Do you want the best novel writing tool that can help you work on individual chapters and scenes? Here are seven choices for apps and free writing programs for you that are specifically designed for writing your book.
Read our review of seven free book writing programs for authors. Are you a content writer or blogger? You need to work with ideas, keywords, data, headlines, and images all day long. It pays to stay one step ahead of your competition.
Make your life a little easier with some of these blogging apps to help you write and rank better. Here is a choice of seven of the best blogging tools for busy content writers and bloggers. All of them will save you hours of work every day.
Well, you can with Fyrebox by creating a free interactive quiz. All you need to do is create your free account, and then you can start designing your quiz in a few minutes.
A quiz is a great way to keep your readers on your blog for much longer by letting them participate in your blog post subject. Portent is an easy and clever way to find new writing ideas. It is an app primarily designed for bloggers to find headlines and titles and not a genuine headline analyzer. But writers can use it to discover new ideas for any piece of writing. All you have to do is input your base word or words, and then you can select a working title for a new writing prompt.
How engaging is your article headline? Sharethrough must be my absolute favorite little blog post writing app. You can edit as you go, and the app keeps a record of your variations so you can choose the best one. Website Grader is a quick and easy app to help you improve your blog. You should make sure that your website is easy for users to discover and easy for search engines to understand. It only takes a few seconds to run this performance check of your blog to see if you need to make any improvements.
Privacy Policy Generator is an app to help you write your privacy policy page for your blog. Now, this is not an article writing app. So it might not truly belong in a list of blog writing tools and programs. Canva is a free online tool for creating images. Because using Internet images you find on Google images are very often copyright protected, it is a much better idea to create your own unique images. 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. You can add characters, locations, pictures, goals, etc. It provides basic tools to modify content like changing font type and size, highlighting specific text, etc. It also provides a built-in text-to speech converter tool to hear the content. Other features worth mentioning are Storyboard , Reports to view work schedule, synopsis, etc. It offers basic functionalities of a word processor. It supports same formats to export your project to.
It lets you concentrate on the writing part rather than formatting of a particular project. QuollWriter is a free and open source writing software. It lets you create projects with multiple chapters by adding information like description, goal, tags, plan, etc. You can then write content in those chapters. If you are writing a fictional project, you can add characters, locations, research items, and other items with specific details to your project.
You can then link these items to specific chapters. You can also add notes for reference purpose. Also, you can see statistics of a project like total word count, chapter word count, session length, etc. To modify content of your project, you can select a desired font type, size, and color, align text, fix text border width, highlight line, change background color of editor, etc. You can also create a backup of your projects. FreeWriter is a free writing software which can be used for general writing as well as creating a novel or story.
It lets you add multiple sections to a project and then write content in them. You can set status of a section as In Progress , Draft , or Completed and see the word count progress too. You can also create a novel and story by adding chapters to them. It also lets you decide the fore matter introduction, acknowledgement, preface, etc. It provides Dictate tool which lets you speak content through microphone to add it to the project.
FreeWriter provides standard tools of a word processor. It provides different interface skins to select from. DocPad is yet another free writing software.
It can be used for general writing purpose. It lets you insert a TXT file in the current project. You can also use Calendar and Calculator while writing, and add a date too. It also provides a Macro-record tool which lets you enter combination of keystrokes, record a macro, and then play it. You can also see statistics of a document. DocPad supports Text documents.
You can also import a HTML file as text to the current writing project. To export a file as PDF, you can use Print option. DocPad comes in various interface skins to choose from. It has a simple user-interface with basic as well as advanced tools to write.
To create any of these projects, you just have to change the mode of the program. You can add text or sentences to a project as a title, header, sub header, body text, or typewriter. You can also insert date within a project. It lets you format a whole paragraph or specific text by using some standard tools. You can modify font, add typographical emphasis, align text or a paragraph, add superscript and subscript, and apply text and background color.
In addition to that, you can adjust line spacing, add bullets, numbering, alphabetic numbering, and roman numbering, increase or decrease indent, etc. RoughDraft provides basic functionalities of a word processor like navigation options, spellcheck options, etc. Read our full LibreOffice review.
If your words' appearance is as important as their meaning, give Scribus a go: it's a free, highly-rated desktop publishing application for Linux, OS X and Windows that's suitable for producing entire magazines. It's been kicking around — and regularly updated — since , and while it's a little tricky to use at first, it offers professional-grade publishing with layered, multi-page documents and good colour management support.
If you've ever used Adobe InDesign, you'll find the similarity striking. If you can use one, you'll pick up the other in seconds. We wouldn't want to lay out a page book in it though that's quite possible , but for shorter works this free writing software is ideal.
Read our full Scribus review. While the app is exclusive to macOS, it makes up for this in its fantastic design language and ease of use for anyone.
It features a great way of mind-mapping, where you can join up certain key words in less than five clicks, and even add definitions to easily relate back to a certain section of a report or novel. Above all, this is freely available on macOS High Sierra and above, with the app's creator, Frode Alexander Hegland and his team, always listening and responding to feedback in regards to requested features or bug fixes. There is an in-app purchase for exporting, however everything else in the app is free to use.
Author is an app that shouldn't be missed on macOS, especially if you're about to start the new school year with upcoming assignments, wherever that may be. Daryl had been freelancing for 3 years before joining TechRadar, now reporting on everything software-related.
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