Daily collaborative writing game
Start a story, continue someone else’s or fork it down another path. Stories branch out like trees and can be read without an account. Tomorrow you get 256 more.
Explorer mode
Any story can split into several paths. Read it straight through, following the canon the community chooses, or enter explorer mode and decide at every crossroads yourself.
The house is where it wasn’t yesterday. Same number, same door, same neighbour watering plants at her window. But the street is a different one. And the neighbour doesn’t recognise me.
I went up anyway. The key works. Everything is where I left it: the mug, the coat, the cat asleep. The note on the table is new, in my handwriting: “Don’t go out until the street comes back.” Outside, the neighbour has stopped watering. She’s looking up.
How it works
Every day you get 256 characters. They renew at midnight and don’t carry over. Spread them across the stories you want: they fit in a coffee break, on the bus, in the supermarket queue.
Follow the tip of a branch or open a new path from any earlier fragment. Nothing is deleted or edited: every fragment is a link in the chain. Readers choose the canon with hearts.
Tomorrow you’ll have 256 more. Keep the streak; we tell you when it’s your turn and when someone forks your fragment. It’s a ritual, not a feed.
Seven languages
The app speaks all seven, and in each one new stories start every day. In Basque from day one.
No generated text
Story256 doesn’t write for anyone. You see who is writing right now, we queue you when a branch is busy and we tell you when it’s your turn. If someone forks your fragment, you’ll know.
December 2026
Free, with 256 characters a day. When that runs short, Plus and Pro give you more room and priority in the queues. Never an advantage to block anyone.
Closed beta · October 2026
Before we open, we’re looking for 256 people who will write a little every day for two weeks and tell us what’s broken. In return: Plus free for a year, your name on the founders page and the founder badge.