Twine
Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
org.twinery.TwineTwine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.
Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes.
Twine was originally created by Chris Klimas in 2009 and is now maintained by a whole bunch of people at several different repositories.
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 2.12.0 | 7 Oct 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
2.12.010 Apr 2026
- Electron version has been updated to 41
- Multiple suggestions are now shown when adding tags
- Preference added where tags now appear as badges with names on passage cards
- Japanese localization has been added
- Chapbook story format has been updated to 2.3.1
2.11.02 Nov 2025
- Electron version has been updated
- Passage tagging has undergone multiple interface refinements
- Deselect All button has been added which deselects all passages
- Find and replace function refined to avoid passage name conflict
- Snowman story formats have been updated to versions 1.5.0 and 2.1.1
2.10.024 Nov 2024
- Story format list is now a dialog instead of a separate screen
- New preference has been added that allows disabling enhanced text editors, which can have problems with assistive technology
Story formats:
- Chapbook 2.3.0, Harlowe 3.3.9, Snowman 2.0.2, and SugarCube 2.37.3 come built-in, and are updated when the application is
- Additional story formats, or different versions of the built-in formats may be added manually
2.9.016 Jun 2024
- data-tag attribute is added to passage cards in the story map, which can be targeted using custom CSS