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Create beautiful handwritten notes, sketch your ideas, record audio, and organize your notes like never before.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android
Best for: Note-taking, Journal, Book, Story, Essay, Poetry, and Blog
Website: https://www.noteshelf.net/
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Create your own diary
Search your handwritten notes
Syncs across devices
★★★ Performance
★★★★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.4 ★ on the App Store
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
Super-clean writing space with a lot of configurability that stays out of sight when you don’t need it.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Book, Story, Essay, Blog, and Free
Website: https://papereditor.app/
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Plain-text writing environment
Syncs with iCloud
Works across Apple devices
★★★★★ Performance
★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.2 ★ on the App Store
Start your book, plot your book, write your book, organize your book, and export it for publishing all in one place. Leave your word processor in the dust.
Platforms: Online, Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, PC
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Publishing, Book, and Story
Website: https://livingwriter.com/
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Smart text & story elements
Outline templates
Autosave
Import and export functionalities
★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
★★ Value
Also rated 3.5 ★ on the App Store
Freedom blocks distractions across all your Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, and Chrome devices so you don’t have to fight off the temptation of distracting pings, notifications, headlines, and emails.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, Android, iPhone, iPad, Chrome, Online, PC
Best for: Productivity, Journal, Book, Story, Essay, Poetry, Blog, and Free
Website: https://freedom.to/
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Block the entire Internet
See the time you spend on sites
Set your daily limits on sites
★★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.4 ★ on Google Play
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
Traditional notes apps are great for writing, but getting things done requires something more. Clover’s Daily Notes introduce a new way of documenting thoughts, keeping track of tasks, and planning work within the context of your daily agenda.
Platforms: PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Journal, and Free
Website: https://cloverapp.com/
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Rich text with rich media
Networked notes
Whiteboarding
★★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.6 ★ on the App Store
A tactile tool to randomly combine a plot, a subject and a setting or style, the Brainstormer can provide that elusive moment of inspiration for writers, painters, or any kind of creative endeavour.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad
Best for: Brainstorming, Book, and Story
Website: https://www.tapnik.com/brainstormer/
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Lists of 100s of prompts
Wheel Mode & Slot Machine Mode
Random spin to combine different ideas
★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 3.5 ★ on the App Store
Ideas, stories, and life’s events. Capture them in a journal that’s easy to carry and offers more than bound sheets. Chronicle for iPad is about you and your words. Write comfortably and benefit from being able to find anything you wrote with built-in search.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad, Mac
Best for: Note-taking and Journal
Website: http://slidetorock.com/apps/Chronicle-for-iPad-journal.html
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Distraction-free writing
Password protect journal entries
Built-in search
★★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.5 ★ on the App Store
Textilus Pro is a great word processor app for students and business people, also being excellent for writing reports, papers, blog posts, journals or ebooks! Textilus Pro can help you organize your research, generate ideas, and remove distractions so you can focus on the most important thing: writing.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Blog, Essay, and Free
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textilus-pro-word-processor...
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MLA and APA format and citations
Create your own templates
Dark mode & split screen mode
★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.5 ★ on the App Store
Ginger is more than a grammar checker, spell checker, and punctuation checker. Ginger is an all-in-one writing tool that includes Rephrase to empower you to write your best in ways that traditional online grammar checkers can’t.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad, Online, PC
Best for: Editing, Proofreading, Book, Essay, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.gingersoftware.com/
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AI-powered
Grammar and spell checker
Sentence rephraser
Punctuation checker
★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.6 ★ on the App Store
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
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