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SmartEdit Writer
SmartEdit
SmartEdit Writer, free software for novel and short story writers. A free software to plan your novel, prepare and maintain research material, write your novel scene by scene, and edit chapter by chapter in a modern Windows application that has a similar look and feel to Microsoft Word. Store images & links to websites, all in a handy research section that sits right next to you as you write. Create character profiles, outlines & notes as you work. No more 100,000 word Microsoft documents. Write your novel one scene or chapter at a time. Drag and drop scenes inside your document until it’s just the way you want it. Identify word and phrase over-use, monitor adverbs, crutch words & clichés, and improve sentence structure & punctuation, all using SmartEdit’s editor toolbar. SmartEdit Writer allows you to group your work-in-progress and any research you’ve built up about it into a single project. Add folders, scenes, and notes to your document tree.Starting Price: $77 one-time payment -
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Calmly Writer
Calmly Writer
Traditional word processors include dozens of options for formatting text, distracting you from what really matters, writing. Calmly Writer is an editor designed to focus on what you want to tell, with a simple, unobtrusive, and easy-to-use user interface. Calmly Writer has been designed to help you focus on writing. As you start typing, all the distracting options disappear from the user interface. The "focus mode" option highlights only the paragraph you are editing at the time. Format your text simply by selecting and clicking on the desired style. If you prefer, you can also do it with keyboard shortcuts or markdown. As long as you do not close a document tab, that document will be opened every time you start the application. If the document was not saved, its backup will be loaded. Calmly Writer displays the number of words and characters written, and allows you to set a target. You can choose between light, dark, dark blue, dune and old-school mode.Starting Price: $11.45 one-time payment -
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Lex
Lex
Lex is a modern AI-powered collaborative writing platform designed for authors, professionals, and teams who want to write faster and better. It combines a clean, distraction-free interface with powerful AI tools for editing, feedback, and brainstorming. Writers can co-author in real time, generate title ideas, explore alternate phrasing, and manage document versions with ease. Lex’s built-in AI acts like a writing coach, helping users overcome writer’s block and refine their style naturally. With seamless sharing, live collaboration, and upcoming features like Track Changes, Lex is quickly becoming the go-to workspace for creative and professional writing. Loved by over 300,000 authors, Lex delivers a premium writing experience that feels effortless yet deeply empowering.Starting Price: $24.99/month -
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Collabora Office
Collabora Productivity
Collabora Office is the enterprise office suite of LibreOffice, the world’s most widely used Open Source office suite. We provide installation and administration utilities together with long term maintenance and contracted support to deliver successful deployments with expertise. Our take is that with Collabora you can not only achieve significant cost savings, but also get a much better product and a real product management relationship with those behind it, with a company that really cares about your business. Major new releases once a year with fresh features and improvements, tested, packaged and ready for deployment. In addition to productive work on the desktop, and of course online, the mobile apps from Collabora Office for Android and iOS enable users to edit text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the go. Learn more about them on the product page.Starting Price: €20 per user per year -
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OpenDrive
OpenDrive
A Powerful, Cloud Storage and Office Suite Accessible from Anywhere. OpenDrive Drive: Store, sync or backup your documents, music and pictures online with instant access, sharing and collaboration, all in a simple to use, secure environment. OpenDrive Notes: In a simple but effective interface, create notepads with single notes and to-do lists. Attach pictures and documents to any note and write comments. Taking notes when something comes up is crucial for any number of business and personal needs. We feel that taking notes and keeping them organized can make everyone more productive. ….and of course it helps us to not forget things. OpenDrive Tasks: A powerful task and project management tool that helps you manage and collaborate on any project within a single interface. Share tasks with your account users or anyone else.Starting Price: $9.95 per month -
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TextMaker
SoftMaker
DOCX is the default file format of TextMaker 2021. This lets you skip the annoying import and export. You can open documents created with TextMaker in Microsoft Word, and vice-versa, directly, without conversion. With TextMaker 2021, you can also edit DOC and RTF files, as well as create high-quality PDF files. You can now also create archival PDFs in PDF/A format for the long-term preservation of your documents. SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal even enable you to create great-looking e-books in EPUB format. Daily correspondence is handled quickly with TextMaker 2021. Practical time-savers such as the built-in address book, automatic marks for folding pages, and attractive document templates make creating letters, mail merges, labels, and envelopes child's play. Create attractive flyers, invitation cards, and posters in no time at all using the sophisticated desktop-publishing functions of TextMaker, such as its unique object mode, intelligent object guides, etc.Starting Price: $16.50 per year -
