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  1. A tailor-made writing application for fiction writers that lets you plan, organize, and write stories and series. You can create story outlines from pre-defined templates, create and manage rich and interesting characters, build immersive fictional worlds and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Dabble icon
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    Craft your story. Write your novel. Dabble is software for writing novels for the desktop (Mac and Windows) and browser, syncing between computers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    Note: the "artifact" is to censor a word and is NOT a part of the program's function; this was added in after the screenshot was taken.
  3. Atlantis is an innovative, no-nonsense word processor carefully designed with the end-user in mind. Compact, fast-loading, but still powerful and efficient, Atlantis will be the perfect companion for a wide range of your word processing tasks, – from simple to most complex.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. With Plume Creator, organize your writing projects ! Scenes, notes, characters,... Rich Text editing, full screen editing and multiple projects …

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Plume Creator screenshot 1
    Plume Creator screenshot 1
  5. Nimble Writer is a general-purpose tool for writing stories, be it short fiction stories or even complete novels or books. It focuses on being distraction-free, simple, and fully customizable.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
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  6. Indigrid icon
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    A new medium for your ideas—augment your thinking with a text editor designed for structuring lists. Side-by-side views allow 3 modes of thinking.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Writer, part of the Apache OpenOffice icon Apache OpenOffice suite, is an open-source word processor. It supports the ISO standard Open Document Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office 97-2003 formats, Microsoft Office 2007...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Main window
    Example
  8. Dynalist icon
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    Dynalist is a web app that lets you break down and organize your thoughts in the format of lists.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    Web
    Dark theme
    Mobile
    +7
    Mobile dark theme
  9. Celtx icon
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    Based on the Firefox engine, supports standards, visual storyboarding, production scheduling, publication & international languages MUI support. Free tutorials, videos & wiki are available from the site. There is a very helpful community too.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  10. Note taking open-source application aimed to have both a simple interface but keeping smart behavior.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  11. FuseBase icon
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    AI-powered platform with customizable client portals, unlimited accounts, internal workspaces, collaborative editing, task management, and no-code knowledge bases.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Internal and external collaboration.
    AI Agents
    Pre-Sales / Proposals
    +3
    Client onboarding
  12. RunaBook icon
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    RunaBook is a tool for creating notes, managing tasks, and establishing knowledge bases. It features a tree-structured record system for easy organization, and offers various field types for data entry, such as text, number, date/time, and labels.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    RunaBook screenshot 1
    RunaBook screenshot 1
  13. hastebin icon
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    Pad editor for source code.personal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Ruby
    • JavaScript
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
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  14. Slidium icon
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    Rich Markdown Presentations editor for Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Main interface of Slidium
    Multiple theme support
    built for productivity: autocompletion and SVG icons support
  15. GitPitch icon
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    An alternative to Powerpoint and Keynote for everyone on Git. Create public, private, and password-protected slideshow presentations using the tools you already know and love : Markdown + Git.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    GitPitch screenshot 1
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    +1
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  16. PileMD icon
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    PileMd has a really beautiful Markdown Editor, looks like Preview. It's like a RichText Editor but it's actually Markdown, and it works like a word processor, complete with Undo/Redo histories, list completion and clickable urls.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Beautiful but simple editor.
    Open links in browser.
    Simple and efficient note-keeping interface.
    +1
    Full task history with drag and drop control.
  17. Cloud-based word processor featuring AI-powered assistant, editing tools, document publishing, e-signatures, mobile apps, and MS Word compatibility.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
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    +5
    Zoho Writer screenshot 3
  18. Documize icon
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    Documize creates the Enterprise Knowledge Backbone by unifying docs, wiki, reporting and dashboards — composition + coordination + discovery + distribution + workflows = faster business outcomes

