RouteVN Creator: Visual Novels
Yuusoft Art & Design
Free, open source visual novel maker. Create branching stories on your phone.
- Downloads
- 1.3K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Sep 30
- 2026 · v1.17.3
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About RouteVN Creator: Visual Novels
Bring Your Visual Novel to Life
RouteVN Creator is a free and open source visual novel maker that works fully offline. Built for writers, artists and storytellers, it lets you create complete visual novels on your phone without writing code.
Build branching scenes with choices, variables and conditionals. Add music, sound effects and voice acting, and create visual effects with animations, particles and spritesheets. Design custom user interfaces, from title screens to dialogue boxes.
RouteVN brings the creative power of a desktop visual novel editor to an intuitive interface built for your phone.
Join our active community on Discord and social media. If you have any questions or need help, feel free to reach out.
RouteVN Creator is a free and open source visual novel maker that works fully offline. Built for writers, artists and storytellers, it lets you create complete visual novels on your phone without writing code.
Build branching scenes with choices, variables and conditionals. Add music, sound effects and voice acting, and create visual effects with animations, particles and spritesheets. Design custom user interfaces, from title screens to dialogue boxes.
RouteVN brings the creative power of a desktop visual novel editor to an intuitive interface built for your phone.
Join our active community on Discord and social media. If you have any questions or need help, feel free to reach out.
What’s new
Version 1.17.3 · Updated September 30, 2026
- Oversized images are now rejected instead of showing as black. - Fixed custom background transforms not being saved. - Fixed empty sound and spritesheet pickers on phones. - Fixed the keyboard hiding the scene editor toolbar. - Fixed the dialogue custom name field resetting.
User reviews
Pretty nice
This is amazing for making a visual novel engine! Recommended to use in mobile. While some of the mechanics look hard, it doesn't even lag at all! Thanks for making this engine, YuuSoft! UPDATE: This is fabulous! Please add a 9:16 portrait size so that people who would want to make phone-like visual novels!
It really makes visual novels much easier to make on Android since the other engines requires PC. I really like the application and it's so easy to use. I'd really like if I'm able to export my project to zip file for Windows, or APK for Android. That would make the application absolutely perfect, and I'm already su...
insane app 🔥🔥
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