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Don’t stop typing. If you do all your work will disappear and be gone forever. Danger Notes is the ultimate writing tool to help fight writer’s block. Whether you are writing a term paper, an essay, a book, your best-man speech, promising rap lyrics or just free writing, Danger Notes will help you fight writer’s block by forcing you to keep writing in order to save your progress from being deleted.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Book, Story, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Blog, and Free
Website: http://swivelapps.com/apps-by-david/dangernotes.html
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Clean interface
Self-deleting words
★★★★★ Performance
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★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.8 ★ on Capterra
The human brain is non-linear: we jump from idea to idea, all the time. Your second brain should work the same. In Obsidian, making and following connections is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Outlining, Journal, Book, Story, Essay, Poetry, Blog, and Free
Website: https://obsidian.md/
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Link pages
Graph view
Customizable with backlinked notes
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Book, Story, Essay, Blog, and Free
Website: https://bear.app/
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Focus & dark mode
Encryption
Convert into PDF and Word Docs
Cross note links & tags
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.3 ★ on the App Store
A reliable proofreading tool and essay editor for any writer or student.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Editing, Proofreading, Essay, Blog, and Free
Website: https://typely.com/
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Proofreader
Distraction free
Pomodoro timer
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.3 ★ on Capterra
Writemonkey is a Windows zenware writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words. It is light, fast and free.
Platforms: Windows, PC, Mac
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://writemonkey.com/
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Customizable with a clean text format
Visual progress bar
Timed writing
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
Every character has stories and every World has histories. Planning and building a story cannot be easier with the help of this app. It helps the writer planning the story and the development of characters, relations, groups, races, creatures, etc.
Platforms: Android
Best for: Worldbuilding, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lfantasia.n...
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Character templates
Relationship templates
Creature templates
Deity templates
★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 3.9 ★ on Google Play
Join (probably?) the world's largest writing contest. Flex those creative muscles with weekly writing prompts.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
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Text editor
Free Microsfot Word alternative
Export files as .doc and more
★★★★★ Performance
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Writer Assistant (Wassi) is an application created specifically for inventors! We all constantly invent new characters for our stories, be it a comic, a novel, a script, a play, or a game. And so that our characters are alive and riveted the attention, they need to be developed a lot! That is what the Writer Assistant was created for! Plus, with Wassi you can easily outline your stories on the go.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Outlining, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://apps.apple.com/app/writer-assistant-wassi/id14686...
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Outline
Interlinking
Character building template
Worldbuilding template
★★★ Performance
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★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 3.9 ★ on the App Store
ApolloPad is a feature-packed online writing environment that will help you finish your novels, ebooks and short stories.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Story, Book, and Free
Website: https://apollopad.com/
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Project outlining & timelines
Notes in context
To-do lists
★★★★ Performance
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★★★★ Value
Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, PC
Best for: Publishing, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://www.scribus.net/
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RBG and CMYK
Versatile PDF creation
Vector drawing tools
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
Your thoughts in words. Say exactly what you mean through clear, compelling and authentic writing.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Editing, Proofreading, Blog, Essay, and Free
Website: https://www.wordtune.com/
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Find synonyms
Rephrase sentences
Avoid plagirism
AI autocomplete
★★★★ Performance
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★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 4.4 ★ on Capterra
The simplest way to keep notes. All your notes, synced on all your devices.
Platforms: Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, PC, Chrome, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Book, Story, Journal, and Free
Website: https://simplenote.com/
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Automatic syncing
Tags for organization
Share documents and notes
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
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