After The Deadline (free and paid)
A language checker for the web with contextual spell checking, advanced style checking, intelligent grammar checking.
AutoCrit (free and paid options)
Analyzes your manuscript to identify areas for improvement, including pacing and momentum, dialogue, strong writing, word choice and repetition.
Connected Text (one-time license)
Personal wiki system that runs on your Windows machine.
Draft (free)
Easy version control and collaboration for writers.
editMinion (free)
A robotic copy editor to help you refine your writing by finding common mistakes.
Expresso (free)
Edits your writing to make it more readable, precise, and engaging.
FocusWriter (free)
A simple, distraction-free writing environment. It uses a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work. It’s available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, and has been translated into many different languages.
Grammarly (free and paid)
A grammar checker for browsers and Word.
Headline Analyzer (free)
Helps you improve the wording of your headlines/titles.
Hemingway Editor (free and paid options)
A desktop app that highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors.
Hubspot’s Blog Ideas Generator (free)
Enter a subject via keywords to have content ideas generated for you.
Liquid Story Binder XE (one-time license)
Word processing for novelists; chapter and scene-based writing; multimedia organizer; full screen editing; timelines, outlines, mindmaps, dossiers, journals, sequences and storyboards. Easy to back up. Windows, only.
Portent’s Content Idea Generator (free)
Enter a subject via keywords to have content ideas generated for you
ProWritingAid (free and paid options)
A web editor and plugin that will clean up your writing by detecting grammar and spelling mistakes, plagiarism and contextual errors. It also analyzes your writing and produces reports on writing style, sentence length, grammar, and repeated words and phrases.
Outline4D (one-time license)
Visual outliner for writers that lets you brainstorm, create, structure and organize your ideas. Windows, only.
Q10 (free)
Small install, full screen mode, live text statistics, customizable page count, timer, spellchecker, notes, target count, partial counts, autocorrection, autosave. Windows, only.
Scrivener (one-time license)
Text editing, full screen editing/writing, import previous writing, corkboard, outliner, view documents side-by-side, templates and icons, set goals and follow progress, metadata, collections, export, snapshots. Mac, Windows, iOS.
SmartEdit (free and paid options)
If you’re a writer writing in Microsoft Word, you need SmartEdit for Word — the Microsoft Word Add-In. If you’re a writer who does not use Word, check out our free app SmartEdit Writer. Professional editors who edit the work of other writers using Microsoft Word should look at SmartEdit Pro.
Sonar (free)
Submission tracking tool.
Sourced Fact (free)
Journalism with crowd sourced fact checking. As a writer, you can sign up to have your pieces published with fact checking included.
Svbtle (paid)
Very simple publishing platform.
Undeadlines (free)
Social deadline tracking with progress graphs and widgets.
WordRake (paid)
Cuts out the unnecessary words or phrases that creep into your writing. It works with Microsoft Word and Outlook, depending on which license you purchase.
Write.as (paid)
Helps you create a blog, journal, or newsletter that readers will love to read. Create a permanent home for your words, then simply write — all without ads. don’t track you, so you can write exactly what you feel. Write anonymously or under different identities, giving you full control over who knows what about you. They can get your updates on the web, in their inbox, via RSS, or on their favorite social network — even decentralized platforms like Mastodon and Pleroma.
WriteMonkey (free)
Full-screen editing, no installation necessary, portable, Currently available plugins: Corkboards, Big Huge Thesaurus. Namely, Clipboard picker, Pomodoro timer, Quick search, Auto indent.
Write or Die (free and paid)
If you can figure out the interface of the web app, it’s free — and it’s an excellent writing tool to keep you on task.
Writer (free)
Web app; distraction-free focus; automatic backups; no character limits; writing goals and statistics.
yWriter 6 (free)
A word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes, helping you keep track of your work while leaving your mind free to create. It will not write your novel for you, suggest plot ideas or perform creative tasks of any kind. Windows and Mac.