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AbleWord
AbleWord
AbleWord is a very capable word processing application that can read and write the most popular document formats including PDFs. It is fully featured, supports image formatting, tables, headers & footers, and includes spell checking and print preview functions. Best of all it is totally free even for commercial use. There are a few free Word Processing packages available for Windows but none come close to the features offered by AbleWord. It is highly compatible with popular document formats including .DOC & .DOCX but Ableword can also open and save as a PDF which makes it a very useful tool to have. AbleWord very simple to install and use, it is commonly used as a PDF editor and also for converting PDF to Word® but of course, it is also a splendid word processor and supports most of Microsoft Word®'s features. For more information see our getting started guide or online help.Starting Price: Free -
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AbiWord
AbiWord
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. Our latest stable release is version 3.0.5. It's available in a number of languages and operating systems. AbiWord is usually available from your Linux distribution repository. AbiWord is rapidly becoming a state-of-the-art word processor, with lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun. This tour gives you a quick look into some of AbiWord's highlights. AbiWord has been designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities. What use is a word processor when you can't share your documents with your friends? AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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Jarte
Jarte
A free word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine built into Windows. A fast-starting, easy-to-use word processor that expands well beyond the WordPad feature set. A small, portable, touch-enabled word processor whose documents are fully compatible with Word and WordPad. Jarte is a WordPad-based, free word processor whose unique interface will make you feel like you are piloting a swift, nimble yacht by comparison. Although Jarte doesn't look anything like the office word processor you are used to, it can handle your word processing tasks with aplomb. If this sounds like the kind of word processor you are looking for then maybe you owe it to yourself to give Jarte a try. The Jarte word processor relieves that problem by including only the features likely to be needed by real people. Jarte is designed for students, writers, small business people, and home users.Starting Price: Free -
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RoughDraft
Richard Salsbury
RoughDraft is a freeware word processor for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP. Although suitable for general use, it has features specifically designed for creative writing, novels, short stories, articles, plays, and screenplays. It's designed to be as practical as possible, offering all the features you need, but without being complicated or awkward to use. Special modes for plays and screenplays make formatting easy. A side panel that makes common operations quicker and more convenient. Instant backup of all open files to the device of your choice, a very convenient way to make sure you don't lose your work. Automatic creation of cover pages for manuscript submissions with word and page counts. Automatic insertion of user-defined words, for character names or commonly used words. Four extra clipboards for inserting longer phrases or paragraphs. A comprehensive but simple printing system, including a print preview.Starting Price: Free -
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Macro
Macro
In Macro, you can click on any defined term, section, chapter, clause, and more for instant context. Compare files, consolidate edits from multiple Word and PDF files into one version, generate blacklines in bulk, and compare to templates. Generate files from templates; create one or many documents at a time from a spreadsheet. Combine PDF and Word documents. Free with Macro for Windows and Mac. From an IT and support perspective, Macro is most similar to the desktop versions of Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word, with additional enhanced features for financial and legal workflows. This IT documentation proceeds chronologically. Click on any defined term, highlighted in blue, for a popup of the definition as provided within the document, including nested popups that can be used ad nauseum to unravel your document fully.Starting Price: $49 per user per month -
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Proton Docs
Proton AG
Billions of people use online document editors like Google Docs or Microsoft 365 to write reports, collaborate on projects, and keep track of meeting notes. But there is a growing concern about Big Tech platforms having access to your content, tracking you across the web, and collecting data to train privacy-invading AI models. Proton Docs is a new end-to-end encrypted, collaborative document editor that puts your privacy first. Docs in Proton Drive are built on the same privacy and security principles as all our services, starting with end-to-end encryption. Docs let you collaborate in real time, leave comments, add photos, and store your files securely. Best of all, it’s all private — even keystrokes and cursor movements are encrypted.Starting Price: Free -
