels inside one project with shared resources and fast switching between books.

Language Builder

A language-building workspace for fictional vocabularies, translations, and naming systems.

Try it in Novellier

This feature is part of the wider Novellier toolkit. Download the app if you want drafting, planning, export, and optional AI in one place.