Writing Apps

Draft, share, and discuss writing in Agora, a community that also provides a forum and tools to track writing progress.

Fortelling combines novel plotting tools and a writing editor, with features for story elements, timelines, pinboards, and collaboration.

PolyGlot helps users design, create, and publish constructed languages.

Writality supports private writing for novels and worldbuilding, with manuscript editing, story graphs, and custom map-making features.

FocusWriter offers a distraction-free word processor with a hide-away interface accessed by moving the mouse to the screen edge.

Use novelWriter as a plain-text editor designed for novels and larger projects made up of smaller plain-text documents.

Rarebit provides an open-source HTML and JavaScript template for creating webcomics.

Dangerous Writing App deletes writing progress if typing stops, and provides writing prompts according to its page.

Twine provides an open-source tool for creating interactive, nonlinear stories, with optional variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript.

Ren'Py provides an engine for creating visual novels, according to its project repository.

Blank Page offers a simple browser-based writing app and a focused space for writing without setup or clutter.

WriteSpace provides a minimalist web notepad with Markdown and KaTeX support, according to its page description.

WriteSolo provides professional writing software, as described by its supplied page title.

bibisco supports planning, writing, and organizing novels, with a free version listed for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Gekri supports daily writing in an online journal, with encrypted private entries and mood tracking described on its page.

Gateway Forge supports interactive worldbuilding and story development, including calendars and document management.