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Showing 59 writing apps that match your search.
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
The most enjoyable desktop app for writing a thesis or paper.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, PC
Best for: Drafting and Essay
Website: https://www.monsterwriter.app/
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Distraction free
Insert citations and cross-references
Automatic typesetting
★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 3.8 ★ on the App Store
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
★★★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★★★ Value
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
★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.7 ★ on the App Store
The only writing platform with unlimited potential through project management, collaboration, and publishing.
Platforms: Online, Chrome
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Book, and Story
Website: https://www.squibler.io/
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Goal tracking
Collaboration
Corkboard organization
★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
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
★★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
The Internet's best write-reward system! Write one hundred words, get an image of a kitten!
Platforms: Online
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Blog, and Free
Website: https://writtenkitten.co/
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Kittens!
★★★★★ Performance
★★★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★★ Value
A real-time rhyme suggestion engine offering color-coded rhyme highlighting, the ability to save your work to the cloud, the power to embed SoundCloud jams into your notes, customizable visual layouts, and more.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android
Best for: Drafting, Poetry, and Free
Website: https://www.rhymersblock.com/welcome
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Real-time ryhme suggestions
Slant/near ryhme suggestions
Word frequency analysis
Color-coded ryhmes
★★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.8 ★ on the App Store
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
★★ Value
Scrivener is the go-to app for writers of all kinds, used every day by best-selling novelists, screenwriters, non-fiction writers, students, academics, lawyers, journalists, translators and more.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, PC
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Editing, Publishing, Book, and Story
Website: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview
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Flexible corkboard
Structure outliner
Metadata and target setting
Print and export functionalities
★★★★ Performance
★★★★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.0 ★ on Reedsy
Elevate your writing, create beautiful documents, and collaborate with others—anywhere, anytime.
Platforms: Online, Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Chrome, PC
Best for: Drafting, Essay, Journal, Book, Story, Poetry, and Blog
Website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/word
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Sharing and real-time collaboration
Premium templates and stickers
Dictation and transcription
★★★★ Performance
★★★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
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