Which platforms and story formats does STARC support?

STARC (Story Architect) runs on five platforms, including Mac, Windows, and iPhone, and it lets you write several story formats inside a single project — screenplays, comics, plays, and books — all built on one shared project bible of characters, locations, and world details. It fits best if you want your series, episodes, and worldbuilding in one place rather than spread across separate files and apps.

Platforms

The site lists 5 platforms and names Mac, Windows, and iPhone directly in its title and description. The download page is the place to confirm the current build for your device before committing, since platform coverage can change between releases.

If your main machine is a Mac or Windows PC and you also want to draft or review on an iPhone, STARC is designed for that combination. If you work primarily on Android or on the web, the listed platforms don't cover you.

Story formats in one project

STARC is built so that one project can hold multiple forms of the same story. According to the site, you can create:

• Screenplays — film and TV scripts
• Comics — comic scripts
• Plays — stage scripts
• Books — prose

All of these can sit inside a single project, sharing one project bible. That means a character description you write once is available whether you're drafting the screenplay or the novel version.

Series and episode management

For TV writing, the site states that all episodes live within one project with immediate access. You can store as many series as you want in one project, and the free version doesn't cap you at a few projects — you can create as many as you need.

This matters if you're juggling a pilot, a season outline, and a spin-off idea at the same time. Instead of separate files, they live under one roof.

The project bible

The unifying piece is the project bible: descriptions of characters, locations, and the world of your story. Character profiles can include relationships, biographies, and visual references. Because the bible is shared, the same worldbuilding feeds every format you write in that project.

Formatting and structure tools

Two features support the writing itself:

• Automatic industry-standard formatting. The script editor handles formatting for you; Tab and Enter drive a fast paragraph-format algorithm, and you can reconfigure the default behavior if you prefer.
• A virtual card board. You can lay cards out in sequence or in columns, apply color tags, add notes, and group them by act to work on structure visually.

AI assistant

STARC includes an AI assistant powered by ChatGPT technology, available in any language. The tools listed on the site are paraphrasing and summarizing, augmenting/shortening/inserting text between two paragraphs, and generating text on demand. It's positioned as a way to get past writer's block rather than to replace drafting.

How to decide

Before downloading, check the pricing page for what the free version includes versus paid tiers, and confirm the current platform list on the download page, since the site's "5 platforms" figure is the number to verify against your own devices.