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Showing 46 writing apps that match your search.
Elevate your writing, create beautiful documents, and collaborate with others—anywhere, anytime.
Platforms: Online, Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Chrome, PC
Best for: Drafting, Essay, Journal, Book, Story, Poetry, and Blog
Website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/word
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Sharing and real-time collaboration
Premium templates and stickers
Dictation and transcription
★★★★ Performance
★★★★★ Features
★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
Ever scribbled ideas on a piece of paper and drawn lines between related thoughts? Then you already know what Scapple does. It's a virtual sheet of paper that lets you make notes anywhere and connect them using lines or arrows.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Outlining, Journal, Book, Story, Essay, Poetry, and Blog
Website: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview
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Write notes anywhere
Connect notes using drag and drop
Completely freeform
★★★★ Performance
★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
★★ Value
Also rated 5.0 ★ on TechRadar
Compose bold, clear, mistake-free writing with Grammarly. Work with an AI writing partner that helps you find the words you need—to write that tricky email, to get your point across, to keep your work moving.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Chrome, Online, PC
Best for: Editing, Proofreading, Book, Essay, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.grammarly.com/
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Grammar & plagiarism checker
Tone detector
Citation generator
★★★★ Performance
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★★★ Value
Also rated 4.4 ★ 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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The simplest way to keep notes. All your notes, synced on all your devices.
Platforms: Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, PC, Chrome, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Book, Story, Journal, and Free
Website: https://simplenote.com/
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Automatic syncing
Tags for organization
Share documents and notes
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on TechRadar
Manuskript is a perfect tool for those writer who like to organize and plan everything before writing. The snowflake method can help you grow your idea into a book, by leading you step by step and asking you questions to go deeper.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, PC
Best for: Outlining, Story, Book, and Free
Website: https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/
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Index cards
Outliner
Frequency analyzer
★★★ Performance
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Remember everything and tackle any project with your notes, tasks, and schedule all in one place.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android, Mac, Online, Chrome, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Outlining, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://evernote.com/
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Syncs across devices
Search within documents
Clip web pages and PDFs
Dozens of app integrations and templates
★★★★ Performance
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★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.4 ★ on the App Store
Don't let your word processor drag your process down. Ironically enough, traditional word processors weren’t designed for writers. Dabble’s book-writing software was developed for writers, by a writer.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, Chrome, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, and Story
Website: https://www.dabblewriter.com/
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Cloud storage
Word counts & goals
Co-authoring
★★★ Performance
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★ Value
Cold Turkey Writer transforms your computer into a typewriter, which forces you to do nothing but write.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://getcoldturkey.com/writer/
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Distraction-free writing
Timer block
Word count block
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work.
Platforms: Windows, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
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Full screen hide-away interface
Timers & daily goals
Customizable themes
Live statistics
★★★★★ Performance
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★★★ Accessibility
★★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
FreeOffice 2021 is a complete Office suite with a word processor, a spreadsheet application and a presentation program – all seamlessly compatible with their counterparts in Microsoft Office.
Platforms: Mac, PC, Windows
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.freeoffice.com/en/
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Full feature word processor
Create and open PDFs
Track changes
★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
Create documents, make impact. When your work needs to wow, Craft gives you the tools to make it magnificent.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Online, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Journal, Essay, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.craft.do/
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AI writing assistant
Document structuring
Customizable
Collaboration
★★★★ Performance
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★★★★★ Accessibility
★★★★ Value
Also rated 4.9 ★ on the App Store
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