microsoft.com
Microsoft Journal helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
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write.as
Write.as is a pared-down blogging platform focused on writing rather than content management, with a Markdown or Rich Text editor. Posts can reach readers in the browser, by email or RSS, on e-readers, and on federated platforms such as Mastodon. A paid Pro plan costs $6 per month, billed yearly.
github.com
Chronicler is a free, offline worldbuilding tool and local wiki for writers, game masters, and tabletop RPG creators. It saves notes as plain Markdown files on the user's computer and is source-available rather than open-source. It runs 100% offline with no sign-up, subscription, or cloud storage.
aurelius.ink
Aurelius helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
bibisco.com
bibisco is a novel writing software for authors that helps plan, organize and write a story. It offers a word processor, character development, chapters and scenes management, outline and mind maps. A free version is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
blank.page
blank.page helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
celtx.com
Celtx is screenwriting and pre-production software for film, TV, ads, video, documentaries, and games. It offers multi-format script editors that automatically format scripts to industry standards, plus story development tools such as storyboards and Beat Sheets, and pre-production tools for shot lists, script breakdowns, location scouting, scheduling, and catalogs.
chronicler.pro
Chronicler is a free, offline worldbuilding tool and private wiki for writers and tabletop role-playing game masters. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux and saves every character, place, and faction as a linked page stored locally as plain Markdown files. It includes wiki-style infoboxes, templates, and wikilinks, and requires no subscription, cloud, or account.
fortelling.app
Fortelling helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
gekri.com
Gekri helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
heavyweight.cc
Heavyweight generates professional-looking demand letters through document formatting. It is made by artist WTTDOTM and lawyer Kendra Albert, and is described as making letters that never actually claim legal authority. Templates include landlord repair requests, workplace examples, overdue client letters and security deposit requests.
infinite-story.com
Infinite Story is an application for reading and collaboratively writing interactive fiction, including branching, choose-your-own-adventure, CYOA and text adventures. The tool can also be used to create interactive workflows, menu prototypes and image adventures. Features include writing clans, image uploads, private stories, submission review, private messaging and room linking.
journaltxt.github.io
Journal.TXT is a single-text file format for diaries and journals. Entries consist of metadata blocks with dates and text blocks, and writers need only add the fields that change between entries. Date fields include year, month, week, day and Julian day. The project also describes using the file as a single source for blog posts and status tweets.
jrnl.sh
jrnl.sh helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
languageisavirus.com
Languageisavirus.com is a writing site intended to cure writer's block and inspire creativity. It offers interactive writing games, story writing activities, poem generators, writing prompts and creative writing exercises, including a haiku generator, visual poetry, a cut up generator and a Shakespearean sonnet generator.
monsterwriter.com
MonsterWriter is an academic writing tool for students and researchers. It offers two document types: a LaTeX Workspace with a full code editor, syntax highlighting and real-time PDF preview, and a distraction-free Documents mode without LaTeX. It handles formatting, citations and numbering automatically, with citation from DOI, ISBN or URL and export in styles including APA and IEEE.
novelwriter.io
novelWriter is a free and open source plain text editor for writing novels and larger projects made of many smaller plain text documents. It uses a markdown-like syntax with meta data for comments, synopsis and cross-referencing, and stores projects as human-readable text files. It offers project tree organisation, Novel and Outline views, and a build tool exporting to several formats.
owri.netlify.app
Wordy is a writing tool for drafting blog posts and private notes. Documents are stored locally, with optional account sync, and can be published as a link or public page. The tool supports adding images and galleries. The site states it is free, open source and without ads or subscriptions. Email newsletters, publishing from Notion and blog search are listed as coming soon.
renpy.org
Ren'Py is a visual novel engine for telling interactive stories with words, images and sounds on computers and mobile devices. It covers visual novels and life simulation games, using an easy to learn script language and Python scripting. It is open source and free for commercial use, with supported platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
rnote.flxzt.net
Rnote is an open-source vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and annotating documents and pictures. It offers pressure-sensitive stylus input, an infinite canvas and an adaptive UI, with PDF, bitmap and SVG import. It is available for Linux, macOS and Windows, and the file format is described as still unstable.
starc.app
STARC (Story Architect) is a screenwriting app for Mac, Windows and iPhone that formats scripts and supports planning tools, including a virtual card board and mind maps. It has an AI writing assistant and tools for characters and worldbuilding. A free version is offered, with paid Pro and Creator plans.
strand.jinay.dev
Strand is a collaborative storytelling tool where users write stories with strangers one sentence at a time. Each day a new story is offered, and participants choose a storyline to continue by answering what happens next, creating branching storylines from a single prompt. No sign up is required.
telegra.ph
Telegra.ph is a minimalist publishing tool that enables users to create richly formatted web posts with a single click. Posts receive beautiful Instant View pages on Telegram, making content easily accessible within the messaging app.
textusm.com
TextUSM generates diagrams from indented text. Supported diagrams include the User Story Map, Business Model Canvas, Opportunity Canvas, User Persona, 4Ls Retrospective, Start, Stop, Continue, KPT Retrospective and Mind Map. Images can be exported as png, svg or pdf. A Basic plan costs $0 and offers 30 private boards, unlimited local boards and unlimited public boards.
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Write.as
Uses
- distraction-free place for you to write Source: write.as
Pricing details
- Pro $6 per month, billed yearly Source: write.as
Celtx
Features
- multi-format script editors for film & TV Source: www.celtx.com
- storyboard or planning story beats with the Beat Sheet Source: www.celtx.com
Chronicler
Features
- saved on your computer as plain Markdown files Source: chronicler.pro
Heavyweight
Features
- make important-looking letters that never actually claim legal authority Source: heavyweight.cc