Designed for creative writers, JotterPad is a plain text editor without the fuss and distraction of a word processor. It is perfect for writing books, novels, lyrics, poems, essays, drafts and screenplays. The clean typing interface allows you to focus on shaping your thoughts into text. Dive into your work without having any distractions and write to your hearts’ content.
Writer's essentials
JotterPad comes with a feature-packed text editor that no writers should leave without. Some of our favourites include dark theme, phrase search, Markdown, extended keyboard, word count, typewriter scrolling, snapshots (version control) and many more. Markdown now supports table, bulleted list and check list.
Unleash your creativity
With a collection of beautiful typefaces and customisable typography, you can create your own personal writing space to help your creativity to flow and stay engaged in writing.
Write and edit your work in Cloud
Connect to all your favourite cloud services (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive) and continue writing anywhere even when offline. JotterPad syncs your work when you are online with its powerful synchronisation. You can also link to unlimited cloud services with Cloud+!
Research at your fingertips
The built-in dictionary helps you to search for words definition quickly and accurately. Find new ways to express commonly used phrases and be inspired by new words with our thesaurus and rhyming dictionary.
Publish your work
Print your writings to PDF and share them on-the-go at your convenience. Export your work to popular formats such as .docx and .rtf and continue to edit them on those platforms.
Distraction-free screenwriting
Do what you do best, write. JotterPad handles the rest by turning your Fountain script into a professional screenplay, ready to be exported as Final Draft .fdx and PDF. Discover more screenwriting tools available in JotterPad Pro.
Comments and Reviews
I purchased Creative upgrade when it was 75% off back in 2017. There were Creative upgrade (one-time payment) and Cloud+ plan (subscription), Creative upgrade allowed 1 out of 3 cloud storage service connected while Cloud+ plan allowed 3 out of 3 cloud storage services connected (GDrive, Onedrive, Dropbox). I went with Creative upgrade because I needed just 1 cloud storage connection and it included nice additions such as dark theme (that's atrocious if you ask me).
Fast forward to 2020, they took away cloud storage sync capability that I bought for and put it into an excessive subscription plan named Pro Cloud. Pro Cloud plan is basically Pro upgrade (introduced in 2019, was one-time payment, higher than Creative) and Cloud+ plan mashed together and priced twice as much than the original Pro upgrade, per year!
Nice bait-and-switch.
You might want to use MetaCtrl (Android, free) to sync with cloud storage but it works different because MetaCtrl downloads files to local storage then uploads back the changed files and syncing is much slower than the app having direct access to cloud storage.