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.
Platforms
- Windows
United States
Typewriter Alternatives
Typewriter is described as 'Free book writing editor with AI co-author, story bible, character tracking, and chapter management. The Scrivener alternative that lives in your browser' and is an app. There are more than 50 alternatives to Typewriter for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Typewriter alternative is Zettlr, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Typewriter are Manuskript, Scrivener, Rentry.co and Dendron.
Alternatives list
87 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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- iPhone
- iPad
- United States
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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
79 Novlr alternativesAdvanced 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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
United Kingdom
+6
Effie is a light, clean, yet powerful markup-based writing and mind-mapping software that works across devices/platforms to capture your thoughts and help you write immersively and productively anywhere, anytime.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- United States
+6
82 Storyist alternativesA powerful writing environment for novelists and screenwriters
Do you have a story to tell? Unlike conventional word processors, Storyist helps you track your plot, characters, and settings, and keeps all of your writing organized and accessible—so you can focus on telling your.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- United States
+4
116 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).
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Windows
- Mac
- iPad
- Android Tablet
- United States
+9
ExcellentWriter is supposed to be a tool which lets you organize, write and format your novel inside Excel and in the end lets you use the power of Word to do the finishing touches.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
+7
81 Plottr alternativesVisual story plotting software for planning novels with drag and drop scenes, timeline and outline views, centralized notes, features for making characters and locations, color coding, tagging, syncing across devices, and exporting to multiple formats.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- United States
+1
40 Lattics alternativesLattics is an all-in one knowledge management tool. It offers most of the things in Obsidian, Scrivener and Zotero together.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
China
+9
80 Celtx alternativesBased 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
Canada
Looking for a suite of tools for writing your book? This is not just a text editor it does so much more. Organise your story using timelines, planning boards and the snowflake tool, all integrated to make writing intuitive and fun.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- United Kingdom
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