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  19. Leanote icon
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    Leanote provides services for note and blog. You can use "note" as your personal notebook, if you want to share with friends, just publish note or notebook to the blog.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    Leanote screenshot 1
  20. This is a fast plain text editor designed with what we believe "a good writing experience" should be. Pure Writer is minimalistic and it allows you to write at your heart's content anytime, anywhere without fearing that you'll lose your content ever again.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    Pure Writer screenshot 1
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    +5
    Pure Writer screenshot 3
  21. Inkdrop icon
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    The note-taking app with robust Markdown editor, supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux. This app is designed to be the most convenient way to make notes in Markdown for your daily hacking.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
    Beautiful UI
    Dark theme
    Multi platform support
    +2
    iOS support
  22. Byword icon
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    Byword is designed to make writing more enjoyable with Markdown on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  23. iA Writer icon
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    The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. The key is focus. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  24. ghostwriter is a feature-rich text editor using Markdown syntax which makes it suitable for note-taking, document redaction, simple HTML website creation and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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  25. Haroopad icon
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    Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author various formats of documents such as blog article, slide, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Haroopad screenshot 1
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  26. Zettlr icon
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    Comprehensive writing tool for notes, citations, and drafting with privacy-first features and multi-language support, perfect for diverse writing tasks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    Zettlr Main Window (dark mode)
    Zettlr Main Window (light mode)
    The Berlin Theme (dark mode)
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    The Berlin Theme (light mode)
  27. A markdown editor for desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
    Inline preview as you type
    Preview images, math formulas, todo lists and iframes (such as Youtube videos)
    Code coloration
    +2
    Spell checker
  28. Next generation desktop rich content editor that saves documents with themes. HTML & Markdown compatible. For Windows, OS X & Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    (Un)colored screenshot 1
    Stop worrying about alignments, colors, font sizes, margins and let document themes handle that for you.

Once saved on your computer, your documents can be viewed directly in your favorite Web browser.
A document with a theme can be opened and saved with another theme endlessly, like any other document.

Oh, by the way, (Un)colored interface can also be customized with themes.
    For those who don't care about document themes and usually use Markdown language, (Un)colored allows you to open & save Markdown documents with a WYSIWYG editor, not with a 2 panels text/preview editor like we usually see it.
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    (Un)colored includes classic & standard word processor tools like Bold, Italic, Links, etc., but also Web-oriented tools like videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and even Twitch livestreams.

You can even include any type of embed content to your documents like SoundCloud tracks, Facebook posts, etc. thanks to the Embed Content tool !

You want to express how :joy: your sentence is ? No problem, (Un)colored support emojis :smirk: :thumbsup:
  29. Writemonkey is a Windows zenware writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    The interface, full screen.
    The interface, windowed.
    Some options.
    +4
    WriteMonkey screenshot 3
  30. Quiver icon
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    Quiver is a notebook built for programmers. It lets you easily mix text, code and Markdown within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor, live preview Markdown and LaTeX cells, and find any note instantly via the full-text search.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  31. Notion icon
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    Streamline teamwork with real-time collaboration, drag-and-drop content organization, and visual simplicity across notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  32. Turtl icon
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    Whether it's bookmarks or passwords, files or shopping lists...Turtl organizes it all and makes it easy to find later. Sync across your devices. Leave nothing behind.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
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  33. End-to-end encrypted note-taking with offline access, unlimited sync across devices, tagging, passcode and biometric security, plus advanced premium privacy features.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • F-Droid
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    Free version.
    Cross-platform sync and end-to-end privacy
    +4
    Extensions and Themes
  34. NoteLedge icon
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    Capture inspiration from the web, organize ideas in one place, create mood boards, make sketches, and share with multimedia aids for creative projects.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
    NoteLedge screenshot 1
    NoteLedge screenshot 1
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  35. Annotate with anyone, anywhere Our mission is to bring a new layer to the web. Use Hypothes.is to discuss, collaborate, organize your research, or take personal notes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Hypothes.is screenshot 1
    Highlight
    Annotate
    +1
    Reply
  36. Diigo icon
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    Save, annotate, and organize web resources with highlighters, sticky notes, cross-device sync, Outliner, advanced search, and flexible sharing options.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Diigo screenshot 1
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  37. Refind icon
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    Discover, save, and read what's worth your attention.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    Refind screenshot 1
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  38. Elephant icon
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    Elephant is a notetaker with a classic interface you already know.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Elephant screenshot 1
    Elephant screenshot 1
  39. NixNote icon
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    NixNote, formerly Nevernote, is an open source client for Evernote icon Evernote .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    NixNote screenshot 1
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    +4
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  40. MyTetra icon
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    MyTetra is open source and cross platform personal manager for information accumulation. It is powerful program for data memorization and structuring notes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MeeGo
    MyTetra screenshot 1

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it's good to know about all text-oriented apps in the world but some methodology on discerning between them would be nice since there's a lot of overlap in features.

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