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Showing 64 writing apps that match your search.
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
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
Ignite your creativity. Coach your brain to think creatively & spark brilliant ideas at work and in life.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad
Best for: Outlining, Journal, and Free
Website: https://brainsparker.com/
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Creative card decks
Templates
Creative workouts
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.7 ★ 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
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
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★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.8 ★ 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
Still looking for the perfect app to write your novel? Novelist might just be the perfect tool for the job!
Platforms: Android, iPhone, iPad, Online
Best for: Outlining, Worldbuilding, Drafting, Story, Book, and Free
Website: https://www.novelist.app/
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Goal setting
Rich text editor
Back up and restore
★★★★ Performance
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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
★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.7 ★ 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
OmniOutliner is a powerful tool for organizing (and reorganizing) information, so you can see the full picture and structure your information effortlessly.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Outlining, Essay, and Blog
Website: https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner/
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Resource folders
Multitasking
Document stats
Inline notes
★★★ Performance
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★★★★ Accessibility
★★ Value
Also rated 3.2 ★ on the App Store
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
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Also rated 4.7 ★ 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
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