30 alternatives · from writing apps

Alternatives to Celtx

Celtx combines scriptwriting, story development, and production planning for film, television, theater, documentaries, commercials, and interactive media. Its editors handle screenplays, stageplays, multi-column audio-visual scripts, and game scripts; Beat Sheet and Storyboard tools support early development. Production planning adds breakdowns, schedules, cast and crew, budgets, call sheets, and reports. Teams can collaborate in real time, track revisions, and use its Adobe…

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Story Architect

Story Architect is a writing app for screenplays, comics, plays, books, and other story forms, arranged around a shared project bible.

Free planOpen sourceAndroidiOSLinux

From $4.17 a month

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Overleaf

Free planOpen sourceWebAPIExtension

From $8.25 a month

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Substack

Substack is a publishing platform for writers, creators, and subscribers, available on the web, Android, and iOS.

Free planAndroidiOSWeb

$50 one-time

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WriterDuet
WriterDuet is writing software with publishing tools for writers creating and working on projects.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux
9.0From $9.99 a month
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Calmly Writer
Calmly Writer is a writing editor built to reduce distractions and help users focus.
Free planAndroidWebLinuxmacOS
8.6Free plan
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Final Draft
Final Draft is screenwriting software that automatically formats scripts and supports writing, story planning, collaboration, and production workflows.
iOSWebmacOSWindows
8.5From $8.33 a year
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Campfire
Campfire is a platform for authors, publishers, and readers that brings together writing software, a mobile writing app, an online eBook store, and a reading app.
Free planAndroidiOSWebmacOS
8.5Free plan
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yWriter
yWriter is novel-writing software that organizes writing into chapters and scenes.
Free planAndroidiOSLinuxmacOS
8.4$5.49 one-time
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Buttondown
Buttondown is a web-based email service with a free plan and paid plans starting at $9 per month.
Free planWebAPI
8.3From $9 a month
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Pendraic
Pendraic is a writing tool for long-form fiction that keeps a book's characters, world, voice, and story details together.
Free planWebAPImacOSWindows
8.3From $14.99 a month
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Novlr
Novlr is a creative writing workspace for planning, drafting, and publishing projects.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
8.3From $8 a month
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Studiovity
AndroidiOSWebAPI
8.3
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Novelcrafter
Novelcrafter is a writing platform for authors working across genres, forms, and styles, from beginners to published writers.
AndroidiOSWeb
8.1From $4 a month
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Fade In
Fade In is screenwriting software for film, television, video games, stage, radio, and other scripts.
AndroidiOSWebLinux
8.1From $99.95 a year
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Squibler
Squibler is a web writing app for long-form projects such as books and screenplays, with AI-assisted generation and team collaboration.
Free planWeb
8.1From $29.99 a month
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Arc Studio Pro
Arc Studio Pro is screenwriting software for drafting and managing scripts on Mac, Windows, iPadOS, iOS, and browsers.
Free planiOSmacOSWindows
8.1From $69 a year
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Scrivener
Scrivener is a long-form writing app for macOS, Windows and iOS, designed for projects that can be composed in sections of any size.
iOSmacOSWindows
8.0
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Calliope
Calliope is a web-based writing tool for outlining and drafting books.
Free planWebAPI
8.0From €99 a year
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Lastslate
Lastslate is a screenplay editor for Mac and Windows with an AI collaborator that reads scripts but does not write dialogue.
Free planmacOSWindows
8.0From $10 a month
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Wayscript
Wayscript is a writing studio for novels, screenplays, and branching video game narratives.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux
8.0From $8 a month
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Ghost
Ghost is an open-source blog and newsletter platform for creators, publishers, businesses, and developers.
Web
7.9From $18 a month
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HackMD
HackMD is a web workspace for writing, sharing, and publishing Markdown notes.
Free planWeb
7.9From $5 a month
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Novelium
Free planAndroidWebmacOSWindows
7.9From $19 a month
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MyStory.today
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux
7.9From €23.99 a year
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Dabble
Dabble is a writing tool for fiction authors, especially novelists, ranging from first-time hobbyists to professional writers.
AndroidiOSWebLinux
7.8From $19 a month
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Write.as
Write.as is a publishing service for blogs and posts, with Markdown and Rich Text editing.
Free planSelf-hosted
7.7From $6 a month
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Hashnode
Hashnode is a blogging platform for developers and engineers, with tools for technical writing and publication management.
Free planWebAPI
7.7From $50 a year
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DramaQueen
DramaQueen is desktop software for developing fictional stories, from plot planning through writing, formatting, visualization, and revision.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
7.7Free plan
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Plot Factory
Plot Factory is an online story planner for organizing and writing stories and fictional universes.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
7.6From $9 a month
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Medium
Medium is a publishing platform for reading and writing on the web, iOS, and Android.
AndroidiOSWeb
7.5From $35 a year
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