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Showing 65 writing apps that match your search.
Do you have a story to tell? Unlike conventional word processors, Storyist helps you track your plot, characters, and settings, and keeps all of your writing organized and accessible—so you can focus on telling your story.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, Book, and Story
Website: https://storyist.com/
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Stylesheets for manuscripts
Flexible outliner
Story development tools
★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on PC Magazine
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
Mind mapping starts with a main idea in the center of your mind map. As your map takes shape, add context to topics with attachments, embedded media and more. MindMeister’s features guide you through your first mind maps onto maximum creativity.
Platforms: Online, iPhone, iPad, Android
Best for: Outlining, Journal, Poetry, and Free
Website: https://www.mindmeister.com/
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Outline mode & focus mode
Comments and notifications
Collaboration
★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.7 ★ on Capterra
Capture what’s on your mind. Add notes, lists, photos, and audio to Keep.
Platforms: Online, iPhone, iPad, Android
Best for: Note-taking, Story, Book, Blog, Journal, Poetry, and Free
Website: https://www.google.com/keep/
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Set reminders
Share easily
Quick search and filter
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
In Outline you can create notebooks for your personal needs of widest range: travel or recipe book, any kind of journal or diary, photo album, daily planner, and so on and so forth. Just everything you could imagine!
Platforms: iPhone, iPad, Mac
Best for: Note-taking and Journal
Website: https://outline.app/
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Multi-touch gestures
Handwriting functionalities
Hightlight and annotate
★★★ Performance
★★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 4.2 ★ 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
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
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
★★★ Performance
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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
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on the App Store
Mellel is a word processor designed from the ground up to be the ultimate writing tool for academics, technical writers, scholars and students. Mellel is strong, stable and reliable, and is the ideal companion for working on documents that are long and complex, short and simple, or anything in between.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Outlining, Drafting, and Essay
Website: https://mellel.com/
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Outline
Bibliography
Footnotes and endnotes
Multilingual support
★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
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Also rated 3.2 ★ on the App Store
A tactile tool to randomly combine a plot, a subject and a setting or style, the Brainstormer can provide that elusive moment of inspiration for writers, painters, or any kind of creative endeavour.
Platforms: iPhone, iPad
Best for: Brainstorming, Book, and Story
Website: https://www.tapnik.com/brainstormer/
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Lists of 100s of prompts
Wheel Mode & Slot Machine Mode
Random spin to combine different ideas
★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 3.5 ★ on the App Store
Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone, iPad
Best for: Note-taking, Drafting, Book, Story, Essay, Blog, and Free
Website: https://bear.app/
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Focus & dark mode
Encryption
Convert into PDF and Word Docs
Cross note links & tags
★★★★ Performance
★★★ Features
★★★ Accessibility
★★★ Value
Also rated 4.3 ★ on the App Store
Bring your stories to life
Our free writing app lets you set writing goals and track your progress, so you can finally write that book!