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Showing 49 writing apps that match your search.
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
★★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.3 ★ on the App Store
Enjoy a distraction-free writing experience, including a full screen mode and a clean interface. With Markdown, you can write now, and format later.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, Poetry, Journal, Blog, Essay, and Free
Website: https://ghostwriter.kde.org/
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Light and dark themes
Focus mode
Document and session statistics
Autosave
★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★★★ Value
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
★★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
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
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
★★★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
Get organized. Stay creative. Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad, PC, Windows, Mac, Android, Chrome, Online
Best for: Note-taking, Outlining, Book, Story, Journal, and Free
Website: https://milanote.com/
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Boards for notes and to-dos
Web clipper
Collaborative functionalities
Integration across platforms
★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 3.0 ★ on PC Magazine
Black Note is the black theme's notepad. It's the simple notes app.
Platforms: Android
Best for: Note-taking, Story, Book, Blog, Journal, Poetry, and Free
Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=notepad.not...
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Dark mode only
Sticky notes
★★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.8 ★ on Google Play
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
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
WPS Office is a lightweight, feature-rich comprehensive office suite with high compatibility. As a handy and professional office software, WPS Office allows you to edit files in Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheet, and PDF to improve your work efficiency.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, Android, iPad, iPhone, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.wps.com/
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Cross platform file management
Free templates
Colorful themes
★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
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
The human brain is non-linear: we jump from idea to idea, all the time. Your second brain should work the same. In Obsidian, making and following connections is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Outlining, Journal, Book, Story, Essay, Poetry, Blog, and Free
Website: https://obsidian.md/
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Link pages
Graph view
Customizable with backlinked notes
★★★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
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