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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 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
The Internet's best write-reward system! Write one hundred words, get an image of a kitten!
Platforms: Online
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Blog, and Free
Website: https://writtenkitten.co/
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Kittens!
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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
LanguageTool’s multilingual grammar, style, and spell checker is used by millions of people around the world.
Platforms: Online, Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, PC
Best for: Editing, Proofreading, Essay, Blog, and Free
Website: https://languagetool.org/
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Personal dictionary
Distraction-free writing experience
Quality scoring for your texts
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.8 ★ 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
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.3 ★ 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
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
Textilus Pro is a great word processor app for students and business people, also being excellent for writing reports, papers, blog posts, journals or ebooks! Textilus Pro can help you organize your research, generate ideas, and remove distractions so you can focus on the most important thing: writing.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Blog, Essay, and Free
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textilus-pro-word-processor...
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MLA and APA format and citations
Create your own templates
Dark mode & split screen mode
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on the App Store
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
Whether you’re brainstorming ideas, presenting in meetings, or managing tasks, Ayoa provides you with flexibility and intuitive working methods every step of the way.
Platforms: Online, Mac, Windows, Android, PC
Best for: Outlining, Blog, and Essay
Website: https://www.ayoa.com/
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Collaborative online whiteboard
Mind mapping
Focus on progress
Idea bank
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.1 ★ on Google Play
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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Also rated 3.2 ★ 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
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
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
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.8 ★ on Capterra
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