Guides

• How to make a visual novel on your phone

  Paperbox is a free visual novel maker for iPhone, iPad and Android, with no coding at all. You lay a story out beat by beat on a strip you can drag to reorder, the way you would move slides around, and publish it to a link from the phone in your hand. Here is the whole thing, start to finish.

• Visual novel apps for mobile

  Every tool we know of for making a visual novel that plays on a phone or a tablet, split by where you do the making. Descriptions and links, no scores.

• Publish on Paperbox

  Publishing gives your game a permanent link anyone can open in a browser. No install, no account, and it never changes.

• Publish on itch.io

  Paperbox exports your visual novel as one HTML file, and itch.io plays that file in the browser. Six steps, about ten minutes.