Comparison

作家助手 vs Metion

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

作家助手

Features
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创作无限安全有界 ——作家助手全新5.0版本重磅更新! 作家助手是: 全网顶流作家首选网文创作工具; 专业强大、安全稳定的免费码字应用; 百万作家交流拼字的专业网文社区。 —专业创作— ●悬浮多窗:手机也能多窗口,边看大纲边写书 ●界面美观:一键排版,字体&背景&网格线&工具栏,皆可自由定制 ●高效码字:全文搜索、智能纠错、语音朗读、发布预览、灵感便签 ●闪电键入:自动装弹的快捷词,超大弹仓的输入区 ●多端同步:手机电脑丝滑同步,多重备份不丢稿 ●拼字星球:丰富的拼字&闯关玩法,呼朋唤友不孤单 ●快捷发布:一键发布,支持定时、预审、风险段落提示 ●作品数据:订阅、追读、收藏、打赏、稿酬公开透明全掌握 ●妙笔辅助:查设定、找伏笔、算数值、理线索、挖角色…创作如虎添翼 —神助社区— ●写作干货:专业编辑 & 作家大神分享创作经验,助你成长 ●昵称互动:换个昵称随便问,八卦吃瓜不社恐 ●同站专问:与同一站点作者互评互问,不再孤军奋战 如有任何疑问或建议,请在 APP 内通过「我 -> 意见反馈」联系我们 微信公众号、新浪微博搜索「作家助手」,即可关注我们 如需电脑创作,可使用电脑浏览器访问:write.qq.com 赶快下载体验,开启你的移动创作之旅吧!

About

Metion

This notebook tool prioritizes a superior writing experience using Markdown. It allows you to build knowledge bases, connect notes as networks, and offers a distraction-free Zen Mode. Data is stored freely in plain text files with built-in Git support for synchronization and version history.

Highlights
  • Markdown support
  • Knowledge base creation
  • Networked notes
  • Zen Mode writing
  • Open filesystem storage
  • Built-in Git sync
  • History versioning
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Metion is a notebook tool that focuses on the writing experience, uses Markdown as basic text syntax. ## Build Your Own Knowledge Base Metion 2.0 brings a new feature named "Knowledge Base", the plain text syntax, then becomes mindmap trees, or connected as a network... ## The Writing Experience is So Important Our goal is to create a great writing experience, specially for iPadOS, although it's not easy. Metion provides a relatively complete keyboard shortcuts support. After a keyboard connected, both iPad and iPhone can archive a huge improvement in writing experience. We also have redesigned the "Zen Mode" on iPad, a more focusing writing mode. It is very very beautiful, choosing a suitable background image, selecting the white noise you like in Zen Mode, and the irrelevant UI elements are hidden. Writing is a pleasure, writing is talking to the world, writing is your Zen. ## Data Freedom, Open Filesystem, Git Built-in Metion based on the open filesystem, no need to create another new format for storing data. An article is a plain text file, and the images in the article are also under a certain folder. Data freedom and open filesystems allow us to synchronize data across devices using iCloud or Git. If you have a higher requirement for data security, you can also make a backup very quickly by copying the entire folder (working directory). One more thing, Metion has a built-in support named "history version" that provides a little more reliability for your documents. **Also, if you know how to use Git, you can try Git to sync. Yes! We have the powerful Git as a built-in feature! ** ## Optimized for iPad Pro, Also for iPhone We tried the best to make Metion optimized for iPad Pro, when writing on iPad Pro by Metion, the iPad is a really more productive device. Metion is also optimized for the iPhone too. In recent years, most of the new iPhones have notch at the top of screen. Metion does not simply avoid the safe area, but makes a lot of technical efforts to apply every pixel on the screen as far as possible. If using the visual theme of "Dark", the notch sometimes look like disappeared, like the next generation of full-screen phone comes. ## The Exporting of Metion If using Metion to export as PDF, we suggest the theme of PDF can be set as "Printer" in Settings Panel. If there is a real printer connected in current local network, just print directly, it will be pretty when words on the real paper. Document in Metion can be exported as image, which is optimized for mobile device (iPhone). We can set text and QR-Code signature at the end of exported image. Send it to friends through some social Apps. The beautiful layout of text can highlight the value of your words. Metion can analyze the structure of current article automatically, then export it as "Mindmap" with one tap only. - - - - - - - - - - Privacy Policy: http://markeditor.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: http://markeditor.com/page/terms.md

Screenshots

作家助手4 screens
Metion4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 作家助手 at none against Metion's 3. 作家助手 also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (79% vs 60%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Metion sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. 作家助手 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

作家助手 holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 118 and 46 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of 作家助手's written reviews are positive against 60% of Metion's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

