Novelist 4+

There is a lot you can do with this app to collate ideas. I love how it keeps track of how much you write in a day.

It wasn’t entirely intuitive. I cant figure out how to reorder scenes. You can move sections under new parent sections but not easily reorder the scenes within them. The word processor doesn’t let you indent paragraphs as you write, only in the viewer mode later. The exporting formats are super basic.

This isn’t the program that you will finish your novel in, but for keeping track of ideas while writing your first draft, it deserves four stars.

Hi, you can long tap list elements to open a new interface where you can reorder them. I just finished my third 80k-words novel inside Novelist and it just needed some little adjustment in post production. Happy writing!

I’m the kind of writer that likes to create lots of fluff and backstory before actually writing, and this has led to hundreds of scattered files all over my devices. I had given up using apps or programs to help, because they either weren’t robust enough, weren’t user-friendly enough, or just plain got in the way with all the options and buttons and customisation options. Novelist is a happy middle ground; simple and elegant design and format, flexibility without being silly, and well organised. Ultimately, this is an excellent place for keeping all the ideas, characters, places, notes etc. in one place.

Wow, thank you soooo much for your kind words! 😊

Very good app for typing out a story and has great features. I will definitely be using this app for a while.

Thanks for your nice words, I wish you good writing!