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If you compare Lunebula to ForgeTales, Scrivener, Notion or World Anvil looking for a feature matrix, you'll miss the point. The differentiator is the multi-audience Fact Manager — tied to View as character and the graph — with Continuity Guardian as part of the set (today: 1 of 4 checks).
Offline, local files and no generative AI rewriting your sentences matter — they are table stakes among serious tools, not the headline. We lead with who knows what.
The multi-audience Fact Manager is the complete, shipping system: each fact carries audiences (author, character, reader) and a timeline. It ties to the graph and View as character, which filters the app to what that person knows. Continuity Guardian is part of the set — today with 1 of 4 checks (ages); the rest is in progress. That's the centre — not another lore spreadsheet.
There are excellent offline apps for building worlds, with sheets and graphs front and centre. Lunebula shares the desktop spirit and not locking up your work, but day-to-day work turns on who-knows-what facts while you draft: Fact Manager, View as character and typed graph. On writing: Lunebula's editor includes offline multi-language spellcheck (ES, EN, PT-BR, FR), author comments and a format painter — a more mature prose module than a recent, separately paid writing add-on.
Scrivener and similar tools organise chapters, research and export with ease. What they don't put first — and Lunebula does — is multi-audience fact tracking and a character's lens so a secret doesn't slip too early. If your main pain is “assemble the book”, them. If it's “know what each one can know”, here.
World Anvil shines as a world encyclopedia; Notion as a flexible notes canvas. Neither is built as a single novel surface with a multi-audience Fact Manager or View as character. You can fake sheets in a wiki or tables — that doesn't replace filtering the graph to what Kael doesn't know yet.
This isn't a feature-by-feature scorecard. ForgeTales, Scrivener, Notion or World Anvil may be the best tool for another job. Lunebula isn't trying to be “the biggest wiki” or “the most complex outliner”: it tries to keep clear, while you write, what is true for whom — with the Guardian at today's real scope.
Nova is free and doesn't expire: 1 project, up to 5 chapters, 7 characters, 10 other entities, 4 facts, 5 relationships, editor, export (DOCX, PDF, EPUB, TXT), Reading Mode and the Guardian's age check (1 of 4). View as character and further Guardian checks are on Pro (Stellar or Nebula). No card for Nova.
