Werdsmith: Writing App 4+

I love Werdsmith. It makes writing such a seamless easy process, which maximises the potential for creativity. The GUI looks good, it makes your words seem polished a nicely presented. I never thought I’d write a novel on my phone, but that is what I’m doing, and the ideas are just flowing out like never before; obviously there are other reasons for this, but the app and the phone effectively minimise all barriers, despite the fact I can’t touch type on the phone. The only negative, and hence 4, rather than 5 stars is the subscription payment model. I don’t think app software justifies this and the annual subscription price would seem high as a one off payment. Still the free aspect of the app is just great, and for anyone happy to pay subscriptions for apps this is a sterling 5 star app, without question.

Edit: Well I did end up subscribing and I have increased the rating to 5 stars accordingly. I still think subscription is pricey but it has certainly enabled my writing to a great extent. I particularly like the seamless transition between the phone version and the laptop version.

I absolutely love this app and have found it brilliant in helping my writing skills. I love the way ghostwriter helps you get over writer’s block, and have written some very interesting plots because of it. The word goal has given me something to work towards, and has helped me not to give up on longer projects.

There is only one thing I dislike about this app, and that is that there is no way to turn off any stats. For example, the time spent writing stat, for whatever reason, will time my writing time if I forget to clear the app and keep my keyboard on while I’m not using it, so it will say that I have spent much longer writing than I actually have, making it redundant and irritating. Or the words written feature (which I used to dislike but is now growing on me) would be useful to turn on and off if I did not want to see it.
This is only a small complaint, which is why this still a five star review because Werdsmith is the best writing software I have found so far.

And a mild suggestion, which I feel I may be out of place to make, but I would love to be able to see the exact percentage of the way I am to my writing goal. Instead of saying 1%, for example, how about 1.257%, or 1.56% (obviously depending on how much has been a written).
This is unnecessary but my Autistic brain would love it.

Again, I absolutely adore this app and would love it if the developer took some time to consider my suggestions!

So, to put it simply, I love this app. It’s useful for writing as it counts my words, allows me to create chapters / sections along with typing in italics or bold but... and here’s the but, why do you have to pay for certain premium upgrades? The themes / colours, I get that, it’s an unnecessary luxury, so feel free to charge for it, but things like a novel or script layout and having more ideas or stories rather than the basic limit of six (?) ideas and four stories? You shouldn’t have to pay for that. Everything else apart from that is great, I love this app and I’ve definitely come a long way with writing, specifically concerning daily sessions, word goals and structuring my ideas / recording my plot points. Thanks for this app, but maybe consider altering some stuff... ❤️🙏😍🥺