Metos
Metos is a web platform for character development, worldbuilding and storytelling. Writers, game designers and artists build casts, places, species, timelines and constructed languages using prompts and psychological spectrums. A permanent free tier exists; paid plans start at $1.99 monthly.
What is Metos?
Metos is a web platform for character development, worldbuilding and storytelling, built around the promise printed across its homepage: characters and worlds we will never forget. It addresses writers, game designers and visual artists who need somewhere to flesh out a universe's history, ethics, philosophy and personalities instead of scattering them across notebooks and documents.
The product is organised in seven blocks. Characters holds structured sheets covering general information, background, tastes and personal quirks, a full psychological profile built on a spectrum tool that maps moral nuances, attitudes and personalities against custom events, curated questions and prompts to push a character further, a visual moodboard and a timeline of personal events. World-Building lets you sculpt continents, worlds, cities and empires, then shape conflicts, political groups, magic systems and religions, weaving a wikipedia-style web of knowledge around each place, with your own topics and starting points injectable into the framework. Timelines turns that web into relations, linking anything you have created: planning quests, charting a city's evolution, or retracing the events that made an antagonist. Family Trees follows ancestors and descendants across generations. Languages supports constructed languages with their own grammar and writing systems, framed as both a creative exercise and a narrative device. UI Customisation offers platform-wide fonts, eighteen colour themes, dark and light modes, and the option to hide suggested prompts for a cleaner page. Community, the most recent addition, adds direct share links to a single creation, a community feed, and team projects with view or edit permissions.
One point deserves emphasis: Metos advertises no artificial intelligence anywhere. There is no language model, no generated text, no automatic writing. Its suggestions and prompts are curated editorial questions, and the editor is deliberately minimalist. The tool structures, interrogates and organises creative work; it does not produce it. Species, objects, places and stories round out the entity types, and everything is reachable from a browser with no installation.
What it does
- Build detailed character sheets covering general information, background, tastes and personal quirks
- Profile a character's psychology on moral, attitude and personality spectrums, in the context of custom events
- Construct worlds: continents, cities, empires, conflicts, political groups, magic systems and religions, cross-linked like a wiki
- Lay out timelines that connect characters, places and worldbuilding entities, and trace how an antagonist was made
- Design constructed languages with their own grammar and writing system, plus species, objects and family trees
- Assemble visual moodboards for characters, stories and locations, and answer curated depth-building prompts
- Share a single creation by direct link, post to the Metos community feed, or open a team project with view and edit rights
When to use Metos / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Metos is the right fit.
When to use Metos
- Novelists and fiction authors tracking a large cast across several books, who need every character's background, tastes and moral arc to stay consistent from one volume to the next
- Game designers building the geography, factions, magic systems, species and genealogies of an original setting, and needing all of it cross-linked rather than scattered across documents
- Screenwriters and playwrights working on an antagonist's turning points, who can map the events and choices that led a character down a given path on a timeline
- Illustrators, storyboard artists and art directors who want a visual moodboard attached to each character, story and location rather than kept in a separate folder
- Budget-conscious independent creators: the free tier is permanent and the entry paid plan costs $1.99 a month, with a 50% discount on annual billing
When not to use Metos
- Anyone expecting the tool to write for them: Metos never claims any generative AI, large language model or automatic text production on any of its pages. It asks questions and organises answers, it does not produce prose
- Authors looking for a manuscript editor: the writing surface is described as minimalist, so the long-form draft itself still belongs in a dedicated word processor
- Developers and studios wanting to plug the tool into a production pipeline: there is no API, no documented integration and no named third-party connector
- Teams working from phones or tablets in the field: Metos ships as a web application only, with no native mobile app and no browser extension
- Organisations under a procurement or compliance review: no terms of service are published, no data processing agreement is offered, no subprocessor is named and no hosting country is declared
How to use Metos
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open metos.app and register for free, either with an email address or through the Sign in with Google button
- Start on the Freemium tier, which opens one character, one story, one place, one worldbuilding entity, one object and up to 500 MB
