Better after update
I’ve been using Novelist for 1-2 months now to write my first book series I intend to publish.
👉 TL/DR: I would recommend it to other authors & while there’s a few staples missing, like spellcheck, there’s a lot of really good features, too.
I think it’s a very comprehensive app for writers & it has so many features (really interested to see what they come out with in tools). You can create a “bulletin board” of sorts to organize your characters, places, themes, etc. I also like the schedule and progress tracking (which started working for me on 9/24). You see your growth & set goals for your writing.
I also enjoy being able to edit the chapter list and move “scenes” (chapters) around if necessary by long-tapping one to get to the editable list.
I’m still frustrated by the highlighting to copy - which even with my small fingers is difficult to get right if I’m just trying to highlight a specific sentence or a few words. Pasting has become much easier since the update, though.
I’m also confused with the need for the organize section, when you have the “write” section where you write all of your chapters & everything, but then need to physically move all your finished chapters to the organize section, which is where you can download in the correct format, enter an IBM number, etc. for publishing.
It does *not* currently have spellcheck or grammar correcting capabilities, & I would love to see both in the future. Anything to help with editing would be appreciated as I’m sure many of us using Novelist are are new authors, self-publishing, or trying to self-edit while avoiding AI use.
Overall I would recommend this for fellow writers, you can’t beat the price or wealth of features that the Novelist app offers.
👉 TL/DR: I would recommend it to other authors & while there’s a few staples missing, like spellcheck, there’s a lot of really good features, too.
I think it’s a very comprehensive app for writers & it has so many features (really interested to see what they come out with in tools). You can create a “bulletin board” of sorts to organize your characters, places, themes, etc. I also like the schedule and progress tracking (which started working for me on 9/24). You see your growth & set goals for your writing.
I also enjoy being able to edit the chapter list and move “scenes” (chapters) around if necessary by long-tapping one to get to the editable list.
I’m still frustrated by the highlighting to copy - which even with my small fingers is difficult to get right if I’m just trying to highlight a specific sentence or a few words. Pasting has become much easier since the update, though.
I’m also confused with the need for the organize section, when you have the “write” section where you write all of your chapters & everything, but then need to physically move all your finished chapters to the organize section, which is where you can download in the correct format, enter an IBM number, etc. for publishing.
It does *not* currently have spellcheck or grammar correcting capabilities, & I would love to see both in the future. Anything to help with editing would be appreciated as I’m sure many of us using Novelist are are new authors, self-publishing, or trying to self-edit while avoiding AI use.
Overall I would recommend this for fellow writers, you can’t beat the price or wealth of features that the Novelist app offers.
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Do It Now
I love this app! I’m new to Novelist. As I do more with it, truly learn to navigate within it, I may find limitations. Currently, though, I’m in love.
It’s wonderful to see my progress right at my fingertips. I can do everything in the app and see my work in a way I’ve never seen it before. It encourages me to write more. That’s a “win” in my world!
Oh, one thing I would change is in selecting text. The only option is Select All. I can sometimes get potions highlighted, other times I can’t. Maybe there’s a trick I’m unaware of. It’s annoying but in no way a dealbreaker.
It’s wonderful to see my progress right at my fingertips. I can do everything in the app and see my work in a way I’ve never seen it before. It encourages me to write more. That’s a “win” in my world!
Oh, one thing I would change is in selecting text. The only option is Select All. I can sometimes get potions highlighted, other times I can’t. Maybe there’s a trick I’m unaware of. It’s annoying but in no way a dealbreaker.
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pretty good
i generally like this app, but if you want to copy and paste it (to send to a friend or something) you cant, because of the font! it makes all the special characters ( ‘ “ , . / $ ! ?) into a mix of funky symbols! (“ might turn into $*^#!^)
I love it but one problem
I LOVE this app, BUT I wish that I was able to put pictures for my story’s I totally recommend but if you are a picture person (like me) I recommend something else I use this app for my chapter books like Potato’s story (about a cat that gets a owner and loves her, but she lives with a dog named Penny they both work together to find a new home.) and stranger thing (the BEST show on earth) if you haven’t watched it then WATCH IT it’s really GREAT anyway if the developers responds reads this PLEASE have a picture button so I can put pictures. And if you read this thank you for your time 😊. Toothless99nights99sunflower singing out but really thank you for your time 😊.
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WHY IS THIS SO UNDERRATED
I LOVE this app! It’s so helpful for writing, and organizing books and stories! More people should use this app. Granted, writing isn’t exactly an incredibly pursued career/hobby, but for those who wanna get into it should use this app! It pales in comparison to Apple Notes. Selecting fonts is much easier, organizing lore for every part of your story is easy, and this app is near perfect! Too bad I’m a poet and know you can’t achieve perfect. If I weren’t so smart, I would say this app is perfect. Instead, I’ll use some metaphors. If everything I ate was as good as this app, I would triple my weight in four hours. Thanks to everyone who worked on this project, and everyone who took time out of their day to build this convenience for me!
P.S: I wouldn’t mind being able to give text color, though. Thank you!
P.S: I wouldn’t mind being able to give text color, though. Thank you!
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Amazing, just one thing
This app is so customisable it’s like the better cousin of foretelling. I love being able to customise, and the learning curve although not intuitive is very easy to get used to.
I understand not being able to set up a syncing system between devices due to the app being free and syncing being too expensive, but that’s really the only complaint I have, and it’s what is keeping me from using it more.
