A tiny team making worldbuilding fun and reliable

Kanka was born out of a frustration with worldbuilding and session notes scattered around in various tools, and the difficulty of easily sharing that content with players. Today, Kanka is a small group of friends spread around the world focused on building the best tools for those original needs.

Meet the team

Jay

Jay

Founder & Lead Developer

The Forever DM

I started Kanka because I got tired of spending half my worldbuilding time updating wiki software and the other half actually creating. Seven years later, I'm still here, still shipping, still obsessed with getting the balance right between depth and simplicity. Good tools don't need to do everything, just the things that matter, and they need to do them well.

I build Kanka with technology that isn't shiny, but that I know works and won't wake me up at 3am because something broke. I spend the rest of my time staying active, reading, raising a toddler, and dreaming up worlds."

I think personally interesting problems that serve real users stick with you longer than obligation ever will. I want Kanka around in 10 years. That means shipping carefully and with attention to detail, and keeping technical debt from sucking the passion out of it. Some days that's harder than others.

Jon

Jon

Co-Founder & Business Manager

Will only play as a Fighter

Itzamná

Itzamná

Web Developer

WH40k addict

Kaz

Kaz

Security 🐶

Will bark at suspicious NPCs

Community has and always will be big part of Kanka's DNA. We frequently survey our users for changes to features, designs, and incorporate feedback into every big decision. Our community is what drives us to endlessly improve Kanka.

375,000+users
90+countries
9 million +entities
150,000+missed plot hooks
350,000+campaigns
200+marketplace plugins
30,000+daily API calls
0ruined sessions

Our history

Kanka was first created in October 2017 by Jay as a hobby project over a weekend, and work seriously began in 2020 when Jon joined.

October 2017

Jay starts working on Kanka

February 2018

1,000+ account created

March 2018

Launch of the Discord

January 2020

Jon joins Kanka

July 2020

Jay & Jon quit their jobs to work full time on Kanka

September 2020

Launch of the Plugins Library

October 2020

Owlchester SNC is founded

January 2021

Launch of Kanka 1.0

October 2021

100,000th account created

June 2022

Itzamná joins as our first hire

January 2025

We launch Kanka 3.0 and introduce custom categories

Early 2026

We introduce a new modern text editor

Soon

Kanka casually takes over the world

Translations

Kanka is translated to several languages thanks to these amazing contributors.

English, French: Kanka Team
Brazilian Portuguese: Elminster Aumar
German: Xoltax
Polish: Gramel Books
Spanish: HelionKing, Kanka Team
Italian: Labhrainn
Russian: Ilia
Dutch: ThatChickenGuy
Slovak: Babcom