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A writing app for branching stories — press kit
Page last updated October 16, 2026
A writing app for branching stories. The author writes numbered pages and links each choice to the page it leads to; readers tap a choice and turn straight there. ChooseWeaver publishes the story for the web, for e-readers and for print. No code.
Facts
| Developer / Publisher | Widget Press, Inc. — Atlanta, Georgia USA |
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| Made by | J.P. Freeman, author of The Chronicles of Nether Wallop and the Five Bells and maker of GrueWeaver |
| Release | Now in beta on the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store |
| Platforms | Mac (macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple silicon and Intel) and Windows (Windows 10 version 1809 or later, or Windows 11, x64) |
| Price | Free to download and write with. The free version publishes stories of up to 5 pages, the cover not counted, in every edition. ChooseWeaver Unlimited: $29.99, once, as an in-app purchase. No subscription |
| What it publishes | A web package that runs in any modern browser; an EPUB for Apple Books, EPUB 3 readers and Kindle; a print-ready PDF |
| Media | Text and images in every edition; sound in the web edition |
| Ownership | Authors own their stories and may sell them |
| Imports | Twine: published Twine 2 stories, Twine 2 archives and Twee files |
| AI | ChooseWeaver has no AI features |
| Account and data | No account. No data collected; feedback is sent only when the author chooses to. Stories are files on the author's computer |
| Sibling app | GrueWeaver, for parser text adventures |
| Press contact | J.P. Freeman — inquiry@widgetpress.com |
What makes it different
- Pages, numbered like the classic gamebooks. Each page holds its text, a picture or a sound, and its choices. Every choice points at the page it leads to.
- Tap to turn. On the web and in the e-book, a reader taps a choice and lands on its page. In print, the same choice reads “turn to page 42”, with the number of the printed page.
- One story, three editions. A web package for any browser, an EPUB that opens in Apple Books, EPUB 3 readers and Kindle, and a PDF ready for a paper book.
- The Storyboard. Every page and every link on one board. Pages no choice reaches, and choices that lead nowhere, are flagged before a reader finds them.
- Endings that count. The author marks each ending good, bad or neutral. Readers reach THE END, go Back or Restart, and the web edition keeps a list of the endings they have found, and remembers where they left off.
- Coming from Twine? Passages become pages and links become choices.
- A story you own. Sell it, share it, print it.
- Your stories never leave your computer. No account, no sign-in, no data collected; feedback goes to us only when you send it.
ChooseWeaver and GrueWeaver
Both are Widget Press writing apps for Mac and Windows, and both import Twine. ChooseWeaver is choice-based: readers tap a choice, and the story publishes for the web, e-readers and print. GrueWeaver is parser-based: players explore a world and type what they do, and the game publishes as a web game with images, music and sound effects.
About the maker
J.P. Freeman is a graphic designer turned programmer. He started in print, moved to the web, consulted with Fortune 100 companies on web UI/UX, and ran Widget Press as a software company from 2001 to 2017, shipping FormEntry and ModelBaker for Mac and iOS.
He spent ten years making The Chronicles of Nether Wallop and the Five Bells, a parser adventure told in screenplay style, and then GrueWeaver, which puts its engine in other writers' hands. ChooseWeaver does the same for stories told in pages and choices.
He grew up on a Commodore 64, and text adventures held the sweet spot.
About Widget Press
Widget Press, Inc. is J.P. Freeman's company in Atlanta, Georgia. It published FormEntry and ModelBaker for Mac and iOS, and today publishes The Chronicles of Nether Wallop and the Five Bells and GrueWeaver, and is making ChooseWeaver.
The AI question, answered plainly
ChooseWeaver has no AI features. Every word a reader sees is the author's.
How it is made: Widget Press is one human, J.P. Freeman, with a staff of six AI colleagues who help plan, build and test its apps. Everything that ships passes through him first. The full account of how Widget Press works with AI, with its dated record of changes, is at netherwallop.com/how-its-made.
The art: ChooseWeaver's app icon, the open book woven with golden threads, began as a generative AI image. J.P. Freeman reworked it in VectorCraft.
The short version, for quotation: “ChooseWeaver has no AI features. Every word a reader sees is the author's.”
Screenshots & assets
Download the press kit (3.0MB zip) — screenshots, app icon, Widget Press logo, J.P. Freeman's photo, and this fact sheet. Click any image to view it larger.
Review copies of ChooseWeaver Unlimited on request once it is released: inquiry@widgetpress.com.
Interviews
J.P. Freeman is happy to join your podcast, YouTube channel or stream as a guest, and is available for written interviews and articles. Ask: inquiry@widgetpress.com.