ChatMapper vs Dialogue Forge
ChatMapper
chatmapper.com
Dialogue Forge
dialogueforge.orgSide by side
| Figure | ChatMapper | Dialogue Forge |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $19/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 9 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Narrative Design Software | 9.4 (#2) | 7.4 (#20) |
| Integrations | The site lists OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, HeyGen, and Synthesia as supported provider integrations using customers’ own keys. | The maker names Unity, Godot, and Unreal as engines that can use the exported JSON, and says it can also be used with a custom runtime. |
| Product | ChatMapper is a browser-based workspace for designing, simulating, validating, and delivering branching conversations. | Dialogue Forge is a visual editor for building branching dialogue trees for games and interactive fiction. |
| Support | The Enterprise plan lists onboarding, an SLA, and commercial support; the Team plan lists priority support. | The support page provides a contact form for users to describe problems and send a message. |
Plans
ChatMapper
- Desktop PersonalFree
- FreeFree
- Creator$19 a month
- Creator$19 a month
- Desktop Commercial$35 a month
- Team$79 a month
- Team$79 a month
- Desktop Team$110 a month
- Enterprise & OEMPriced on request
In their own words
ChatMapper
ChatMapper is a browser-based workspace for designing, simulating, validating, and delivering branching conversations. Its visual graph handles dialogue, choices, actors, variables, conditions, scripts, media, and links across conversations. The simulator runs Lua logic and checks for broken links, dead ends, and undefined variables. An AI collaborator can suggest structured edits for review, with accepted changes saved as revisions. ChatMapper imports.cmp, XML, Arcweave, Twine, articy:draft, and CSV, and exports JSON, Unity XML, SCORM, xAPI, Yarn, HTML, and LearnBrite. Its canonical JSON can be used with Unreal, Godot, and custom engines; the maker also describes Unity and Yarn exports. Use cases include games, interactive stories, learning, immersive experiences, and AI character roleplay. The free plan allows one editor, three projects, and 300 nodes per project, with core exports and commercial use permitted. Paid plans start at $19 a month, billed annually. ChatMapper Cloud supports current Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari; the separate offline Desktop 1.9.1 app is Windows-only.
Dialogue Forge
Dialogue Forge has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.