Apache, OpenOffice, OpenOffice. Other names appearing on the site may be trademarks of their respective owners. Released: Apache OpenOffice 4. Apache OpenOffice Writer Letting you concentrate on writing your ideas Writer has everything you would expect from a modern, fully equipped word processor. Styles and Formatting puts the power of style sheets into the hands of every user. 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. It provides a context menu where you will find all the options like save, open, spellcheck, find and replace, preferences, etc. You can use Preferences option to modify font of the content. It provides few standard font types which you can choose from. Also, you can add text effects and change script, font style, and size. You can also add a desired paper and text color, adjust window opacity, dim screen elements, and do more.
In addition to that, you can customize screen elements, layout, language, etc. It provides a Progress option to let you see the statistics of your document with counts of words, characters, sentences, average words per sentence, lexical density, etc. You can choose the unit words, characters, nonspaces, paragraphs, pages, or reading time for the progress count. In addition to that, you can limit text and time up to required limit for writing.
You can import and export TXT files using this writing freeware. You can use Print option to save a PDF copy of your writing. WriteMonkey is a good option to use when you want to pour your thoughts into words without any distraction. It provides an interface dedicated to writing solely. As it is portable, you can just run it when needed without installation. FocusWriter supports a good range of formats to import and add to a new document.
To save a piece of writing, it supports the same five formats. But, you can use Print option to save it as a PDF too. FocusWriter is nice writing software which lets you put your creative thoughts out there with all the essential tools.
Celtx is a creative writing software which lets you write for various projects like film , theater , storyboard , novel , audio play , comic book , etc. The three main features to highlight in Celtx are:. It provides basic tools to modify content like customizing font type, color, and size, adding typographical emphasis bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough , aligning text, adding bullets or numbering, etc. This free writing software supports only Celtx project to import or export.
Celtx is a nice software to create different media projects. It provides all essential tools to write for a special project like screenplay, stage play, storyboard, comic book, etc. It also lets you write multiple projects in different windows at a time. Manuskript is an open source writing software for fiction and non-fiction projects. It lets you write novels, stories, trilogy, research papers, etc. To start with, it lets you enter the count of each attribute of a particular type of project.
For example, if you want to write a research paper, it lets you enter number of sections and words per section. To write for either fiction or non-fiction projects, you can choose simple text editor or index cards. You can also see the outline of a project with the statistics of its key attributes.
Manuskript is a portable writing software. While this system was created for scientific papers, it can be used to create beautifully formatted books. You use a series of markup cues to set the structure of your document and also add citations and cross-references. The end product can be converted into a number of file formats. There are several LaTeX editors for Linux and other platforms that you can use.
The goal of this program is to organize the different elements of your story, so you can focus on writing. It includes a hierarchical tree, so you can see how all characters and events are related. The program also features a spell check and a task list. Like the other novel creation apps, you can create reports to see how often characters appear and when. While Markdown and AsciiDoc can be used to create a wide range of documents, Fountain is much more specialized.
It is designed for one purpose, to create screenplays. The beauty of Fountain is that it allows you to add the correct formatting to your screenplay as you write without having to take your fingers off the keeps.
After a little practice, it can become second nature. Here is a list of apps that support Fountain. Fountain is released under the MIT license. If screenwriting is more your speed, then you should check out Trelby. It also features scene, location, character, and dialogue reports.
You can also use it to compare your script to see what changed between versions. Have you ever used one of the tools on this list? What is your favorite open-source tool as a writer?
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