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.
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Scrivener AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Story Writing Tools
The best Story Writing alternative to Scrivener is Quoll Writer, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Scrivener and many of them are Story Writing Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Story Writing Tool alternatives to Scrivener are novelWriter, Pinery, Fantasia Archive and Fortelling.
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78 novelWriter alternativesnovelWriter 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.
Combines Markdown writing, live preview, and powerful design controls with instant exports in ePub, PDF, and HTML formats. Open format Markdown file storage, no vendor lock-in, customizable themes, and full privacy with local or iCloud storage on Mac.
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42 Fantasia Archive alternativesFree 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.
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Advanced writing tool supporting online and offline modes, accessible from any device. Features chapter and scene organization, grammar checks, version history, and export options including docx and epub. Novlr syncs with cloud services for seamless access and tracks goals with analytics.
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- Freemium
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- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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61 Aevon alternativesAevon is the all-in-one workspace where authors manage manuscripts, characters, maps, lore, and items — all connected and always in sync.
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36 Trelby alternativesTrelby is simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple. It is infinitely configurable.
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Free, open-source writing app for plotters. Import your outline from Scrivener, Plottr, yWriter, or Obsidian — then draft with your scene beats, character notes, and story structure visible alongside your prose. No AI, no subscription, no cloud.
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86 Campfire Write alternativesCampfire 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).
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- Freemium
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- Online
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- Android Tablet
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63 Final Draft alternativesUse 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.
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Clean interface. No non-sense kind of software that has some of the same features of Scrivener. One particular feature I like is the software's ability to automatically link items, characters, places etc. to scenes, chapters, ideas, etc. so you know where every character, item, and place is. Great for keeping track of things in your novel. Has a few bugs here and there, but the developer is friendly, helpful, and responds back in a timely fashion.