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Note down, shape, & share your ideas with the world's best loved digital paper. Fall in love with handwriting all over again with Goodnotes’ digital ink.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Book, Story, Journal, and Poetry
Website: https://www.goodnotes.com/
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Search your handwriting
Annotate PDFs
Organize with folders and subfolders
Personlize notebooks
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.8 ★ on the App Store
WriteItNow is designed to help anyone writing a novel. Keep the novel text and all the background information in one place. Each novel is saved in a single file, and the program has two main sections: one for chapters and scenes and the other for background details
Platforms: Windows, Mac, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, and Story
Website: https://www.ravensheadservices.com/about.html
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Storyline editor
Word count and writing targets
Background details
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Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear. It's like a spellchecker, but for style. It makes sure that your reader will focus on your message, not your prose.
Platforms: Windows, PC, Mac
Best for: Editing, Proofreading, Book, Essay, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://hemingwayapp.com/
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Grammar and spell checker
Readability score
Style checker
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on Reedsy
Black Note is the black theme's notepad. It's the simple notes app.
Platforms: Android
Best for: Note-taking, Story, Book, Blog, Journal, Poetry, and Free
Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=notepad.not...
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Dark mode only
Sticky notes
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Also rated 4.8 ★ on Google Play
Hanx Writer expands recreating the permanence of a typewriter with the convenience of your iPad and iPhone. As ever, the report of SHOOK SHOOK and KLOCK-KLOCK is mated with the luxuries of the DELETE key.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, Poetry, and Free
Website: http://hanxwriter.com/
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Custom typewriter fonts
Authentic typewriter sounds
Print and manage multiple documents
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Also rated 3.7 ★ on the App Store
The best outlining app for your best work. Where brilliant ideas are captured, fleshed out, and realized.
Platforms: Online, Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows, PC
Best for: Outlining, Book, Story, Blog, Essay, and Free
Website: https://dynalist.io/
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Tags & cross-linking
Color code anything
Easy export
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Also rated 4.2 ★ on Google Play
FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work.
Platforms: Windows, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
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Full screen hide-away interface
Timers & daily goals
Customizable themes
Live statistics
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
Story Planner is an easy-to-use and yet powerful tool for plotting novels, screenplays, and any fiction story. It works great for writers, screenwriters, producers, directors, RPG masters … All kinds of storytellers!
Platforms: iPhone, iPad
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Story, and Book
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/story-planner-outline-your-...
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Organize projects by tags
Link elements
Color code and organize plot lines
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Also rated 4.7 ★ on the App Store
Write without distractions. WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom lets you focus on writing.
Platforms: Mac
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, Journal, Essay, Blog, and Poetry
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/writeroom/id417967324?mt=12
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Distraction free
Full screen
Plain text editor
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 3.6 ★ on the App Store
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
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Also rated 3.3 ★ on the App Store
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
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Also rated 3.9 ★ on Google Play
Manuskript is a perfect tool for those writer who like to organize and plan everything before writing. The snowflake method can help you grow your idea into a book, by leading you step by step and asking you questions to go deeper.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, PC
Best for: Outlining, Story, Book, and Free
Website: https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/
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Index cards
Outliner
Frequency analyzer
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