Apps tagged with 'Novel Writing'

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  1. GrinTale icon
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    Cloud novel editor with binder, corkboard, character sheets, mind maps, auto chapter import, export to PDF, DOCX, EPUB, multilingual, free trial.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU
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  2. Pubcraft icon
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    PubCraft is a free, local, open-source desktop application designed for indie authors and writers who want to format professional books without proprietary lock-in or high costs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Self-Hosted
    • CH flagSwitzerland
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  3. Qenna Writer icon
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    Created by a writer and designed for other writers, Qenna Writer brings together a wide range of tools built specifically for the art of fiction. Whether you're managing projects and documents, tackling intense brainstorming sessions, or simply putting your ideas down on...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • BR flagBrazil
    And Editor that's stay out of your way.
    Choose your theme or create one.
    Use the Planning Board to navigate on your ideas or create them.
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    Discipline matters. Stay sharp.
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  4. Draftline icon
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    Free, open source, local-first novel editor with writing, planning, continuity checks, prose analysis, typeset export, and BYO cloud sync. No account or subscription required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    The writing editor with the Writing Dashboard open, showing manuscript word count against your target, daily goals, session stats, and a chapter-by-chapter length breakdown, all updating as you write.
    The Pacing panel scores prose tempo from sentence shape and dialogue and tracks flow across the whole book, shown here in both dark and light themes. The read-aloud player runs along the bottom, highlighting each sentence as it's read.
    The Planner timeline, with story lines for the main plot, subplots, and each character running across chapters. Plot cards show location, status, and characters, and your codex characters can be added as their own lanes.
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    The Scratchpad docked below the manuscript, so your outline and notes sit right under the chapter you're drafting. The same notes open in the Planner too, and nothing in the scratchpad ever touches the manuscript.
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  5.  1 like

    Local-first writing workspace for planning, drafting, revising, organizing and publishing books and article collections in one portable project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Mac
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  6. LitMemo icon
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    A worldbuilding-first writing workspace for novelists and manga creators that keeps every character, setting, and plot thread consistent — with an AI that has actually read your story.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • US flagUnited States
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  7. InkSpine icon
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    Offline-first writing app for fiction, memoir and non-fiction: a Markdown editor, structured notes on people, places and ideas, and EPUB, DOCX and PDF export.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU
    The editor: a chapter in the manuscript, with the project tree and inspector
    The corkboard: chapters as cards you can reorder
    Story arcs drawn as lanes across the chapters, showing where a thread went quiet
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    Worldbuilding: characters, locations and lore that link into the manuscript
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  8. Fernanda icon
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    Fernanda is a desktop writing app for long-form prose. Like Obsidian, a vault is just a folder on your computer, but Fernanda is built for writing projects rather than note-taking: everything you write stays in plain-text files you own and can open in any editor.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
    OS light and dark composite
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    OS light
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  9. Chaptora icon
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    Chaptora is a browser-based book editor for fiction and non-fiction authors. The AI reads your chapters and the research you upload before it suggests anything, and every change arrives as a red/green diff you approve or reject.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • AT flagAustria
    • European Union flagEU
    The Editor
    AI Agent
    AI Sidebar
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    Inline AI
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  10. A privacy-first, subscription-free desktop writing studio for authors powered by local offline AI and rich manuscript tools.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU
    Working Desk
    Tools
    Chapter Summary (Rolling Memory)
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  11. The first open-source, privacy-first PWA novel editor with a Local RAG engine to ensure narrative consistency without leaving your browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • ES flagSpain
    • European Union flagEU
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  12. Writing a book on your phone shouldn't feel like typing in a generic notes app. You need a dedicated space to draft, structure chapters, and visualize the final published page. Welcome to the only mobile manuscript studio built for indie authors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • US flagUnited States
    Your Manuscript Studio
    Rich Chapter Editor
    Live Device Preview
    6 alternatives
  13. Narrative provides a focused writing environment that syncs across your devices. It features a clean, minimalist interface with customizable fonts and no pop-ups. It offers grammar, spelling, and style checks across multiple languages, allowing you to decide which suggestions to...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  14. MuseAuthor is a web-based AI writing studio for authors and self-publishers. It guides a non-fiction book through seven steps, from the initial idea to a manuscript ready for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU
    How the free trial works: 20 credits with no card, then a one-time €19 purchase for 40 more credits valid 12 months. No subscription.
    Chapter writing in English and Italian side by side: the English source on the left, the Italian translation on the right, both editable.
    The MuseAuthor home screen, with the non-fiction and fiction workflows.
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    Covers generated by MuseAuthor in the format useful for KDP 2060X3100 px
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  15. Plotiar icon
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    The writing app for authors, academics, and worldbuilders who need to plan, write, and collaborate - all in one place.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Editor page
    Analyze page
    Flowcharts page
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    Plotgrid page
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  16. OpusWriter is an all-in-one desktop app for novelists that replaces a stack of specialized tools for plotting, character development, writing, editing, series management, and formatting books for publication.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
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  17. Inkling icon
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    Inkling is an all-in-one home for fiction writers and worldbuilders. Draw a fantasy world map or a city on real street plans, drop in castles, ports, forests and sea serpents, and name every place. Then write the story set there: your chapters, characters, storyboard and maps...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • US flagUnited States
    A fantasy world map with named realms, made in the Inkling map maker
    A town map drawn on a real street plan, with stamped buildings and a map key
    A city map with parks, landmarks and named places
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  18. All-in-one fiction writing and worldbuilding platform for drafting, planning, collaboration, beta feedback, publishing, and author pages.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • US flagUnited States
    Character Builder
    World Builder
    Location Builder
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    Atlas Builder
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  19. NovelDay icon
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    Ad-free platform for serialized web novels with genre browsing, bookmarks, reading progress, typography controls, and a rich author editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  20. CipherWrite is a web-based book writing application designed for long, unfinished works such as novels or memoirs. It encrypts every word in your browser before storing it, ensuring your draft remains unreadable to the service, safe from breaches, and can't be used for AI...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • IN flagIndia
    An encrypted reference for everything that isn't the manuscript: characters, locations, timelines, factions and worldbuilding notes. Each entry is encrypted on your device like the chapters are, so the private details of your book — real names in a memoir, an unpublished plot twist — stay unreadable to the service.
    A story-generation workspace for the blank-page moments: character names, plot twists, "what if" turns and outline options, generated in your genre and carried back into the draft. Useful when you know the shape of the scene but not what happens in it.
    The home view for your books: word counts, daily goal and streak, recent chapters, and what you touched last, so a session starts where you left off instead of with a file tree. It's also where stalled projects surface — the signal The Finisher acts on.
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    A library of 18 long-form craft guides covering story structure, character psychology, dialogue and subtext, pacing, point of view, theme, scene construction, self-editing and the submission package. They double as the source material for the AI Writing Coach's curriculum, so the advice in the guides and the advice in the app are the same advice.
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