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Revise
Revise
Revise is an online word processor with a built-in AI agent that can draft, research, proofread, and edit alongside the user. It lets people work on documents with AI inside a full writing environment, asking for changes, reviewing them in-line, and keeping control over what gets accepted. Revise is designed to feel like a familiar document editor, with rich formatting, tables, images, insert tools, find, dictation, export, sharing, and real-time collaboration, while adding an AI agent directly into the writing flow. It can act as a proofreader, writing assistant, researcher, editor, and document collaborator, helping users revise text without copying content into a separate chatbot. Revise supports leading AI models in one place, including GPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini, so users can switch between models depending on the task. Its word processor includes an LLM-powered spellcheck that works while users type and catches subtle mistakes traditional spellcheckers may miss.Starting Price: $8 per month -
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Ulysses
Ulysses
The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone. A pleasant, focused writing experience combined with effective document management, fast syncing and flexible export options make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds. Many writers praise the way Ulysses encourages immersion with the text, and testify how using it has considerably increased their productivity. Although it’s a fully-fledged writing tool, Ulysses manages to stay completely out of your way – and can therefore rival any distraction-free writing app. Ulysses’ unified library holds everything you’ll ever write, and is equipped for managing writing projects of all sizes and ambitions. Be it love letters, simple notes, daily blog posts or the Great American Novel – with Ulysses, your writing is in the best of hands. Thus, you can focus on getting the words down. On the sofa, at a coffee shop, or while waiting for the bus: Work wherever you are, and whenever inspiration hits. -
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Nevron Office
Nevron Office
Create simple and advanced rich text documents, convert between different text formats and export your work in PDF, HTML, ePUB and other formats. An advanced calendar application for appointment scheduling, tasks and events management. Import and export your calendars to iCalendar format. While many people believe that they are "bound" to using Microsoft Office for all their document creation needs, that simply isn't true. You no longer have to spend hundreds of dollars on it. The products inside Nevron Office are a low budget alternative to their Microsoft Office equivalents. You will not find a better and more cost effective solution for Windows and Mac - and what is best: when you buy them ones they remain yours forever- no subscription obligations. Nevron Office is the first set of advanced Office applications that provides absolutely identical experience under Windows and Mac without any missing features or limitations. -
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Ability Office
Ability Office
Ability Office will load from and save to Microsoft® Office 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007 and 2003 file formats so you can easily exchange files with others. What's more, Ability Office features a choice of familiar interfaces to match the different versions of Microsoft Office so you can get to work straight-away, with absolutely no retraining required. Plus Ability Office Professional gives you more — a feature rich image editor and a relational database that works with Microsoft Access MDB files. Switch interfaces between traditional toolbar mode and ribbon style. Unlimited installs for personal (non-commercial) use. Built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 — fully compatible with Windows 10.Starting Price: $39.99 one-time payment -
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Synap Office
Synapsoft
Synap Office is a cloud-based web office serviced by Naver Office. You can create and edit documents in various formats such as MS Office, etc. from a web browser without installing an application. Experience document work anytime, anywhere. Compatible with MS Word, save doc, docx, hml formats. Maintains table layout and enables table editing. Support for fonts, paragraph formatting, and headings/ footnotes in different styles. Allows editing of password-set documents. Compatible with MS PowerPoint, screen change, object animation support. Slide template setting and management, 140+ shapes, object editing. Insert image, shape, memo, text. Password-set documents can be edited. Easy questionnaire creation using templates. Free item addition and type selection. Quickly and easily share surveys by URL, e-mail, and blog. View summary in response result graph, and use response data in conjunction with Synap cell. -
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Text Control
Text Control
