For writers - No AI - Free Forever
Give your stories
a world.
Readers talk to your characters, roll your dice, and fight your battles, while hidden chapters open and close around their choices. Every reader can reach a different ending.
Free forever, and signing up takes a minute!
The tools to build a world.
On Verhaler, your characters can talk with the reader, and a roll of the dice can change how a chapter ends. Try it below!
Dialogue
Branch a conversation through layered choices.
Give a character a persona and a tree of lines. The reader chooses what to say; each choice opens the next layer of the conversation, shifts the character's mood, or reroutes the story. Every playthrough can take a different path.
Stories ready to play.
A glimpse of what writers here have already published.
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The stage is ready for you.
Interactive stories have a way of turning writers into engineers. The story needs an engine, the engine needs a website, the website needs a payment page, and a year later you're maintaining all three instead of finishing chapter twelve. We built all three so you can spend that year on your book.
An engine you don't have to write
Decisions, dice, combat, trade screens, triggers - you set them up from menus while you write. There's no scripting language to learn first.
Publishing is one click
Your book gets a cover, a store page, and reviews, and readers can pick it up on any device without losing their place.
The paperwork is ours
If you decide to charge for your book, payments, VAT, and refunds are all handled, and your royalty lands in your bank through Stripe.
Verhaler is the engine, the website and the payment page, already built so you don't have to build them yourself. And it isn't finished: writers who show up now get a say in what gets built next. Join the community
Free for every writer.
There are no paid plans and no trial period. Everything you saw in the workshop is free, and it stays free. If you decide to sell your book, we keep a flat 20%. That is the only money Verhaler makes, and selling is up to you.
While you write
- Every component in the workshop, from dice to dialogue
- A wiki for your world's people, places, and things
- Publishing, your storefront page, and hosting
- Publish chapter by chapter: publish the start, keep writing as readers react
- As many books as you want to write
- The forum, the handbook, and a person who answers
No card on file. Nothing to cancel.
If you choose to sell
covers the card fees, refunds, and the invoice paperwork. Where a buyer's country charges VAT, it comes off the top first, and you keep 80% of what's left. If a Reader buys through one of our mobile apps, the app store that routed the purchase charges a service fee on that sale, taken from the Writer's share.
You set the price, from 3.49, in euros, pounds, or dollars. Free books skip the receipt entirely.
How you get paidContinuous support for the writers.
An interactive story is harder to write than one with a single ending. On Verhaler, we don't only give you all the components you might need, but we also try our best to support you in every possible way.
Fiction is human work.
We keep it that way.
The storyteller has always been a person. Our three house rules make sure of it.
If a chatbot wrote it, it doesn't belong on Verhaler. Every report goes to a person who reads the book, and machine-written work is taken down.
We don't sell your writing, lease it, or feed it to anyone's model. Verhaler has no model of its own, and your words stay yours.
Writing and publishing on Verhaler cost nothing, and that will not change. The only money we make is a fifth of a sale, and only if you choose to sell.
For everything else the platform doesn't allow, see the Acceptable Use Policy and the writer's handbook.
Every story is a map of choices.
* Verhaler is Dutch for storyteller.