Stop losing the story in your head.

An infinite canvas for the idea you’ve been meaning to write. Capture freely, structure later.

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Built for however your story shows up.

See it all at once

An infinite canvas holds every idea in view, with color coding, connections, and additional tools.

Group related ideas together to keep things organized.

Move, resize, and scale anything until the board fits the way you think.

Any idea, any order

Capture a scene, a character, or random thought. Worry about how it fits in later.

Big or small, first scene or last, every idea has a place.

Ideas get sorted automatically, so you can keep your focus on the story.

Free to start

Use Sweave as a guest without ever entering an email, or make a free account for extra features.

No hidden fees, no trial countdown, and nothing basic stuck behind a paywall.

Paid extras may come later, but they’ll add to Sweave, not lock up what’s free.

Analyze

Use Sweave's AI to read and analyze your ideas to see how they fit into your story.

Test your board against Story Circle, Save the Cat, and more to spot the gaps.

Run any single idea through the analyzer to see if it holds up.

See it all at once

An infinite canvas holds every idea in view, with color coding, connections, and additional tools.

Any idea, any order

Capture a scene, a character, or random thought. Worry about how it fits in later.

Free to start

Use Sweave as a guest without ever entering an email, or make a free account for extra features.

Analyze

Use Sweave's AI to read and analyze your ideas to see how they fit into your story.

See it all at once

An infinite canvas holds every idea in view, with color coding, connections, and additional tools.

Any idea, any order

Capture a scene, a character, or random thought. Worry about how it fits in later.

Free to start

Use Sweave as a guest without ever entering an email, or make a free account for extra features.

Analyze

Use Sweave's AI to read and analyze your ideas to see how they fit into your story.

Don’t let anything get in the way of your flow.

Easy to use with satisfying design, so you can work uninterrupted.

Type or record any thought or idea, and then send it to the board!

Your ideas become cards

AI automatically summarizes your ideas, and classifies them in a relevant category.

Make Manual Adjustments

You can also choose the classification yourself, and use your own original wording.

Rate and Edit your Ideas

Visually rate your ideas so you know which ones to tweak, and which ones need work.

Your ideas become cards

AI automatically summarizes your ideas, and classifies them in a relevant category.

Make Manual Adjustments

You can also choose the classification yourself, and use your own original wording.

Rate and Edit your Ideas

Visually rate your ideas so you know which ones to tweak, and which ones need work.

Your ideas become cards

AI automatically summarizes your ideas, and classifies them in a relevant category.

Make Manual Adjustments

You can also choose the classification yourself, and use your own original wording.

Rate and Edit your Ideas

Visually rate your ideas so you know which ones to tweak, and which ones need work.

Connect Cards

Connect cards together to keep your ideas organized

Connect Cards

Connect cards together to keep your ideas organized

Connect Cards

Connect cards together to keep your ideas organized

Your board your way

Use tools on the tool bar to make extra notes, draw attention to something, group things together, and more.

Add Shape

Add Card

Group

Text Box

Group Layers

What else can Sweave do?

Your board your way

Use tools on the tool bar to make extra notes, draw attention to something, group things together, and more.

Add Shape

Add Card

Group

Text Box

Group Layers

What else can Sweave do?

Your board your way

Use tools on the tool bar to make extra notes, draw attention to something, group things together, and more.

Add Shape

Add Card

Group

Text Box

Group Layers

What else can Sweave do?

Analysis Tools

Analysis tools use Sweave’s AI to read your board, and provide direction, so you can work towards filling in the gaps.

Deep analysis rates your board against key story metrics.

Character Depth

62%

Pacing

45%

Dialogue

78%

Plot Structure

34%

Or weigh your entire board against various writing structures, to see which parts you’re missing.

Click Analyze to see what happens

Or weigh your entire board against various writing structures, to see which parts you’re missing.

Click Analyze to see what happens

Why I built Sweave

Who made it, where the name came from, and how it works.

The Founder

Hi, I’m Bryce.

I have a twist planned for season 4 of a show I’ve never written a pilot for.

That’s been my problem for years. I know these characters and their world inside out, but it’s all scattered across notes, apps, journals and maybe even a napkin from last night’s takeout. Whenever I tried to turn it into an actual story, I didn’t know where to start.

I built Sweave to fix that for myself. It’s a board where every random idea has a place, and you can begin to take this chaotic tangle of ideas and weave them into a real story.

Built by one person who has too many ideas

For all of your ideas, no matter when they show up

Bryce, Sweave's founder, reading through his notes at a laptop

The Name

The story behind Sweave

Maybe it hits you in the shower, or at 3am when you should be asleep. You scribble it on the back of a receipt, sure it’s genius, and by morning it’s gone.

A few years later and you end up with a scattering of notes, index cards, and half-finished outlines, all full of potential. Then the moment you sit down to actually write, your mind goes blank.

Sweave untangles that muddled mess of mind dumps and weaves the loose threads together into one cohesive story.

Any idea, one story

Messy first, organized later

How It Works

How I fixed it

Everything in Sweave comes back to three rules.

Get it down first. An idea you don’t save is an idea you lose. Type it or say it out loud, and it’s on the board.

Any idea, any order. You don’t need to know where something goes yet. The ending can show up before the beginning.

Structure when you’re ready. Story frameworks are there when you want to see what’s missing. They’re never where you have to start.

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