You can read our full Scrivener review here. It also has something of a learning curve, especially for its advanced features. But it more than makes up for that by being so helpful in the early stages of the writing process. We believe in Scrivener so much, we published a book about how creative writers can write more faster using it.
While Scrivener is the best book writing software, once you get to editing and getting feedback, it begins to fall short. Best of all are its collaboration abilities, which allow you to invite your editor to the document and then watch as they make changes, which are tracked in suggestion mode, and leave comments on your story see screenshot below.
Microsoft Excel is another great option, but is a bit behind in the collaboration functions. Scrivener, Word, Pages, they all can format eBooks and print books. In fact, it takes a lot of skill and effort to format a printed book that looks good on any of those word processors. Vellum picks up where Scrivener, Word, and Pages leave off, giving you a tool to make great looking eBooks and print books, usually in under an hour.
The most important part of this is the previewer see the image below , which lets you see how each formatting change or book edit you make will appear on Kindle, Fire, iPhone, Nook, and other eReaders.
It also has stripped-down, option-based formatting, which is perfect for designing both eBooks and print books. Definitely not. If you struggle with grammar, sentence structure, spelling, or even writing style, ProWritingAid can help.
It goes far beyond your built-in spellcheck. You should still learn grammar skills, but ProWritingAid can help you start to see the patterns and grow as a writer. It can even be installed into your browser or Word processor, so you can check your grammar wherever you write.
Learn more about how writers can get the most out of ProWritingAid here. How do you know if your book will sell? How do you find the most readers on Amazon for your published book? Read our full Publisher Rocket review here. Publisher Rocket a book marketing research tool that helps you understand what readers actually want and how to connect with them with your books. Here are some things you can discover in Publisher Rocket:. Sometimes, I wish I could continue writing while I walk.
While Scrivener recently released an iOS app which allows you to sync between devices, their process is clunky and requires you to purchase both the mobile and desktop apps. These note taking apps make the process much more seamless. Like Scrivener, they all have a binder-like sidebar that allows you to move documents around. And while I hate Markdown, a markup language that allows you to format your text, I actually like the paired-down formatting options Ulysses and Bear give, especially for brainstorming.
Note: Ulysses is only available for Mac, either in the App Store or from their website. Note: Bear is also only available for Mac, either in the App Store or from their website. I have too many thoughts on that for this article, but as far as using writing software to encourage focus goes, I recommend Freedom.
You can find and use stock images to upload to Canva that you can then design and transform into a unique image. You can use Canva to make images for social media promotion, images for your blog posts, Facebook headers, and even for quick and dirty ebook covers.
While there is a paid option, the free version offers more than enough images, graphics, icons, shapes, and backgrounds for almost any image creation project. You have to be organized to be able to write. Just collecting and collating your ideas takes a lot of time in your day. Then there is your to-do list and probably a long list of pending items. But until it ever eventuates, here is a selection of some of the best productivity apps for writers. Hopefully, some of them will help you stay organized and perhaps save a little time that you can invest in writing.
Trello must be one of the most popular apps for writers. There is so much you can do to organize your writing projects, notes, and to-do lists.
You can collaborate and assign tasks, start discussions, and so much more. Trello is a beautiful as well as highly functional app. Evernote is a popular application for lots of writers. It is one of the most popular note-taking apps, but it is much more. Never let an idea escape when you are not at your keyboard. You can organize your thoughts, create checklists and to-do lists. There is also a handy web clipper that lets you save parts of web pages to help you with your writing research.
OneLook lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be anything at all: a single word, a few words, or even a whole sentence. If you are a fan of the Pomodoro technique, to improve your productivity, you will need a Pomodoro timer.
Find out with Read-O-Meter , and then you can add reading time to your blog post or article. Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in your text. You can use this browser app to see what words you are repeating too often and then make changes.
All you need to do is paste your text into the box. Then this little app will go to work and list all your repetitions. Quetext is an online plagiarism checker. Otter is a dictation to text app for iOS and Android. All you need to do is hit the record button, start speaking, and watch your words appear in the app. It even adds in punctuation. There are many paid and premium dictation apps, but Otter offers a generous free option of minutes a month.
Many authors use mind map apps to help write a book by keeping their ideas connected and logical. Freemind is open-source mind-mapping software built in Java.
It has a wide variety of features, including location-based mind mapping, collaboration tools, restore sessions and more. Well, with DiffChecker , it is easy to compare two versions of a text and find the differences between them. It is a browser app, but if you want to save your revisions Diffs , you will need to create an account to log in. They are not categorized. But all of them could be worth a look to see if they are a match for what you need in an app or program.
