Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
- Story Writing Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
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.
- Note-taking Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Qt
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.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+4Use your creative energy to focus on the content; let Final Draft take care of the style. Final Draft is the number-one selling word processor specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics and stage plays.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- iPhone
- iPad
+10Trelby is simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple. It is infinitely configurable.
- Story Writing Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
+4Got a story in mind, but not sure how to write it? Bookwiz's AI creates your entire book, step-by-step, from synopsis to chapters. We lay out the roadmap; you steer the course.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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).
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Windows
- Mac
- iPad
- Android Tablet
+13A powerful online and offline writing tool accessible from any device with chapter organization, advanced grammar check, and version history features.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
+6Story Planner is a focused, flexible app to outline all kind of stories. Used by writers, screenwriters, producers, directors and all kind of story tellers, Story Planner has quick and easy-to-use story organization, with sync on all your devices and export options to help you...
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
an easy-to-use online tool to write basic interactive stories that can be shared or converted to the ink scripting language and then integrated with Unity.
- Story Writing Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Self-Hosted
+3A most awesome tool to outline and write novels, stories, scripts and keep track of all your characters, locations, notes and ideas.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Windows
+8Automated archive supporting user-submitted stories in over 30 languages, with categories for genres and crossovers, reviews, profiles, and community forums.
- Story Writing Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
Novel Goggles assists writers of fiction with writing cohesive, impactful stories by allowing writers to view and update their plot outline while they're writing, and providing tools for characters, locations, settings, and timelines.
- Story Writing Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Online
+6Arc Studio Pro is a screenwriting software with features for collaboration, automated version control, and data backup. Its distraction-free interface adheres to industry-standard formatting and supports various formats like Final Draft, Word, PDF, and Fountain for seamless...
- Story Writing Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
Fullscreen software that tracks writing targets from start to finish, promoting focus by limiting text visibility and offering customizable goal setting.
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows