SmartEdit Writer
The facts below are what the maker publishes about SmartEdit Writer, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From SmartEdit Writer's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Windows application · 100% free |
The facts
Each one read from SmartEdit Writer's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Automatic saving
- The maker says project changes are saved as the writer works, without requiring a save-button click.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Backup limit
- Automatic backups do not include the actual external files and images added to the Research tree.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Editing checks
- SmartEdit Editor highlights items such as repeated words and phrases, adverbs, clichés, dialogue tags, homonyms, long sentences, and punctuation for the writer to review.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Editing limits
- SmartEdit Editor does not suggest replacements or make changes to scenes; the writer decides what to change.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- basicchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Fragments
- Fragments stores scenes or notes set aside from the manuscript, and they are left out when creating a single manuscript document.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes the software as being for novel and short-story writers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Offline mode
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Payment security
- For purchases, the maker says FastSpring handles payment and does not pass card or bank-account numbers to SmartEdit; it describes FastSpring as PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant and GDPR compliant.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The maker says website analytics use Statcounter cookies and retain partial IP-address and country data for no longer than six months.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Publishing tools
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- SmartEdit Writer is free software for planning, writing, and editing novels and short stories.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Real-time collaboration
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Research
- The Research tree can hold notes, images, files, PDFs, and bookmarks to web pages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Scene writing
- Writers can organize a manuscript into folders and scenes, then rearrange scenes by dragging and dropping them.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker points users to help resources, tutorials, a Getting Started video, and support forums.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Version history
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Word documents
- The project uses DOCX files and can export scenes into a single Word document.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Athy, County Kildare, Irelandchecked 28 Sep 2026
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