Try anything.
Keep everything.

Under the friendly surface, Lorelai uses version control — a well-proven idea, decades old, for keeping every version of a project as it changes over time. It's built on Lore, the professional version control from the makers of Unreal Engine, so the foundation is genuinely solid and battle-tested. Your versions are tucked into a hidden .lore folder inside your project, so your actual files look and stay exactly as they always did. And because that's the real, standard Lore format underneath, nothing is ever locked in: if you outgrow the simple app, your whole history opens in more advanced tools, and it can even handle several people working on the same files when it comes to that. It's the kind of thing you'll be glad is there the moment you're about to make a big change.

No, that's the whole point. If you can press a button, you can use Lorelai. There are no commit messages to write, no branches to manage, no command line. Just checkpoints you can go back to.

A backup is about not losing things: if you delete a file or your drive dies, you can get your latest work back. Lorelai is about something different: deliberately keeping a moment you like. It's the reason people still make chapter-final-v2 copies even when they already have backups: they've reached a version they're happy with, they're about to change a lot, and they want a guaranteed way back to exactly this moment. Lorelai keeps those moments on purpose, one click at a time.

The two go together nicely. You probably do still want to back up your project folder, and when you do, your entire Lorelai history rides along, because every version lives in that hidden .lore folder inside the project. Back up the folder, and you've backed up the whole timeline.

Almost certainly not. Lorelai doesn't stash a fresh full copy every time you save — it keeps only what changed from one version to the next and reuses everything that didn't. So a long, detailed history usually adds up to a small fraction of what a folder full of v1, v2, final, final-actual copies would cost you.

It travels with your project, automatically. Your whole history lives in a hidden .lore folder right inside your project folder — nothing sits in the cloud or somewhere central on your machine. So to save, move, or archive your version history, just save, move, or archive the project folder itself; the history goes with it. Copy that folder to another computer and every checkpoint is right there waiting.

Yes, fully. Lorelai keeps things deliberately simple on the surface, but underneath it's standard Lore, so your project is a real Lore repository. Anyone on a more technical Lore client can open the very same history, and you're free to move between tools whenever you like. Simple to use, never walled off.

Yes. Think of it as a test drive: Lorelai is free for up to three projects, forever, with all the core checkpoint features — the real app, not a stripped-down demo. There's no trial clock counting down and no nag screens; it's a genuine taste of the whole thing. When you outgrow three projects, a single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited ones.

It’s a one-time, perpetual named license — not a subscription. It unlocks unlimited projects and installs on as many of your devices as you need. It is issued to the name entered at checkout and is not transferable.

Use license recovery with the email address you used at checkout. To protect your privacy, the recovery service gives the same confirmation for every outcome. That confirmation does not tell you whether it found a matching purchase, and it is not a promise that a message was sent.