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Silken boards
Pin scenes, arcs, questions, and references onto a canvas that feels more like arranging thoughts than managing files.
Story threads, pinned in light
MothLight
A local-first story planning app for writers who think in messy boards, character cards, reference images, documents, music, and glowing little connections.
Download for Windows
Portable Windows zip. Extract, then run MothLight.exe.
See what it does ↓
Intuitive connections of silk and light.
MothLight is built around the way story ideas actually arrive: a character thread here, a location there, a reference image, a question, a scene, then the little glowing line that makes them belong together.
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Living story cards
Keep characters, places, events, and custom lore close enough to grab, search, link, and reuse whenever the thread crosses back.
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Light for references
Drop in images, video embeds, documents, and mood audio so the spark that inspired a scene stays attached to it.
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Your private cocoon
No forced account, no remote database, no weird cloud lock-in. Your worlds stay on your machine.
Follow the thread.
MothLight gives messy story planning a gentle structure: ideas can stay loose, but the relationships between them become visible, searchable, and easy to revisit.
Search across boards, docs, tags, media, and Dex entries
Connect story fragments without turning them into spreadsheets
Keep local snapshots before changing scary things
The lantern is lit.
Download the portable Windows build, extract the zip, then run MothLight.exe. A signed installer can come later; this keeps the first release simple.
Download for Windows Portable Windows zip. Extract, then run MothLight.exe.