Comparison

Biographer vs Plotten

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

Head to head
About

Biographer

Easily create illustrated eBooks and PDFs from your stories, journals, or any written project. Organize thoughts into a structured database with time-sensitive themes and reminders to jog your memory. Share your creations as eBooks or PDFs with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Create illustrated biographies, novels, and more
  • Organize thoughts into a structured database
  • Time Themes and seasonal reminders
  • Auto-create chapters and events
  • Attach photos and captions to events
  • Export as eBook, PDF, RTF, Plain Text, HTML, XML
  • Speech recognition for dictation
Features
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Conveniently create illustrated biographies, novels, screen plays, speeches, journals, instruction manuals, song books, poetry books, book reports and more! We organize your thoughts and stories into a structured database which can then be managed much more logically than a plain old writing program. Also, we make the trip down memory lane enjoyable with Time Themes and seasonal reminders to jog your memory. Your life to eBook in one tap of your finger! Any project can be saved as an eBook or PDF and shared with others vie email. Every Life Deserves a Bio! Whether you are just getting started in life or getting up there in years, you have a story to tell. In fact, you probably have lots of stories to tell. Biographer is especially designed to help you tell these stories and get them into book form in the easiest possible way. But this app is not just for biographies! Use it to write a school reports, novels, recipe books, brochures, booklets, screenplays, journals—anything! Auto-create Chapters and Events for your Biography or that of someone you want to write about. Then start remembering as best you can. We'll keep track of the years and dates for you. Attach photos and captions to events and thoughts and before long you are developing a great story which can now be shared and kept forever! Life is not a Timeline on a social network, it's a story. It's your story. Time Themes dynamically change the interface to reflect the decade you are recalling or the seasonal time of year. This helps you remember things that you might otherwise have forgotten. With the Tap of a single button, you can take all these Chapters and chronological events and create a beautifully formatted eBook that can be read by any popular eBook reader. This is a superlative gift for your children, your parents and your friends—not this app but a Biography that they can call their own and share for the ages. From now on, it's not just the famous that get biographies, it's everyone! No life story should go untold or forgotten. Biographer takes a tough writing task and breaks it into small parts that make it fun to write your story. Use the built-in speech recognition to speak your memories and thoughts to quickly create a story that is fully organized into neat Chapters. Pretty soon, you'll be sharing all sorts of stories and mini-bios with your friends and the world because Biographer lets you maintain as many separate stories as you want and make and share as many eBooks,PDFs or RTFs (for Word) as you want—no design experience needed! This is perfect for small businesses or organizations that want to tell their story and share it in the universal modern format, the eBook. Stories can also be exported as Plain Text, HTML or XML for added usefulness in collaboration or other workflows. Free version lets you work on and save as many stories as you want then when you want to share them, pay a one-time modest fee to unlock all sharing and printing functions for all your stories. Start telling your story today and enjoy Biographer!

About

Plotten

This writing tool offers a distraction-free, minimalist interface to help you craft novels, screenplays, and other manuscripts. It includes advanced editing tools, a cover designer, and flexible export options for various formats.

Highlights
  • Minimalist distraction-free interface
  • Supports novels, screenplays, children's books
  • Intuitive cover designer
  • Ebook viewer
  • Export to EPub, FDX, DOCX, web, print
Features
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Plotten: Your Creative Writing Companion Unlock your literary potential with Plotten, the ultimate writing tool designed to streamline your creative process. Experience a minimalist interface that eliminates distractions, allowing your ideas to flow freely. Feature-Rich and User-Friendly: Versatile Formats: Whether you’re crafting screenplays, novels, children’s books, or more, Plotten supports a variety of manuscript needs. Advanced Editing Tools: Includes an intuitive cover designer and an Ebook viewer to bring your story to life. Flexible Export Options: Seamlessly export your projects for web, print, or as EPub, FDX, and DOCX files. With Plotten, every feature is crafted to enhance your writing experience, whether you're a screenwriter, essayist, novelist, short story writer, or journalist, Plotten makes it easy to transform your vision into a polished masterpiece. Terms of Use: https://www.plotten.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.plotten.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Biographer4 screens
Plotten4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Plotten at 4.3 against Biographer's 3.7. Plotten also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (50 vs 7). Biographer's advantage is review sentiment (38% vs 20%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Biographer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Plotten sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plotten holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plotten has 50 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Biographer's written reviews are positive against 20% of Plotten's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Biographer ships an update every 3 months, Plotten every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Biographer versus Plotten: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBiographerPlotten
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (7 ratings)4.3 (50 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings750 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTechné MediaPaul MacRory

Customer experience

Biographer

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative37.5%

Plotten

All ratings49 ratings
Positive81.6%
Neutral6.1%
Negative12.2%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Biographer

One-time2
  • Unlock All Export and Printing$3.99
  • Screenplay Assistant$9.99
2 purchases

Plotten

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month Access3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • 1 Year Access3 Days trial$17.991 Year

Questions

Is Biographer free?
Biographer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plotten free?
Plotten is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Biographer or Plotten?
Plotten is rated higher. Biographer averages 3.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Plotten averages 4.3 from 50 ratings.
Do Biographer or Plotten have ads?
Neither Biographer nor Plotten shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Biographer or Plotten?
Biographer ships an update every 3 months, and Plotten every 4 days. Most recently, Biographer was updated on November 1, 2026 and Plotten on November 3, 2026.

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