30 alternatives · from book writing software

Alternatives to yWriter

yWriter helps novelists shape a manuscript as chapters and scenes without generating plot ideas or other creative work. Scenes can move between chapters, remain outside word counts and exports, and carry viewpoint, goal, conflict, outcome, and character details. It records project and daily word totals, saves automatic backups and timed scene snapshots, and includes publishing tools, version history, offline use, mobile apps, and extensive export formats. Windows stores data…

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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.

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Novlr

Novlr is a creative writing workspace for planning, drafting, and publishing projects.

Free planAndroidiOSWeb

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Pagewright

Pagewright is novel-writing software that helps authors map story beats, build an outline, keep story structure visible while drafting, and export a…

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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
7.5From $29.99 a month
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Dabble
Dabble is a writing tool for fiction authors, especially novelists, ranging from first-time hobbyists to professional writers.
AndroidiOSWebLinux
7.4From $19 a month
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Novelcrafter
Novelcrafter is a writing platform for authors working across genres, forms, and styles, from beginners to published writers.
AndroidiOSWeb
7.4From $4 a month
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Plot Factory
Plot Factory is an online story planner for organizing and writing stories and fictional universes.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb
7.4From $9 a month
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DragonWriter
DragonWriter is an online app for writing, organizing, and sharing stories, with tools for drafting and connecting with other writers.
Free planAndroidiOSWebmacOS
7.3Free plan
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Sudowrite
Sudowrite is an AI writing partner focused on fiction, with tools for drafting, revising, describing, expanding, feedback, brainstorming, and AI chat.
AndroidiOSWeb
7.3From $10 a month
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Manuscribe
Free planWeb
7.2From $17 a month
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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
7.2
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NovelPad
NovelPad is a novel-writing application for professional and aspiring novelists, available as desktop software and on the web.
WebLinuxmacOSWindows
7.0From $150 a year
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bibisco
bibisco is a novel-planning and writing app for organizing projects across desktop, web, and mobile platforms.
AndroidiOSWebWindows
6.9From €29.99 a year
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Novvler
Novvler is a writing app for novelists to draft, import, organize, and export manuscripts while tracking which words are theirs.
Free planiOSWeb
6.9From $9 a month
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Author's Forge
Author's Forge is a local-first writing app for drafting, organizing, formatting, and publishing books.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.8From $20 a month
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Storyist
Storyist helps novelists and screenwriters organize writing, plots, characters, settings, and publishing work on macOS and iOS.
iOSmacOS
6.8
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Wavemaker Cards
Wavemaker Cards is book-planning and writing software for developing a novel from an initial idea into chapters and scenes.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux
6.8Free plan
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LivingWriter
LivingWriter is writing software for drafting and organizing manuscripts, with chapters and subchapters in its editor.
Free planAndroidiOSWebWindows
6.7Free plan
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My Storybook
My Storybook is a web tool for creating storybooks with writing, illustrations, and characters.
Free planWeb
6.6From $10 a month
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Novellum
Novellum is a web writing workspace for novelists, world-builders, memoir writers, biographers, and researchers.
Free planWeb
6.6From $15 a month
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Novilot
Novilot is a web writing app for novelists that checks manuscripts for continuity and helps writers build a story bible.
Free planWeb
6.6From $19 a month
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NovelOS Studio
NovelOS Studio is a paid writing environment for novelists, available on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and the web.
AndroidiOSWebmacOS
6.5$45 one-time
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novelWriter
novelWriter is a free, open-source plain text editor for organizing fiction projects and their notes as smaller documents.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.5Free plan
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Plumelisse
Plumelisse is a web app for writing and organizing novels, books, screenplays, manuscripts, and other written projects.
Free planWeb
6.5From €79 a year
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Atticus
Atticus is a book-writing and formatting tool with publishing tools, real-time collaboration, and EPUB, PDF, and DOCX export.
AndroidiOSWebWindows
6.4From $147 a month
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Manuskript
Manuskript is a free desktop writing tool for writers who prefer to plan and organize before drafting.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.4Free plan
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OpusWriter
LinuxmacOSWindows
6.4$129 one-time
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Quoll Writer
Quoll Writer is a free desktop application for writers who want to organize a project and concentrate on drafting.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.3Free plan
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Fyrlo
AndroidiOS
6.2From $34.99 a year
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oStorybook
oStorybook is free desktop software for writers, essayists, and authors who want to organize a story from its early draft through finished work.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.2Free plan
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