LegendKeeper alternative: the notes come from the session, not the keyboard

LegendKeeper is a wiki with infinite page nesting, auto-linking between pages, templates, slash commands, tags, properties, and full-text search. It feels fast in a way most worldbuilding tools do not, and the people who love it tend to talk about the feel first and the feature list second.

The atlas is the headline. Maps go up to 14,000 pixels and 100 MB, pins carry custom icons, colours and border styles, maps nest inside each other like pages do, and you can filter pins by tag. Fog of war is not there yet: it sits on the published Planned Features list alongside layers, region drawing, and pin grouping, which is worth knowing before you buy on the strength of a demo video.

Two more things make it distinctive. Real-time collaboration with visible cursors means a co-GM can be editing the same page as you, and offline editing means you can write on a train and have it sync when you reconnect. There are also collaborative whiteboards for flowcharts, GM screens, and pointcrawls, which is a genuinely different way of thinking about prep than a page tree.

Pricing is refreshingly simple. Basic is free forever and lets you view, export, and collaborate on projects. Pro is $9 a month, or $90 a year, which works out to $7.50 a month, and covers unlimited projects, pages, maps, timelines, whiteboards, storage, and collaborators. The trial is 14 days with no credit card, and unlimited guests participate free: only the project owner needs a subscription.

The atlas, without argument. A 14,000 pixel map with tagged, filterable, custom-styled pins is a category of feature RollSummary simply does not have, and if that is how you run your game the rest of this page is academic.

Real-time co-editing. Two people in the same page with visible cursors is a better co-GM experience than ours, where two people editing the same note is something you coordinate socially rather than something the tool solves.

Offline. LegendKeeper lets you edit the wiki and atlas offline and syncs when you reconnect. RollSummary needs a connection, and the parts of it that matter most need a server anyway, since transcription does not happen on your laptop.

Whiteboards. Flowcharts, pointcrawls, and a drag-around canvas for the shape of an adventure have no equivalent on our side. Our structure is a note tree, links, and a graph, which is a different and narrower idea.

Price, again. $9 a month against our $10 is close, but their $90 a year against our $100 for the entry tier, with unlimited everything on their side and 6 session hours on ours, is not a comparison we win on paper. What we sell per hour is machine time on your audio, and that has a floor.

Nothing in LegendKeeper reads your session. There is no audio upload, no transcription, and no automatic page creation, and the roadmap's only audio item is embedding rich media, which is a player for files rather than a listener for them. Every page in a LegendKeeper wiki exists because a human sat down and wrote it.

RollSummary's starting point is the recording. Upload the audio or video from the night you played, and you get back a timestamped transcript you can click into, a structured recap with a TL;DR, the key events in order, character beats, and the threads the party is about to pull. A four hour session comes back in roughly ten minutes.

Then it files itself. Every named person becomes an NPC note, every place a location note, every thread a quest note, wiki-linked to each other with backlinks and a local graph, so the innkeeper's page lists every session he turned up in without anyone tagging anything. The structure that LegendKeeper gives you the tools to build, RollSummary tries to build for you from what was actually said.

Every one of those changes waits for you. A run produces a reviewable set of proposals: accept, edit, or reject, note by note, before anything becomes canon. If the transcript misheard a name, you fix it once and the alias sticks.

And you can ask the wiki things. Campaign chat reads every note plus any campaign PDF or sourcebook you have uploaded, answers in plain language, and links the notes it used so you can check before you say it at the table.

LegendKeeper is unusually honest about this and deserves credit for it. Its pricing page commits to keeping an export feature so you can leave at any time regardless of subscription status, and export works on the free Basic tier. You can take a single markdown file, a zip of markdown files suitable as an Obsidian vault, a human-readable JSON export, or a compressed .LK file for sharing pages, maps, and boards.

The markdown export is explicitly partial: their own changelog notes it does not include maps, boards, properties, or some editor content block types. The JSON and .LK exports are complete except for permissions. So the fully faithful copy of your world is JSON, and the portable copy is markdown with holes in it.

RollSummary exports one zip: a markdown file per note in folders for Sessions, Quests, NPCs, Locations, PCs and Notes, with YAML frontmatter carrying aliases and tags, and wiki-links preserved so the folder opens as an Obsidian vault with the graph intact. It is available on every plan and to every role, including free accounts and including players. We have less to export than LegendKeeper does, because we have no maps or boards to lose in translation.