Poetics Story Studio
Poetics Story Studio
An offline workshop for screenwriters, playwrights, drama students, and classics readers that maps any drama onto an ancient Greek theatre plan. The core mechanic is the Amphitheatre Map: every story beat becomes a card placed around a semicircular orchestra — prologue, parodos, episode, stasimon, exodos — and dragging a card reshapes the play. A diagnostics engine reads each beat's tension value and the Aristotelian element it serves, then names concrete weaknesses (no reversal after the midpoint, recognition that arrives too late, flat stasima spacing, a hero with no hamartia) and offers two rewrite prompts per finding. The app ships with in-bundle structural analyses of twelve classical plays, a Greek dramatic glossary, a side-by-side comparison mode, and an export pipeline that renders a one-page structure sheet. Everything is local: no account, no network, no permission-gated APIs, no purchases.
About Poetics Story Studio
An offline workshop for screenwriters, playwrights, drama students, and classics readers that maps any drama onto an ancient Greek theatre plan. The core mechanic is the Amphitheatre Map: every story beat becomes a card placed around a semicircular orchestra — prologue, parodos, episode, stasimon, exodos — and dragging a card reshapes the play. A diagnostics engine reads each beat's tension value and the Aristotelian element it serves, then names concrete weaknesses (no reversal after the midpoint, recognition that arrives too late, flat stasima spacing, a hero with no hamartia) and offers two rewrite prompts per finding. The app ships with in-bundle structural analyses of twelve classical plays, a Greek dramatic glossary, a side-by-side comparison mode, and an export pipeline that renders a one-page structure sheet. Everything is local: no account, no network, no permission-gated APIs, no purchases.
Highlights
Start a project from a template — classical play…
Start a project from a template — classical play, feature drama, short film, or TV episode — each pre-seeded with classical beat slots (prologue, parodos, episodes, stasima, exodos).
Place and drag beat cards around the semicircula…
Place and drag beat cards around the semicircular Amphitheatre Map: pinch to zoom, tap a card to open it, drag to reorder the play and watch the stage plan redraw live.
Fill each beat with a title, one-line summary, q…
Fill each beat with a title, one-line summary, quoted line, cast involved, a 1–10 tension value, and the Aristotelian element it serves (plot, character, thought, diction, melody, spectacle).
Run Catharsis Diagnostics: the app draws your te…
Run Catharsis Diagnostics: the app draws your tension curve with Swift Charts, pins reversal and recognition markers onto it, and lists concrete findings such as 'no reversal after the midpoint' with two rewrite prompts each.
Open the Six-Elements Balance panel to see how m…
Open the Six-Elements Balance panel to see how much of the draft serves plot, character, thought, diction, melody, and spectacle, with targeted prompt questions aimed at the weakest element.
Keep a cast sheet where every character gets a r…
Keep a cast sheet where every character gets a role and a motive, and the protagonist's hamartia is chosen from a controlled vocabulary (hubris, ignorance, divided loyalty, ambition, fate).
Privacy first
Poetics Story Studio does not collect personal data — everything stays on your device, with no third-party tracking or advertising SDKs. Read the full Privacy Policy.
Support
Questions or feedback? Visit Support or email paulharms63@icloud.com.