What is Skaz?

Skaz is a tool for creating and sharing interactive, branching stories — the kind where the reader makes choices that change what happens next.

If you’ve ever made (or played) a “choose your own adventure” book, a visual novel, or a branching dialogue tree in a game, that’s the shape of a Skaz story. You write it in a visual editor — no code — and publish it as a link anyone can open and play in their browser.

Where things live

Skaz has two places you’ll use:

• Studio (studio.skaz.io ) — the visual editor where you build your stories. You lay out blocks for text, questions, and logic on a canvas and connect them with choices. Studio also has an AI co-writer that can draft whole branches for you, and a preview mode to play-test before you publish.
• The player (skaz.io ) — where a finished story lives once you publish it. Anyone with the link can open it and play through, no account required (unless the story is marked 18+). See Playing a Story.

Both share one account, so signing in once covers building and reading alike.

Core concepts

Every story is built from a few simple pieces:

• Story — the project itself: a title, description, cover image, and one or more categories. It holds everything else below.
• Blocks (also called nodes) — the individual steps of your story: a piece of text, a question for the reader, or a bit of hidden logic that updates the story’s memory. See Blocks for the full list.
• Choices — the buttons a reader taps to move from one block to the next. A block can have a single choice (just “Continue”) or several (real branching). See Choices & Branching.
• Variables — named values (numbers, text, or true/false flags) your story remembers as someone plays, used to track things like a score or a name and steer the story down different paths. See Variables.

Accounts and plans

You need a free account to build stories; reading a published story doesn’t require one. See Account & Sign In for how sign-up works, and Plans & Pricing for what each plan includes — the free plan lets you publish up to 3 stories, and paid plans raise that limit and unlock the AI co-writer.

Where to go next

• New here? Start with Getting Started to build your first story end to end.
• Learn by doing? The Tutorials walk you through complete, hands-on examples — a branching story, a personalized adventure, and a scoring system with multiple endings.
• Looking something up? The Editor Guide is the full reference for the canvas, every block type, variables, and publishing.
• Just want to read a story someone shared? See Playing a Story.