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Craft your masterpiece in Reedsy Studio
Plan, write, edit, and format your book in our free app made for authors.
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Showing 91 writing apps that match your search.
Unload your thoughts by creating a personal layout with notes, links and media in a second to visualize your creative process and move forward faster.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android, Online, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Journal, Blog, Essay, Story, Book, and Free
Website: https://xtiles.app/en
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Realtime collaboration
Visual search
Organize visually
★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 4.9 ★ on Capterra
Write more than ever before! Your words have the power to defeat monsters! Discover over 500 unique monsters that will push your writing to the next level!
Platforms: Online
Best for: Drafting, Book, and Story
Website: https://4thewords.com/
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Personlized writing editor
Cloud backups
Project management
Complete quests and earn items
★★★★ Performance
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Notes is the best place to jot down quick thoughts or to save longer notes filled with checklists, images, web links, scanned documents, handwritten notes, or sketches. And with iCloud, it's easy to keep all your devices in sync, so you’ll always have your notes with you.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Journal, Book, Story, Essay, Poetry, Blog, and Free
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notes/id1110145109
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Create checklists
Add tables
Search in texts and scanned documents
★★★ Performance
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★★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 3.3 ★ on the App Store
Ever scribbled ideas on a piece of paper and drawn lines between related thoughts? Then you already know what Scapple does. It's a virtual sheet of paper that lets you make notes anywhere and connect them using lines or arrows.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Outlining, Journal, Book, Story, Essay, Poetry, and Blog
Website: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview
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Write notes anywhere
Connect notes using drag and drop
Completely freeform
★★★★ Performance
★★ Features
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Also rated 5.0 ★ on TechRadar
Made by writers, for writers, Novlr is the writing platform that will have you achieving your writing goals.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://www.novlr.org/
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Distraction-free writing interface
Set goals and get motivational messages
Track your progress
★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 3.0 ★ on Reedsy
A tool for thoughtful writing. See your work in new ways, think with an integrated concept map, and export with an automatic reference section, all in a distraction free environment.
Platforms: Mac
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, Essay, and Free
Website: https://www.augmentedtext.info/author
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Light and dark mode
Focus mode
Integrated concept map
★★★★ Performance
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★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 4.4 ★ on TechRadar
Stuck in front of a blank page? Need a boost of inspiration? Join us to overcome blocks and push your creativity to the max. With Writing Challenge, you will brainstorm new and fresh ideas and embrace freewriting in the funniest way ever.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android
Best for: Brainstorming, Story, Book, and Poetry
Website: https://www.writingchallengeapp.com/
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Creative idea generators
Daily writing challenges
Widgets and reminders
★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.4 ★ on the App Store
Get organized. Stay creative. Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad, PC, Windows, Mac, Android, Chrome, Online
Best for: Note-taking, Outlining, Book, Story, Journal, and Free
Website: https://milanote.com/
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Boards for notes and to-dos
Web clipper
Collaborative functionalities
Integration across platforms
★★★★ Performance
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★★★★ Value
Also rated 3.0 ★ on PC Magazine
Zoho Writer is a fully-featured word processor on the cloud, designed for collaborative work that gives you everything you need to create powerful documents. With a clean UI, intuitive interface and document modes, it introduces you to a new way of writing.
Platforms: Android, Windows, PC, iPad, iPhone
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.zoho.com/writer/
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Focus mode & Night mode
Auto save
An AI-powered writing assistant
Hundreds of templates
★★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 3.4 ★ on Google Play
Writing can be so much fun when our creative juices are flowing. Cultivating this flow is why ilys exists -- to release within you a gushing torrent of latent creative-potential as your writing explodes through the box that once constrained it.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, and Poetry
Website: https://www.ilys.com/welcome
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Can't delete or edit anything
Track your writing
Text turns invisible as you write until you finish
★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
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With our writing tools you can track your progress thus far, plan your novel, write your novel and be able to focus on what matters for you the most: FINISHING THE DAMN BOOK!
Platforms: Android
Best for: Outlining, Worldbuilding, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.ajp_gam...
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Writing log
Progress stats & timeline
Character profile
Writing goals
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on Google Play
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
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Also rated 3.9 ★ on Google Play
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