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From boardroom to lecture hall, project plan to daily diary, Nebo makes note-taking smarter, more efficient and more enjoyable.
Platforms: Android, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Journal, Poetry, and Blog
Website: https://www.nebo.app/
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Write-to-text
Copy-paste to Notes
Mix handwriting with text
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Also rated 4.3 ★ 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
Notes are just the beginning. Create and annotate anything, from study guides to storyboards. We've got an intuitive, minimal interface for you to start in seconds.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Book, Story, Journal, and Free
Website: https://notability.com/
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Presentation mode
PDF import and annotation
Multimedia notes
Custom stickers
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Also rated 4.7 ★ on the App Store
Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.
Platforms: Android, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Journal, Essay, Blog, and Free
Website: https://joplinapp.org/
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Multimedia notes
Shared notes with friends and family
Web clipper extension
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Also rated 4.3 ★ on the App Store
SSuite WordGraph is a free and very useful alternative to Microsoft's Word, OpenOffice's Writer, or anything else out there claiming to be the latest and greatest. You don't even have a need for .NET or even JAVA to be installed. This will save you a lot of hard drive space and precious computer resources.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Chrome, Android, PC
Best for: Drafting, Story, Book, Essay, and Free
Website: https://www.ssuiteoffice.com/software/wordgraph.htm
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Text editor
Free Microsfot Word alternative
Export files as .doc and more
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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
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Also rated 4.2 ★ on the App Store
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
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on Reedsy
Build your best ideas together, in Google Docs. Create, edit, and collaborate with others on documents from your Android phone or tablet with the Google Docs app.
Platforms: Online, Chrome, iPhone, iPad, Android
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.google.com/docs/about/
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Create and share new documents
Work online and offline
Export in multiple formats
Collaborate in real time
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
Terminology is a browser for the English language – part dictionary, part thesaurus and part research tool. Terminology makes it easy to explore words and phrases, diving down to more and less specific terms - accessing the web and other apps for more detail and sharing.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Editing, Proofreading, and Essay
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/terminology-dictionary/id68...
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Spelling suggestions
Offline US English dictionary
Add notes to any terms
Word browsing history
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Also rated 4.7 ★ on the App Store
Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Book, Story, Essay, Blog, and Free
Website: https://bear.app/
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Focus & dark mode
Encryption
Convert into PDF and Word Docs
Cross note links & tags
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Also rated 4.3 ★ on the App Store
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
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Also rated 4.8 ★ on Capterra
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
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