作家助手 ships an update fortnightly, Metion every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
作家助手 versus Metion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter作家助手Metion
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (118 ratings) — better4.3 (46 ratings)
Positive reviews79.4% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings118 — better46
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB96 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developer上海阅文信息技术有限公司Hangzhou Quanduan Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

作家助手

All ratings118 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral0.8%
Negative7.6%
Written reviews223 reviews
Positive79.4%
Neutral4.0%
Negative16.6%

Metion

All ratings46 ratings
Positive84.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral14.0%
Negative26.0%

User reviews

作家助手

From 118 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and convenient
  • 🚀 Fast writing and saving
  • 📱 Usable overseas
  • ✨ Good for beginners
  • ✍️ Professional writing tool

Room to improve

  • 😠 Annoying notifications and red dots
  • 🐛 Login issues and crashes
  • ⚠️ Forced real-name authentication
  • 🚫 Account suspension/ban
  • ⏳ System maintenance delays

Metion

From 46 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Seamless integration with Apple ecosystem
  • ✍️ Great writing experience
  • 💡 Promising features
  • 🎨 Minimalist and aesthetic design
  • 🚀 Enhances productivity

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent bugs and crashes
  • 📱 Not optimized for phones
  • 🗂️ Limited free version features
  • 🎨 UI issues and design flaws
  • ❌ Syncing problems

Bugs and requests

作家助手

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Login frequently freezes or crashes
  • Dialogue novel saving function is buggy
  • System maintenance causes delays
  • App crashes after agreeing to terms and real-name authentication
  • Unable to log in
Show 4 more
  • Registration fails for overseas users
  • iPad screen orientation issues
  • Frequent auto-save notifications
  • Bugs introduced during updates

Requested features

12 requests
  • Allow creation without selecting target audience
  • Improve dialogue novel saving functionality
  • Add character relationship cards
  • Build chapter relationship mapping
  • Enhance mobile writing experience
Show 7 more
  • Improve feedback speed
  • Implement word document loading
  • Add more functions
  • Improve iPad compatibility for screen orientation
  • Add a dedicated section for excellent works
  • Allow offline editing and saving
  • Improve chapter reordering

Metion

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Git sync not working
  • iCloud folder cannot be specified
  • Writing statistics not visible or crashing
  • Custom file sorting not working
  • New file creation bug (text pushed up)
Show 14 more
  • Hyperlinks only work with connected keyboard
  • Help documentation partially translated
  • PDF export formatting issues
  • App crashes when submitting bugs
  • iPhone gets hot and requires restart
  • App launches inconsistently, crashes, slow to switch folders
  • Undo function not supported, causes crash
  • App crashes on startup
  • Cannot open old documents (free version limit)
  • English input lacks auto-capitalization and spell check
  • Soft keyboard shortcut bar disappears
  • Character input issues causing extra spaces
  • Zen mode background color setting causes crashes
  • App crashes when trying to set Zen mode background

Requested features

35 requests
  • Optimize for phone usage
  • Add Windows version
  • Improve Git sync functionality
  • Allow specifying iCloud folder
  • Restore writing statistics feature
Show 30 more
  • Fix custom file sorting
  • Fix new file creation bugs
  • Improve hyperlink functionality on iPhone
  • Add Undo functionality
  • Fix app crashes on startup
  • Allow opening old documents
  • Improve English input (auto-capitalization, spell check)
  • Fix disappearing shortcut bar
  • Increase font size limit
  • Allow changing Zen mode background and text color
  • Fix PDF export formatting
  • Improve Russian translation
  • Simplify interface navigation
  • Improve interface glitchiness
  • Support existing markdown folders
  • Add more font choices
  • Fix character input issues
  • Increase maximum character limit
  • Add Dropbox or other cloud drive sync
  • Add password lock feature
  • Improve line spacing in Zen mode
  • Combine markdown preview and writing like Bear
  • Add floating TOC
  • Add dedicated preview button
  • Option to dilate interface scale
  • Add statistics for daily word count
  • Improve Zen mode text color
  • Add support for Chinese-to-English conversion
  • Add file system for recording information like Windows with graphical display and tags
  • Add statistics for word count

In-app purchases

None

作家助手

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Metion

Subscriptions2
  • 订阅公众号图片上传中转3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Subscribe Pro Extensions3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Standard Edition (iOS+iPadOS)$17.99

Questions

Is 作家助手 free?
作家助手 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Metion free?
Metion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 作家助手 or Metion?
作家助手 is rated higher. 作家助手 averages 4.6 out of 5 from 118 ratings, while Metion averages 4.3 from 46 ratings.
Do 作家助手 or Metion have ads?
Neither 作家助手 nor Metion shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 作家助手 or Metion?
作家助手 ships an update fortnightly, and Metion every 2 weeks. Most recently, 作家助手 was updated on October 15, 2026 and Metion on October 13, 2026.

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