Interactive AI stories

Your ideas become stories.

Ryokan is an app for interactive stories with LLMs. Create your own stories, develop characters, and decide how the plot unfolds. The AI responds to your ideas and writes the story together with you.

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Ryokan on Windows: story selection with Lyvee and Klea
WindowsYour next story starts here.

What you can do with Ryokan

Your stories. Everywhere.

Experience Ryokan on Windows and Android.

Every story begins with an idea.

Decide what happens next.

Write what happens next, try new directions, and discover different storylines.

  • Change the course of your story
  • Explore alternative developments
  • Return to earlier moments at any time

Create your own characters.

Develop characters with their own personalities, backstories, and relationships. Shape the world your story takes place in.

Read the documentation
Ryokan on Android: story chat with Lyvee
AndroidTake your stories with you.

You choose the model.

Connect a local model server or a compatible cloud API. You need a configured model or API access.

Ollama · LM Studio · Cloud APIs

Create stories together.

Share an invite link. Friends play along in their browser without installing anything or needing their own AI access.

You hostFriends in a browser

Your stories stay with you.

Your stories and characters are stored locally. You decide which AI model to use and where your requests are sent. Multiplayer content is transmitted with end-to-end encryption.

An independent open-source project

The code is part of it.

The app, multiplayer relay, and browser client are fully open source.

Ryokan is under ongoing development. If something does not work or a feature is missing, you can open an issue on GitHub.

Visit the project on GitHub

Native app · Multiplayer relay · Browser client