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Reduce distractions, limit interruptions and complete tasks more efficiently – with Marinara online productivity timer.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Productivity, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://www.marinaratimer.com/
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Pomodoro timer
Custom timer
Kitchen timer
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.8 ★ on Google Play
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
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Also rated 4.5 ★ on the App Store
With Scrittor store all your ideas, thoughts and whatever your mind tells you.
Platforms: Android, Chrome
Best for: Note-taking, Story, Book, Blog, Journal, Poetry, and Free
Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shahid.nid
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Search notes
Password protection
Arrange notes by categories
Dark and light mode
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.4 ★ on Google Play
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
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Also rated 4.3 ★ on the App Store
Take digital handwritten notes for class, work, or fun!
Platforms: Android, Chrome
Best for: Note-taking, Essay, and Free
Website: https://www.squidnotes.com/
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Infinite pages
Vector graphics engine
Active pen technology
Annotate and markup PDFs
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Also rated 4.3 ★ on Google Play
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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Storyline Creator is an elegant writing tool that helps you streamline your writing process. It's incredibly fun to draft ideas, to visualize, enhance and organize your stories - so you can focus on your plot and the creativity instead of the paper war.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Outlining, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://www.storylinecreator.com/
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Timeline
Notebook
Character profiles
Random prompt generator
★★ Performance
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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
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Also rated 3.2 ★ on the App Store
Unload your thoughts by creating a personal layout with notes, links and media in a second to visualize your creative process and move forward faster.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android, Online, PC
Best for: Note-taking, Journal, Blog, Essay, Story, Book, and Free
Website: https://xtiles.app/en
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Realtime collaboration
Visual search
Organize visually
★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.9 ★ on Capterra
The Novel Factory helps guide new writers through the novel writing process - while completing your first manuscript.
Platforms: Mac, Windows, Online, PC
Best for: Book, Drafting, Outlining, and Story
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Plot templates
Plot manager
Character development prompts
Track your statistics
★★★ Performance
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Traditional word processors include dozens of options for formatting text, distracting you from what really matters: writing. Calmly Writer is an editor designed to focus on what you want to tell, with a simple, unobtrusive and ease-to-use user interface.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Online, Chrome, PC
Best for: Drafting, Book, Essay, Journal, Poetry, Story, Blog, and Free
Website: https://www.calmlywriter.com/
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Focus mode
Auto save
Light and dark mode
★★★★★ Performance
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Also rated 4.0 ★ on TechRadar
Made by writers, for writers, Novlr is the writing platform that will have you achieving your writing goals.
Platforms: Online
Best for: Drafting, Book, Story, and Free
Website: https://www.novlr.org/
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Distraction-free writing interface
Set goals and get motivational messages
Track your progress
★★★ Performance
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Also rated 3.0 ★ on Reedsy
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