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yWriter is a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes, helping you keep track of your work while leaving your mind free to create. yWriter was designed by an author, not a salesman!
Platforms: Windows, Android, iPhone, iPad, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, and Free
Website: http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter7.html
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Organize by scenes and chapters
Storyboard view
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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
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A focused environment where you can write freely. With iA Writer, you can gain unparalleled insight into your writing structure, detect superfluous words and clichΓ©s, 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
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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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FreeOffice 2021 is a complete Office suite with a word processor, a spreadsheet application and a presentation program β all seamlessly compatible with their counterparts in Microsoft Office.
Platforms: Mac, PC, Windows
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.freeoffice.com/en/
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Full feature word processor
Create and open PDFs
Track changes
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Still looking for the perfect app to write your novel? Novelist might just be the perfect tool for the job!
Platforms: Android, iPhone, iPad, Online
Best for: Outlining, Worldbuilding, Drafting, Story, Book, and Free
Website: https://www.novelist.app/
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Goal setting
Rich text editor
Back up and restore
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Are you using the right tool to get your novel written? If you want a finished manuscript, you need intuitive novel writing software that keeps you on track and helps you write more novels. Writing a novel is not easy, but it should be simple. Novelize has all the features you need while minimizing distractions. Just write!
Platforms: Online, Chrome
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Book, and Story
Website: https://www.getnovelize.com/
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Easily navigable
Dozens of lists for settings and names
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NovelPad's online and offline novel writing software helps you organize, write, and edit your novel anywhere, on any device, from start to finish.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Editing, Proofreading, Book, and Story
Website: https://novelpad.co/
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Drag and drop scene cards
Distraction-free editor
Visual progress timeline
Character tracking
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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
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Also rated 3.4 β on Google Play
Mellel is a word processor designed from the ground up to be the ultimate writing tool for academics, technical writers, scholars and students. Mellel is strong, stable and reliable, and is the ideal companion for working on documents that are long and complex, short and simple, or anything in between.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, and Essay
Website: https://mellel.com/
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Outline
Bibliography
Footnotes and endnotes
Multilingual support
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Also rated 3.2 β on the App Store
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
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Whatever kind of writer you are, ProWritingAid will help you improve your writing and get your ideas across more clearly. Our grammar and style checker contains over 3,000 explanations and videos written by our experts, so you don't need to remember all those crazy rules.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, Online, PC, Chrome
Best for: Drafting, Editing, Proofreading, Book, Essay, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://prowritingaid.com/
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In-depth writing reports
Style and grammar suggestions
Built-in thesaurus
Multiple app and browser integrations
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Also rated 4.5 β on Reedsy
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