Combine powerful reporting features with an easy-to-use, MS Word compatible word processor. Integrate a fully-featured, MS Word compatible document editor to create and edit documents. Create and request signatures, sign documents and to validate executed PDF documents. Create, edit, deploy and collect PDF documents and integrate digital document processing workflows. Share and deploy documents with form fields and add collaboration features such as annotations, stamps and notes. Digital transformation changed every process in today's business world. The number of e-commerce transactions skyrocket and supply chains are fully connected. In nearly any business process, documents and reports need to be designed, created, shared and archived. Our technologies help companies to integrate document processing to client, web and cloud solutions to gain the largest competitive advantage. -
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SmartEdit Pro
SmartEdit
SmartEdit Pro is an expanded version of the SmartEdit for Word Add-In. It contains a number of extra features of use to professional editors. We define a professional editor as someone who edits the work of various different writers, often working on multiple books from assorted writers. SmartEdit Pro contains report-generating capabilities that allow you to generate Word and PDF reports based on the results generated by SmartEdit, as well as full report printing functionality. It also allows you to create Projects (one for each writer, book, or genré of the book), and to apply different rules to these projects when running SmartEdit checks. The SmartEdit pro menu toolbar contains all the buttons and options you might be familiar with from SmartEdit for Word, along with the “create report” and “projects” sections. A trial version of SmartEdit Pro is not available, but sample reports are shown and linked for you to download and examine.Starting Price: $139.95 one-time payment -
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Microsoft Office 2024
Microsoft
Microsoft Office 2024 is the latest version of Microsoft's flagship productivity suite, offering enhanced tools for document creation, data analysis, collaboration, and presentation design. This version introduces a more intuitive user interface with streamlined workflows, tighter integration with cloud-based services like OneDrive, and improved real-time collaboration features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. AI-driven functionalities, such as predictive text, advanced data visualization, and automated design suggestions, have been expanded to boost productivity and efficiency. Microsoft Office 2024 also places a strong emphasis on accessibility, security, and cross-platform compatibility, ensuring seamless experiences across desktop, web, and mobile devices.Starting Price: $149.99 -
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IceWarp
IceWarp
The only office rule is, there is no office. Business email, TeamChat for project teamwork, real-time office document collaboration and online meetings. All in our secure cloud and for half the usual cost. Chat in teams organized around projects, upload files, mention coworkers, comment on posted emails, pin important posts. Integration with email enables sharing received messages directly to TeamChat room for colleagues‘ attention. Skyrocket your office work effectivity with Desktop Client and Desktop Office documents on Windows as well as Linux devices. Get the complete Suite, or choose only the app you need.Starting Price: $312.00/year/user -
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Hancom Office
Hancom
Useful and affordable MS Office alternative for your work. Hancom Office 2020 provides a feature-rich set of desktop productivity applications for conducting common tasks such as word processing, spreadsheet modeling, graphic presentation and working with PDFs. With an intuitive interface and powerful features, Hancom Office can bring out the true professional in you today. Hancom Office 2020 builds on the best of the Hancom Office and Thinkfree Office productivity suites to deliver an office experience that empowers teams to do their best work. Hancom Office 2020 provides the best performance, the highest MS Office file compatibility and the most feature-complete productivity suite for beginners and advanced users. Create, edit, and share professional-quality documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. New enhanced visual clipboard selection pane. Annotate PDF files or convert them into editable Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents. -
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yWriter
Spacejock Software
yWriter is a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes, helping you keep track of your work while leaving your mind free to create. It will not write your novel for you, suggest plot ideas or perform creative tasks of any kind. yWriter was designed by an author, not a salesman! yWriter7 is free to download and use, but you're encouraged to register your copy if you find it useful. If you're just embarking on your first novel a program like yWriter may seem like overkill. I mean, all you have to do is type everything into a word processor! Sure, but wait until you hit 20,000 words, with missing scenes and chapters, notes all over your desk, characters and locations and plot points you've just added and which need to be referenced earlier ... it becomes a real struggle. Now imagine that same novel at 40,000 or 80,000 words! No wonder most first-time writers give up. -
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WriteRoom
Hog Bay Software
WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom lets you focus on writing. I created WriteRoom as an alternative to Microsoft Word. WriteRoom’s full screen writing environment gets your computer out of the way so that you can focus on your work. The result is a subtle clearing of the mind that I think helps you write better. Choose your own background images, paper textures, and typing sounds. Use themes to save, switch, and share your favorite settings. Automatically log your writing sessions to a spreadsheet. Select word, sentence, and paragraph commands. Shift line up, down, left, and right commands. Live word count, reading time, and more.Starting Price: $9.99 per user -
