Poetix
Poetix is a visual editor for building branching stories for games, training simulations, and other interactive scenarios.
What Poetix is
Poetix is a visual editor for building branching stories for games, training simulations, and other interactive scenarios. Its node-based workflow organizes beats, dialogue, choices, conditions, and consequences. An AI co-writer proposes edits for review; suggestions are not applied unless approved. For playtesting, users can start at a chosen beat, override variables, and inspect condition results while playing. A story version can be published as a link others can play in a browser. For Unity projects, Poetix exports beats, choices, and variables, and includes a runtime API plus ready-made dialogue and choice UI. Creators retain ownership of their work and may use products made with it commercially without owing Poetix royalties or fees. The web service is actively in development. Its Free plan costs nothing and includes unlimited stories and scenes, up to three writers per story, unlimited readers, 50 AI co-writer credits monthly, and Unity export. Pro costs $15 a month; Studio costs $39 a month and allows up to 25 collaborators on each of up to five upgraded stories.
Good
- Simulator can inspect conditions during playtesting.
- Stories can be shared as browser-playable links.
- Unity export and runtime API are included.
- Creators retain ownership and commercial-use rights.
- Free plan includes unlimited stories and scenes.
Watch out
- Service is actively in development.
- Free plan limits each story to three writers.
- Studio collaboration limit applies to five upgraded stories.
Who it suits
Poetix is aimed at game development teams, from solo indie developers to full studios. Its story tools may also fit visual novels, interactive fiction, training simulations, and educational scenarios.
Verdict
Poetix brings branching-story authoring, playtesting, and Unity export into a single workflow. The free plan has a three-writer limit, while Studio offers more collaborators for a defined number of upgraded stories.
Plans and prices
From Poetix's own pricing page, checked 14 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Unlimited stories & scenes · Full non-linear beat editor · Public links · Up to 3 writers per story · Unlimited readers · 50 AI co-writer credits/month · Unity export · $0 |
| Pro | $15 a month | Everything in Free · 2,000 AI credits/month · Bring your own OpenAI key for unlimited AI use · $15/mo |
| Studio | $39 a month | Everything in Pro · Upgrade up to 5 stories · Up to 25 collaborators per upgraded story · $39/mo |
The facts
Each one read from Poetix's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI co-writer
- The AI assistant proposes beats, rewrites, choices, characters and variables for approval instead of applying edits automatically.checked 14 Oct 2026
- AI focus
- AI work can be focused on an entire story, scene, beat, line or choice.checked 14 Oct 2026
- AI integration
- Pro and Studio users can provide their own OpenAI key so usage bypasses Poetix credits.checked 14 Oct 2026
- AI privacy
- Each story keeps separate per-user AI conversation history, including on shared stories.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Poetix says it is built for game development teams, from solo indie developers to full studios, and also suits visual novels, interactive fiction, training simulations, and educational scenarios.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Auto advance
- A beat can automatically choose the first outgoing choice whose conditions pass.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Beat model
- Stories use beats as the shared unit for dialogue, choices, conditions and consequences.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Branching editor
- Each beat contains ordered lines and choices, and choices can target beats in the same scene, another scene or a new beat.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Characters
- Characters have names, images and descriptions, and can be assigned as speakers for lines.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Collaboration limit
- The Studio plan raises the creators and writers limit to 25 per story for up to five upgraded stories.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Collaboration roles
- Collaboration roles are Creator, Writer and Reader, with different editing and publishing permissions.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Conditions
- Lines and choices can compare variables with equality and numeric greater-than or less-than operators combined with AND or OR.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Debugging
- Simulator annotations expose condition results, variable changes, broken targets, empty lines and unknown variable references.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Development status
- The homepage says Poetix is actively in development.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- Documentation consists of workflow guides for getting started, branching, variables, AI, characters, collaboration, testing, publishing and Unity export.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Independent listing check: Capterra
- No Poetix product profile or user-rating page was returned in the exact-product Capterra search conducted for this research.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Independent listing check: Chrome Web Store
- No Poetix extension listing or rating was found in the Chrome Web Store search conducted for this research.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Independent listing check: G2
- No Poetix product profile or user-rating page was returned in the exact-product G2 search conducted for this research.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Independent listing check: Gartner Peer Insights
- No Poetix vendor profile or rating page was found in the Gartner Peer Insights vendor search used for this research.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Independent listing check: Google Play
- No Poetix app listing or rating was found in the Google Play search conducted for this research.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Independent listing check: Product Hunt
- The opened Product Hunt apps directory did not list Poetix among its displayed products.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Independent listing check: Trustpilot
- No Poetix business profile or review page was returned in the exact-product Trustpilot search conducted for this research.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Integration
- Pro and Studio users can use their own OpenAI key for the AI co-writer instead of Poetix credits.checked 7 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Independent listing check: Apple App Store
- No Poetix app listing or rating was found in the Apple App Store search conducted for this research.checked 14 Oct 2026
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