Squiffy

What is Squiffy?

Squiffy is an interactive fiction tool that helps writers create choice-based stories, gamebooks, and text-heavy narrative games. It is designed for authors who want to build branching stories with clickable links, variables, and dynamic text without needing a full game engine. Squiffy outputs standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, making it easy to publish finished stories on a website, share them as standalone web pages, or distribute them through other web-friendly channels. It supports story structure through sections and passages, lets authors track player state, and can be extended with JavaScript for more advanced behavior. Squiffy is published by Alex Warren and is used by hobbyists, educators, and interactive fiction creators who want a lightweight writing-focused workflow on Mac and other platforms.

Key features

• Write choice-based interactive stories with linked sections and passages
• Export finished projects as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for web publishing
• Track player state with variables, conditions, and dynamic text
• Preview and test stories during the writing process
• Extend story behavior with JavaScript when needed
• Share stories as browser-playable files that work across devices

Safety overview

Status: Mostly safe

Squiffy is a legitimate authoring tool for creating interactive stories. Its normal use involves opening, editing, and exporting your own writing projects, and any files it creates are part of that workflow. If you no longer use it, removing the app mainly affects your ability to open or edit Squiffy projects locally; keep backups of any story files you want to preserve.

Recommendation: Keep Squiffy if you write or maintain interactive fiction projects with it. If you no longer use it, you can remove it like other third-party apps after backing up any story files or exported work you want to keep.

Common paths

• /Applications/Squiffy.app

Related apps

• Quest

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