Free Novel Authoring Tools

Open-source writing tool with hierarchical outliner, distraction-free editor, character management, plot development, Snowflake method, and writing goal support.

The simplest way to go from first draft to a professionally published book. See your words come to life.

Desktop software for novel creation providing chapter and scene organization, export to PDF, DOCX, distraction-free writing, timeline, goals, and character tools.

The only app you'll need to write your novels and build your worlds. Organize your thoughts and cross-reference anything at any time.

Focus 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.

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.

yWriter 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.

novelWriter 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.

Free 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.

A simple tool for building stories.

oStorybook 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.

Skribisto is born from the ashes of Plume Creator , keeping the goals while adopting more recent ways to think an application.

Organize your ideas, create memorable characters, build immersive worlds, and write captivating stories. Tintero is your ideal companion to take your creative projects to the next level, from planning to book generation.

Effie is a light, clean, yet powerful markup-based writing and mind-mapping software that works across devices/platforms to capture your thoughts and help you write immersively and productively anywhere, anytime.

Fortelling provides the tools you need to plot & write your book.

Campfire provides a one-stop-shop for novelists: organizational and writing tools (Campfire Write), a hub of writing resources (Campfire Learn), & a writing and reading platform for building an audience and sharing your work (Campfire Explore).

A powerful online and offline writing tool accessible from any device with chapter organization, advanced grammar check, and version history features.

ExcellentWriter is supposed to be a tool which lets you organize, write and format your novel inside Excel and in the end lets you use the power of Word to do the finishing touches.

Super-clean writing space with a lot of configurability that stays out of sight when you don’t need it.

Characters and Worlds we will never forget.

Ever imagined a paradise for all book lovers out there? Tired of Wattpad being.... well Wattpad?

Govel is a lightweight novel writing and organizing software designed with the intention to leave your hands where they belong: on the keyboard.

A most awesome tool to outline and write novels, stories, scripts and keep track of all your characters, locations, notes and ideas.

Story Plotter is plot creation app.

Looking for a suite of tools for writing your book? This is not just a text editor it does so much more. Organise your story using timelines, planning boards and the snowflake tool, all integrated to make writing intuitive and fun.