Byword
Draft a blog post, write that story or complete a school report wherever you are. Use Markdown to format text with easy keyboard shortcuts, subtle syntax highlighting, word counters with live update, and much more. All your documents, on all your devices. With iCloud and Dropbox, you can create documents in Byword on your Mac and access them on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. And vice versa. You can edit them from anywhere, on any device you use. Byword includes complete Markdown support. Preview your documents in app, export to HTML, PDF, rich text, or publish directly to Medium, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and Evernote. The lack of support for rich text is due to technical limitations and limited development resources. We are evaluating the cost/benefit of investing in rich text support of iOS. Meanwhile, we strongly recommend opting for plain text and markdown format for your documents. Macworld has a great article explaining why opting for plain text today is a good idea.
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Effie
Effie, a light, clean yet powerful mind mapping and writing software for Mac, iOS, Windows.
Features:
All your work is in one place and within reach. So there’s no confusing file management.
Autosave and sync all your work in the cloud, so you can access anything from anywhere.
An immersive writing environment to keep you away from distractions.
One tap to convert an unordered list into a mind map, and vice versa.
Edits on the unordered list will be synced with a mind map, saving you from jumping the hoops from one app to another.
Flexible export to a PDF, DOCX, Markdown, EffieSheet, and JPEG file.
Simplified markup language allows you to finish your writing without lifting your fingers away from the keyboard.
Markup Insight panel woken by a “/” makes it much easier to use the markup language.
You can choose to write in the dark or light theme, whichever drives your creativity and productivity.
Different styles are available for your mind maps.
Built with native code.
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Plottr
4.9 out of 5 stars
(103 Ratings)
Plottr lets you easily arrange (and rearrange) your scenes, plots, and character arcs so you can quickly find your way to the end of your tale — no corkboard required. Plottr automatically generates a clean outline of your story for you to review, edit, and export as the basis of your manuscript. You don’t have to start from scratch. Plottr comes with over a dozen templates (and counting) based on proven storytelling structures to help move your story from idea to execution. The fun is just beginning. Once you've finished outlining your story, Plottr makes it easy to start writing — just export your files and let your creative muscles get to work!
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bibisco
bibisco is novel writing software to plan, structure and write a novel in one project. Chapters and scenes, reordered by dragging and kept with their revisions, sit next to the premise, fabula, setting and storylines. Characters are developed through an interview on psychology, behaviour and history; every location has its own page with descriptions and images. An existing draft can be imported from DOCX or ODT. bibisco does not generate text; the writing stays with the writer.
The desktop app runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, in 16 languages. The Community Edition is free and unlocks every Supporters Edition feature for the first 30 days. The Supporters Edition, a one-time purchase, adds objects, groups, notes, the outline, the timeline, mind maps, novel analysis, writing goals, revision comparison and exports for a manuscript, a KDP-ready print book PDF and an EPUB. Mobile apps for Android, iPhone and iPad, and sync, come with the separate bibisco Everywhere subscription.
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