- Create your first entity and fill it section by section: general information, background, tastes, then the psychological spectrums
- Answer the curated questions and prompts shown in each section, or hide them for a cleaner page if you prefer to work from a blank canvas
- Position your character on the moral, attitude and personality spectrums, anchoring each reading to a custom event
- Attach a visual moodboard and link images or playlists that carry the tone you are aiming for
- Build the surrounding world: places, species, objects, magic systems and religions, each with its own wiki-style page
- Draw a timeline and use it to connect characters, places and worldbuilding entities to one another
- Customise the workspace with a font, one of the eighteen colour themes, dark or light mode, and folders on the Pro plan
- Upgrade when the quotas bite, share a creation by direct link, post to the community feed, or invite collaborators to a team project
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Unusually wide worldbuilding coverage for the price: species, constructed languages, family trees, objects, magic systems and religions are rarely gathered in one tool
- A very low entry price: $1.99 a month for Premium, $3.99 for Pro, with a 50% discount on annual billing
- A permanent free tier with no advertising, rather than a countdown trial
- A clear stance on data: no ads, no third-party sharing for marketing, and a repeated claim that your content is entirely yours
- Deep interface customisation built for genre immersion, with eighteen colour themes, font choice and a distraction-free reading mode
- Recent collaboration features: granular share links, a community feed and team projects with permission control
- Monthly plans can be cancelled at any time with no data loss
Cons
- No generative AI of any kind, despite the tool being listed in AI directories: buyers arriving with that expectation will be disappointed
- No terms of service are published at all, even though the privacy policy refers to "our terms of service"
- The privacy policy is a generic template that still contains its unreplaced placeholder, "[App/Website/Platform/Service]", and carries no effective date
- No data processing agreement, no named subprocessors, no declared hosting country or region, and no stated retention period
- No API, no named third-party integration, no mobile app and no browser extension
- A single email address, hello@metos.app, serves press, support, legal and privacy enquiries, and no postal address appears anywhere on the site
- Thin public presence: no company LinkedIn page, no YouTube channel, an English-only interface and a FAQ rendered in JavaScript that search engines cannot read
Pricing & Plans
Metos operates on a freemium basis. A permanent free plan, named Freemium, is available at no cost and requires no payment details. The lowest paid entry point is the Premium plan at US$1.99 per month, or US$12 for twelve months, which the site presents against a crossed-out US$24 as a 50% annual discount. The Pro plan costs US$3.99 per month or US$24 for twelve months, listed against US$48. All amounts are quoted in US dollars. No time-limited free trial is offered; the free tier serves that purpose. Monthly subscriptions may be cancelled at any time without data loss. These figures were read on the most recent accessible version of the pricing page, dated August 2024, and should be confirmed before purchase.
- 1 character
- 1 story
- 1 place
- 1 worldbuilding entity
- 1 object
- up to 500 MB of storage
- up to 6 characters
- 3 stories
- 3 places
- 3 worldbuilding entities
- 3 timelines
- 3 objects
- 3 species
- up to 1 GB of storage
- unlimited characters
- stories
- places
- worldbuilding entities
- timelines
- objects
- species and family trees
- visual moodboards for characters
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Metos handles your data.
GDPR overview
The words GDPR, UK GDPR and CCPA appear nowhere on the site. There is no compliance claim, no legal basis for processing, no data protection officer, no Article 27 representative and no cookie or consent notice in the collected pages. The privacy policy is generic to the point of still carrying its unfilled template marker, "[App/Website/Platform/Service]", and it shows no effective date although it promises a revised last-updated date. What it does offer is a set of generic rights: you may update, correct or delete your account information at any time through your account settings, and privacy questions go to hello@metos.app. Children under 13 are excluded. Since the publisher is established in the United Kingdom, the UK GDPR applies regardless, but the site never says so.
Who owns the data?
Metos states plainly that the content you create is yours. The homepage repeats "No ads. And your data is 100% yours", and the paid tiers are sold on the same promise: no advertising and no third-party data sharing. The privacy policy classes your characters and worldbuilding entries as profile information that you voluntarily provide, and commits that Metos Technologies does not sell, rent or share personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes. Data may still reach service providers who help operate the platform, and may be disclosed where the law requires it. You can update, correct or delete your account information at any time from your account settings. No terms of service page exists to define content licensing further.
Reuse rights
No terms and conditions are published, so nothing on the site grants or restricts reuse of your own content. The only contractual text available is the privacy policy, and it takes the opposite angle: it describes what Metos may do with your data, not what you may do with it. Read together with the repeated promise that your data is entirely yours, the reasonable reading is that you keep your characters, worlds, timelines and constructed languages and may reuse them freely in your novels, games or artwork without asking permission. That reading rests on marketing copy rather than on a licence clause, because no clause exists. The platform does add sharing controls of its own: direct links exposing a single creation, a community feed you choose to post to, and team projects where you decide who may view or edit. Anyone needing a written guarantee should ask hello@metos.app before importing commercially sensitive material.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Metos declares nothing about where user data is hosted. The privacy policy mentions hosting providers among the categories of service providers it may share data with, but names none of them, and no country, region, jurisdiction or certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 appears anywhere on the site. Its only security commitment is that it takes reasonable measures and follows best practices. Technical traces from the archived pages point to Vercel serving the site, with Supabase and MongoDB Realm behind the application and MailerLite handling email, but none of these is declared by the publisher and none should be read as a hosting commitment. The server IP address, 76.76.21.21, is an anycast edge address and therefore says nothing about where data is actually stored. With the publisher established in the United Kingdom, UK data protection law applies, but the site never addresses international transfers.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Metos.
- Worldbuilding is famously absorbing, and a tool that always has one more question to answer can turn preparation into a substitute for finishing the actual novel, game or script
- The contractual gap is the real risk: with no terms of service published anywhere, nothing in writing defines who may do what with the content you upload
- No retention period is stated and no export or portability feature is mentioned, so there is no documented way to know how long your world survives an abandoned account, or how to take it with you
- Subprocessors are described only by category, and no hosting country or region is declared, which makes it impossible to know which jurisdictions your creative work actually sits in
- The tool is listed in AI directories while claiming no AI at all; users who assume a hidden model is reading their material are working from a false picture in either direction
- Leaning on curated prompts and spectrums can flatten a character into a completed questionnaire, where the interesting contradictions are exactly the ones no template asks about
- A single email address for press, support, legal and privacy, run by a very small publisher, means slow or absent recourse if something goes wrong with your account or your data
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Setup is effortless. Metos is a browser-based application with nothing to install, no configuration and no API key. You register with an email address or through Sign in with Google and can start a character immediately on the free tier. No technical skill is required. The only learning curve is conceptual rather than technical: the platform offers many entity types, characters, places, species, objects, timelines, family trees and languages, and deciding how to structure a universe across them takes longer than learning the interface itself. Suggested prompts guide the first sessions and can be hidden once they become unnecessary.
Deployment
Supported languages
Behind Metos
Social
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
Does Metos write my characters or stories for me?
Is there a free plan, and what does it include?
How much do the paid plans cost?
What does the Pro plan add over Premium?
Can I cancel a subscription without losing my work?
Is there a mobile app or an API?
Is there a minimum age to use Metos?
Where is my data hosted, and how long is it kept?
Can I work with other people on the same world?
Who is behind Metos, and how do I reach them?
Should you pick Metos?
Metos occupies a narrow and genuinely underserved niche. Tools that hold a whole invented universe together, with species, constructed languages, family trees, magic systems and religions all cross-linked like a wiki, are rare, and rarer still at $1.99 a month behind a permanent free tier. For a novelist keeping a large cast consistent across several volumes, or a game designer whose setting has outgrown a folder of documents, the value on offer is hard to match. The spectrum tool, which places a character's morality, attitude and personality against specific events, is a real idea rather than a form field, and the eighteen colour themes and distraction-free mode suggest a product built by someone who actually writes.
Two caveats matter. First, this is not an AI tool, whatever the directories that list it may suggest. Nothing on the site claims a language model or generated text, and anyone arriving for automated drafting should look elsewhere. Second, the legal and contractual layer is thin to the point of concern: no terms of service exist, the privacy policy is a template that still carries its unreplaced placeholder and bears no effective date, no data processing agreement is offered, no subprocessor is named, no hosting country is declared, no retention period is stated, and no postal address appears anywhere. A single email address covers press, support, legal and privacy.
That combination points to a very small, independent British publisher rather than a negligent one, and independent creators will reasonably accept the trade. Anyone working under a procurement or compliance review should ask for written commitments first. Note also that the pricing figures come from an August 2024 snapshot and warrant confirmation.
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