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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
★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.4 ★ 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
★★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
Chapters lets you manage multiple notebooks, each fully searchable and with its own settings. Keep a personal journal, a photo diary, notes about that project at work, and a travel journal in a single app.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad, Mac
Best for: Note-taking and Journal
Website: http://slidetorock.com/apps/Chapters-iPad-notebooks.html
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Password protected
Color code
Fast search
Create backup files
★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.0 ★ on the App Store
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
★★★★ Features
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★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
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
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Also rated 3.3 ★ 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
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★★★★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 4.4 ★ on Google Play
Capture your thoughts, discoveries, and ideas and simplify overwhelming planning moments in your life with your very own digital notepad. With OneNote, you can plan that big event, seize that moment of inspiration to create something new, and track that list of errands that are too important to forget.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android, Chrome, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Journal, Blog, Essay, and Free
Website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onenote/dig...
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Sync across devices
Share and collaborate
Secure notes with password
Pin important pages and notes
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
Note down, shape, & share your ideas with the world's best loved digital paper. Fall in love with handwriting all over again with Goodnotes’ digital ink.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Book, Story, Journal, and Poetry
Website: https://www.goodnotes.com/
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Search your handwriting
Annotate PDFs
Organize with folders and subfolders
Personlize notebooks
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.8 ★ on the App Store
Apple’s App of the Year with over 15 million downloads and 200,000 5-star ratings globally, Day One has reinvented journaling, letting you record your life as you live it. Securely save audio, video, photos, notes, and more wherever you are, whenever you want.
Platforms: iPad, Mac, iPhone, Android
Best for: Note-taking, Journal, and Free
Website: https://dayoneapp.com/
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An award-winning interface
Syncs across devices
Automatic backups
Password secured
★★★★★ Performance
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★★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 4.8 ★ on the App Store
We’re more than a doc. Or a table. Customize Notion to work the way you do.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Chrome, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Outlining, Journal, Book, Story, Essay, Poetry, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.notion.so/product
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Create wikis
Link to different pages
Hundreds of pre-made wikis
Create table of contents
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice). Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.libreoffice.org/
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Full-feature word processor
Customizable fonts and other styles
★★★★ Performance
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★★★★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
Make mind map documents that flow like your ideas.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Note-taking, Journal, Essay, Blog, and Free
Website: https://coggle.it/
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Powerful online flowcharts
Realtime collaboration
Add floating text and images
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on Capterra
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