Novel Authoring Tools
In the old days, authoring a book was a laborious proposition. The process of writing words on a page may have been relatively easy (even in the days of typewriters), but the process of submitting your work to an editor and publisher to have it professionally proofed and authored was an ordeal, to put it lightly. Today, with software like Scrivener, the ability to create written work from drafting all the way to final formatting is easier than ever, with your hardest challenge now being the actual writing process itself. All is as it should be!
Comprehensive writing tool for notes, citations, and drafting with privacy-first features and multi-language support, perfect for diverse writing tasks.
- Note-taking Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
+5Manuskript is an open-source tool for writers, with outliner, character management, plot development, distraction-free editor, etc.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Flatpak
+5Ideal for long writing projects with flexibility in structure, Scrivener integrates easy project outlines and allows seamless restructuring with drag and drop.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- iPhone
- iPad
- PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac
- Wine
+9Discover and share artwork through an engaging platform with tagging, ratings, and customizable sharing options for a tailored experience.
- Social Network
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Desktop software for novel creation providing chapter and scene organization, export to PDF, DOCX, distraction-free writing, timeline, goals, and character tools.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron
- Node.JS
+15Ulysses is a text editor for creative writers. Used by bloggers, poets, students and published novelists all over the world, it offers an integrated environment to brainstorm, draft, revise and even submit text on a professional level.
- Text Editor
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
+5Focus on your words not the interface. Quoll Writer is a writing application that helps you focus on your words. Clean and uncluttered. Feature rich. Features are where you would expect them to be.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
OmniOutliner is a start-to-finish writing app. Perfect for collecting information, outlining Big Ideas, adding structure to any sort of writing, and much more. From grocery lists to email drafts to long-form composition.
- Note-taking Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
+7yWriter is a writing tool that uses "scenes" as a unit of text and allows you to associate that text with all manner of story elements (characters, locations, items) as well as place it and rearrange it within the context of chapters.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- Android Tablet
+3The only app you'll need to write your novels and build your worlds. Organize your thoughts and cross-reference anything at any time.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
+4novelWriter is a Markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It uses its own flavor of Markdown that supports a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis and cross-referencing between files.
- Note-taking Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Qt
A smooth yet powerful writing experience for devoted authors. With only wanted features and native workflow it runs faster than all your previous apps combined.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- AppImageHub
- Flathub
- Android
+7Free offline worldbuilding and story creation tool with dozens of templates, complex tagging options, document linking, and project-wide search. Template examples: characters, places, events, religions, currencies, magic, species, languages.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+4oStorybook is a free, open source novel-writing software for creative writers, novelists and authors which will help you to keep an overview of multiple plot-lines while writing texts.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Skribisto is born from the ashes of Plume Creator , keeping the goals while adopting more recent ways to think an application.
Discontinued- Novel Authoring Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux