Playwriter vs iWindowsProg
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Playwriter
Transform your play ideas into professionally formatted scripts. This app guides you through character and scene creation, offering step-by-step tutorials for aspiring playwrights. Visualize your play with pictorial representations of settings and characters.
- Automatic script formatting
- Character and location creation
- Scene writing and dialogue editing
- Pictorial scene representation
- Step-by-step playwriting guides
- Export options
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Got a great idea for a play? This innovative app takes you from a nub of an idea to a finalised script, professionally formatted and ready for printing. And if you're new to playwriting there's a complete set of step-by-step guides to teach you all the tips and tricks of professional writers. FEATURES - Export options - Automatic script formatting - Unlimited number of plays - 10,000 word guide to playwriting HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a bunch of characters. 2. Create some locations. 3. Create a scene and start writing dialogue. The app gives you a pictorial representation of your play scene by scene, showing images of the setting and of each of the characters in that scene.You can easily update characters and locations, change your mind about scene order or edit dialogue.
iWindowsProg
This app provides a comprehensive client for managing Windows desktops, servers, databases, Team Foundation Server, and Visual Studio instances directly from iOS devices. It allows for exploration, administration, querying, and development tasks remotely.
- Remote Windows desktop and server exploration
- TFS client for work items, builds, and source control
- Database client for MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and more
- Visual Studio client for project management and compilation
- SQL keyword shortcuts and query saving
- Requires a free Windows Bridge Server
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iWindowsProg is the most powerful Windows, Database, Visual Studio & TFS client application for iOS devices. For detailed information please visit http://makeprog.com FEATURES WINDOWS CLIENT (INAPP) • You can easily explore Windows Desktops and Servers from iOS devices. • Available features are Windows Services, Event Logs, IIS, Active Directory, HyperVisor and ESX etc., TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER CLIENT (INAPP) • Connect to TFS Servers from iOS Devices. • Available features are Workitems, Builds, Changesets, Source Control, Workspaces, Pending Changes, Shelvesets, Labels, Branches, Users and Groups etc., • Support for TFS2010, TFS2012 and DevOps DATABASE CLIENTS (INAPP) • Visualize, search & script MySql, Sql Server, Oracle, PostgreSql, DB2 & Microsoft Access database objects. • Database objects can be viewed in Tiles & Table view. • Administer database by scripting. • Sql Server agent support. • Multi tab query runner with asynchronous & parallel query execution. • Send any kind of ad-hoc query and browse the results in table. • Fast access to SQL keywords using special SQL keyboard. • Save queries to iOS device and reuse. • Download queries using iTunes. • Simple GUI Table designer for MySql , Sql Server and Oracle. VISUAL STUDIO CLIENT (INAPP) • Connect to Visual Studio instance in Windows and explore Visual Studio projects. • Available features are Add/Edit/Delete Solution, Project & Project Items, Source Editor, Remote compile, Build & Error Window etc., • Run MS Unit test and visualize the results. • Explore/Reflect/Decompile assemblies using Object Browser. • Needs WindowsProg Bridge Extension to be installed in Visual Studio. • At present supports VB & C# Projects. • Support for Visual Studio 2010, 2012 Pro and above only. WINDOWSPROG BRIDGE SERVER (FREE) • This iOS application requires a Bridge Server to be installed in a Windows Machine to process the requests made by iOS Devices. • The Bridge Server is the one stop communication point for iWindowsProg and Windows, ESX, TFS, MySql, Sql Server, Oracle, PostgreSql, DB2, Microsoft Access & Visual Studio and it can be downloaded for free from http://makeprog.com • Refer to http://makeprog.com/Products/iWindowsProg/WindowsProgBridgeServer.aspx for more info and why it makes your servers stay secure. • Works Over 3G/4G. Privacy Policy : http://makeprog.com/documents/Privacy Policy.pdf Terms & Conditions : http://makeprog.com/documents/Terms and Conditions.pdf If you need any assistance/more information/feedback please contact us at support@makeprog.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Playwriter at $2.99 against iWindowsProg's $24.99. Playwriter also leads on rating (3.6 vs 1.0) and review sentiment (57% vs 33%). iWindowsProg's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 12 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Playwriter costs $2.99 and iWindowsProg $24.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Playwriter holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Playwriter has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Playwriter's written reviews are positive against 33% of iWindowsProg's.
Playwriter ships an update every 12 months, iWindowsProg every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Playwriter | iWindowsProg |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $24.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (29 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.5% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Felix Mood | Balasubramanian Ramanathan |
Customer experience
Playwriter
iWindowsProg
In-app purchases
Playwriter
No in-app purchases
iWindowsProg
No in-app purchases