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OfficeWork
RedcoolMedia
RedcoolMedia is a platform that provides online editors to create or modify any media file, either video, or audio, or music, or graphic, or office files. Our products are apps such as online video editors, online audio editors online or online photo editor. OfficeWork (old OffiStar) is a web application that provides a document editor, a presentation editor and spreadsheet editor where you can perform various editing operations like in any desktop editor, print the edited documents, excel spreadsheets and powerpoint slides keeping all the formatting details or download them onto your computer hard disk drive as PDF, TXT, DOCX, XLSX, XLS, PPTX, CSV, ODT, or HTML files. -
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Arcane Office
Arcane
Arcane Office is a decentralized office suite with high-security and zero-knowledge on your data. With Arcane Office, you have maximum control on your personal stuff. Full-featured online document and spreadsheet editor. Secure storage to save your photos. All free for personal use. Write, edit, and collaborate on a document. Save and secure it on Blockchain cloud storage. Make a spreadsheet and save it to Blockchain secured cloud storage. Collaborate with anyone on any devices. Encrypted storage with Blockchain security to back up your photos and access them on all your devices. Hide or Mark up important details of your image by simply clicking and dragging on it. -
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Texts
Texts
Write using Markdown, without having to remember the markup. With Texts you can apply styles to words or paragraphs and immediately see the results. Your images and tables are displayed directly within Texts. Use Texts to create structured documents. You set your titles and headings, and they will stay in place if you export your document to another format. Content written in Texts can be easily published as a blog on GitHub Pages, with math, tables, footnotes etc. Developed to cover all your needs, formulas and footnotes, bibliography and citations, tables and links. Writing your documents in Texts gives you a lot of flexibility. You can easily convert your words into clean HTML5, professional PDFs, ePub or Word format, or even a presentation. Texts produces immaculate PDFs. Everything you create, from paragraphs of text to mathematical formulae, is perfectly typeset. Change the appearance of your text editor with themes. -
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WriteMonkey
WriteMonkey
Writemonkey is a Windows zenware writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words. It is light, fast and free. With an array of innovative tools under the hood and full Markdown support, it helps you write better. This version features new language tools and can run even more cool plugins. Plugins are locked and will only work with a writemonkey donor key. Donors will receive a key (via e-mail) which will enable personalized name tag in splash screen and access to many plugins that are available as separate download. Full-screen editing, get free from your computer and its distractions. Writemonkey's full-screen mode hides it all away leaving just you and your text behind. Do more with less! Just copy files and directories in any folder on your machine, Writemonkey is very fast and responsive. The main executable is less than 1,6 MB in size. -
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Draft
Draft
You don't need writing software; you need someone's feedback on your writing. You don't need version control software; you need to find all the things you've written without fear. You don't need distraction free text editors; you need to find ways to write more concisely, more clearly. You don't need real time collaboration software; you need a bigger audience for your writing. We're working on Draft to provide what you need. When I share a Google Doc, collaborators overwrite my master copy. It's insanely difficult to accept individual changes they've made. However, when you share your document using Draft, any changes your collaborator makes are on their own copy of the document, and you get to accept or ignore each individual change they make. With Draft, as you go along, you can mark major versions of your work. When you want to compare your old drafts, you have a powerful view to see how your document changed over time. -
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Zoho Office Suite
Zoho
Create, talk, ideate and grow. Zoho Office Suite is your secure, collaborative work platform that's beautifully integrated across systems to make you exponentially more productive. Whether you're in the office or remote, it doesn't matter when you can still do all your work together. Collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations with your colleagues, clients or partners from across the globe. Your documents are automatically saved on the cloud, letting you or your team quickly access it whenever, wherever. It's also tied with our content collaboration platform WorkDrive—the unified repository of the files all your teams are working on. Zoho Office Suite blurs the line between your productivity tools and business apps. They work together with other pieces of the Zoho ecosystem as well as third-party apps to help you do a lot more, quicker. With some unmatchable, end-to-end experiences, it's the most contextually-integrated suite of its kind today.
