7 Free AI Story Generators (2026)
The best free AI story generators, ranked by our checks. Last checked 12 Nov 2026. To draft a story or a book with AI, Squibler's free plan gives 500 AI credits a month, and AI Dungeon is free to play for open-ended text adventures. To edit a manuscript you wrote yourself, Quarkle's free plan gives 1M tokens a day of chapter reviews and story tracking, and ProWritingAid's free plan checks grammar and style. To write on your own computer for free, KoboldCpp runs open models with a story-writing screen, and AI Novel Generator plans a novel into volumes, arcs and scenes with a model service you connect.
7 free tools
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AI-powered interactive fiction and storytelling.
Free forever, Free to play AI text adventures
Open-source novel-writing workspace: plan a story into volumes, arcs and scenes, then draft chapters with AI.
Free forever, Open source (AGPL-3.0): runs on your computer with a model service you set up
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- Free credits
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- 1M tokens a day, 5 Drawing Room pictures a day
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- Free plan
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- Limited words and reports
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- Free plan
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- Limited AI words
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- Free plan
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- Free to play AI text adventures
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- Self-host
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- Free to run AI models on your own computer, one file, no install
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- Self-host
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- Open source (AGPL-3.0): runs on your computer with a model service you set up
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- No signup
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- 2026-11-12
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- Free AI writing tools, Pro optional
FAQ
- Which free AI story generators are free forever?
- 6 of the 7 here have a free plan with no end date: ProWritingAid, Squibler, AI Dungeon and 3 more. Each listing shows its free limits and the day we checked them.
- Which free AI story generators work without signing up?
- Toolbaz works without an account, going by each maker's own site.
- Are any free AI story generators open source?
- Yes: KoboldCpp and AI Novel Generator are open source and free to run yourself.
- How do you check these free plans?
- We read each maker's own pricing page and note the day we checked; the newest check on this page is 12 Nov 2026. Rank follows our published rules: paid placements are always labelled, and payment can't buy rank.
