Meet a profile
A fictional person with a background, desire, hesitation, and emotional context.
Alternate life stories for the choices we never took
What if one choice changed everything?
Try IF turns fictional profiles and life-changing decisions into alternate timeline stories. Explore different versions of a life, one “what if” at a time.
The Try IF formula
Profile + Turning Point + Timeline + Tone = IF Story
Every Try IF story begins with a fictional person, a decisive moment, and a question. What if they moved away? What if they stayed? What if they chose work, love, family, art, or freedom?
How it works
Start with a person. Split the timeline.
Choose a turning point
A job, city, relationship, dream, failure, or decision that could reshape everything.
Explore the IF
A new timeline shows what changed, what stayed, and what the person becomes.
First IF stories
Sample timelines
Career / Hometown
If she had left her hometown
A 25-year-old woman who chose a stable local job imagines the life she might have built after moving to Tokyo.
Coming soonWork / Identity
If he had quit before promotion
A 34-year-old office worker meets the version of himself who walked away before becoming a manager.
Coming soonFamily / Restart
If she had started again at 42
A former creator raising a family explores the timeline where she returned to her old dream.
Coming soonFuture app
A future tool for creating your own IF worlds.
Try IF is starting as a story media project. In the future, it may become a tool where anyone can create, save, and explore alternate timelines from their own characters and choices.