Players join your campaign with their own free account on any plan. They add their characters and the places they find, keep private notes, and ask Chat what happened last session. Anything you mark GM Only stays hidden. World Anvil and Kanka let players in, but the world is built around the GM.
Upload the recording and LoreKeeper writes a timestamped transcript and a Session Summary, with names you have already added linked to their pages. In World Anvil and Kanka, someone still writes the session log by hand.
Characters, locations, groups and maps live beside every transcript and summary, so your lore grows from what actually happened at the table instead of what someone remembered to type up.
Chat answers from your notes and every transcript. The generators make NPCs, locations, encounter tables, battle maps and images that fit your world. Neither World Anvil nor Kanka has AI tools built in.
Already have a notebook full of lore? Decipher Notes reads your scribbles and offers to create the characters and locations it finds, so moving your campaign over doesn't mean retyping it.
Brave is free forever with 1,000 spell points a month and no ads. Mighty is $9 a month or $99 a year with 1,000 spell points, and Legend is $29 a month or $299 a year for unlimited spell points. Players never need to pay.
Every NPC has a backstory, a secret and a funny voice. LoreKeeper keeps all of it, links every name, and keeps the twist GM Only until the moment the table gasps.
Three notebooks and a color-coded relationship map. Now Decipher Notes turns those scribbles into characters and places the whole table can read, so Marisha gets to look up from the page.
Has never written anything down and isn't sure what session it is. Reads the recap on the way over, asks Chat "wait, who is this guy?" and is somehow caught up by initiative.
| LoreKeeper | World Anvil | Kanka | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | The whole party, each with a free account | Worldbuilders and GMs, with players as subscribers or co-authors | GMs and worldbuilders, with players as campaign members |
| Session notes | Upload the recording for a timestamped transcript and Session Summary | Written by hand | Written by hand in journals |
| Campaign wiki and maps | Characters, locations, groups and maps, linked to every transcript | Deep wiki with templates, maps, timelines and more | Wiki with maps, calendars and timelines |
| AI tools | Chat about your campaign; NPCs, locations, encounters, battle maps and images | None | None |
| Players can add lore and ask questions | Yes, plus private notes and Chat; GM Only entries stay hidden | As co-authors; private articles on paid plans | Yes, with per-entry permissions |
| Free plan | Free forever (Brave), unlimited players | 2 public worlds, 42 articles, with ads | Unlimited entries, up to 10 members, with ads |
| Paid plans | $9/mo or $99/yr; $29/mo or $299/yr unlimited | $7 to $34/mo, or $54 to $300/yr | $4.99 to $24.99/mo, about 17% off yearly |
World Anvil publishes your world as public pages anyone can read, with article templates, timelines, family trees and a manuscript editor. LoreKeeper doesn't publish campaigns as public sites, so if you want readers outside your table to explore your setting, World Anvil is built for that.
Kanka has a generous free plan with unlimited entries and campaigns, plus calendars and fine-grained permissions. If you want a free hand-written wiki and don't need help with session notes, it's a good fit.
Comparing note takers instead? See LoreKeeper vs Loreify vs LegendKeeper.
Last checked November 9, 2026 against each tool's own website. Prices and features change, so check their pricing pages before you buy. Spotted something out of date? Tell us at support@lorekeeper.ai and we'll fix it.
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