Help & Tutorials

Step-by-step guides with screenshots for every feature. Videos are on the way.

Guided tours

Optional in-app companions to the complete written guides.

Explore an Infinite story

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Read a community story, follow a branch, and discover the main reading tools.
About 12 interactionsAvailable to everyone

Create a story with guidance

Build and privately save a two-chapter branching story.
About 14 interactionsVerified account and generation credits

Designer tours (7)

A modular series for signed-in users. Each tour opens by switching you to Advanced and opening the Designer, so you can start from Simple. Open only the topic you need and resume it later from the same step.

Designer foundations

Open the Designer, find elements, preview changes, undo, resize, and use fullscreen safely.
About 12 interactionsSigned-in account. The tour switches you to Advanced.

Elements, layout, and states

Learn every styling family, responsive settings, prerequisites, and interaction modifiers.
About 16 interactionsSigned-in account. The tour switches you to Advanced.

Variants, CSS, and animation

Use structural variants, manual classes, style overrides, CSS extensions, and keyframes.
About 13 interactionsSigned-in account. The tour switches you to Advanced.

Backgrounds and images

Distinguish surfaces from image backgrounds and explore Pexels, placement, attribution, and fitting.
About 13 interactionsSigned-in account. The tour switches you to Advanced.

Application and story icons

Choose icon packs, override semantic roles, and configure story metadata icons and overlays.
About 14 interactionsSigned-in account. The tour switches you to Advanced.

Themes, presets, and sharing

Understand differences, presets, discovery, ownership, previews, sharing, and trust controls.
About 15 interactionsSigned-in account. The tour switches you to Advanced.

AI themes

Compare recommendations and generation, including stages, imagery, retries, safety, and credit costs.
About 15 interactionsSigned-in account and optional credits. The tour switches you to Advanced.

Getting started

Create your first story

Start your first AI-assisted branching story: pick a mode, describe your idea and generate the opening chapter.
Beginner6 min read

Reading: choices, custom choices & bookmarks

How branching stories work as a reader: follow choices, write your own with Do something else, and bookmark chapters.
Beginner5 min read

Basic settings

Where settings live in Infinite Stories: declutter your reading view, manage your display name and understand your credits.
Beginner5 min read

Stories in your own language

Pick German, French or any of twenty-one languages in the creation wizard and every chapter and choice arrives in it. Find stories by language too.
Beginner5 min read

Credits & premium explained

What text credits and image credits are, when they reset, what premium unlocks and how the free beta upgrade works.
Beginner4 min read

Clutter-free reading

Strip the reading view down to text and choices: per-device visibility toggles plus the shared Clutter-free Reading themes.
Beginner4 min read

Achievements & earned credits

Your discovery map, earnable titles, and how achievements and daily quests bank credit unlocks you redeem into your monthly free pool.
Beginner4 min read

Background music

Turn on optional background music while you read: a house library of CC0 loops, per theme, per story or your own override, off by default.
Beginner4 min read

Images

Generate images for your story

Create AI images for stories, chapters, characters and scenes: the Image helper, prompt expansion, costs and confirming results.
Beginner7 min read

Keep a consistent image style

Lock a story's look with image consistency modes: free-for-all, preset styles and anchor images explained.
Advanced6 min read

Story formats

Infinite stories: the branching format

What makes a story infinite: a branching chapter tree everyone can continue, and when to pick a short story or crossover instead.
Beginner5 min read

Short stories: one-shots & long-form

Generate complete short stories in one go or chapter by chapter from an outline, and when to pick which format.
Beginner6 min read

Crossovers: merge your stories

Combine two or more stories into a crossover: eligibility, premise generation and how crossover chapters link back.
Advanced7 min read

Specials: comic, illustrated & audio editions

What the Specials area is: Comic, Picture Book, Choice Images, Audiobook and Scored Reading editions built on top of a story, the premium gate, real production cost and ordering.
Intermediate6 min read

Print export

How the admin-only print export turns a comic or picture book into a print-ready interior and cover PDF: trim, binding, colour profile, the dpi honesty rule and the preflight.
Advanced6 min read

Language learning

Learning: courses, cheat sheets & review

What the Learning area does: leveled courses from any chapter, a free cheat-sheet library, spaced review and where premium starts.
Beginner6 min read

Language cheat sheets

The free reference library: grammar rules, cultural traps and everyday situations by CEFR level, with a tunable sentence breakdown.
Beginner6 min read

Tools & workflow

Build characters

Create reusable characters with guided AI generation, images and timelines, and use them across your stories.
Beginner6 min read

Build reusable scenes

Create scenes with settings, moods and images once, then reuse them in any story you write.
Beginner5 min read

Find stories to read

Search public stories by genre, language, creator and more with the Story Finder's filter panel.
Beginner4 min read

Research briefs for grounded stories

Generate web-grounded research briefs with real sources and attach them to your stories for factual depth.
Intermediate6 min read

Quick Analyze: instant feedback on any text

Paste any text into Quick Analyze for structured AI feedback on plot, pacing, language and more, at an eighth of a credit per run. Nothing is saved.
Intermediate5 min read

Path stats: where readers go

What the eye and binoculars numbers on story choices mean: reader shares, look-ahead depth, view counts and the per-device switches to hide them.
Intermediate5 min read

Chapter tools: rework & the story so far

Recap deep stories with The story so far, and rework short-story chapters from Story Analyzer findings, with every cost explained.
Intermediate6 min read

Community & sharing

Share, embed & collaborate

Publish or unlist stories, embed them on your own site, invite co-writers and use comments.
Intermediate7 min read

The Social hub

One page for your writing circle: answer invites, track the ones you sent, open shared stories and invite co-writers into any private story.
Beginner4 min read

Comments, ratings & reporting

How story and chapter comments work: the 15-minute edit window, vote tallies for members and guests, and what happens when you report.
Beginner5 min read

Copyright & public-domain stories

What you may publish, how the seeded public-domain classics are attributed, and how to file or answer a copyright report.
Intermediate6 min read

The community wishlist

Suggest a feature, spend your five votes, discuss any item, and read what the five roadmap statuses actually mean.
Beginner5 min read

Advanced

Restyle the app: themes & the Designer

Restyle every part of the reading experience with themes and the Designer, then save and share your look.
Advanced8 min read

Master the Designer: find, pick, undo

Find any styleable element with search, hover highlight or Pick from page, undo freely, and use the Designer's color tools on desktop and phone.
Advanced7 min read

Power tools: custom prompts & your own LLM

Override a story's prompt templates, switch generation models or bring your own LLM API key.
Advanced8 min read

Export & import stories

Download stories as offline HTML or re-importable JSON, import them on any account, and export one-shots as pictures or markdown.
Intermediate5 min read