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WPS Office is a lightweight, feature-rich comprehensive office suite with high compatibility. As a handy and professional office software, WPS Office allows you to edit files in Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheet, and PDF to improve your work efficiency.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, Android, iPad, iPhone, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.wps.com/
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Cross platform file management
Free templates
Colorful themes
★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
Most writers have at least one old notebook lying around somewhere, full of old story ideas, interesting characters, enchanting locations, or a myriad of other margin-scribbled thoughts. Notebook.ai is a worldbuilding tool that organizes, saves, and helps in fully fleshing out your fictional world, your way.
Platforms: Online, Chrome
Best for: Worldbuilding, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://www.notebook.ai/
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Create universes
Create characters
Create family trees
★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
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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★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
You have a story to tell, article to publish, or class notes to take. Scrivo Pro can help you organize your writing, research, generate ideas, and remove distractions so you can focus on the most important thing: writing.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Journal, Book, Story, Essay, Poetry, and Blog
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scrivo-pro-for-scriveners-a...
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Organize projects in tree-like structure
Live counters
Works offline
★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.4 ★ 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
★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
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★★★ Value
Also rated 3.3 ★ on the App Store
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 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
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
★★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 3.9 ★ on the App Store
Don't let your word processor drag your process down. Ironically enough, traditional word processors weren’t designed for writers. Dabble’s book-writing software was developed for writers, by a writer.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, Chrome, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, and Story
Website: https://www.dabblewriter.com/
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Cloud storage
Word counts & goals
Co-authoring
★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★ Value
A powerful writing tool from Reedsy. Write and export a beautifully typeset book. This is the beloved app made for authors, by authors.
Platforms: Online, Chrome
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Editing, Proofreading, Publishing, Book, Poetry, Story, Free, and Worldbuilding
Website: https://reedsy.com/write-a-book
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Distraction-free interface for writing
Collaborative editing
Export for instant distribution
Track changes & statistics
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The #1 text to speech solution for personal, commercial, and educational use.
Platforms: Online, iPhone, iPad, Android
Best for: Editing, Story, Book, Blog, Journal, and Free
Website: https://www.naturalreaders.com/
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Convert text to spoken audio
Cross platform compatibility
Multiple chat styles
★★★★ Performance
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★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
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
★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.8 ★ on Capterra
A focused environment where you can write freely. With iA Writer, you can gain unparalleled insight into your writing structure, detect superfluous words and clichés, and navigate through your documents and notes with ease.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android, Chrome, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, Poetry, Journal, Essay, and Blog
Website: https://ia.net/writer
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Focus mode
Markdown & syntax highlight
Style check
Wikilinks
★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on PC Magazine
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