A local-first writing app for people who think in Markdown. Your vault is a folder. Every note is a .md file.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Spain
EU
Rayuela Editor Alternatives
Apps similar to Rayuela Editor include Zettlr, which is free and open source. Other options are Scrivener, Manuskript, Rentry.co and Dendron. You're spoiled for choice with Novel Authoring Tools like Rayuela Editor: we list more than 50 alternatives for Windows, the web, Mac, Linux and iPhone.
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Great online app for writers, novelists, and bloggers. Manage project timelines, outlines, characters, locations and objects, upload photos and reorganize it all as much as you need to. Contextual inline notes (including to-do items, photos, and videos) to help you keep your...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
Storyloft is an AI-powered writing, design, and publishing platform that helps authors write, edit, format, and publish books—all in one place.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
United States
Fountain is inspired by Markdown syntax, intended as a simple markup syntax for writing, editing and sharing screenplays in plain, human-readable text.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- BSD
- Objective-C
- United States
Free Scrivener-style novel writing app in your browser: binder, corkboard, plot board, outliner, character sheets, and compile to PDF, DOCX and ePub.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- United States
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Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- United States
+8
Created by a writer and designed for other writers, Qenna Writer brings together a wide range of tools built specifically for the art of fiction. Whether you're managing projects and documents, tackling intense brainstorming sessions, or simply putting your ideas down on...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
Brazil
+3
Inkbreaker is a full writing platform for your whole writing practice. Draft and publish in a real editor, build a body of work, and grow alongside a community of working writers. It supports fiction, nonfiction, poetry, copywriting, journalism, technical writing, screenwriting...
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- United States
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Free, open source, local-first novel editor with writing, planning, continuity checks, prose analysis, typeset export, and BYO cloud sync. No account or subscription required.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Mac
- United States
+2
Browser-based novel writing app for drafting chapters while keeping character sheets and world-building in a linked Codex. It includes timelines, grammar tools, repetition and weak-verb checks, exports to PDF, Word, or text, plus optional AI extraction and voice dictation without AI-generated prose.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Canada
+3
A distraction-free writing app for novelists whose AI never writes your prose — it tracks characters, checks consistency, and keeps your structure in view.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
Slovakia- EU
+2
A minimal writing and worldbuilding app that lets you draft stories, organize story elements, and connect everything in one unified workspace.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Global
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