I understand not being able to set up a syncing system between devices due to the app being free and syncing being too expensive, but that’s really the only complaint I have, and it’s what is keeping me from using it more.
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Awesome
I got an idea for a story and went looking for an app to write it in. I didn’t want to write it on my computer, but on my iPad, since I can take it wherever I go. I downloaded this app because it was free, and the reviews were so good. And I love, love, love the app! I had to leave a review because I have had so much fun writing in this app. I love how you can set up the events and characters in advance, then add them to a chapter or event for easy access. I am on book seven now and just have a question…what happens when you archive? Where does it go? I need to know the best way to store it once a book is published…
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I’m so sorry.
My apologies for the harsh review. That wasn’t right, but I hope it works better eventually.
Super Kind
Completely free, no add pop-ups and gives a lot of different planning options for your writing! This is a super helpful app honestly
So rare to find a gem like this nowadays
Only been using the app for a short while but it’s blowing my mind because usually simple functions would be paywalled or something stupid, but this seems to be genuinely free and genuinely very useful. It’s so simple yet so customizable and the fact you don’t need to make an account for it makes it even better. Everything’s just there, perfect. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Great
It works great and I love that I can send it out. My only problem is that there are no different fonts and the tab but that doesn’t matter do much. It is exactly what I wanted when I got it though.
Amazing! But one thing…
I have been using this app for like two months and it is so glorious, i love it and it is so good for all my 20+ story ideas! I love how you can set the cover and i love how it organized it is! But one thing i don’t like is that there is no pages, so i dont know how many pages i wrote so far, there is no pick your page size or numbering and that makes it hard since i like to print out my books. One more thing, whenever i use the arrow buttons on my keyboard to fix something it sends me back to the other letter/sentence and to fix that i have to exit out of the whole app and go back in, other then that it is an amazing writing app!!!
I hope you found this helpful! Peace out ✌🏻
I hope you found this helpful! Peace out ✌🏻
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Yazzz
I legit love this app, it’s so useful for writing. It took me awhile to learn how to use everything but I know now and it’s so nice. To publish it, I just copy paste the text I write, put it on my docs app which sends it to my computer and then bam it works. Great app!
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Super helpful!
I’ve been using this app for about half a year now and it’s been super amazing for my books! The way that it contains so many features like the events and goal setting and character metadata is really cool to me, it helped me develop a lot of my story. It can handle a lot of words unlike how i used to use Notes and Google Docs. The only issues I have are that A) you can’t change the font, which is just something that isn’t really important but i would like! and B) you can’t use the find/replace feature for all the sections *when you’re on easy mode, like me* but instead have to do the feature for each individual section. Although these are minor inconveniences, otherwise the app is really good.
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非常好的写作软件
强烈推荐！页面干净简洁，结构完整。非常喜欢人物卡、事件、主题和正文界面分离这一点，还可以设置起承转合进度条。非常适合梳理大纲和公式化写作，感觉设计的思路很清晰。可惜没有中文版，好在界面字数不多，单词也不算特别复杂，值得一试。
I love this app
I like writing stories and I have looked at other apps and they all make me pay for more books or more pages or more characters but this one is free and I love it. 🩷
Appreciation
I had to write a review about this app. It is amazing and so caring towards writers. I have been using this app for only few months but it is insane. I us it for writing books mostly and being happy knowing it's reliable even offline as many malfunction for the need to be online. I even use it for notes or planning and it's so essay to organize with, I even use it to organize my essays as I'm also a AP English student and needed this to help out. With it's built in features like schedules, categories, tags, scenes, search, view, sections and my favorite, color labels. It is overall a well made and amazing app to use especially with it's backup feature. The only real issue I do have with this app is, it doesn't have an automatic sync or account connection, which it absolutely makes up, for being free to use. Unlike other apps that get in my way, or cost way too much, or does the same thing but more expensive and not even worth the hassle, it's free. I appreciate what you guys do and I just wanna say, out of all the apps I would use or even had the money to use, I would still pick this. Because frankly, this is 100% better than any other one I've seen and paid for. So thank you!
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I like it- yeh… it cool
Yeh! This is totes yeh! Thats all I can say for now… thnx to the goat- YEH!!!
PLEASE READ
Okay, so I’m 10 and I just got this a few hours ago. It’s a great app, and it has no subscription or in app purchases or anything. But I went to the normal mode and tried to make a bio for my main character bc I love those sort of things. Tell me why there’s like a bajillion things on there. What does Style mean?! Like, it’s detailed to the point to where if you JUST filled out bios for everything, you could make a GRAPHIC NOVEL. It’s insane. It should specify what certain things mean, and I took like an hour to figure out how to delete a copy of a character I accidentally copied. It should come with a mini dictionary for what all that stuff means. I hope the devs see this and respond. I should give this four stars but I want people to see it. Also the review Amazing app for all things words! Is phony. It’s SUPER DETAILED, and if you’re a human dictionary, or don’t mind checking definitions of things every five seconds, and like things AS DETAILED AND DESCRIPTIVE AS HUMANLY AND ROBOTICALLY POSSIBLE, this is the app for you. Also, you have to back up your own books every few minutes.
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This honestly has to be the worst app I’ve ever used!
I have over a 127,000 words in my novel right now, and it types even slower than a laptop mini can run! This is very, very dissatisfying!