As they are quick mentions, you will need to investigate for yourself to see if they might be worthwhile. The Kindle Previewer application is a free desktop program that lets authors preview how their ebooks will appear on all Kindle devices. It makes it easy to check your ebooks for different screen sizes, display orientations, and text font sizes.
Zotero is a free and easy-to-use program to help you with sources and citations. You can create references and bibliographies for any text editor and directly with Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. But with NaturalReader , you can create mp3 files from your text and then play it back to you. It makes it much easier to check your text for accuracy as you listen. Us is a good choice if you want free mind mapping. You can share your maps with others and even on social media.
But I have to include Pixabay because I use it every day to find great free images for my blog. There are a lot of free stock image sites, but this one is my favorite because the choice of images is enormous. Again, this is not a writing app. But when you need to edit an image for your blog or ebooks, then Pixlr might do the job for you. There is a premium version, but you will find that the free version can do most of the basic photo editing tasks you would need to do.
Writers can sometimes be a serious bunch of people. But everyone needs to have a bit of fun from time to time. Go to Hipster Sound , click play, pop in your air pods, and you will have all the ambient sounds you need to get your creative juices flowing. As an extra bonus, your coffee is on the house!
Okay, you are not going to use Fliptext often. But it is a fun and funny little writing tool. Yes, you can write upside down. Did you have to turn your screen upside down, or did you twist your neck in pain, trying to read it? The Most Dangerous Writing App is a fun little writing tool with a mean side to it. You start by setting yourself a writing time of, say, five minutes. Then you start writing. But if you stop writing for more than five seconds, you lose everything you wrote.
However, if you get through your allotted time without stopping, your reward is that you can save your work. For all writers, there are plenty of writing programs, software, and tools.
You can also find free book writing programs that work very well for any book project. There are so many open-source and free software alternatives for a word processor, book writing, short story writing, and spelling and grammar correction tools. Are you ready to write your book or get started as a content writer or blogger? Then the writing tools in the list above will be more than enough to get you off on the right foot. Make your choices based on what you need and want to achieve as a writer and what you think you will need to succeed.
Then head off to the coffee shop with your laptop, or pump up Hipster Sound at home, and start writing. My days are spent writing and blogging, as well as testing and taming new technology. Your email address will not be published. Save my name and email in this browser for the next time I comment. In addition to tools provided for writing, it also provides tools like Spellcheck, Frequency Analyzer, and Dictionary. Storybook is a free story writing software.
You can create characters by adding information like name, gender, birthday, occupation, color, etc. You can further customize a scene by adding title, summary, and date, linking to a strand, specifying its status outline, draft, edit, or done , writing notes, etc.
These scenes can be saved as TXT files separately. You can also add chapters to your story and add scenes to them. It lets you view charts like appearance of characters by scenes, gantt chart of characters, occurrence of characters or locations , etc. You can also add ideas to stories for reference in future. It provides tool for spellcheck to search for misspelled words and replace them. You can also choose the kind of report you want to export individually like character list, location list, summary, etc.
Storybook is basically a writing software which lets you create stories and novels. You can easily navigate through a project and make changes. It provides different views like chronological view, book view, etc.
You can write a scene by adding some details like type of scene actor or reaction , importance plot or subplot , status outline, draft, edit, or completed , scene beginning and ending time, ratings, viewpoints, items, notes, goals, etc. You can also add image to a particular scene. To modify the content, it provides basic editing tools of a word processor like typographical emphasis options.
You can also highlight text within a scene. It also offers a built-in text-to-speech converter to read aloud the text of a scene. It also provides a Storyboard feature which can be used to view scenes as a sequence of cards. It has a clean and user friendly interface and provides standard functionalities of a word processor.
FreeWriter is another free story writing software. Firstly, you can enter the title and a target word count for your story. You can then build the architecture of a story by specifying fore matter and back matter pages to include in a story. Now, you can create a story by writing scenes and plots with characters, locations, etc. In addition to that, you can align the image and resize it. Dragon Anywhere 6.
Pro 7. Rev 8. Vellum 9. Ginger Software IA Writer A Plain Text Editor Dynalist Ulysses Final Draft Day One Evernote Hemingway App Ayoa Blurt Airstory Get ProWritingAid.
Try Scrivener. Dragon Anywhere. Try Dragon Dictate. Try Rev. I self-publish my books with Vellum. Try Vellum. Ginger Software. IA Writer. An elegant, easy-to-use word processor.
Try IA Writer. A Plain Text Editor. Try Dynalist. Ulysses is a more feature-rich alternative writing app to IA Writer or even Write! Try Ulysses.
Final Draft. Try Final Draft. Day One. Try Day One. Try Evernote. Hemingway App. An app that will improve your writing and self-editing skills. Try Hemingway App. A mindmap. Read My Mind-mapping Guide. Try Blurt.
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