Comparison

Written vs Truly Simple Slide Deck

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

Head to head
About

Written

This app helps authors, poets, bloggers, and screenwriters organize their writing projects. It offers tools like word count tracking, custom reminders, story outlines, analytics, and a notes section to boost productivity and maintain writing habits.

Highlights
  • Word count tracker
  • Custom reminders
  • Story outlines
  • Writing analytics
  • Notes section
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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Written helps you stay organized, motivated, and consistent on whatever you're making — a novel, a screenplay, a poetry collection, a blog, a photo series, or a handmade craft project. Set a goal in the unit that actually fits your work — Words, Pages, Photographs, or Crafts — and Written tracks your progress the way you actually create. Track Progress, Your Way Log your sessions and set daily, weekly, or monthly goals. Written isn't just for writers — photographers tracking a shoot and makers tracking a project get the same real progress tracking, not a word counter stretched to fit. Real Analytics: Not Just a Number See a trend chart of your output over time, a monthly activity heat map so you can spot your patterns at a glance, your current streak, and your lifetime consistency rate. Written also projects where your current pace will land you by your deadline — so you always know if you're on track, not just how much you've done. Story Structure That Moves With You Break your project into sections and scenes with drag-and-drop organization — name your chapters, reorder them as your story evolves, and build out each scene with structural elements like Conflict, Goal, and Setting, complete with built-in suggestions to help you get started. A Scratchpad for the Ideas That Won't Wait Jot down a stray line of dialogue, a research fact, or an idea you don't want to lose — without it turning into another thing to organize. Mark it done once it's worked into your project, or leave it be. Make It Yours Choose from four built-in themes — Ledger, Classic, Midnight Draft, and Field Notes — with automatic light/dark switching, so the app looks like your workspace, not a generic template. Everywhere You Work Your projects sync automatically across your devices via iCloud, with a real iPad layout (not a stretched-out iPhone screen) and support for Mac. Why Choose Written? One-time purchase, not a subscription. Unlock Premium once and it's yours — no recurring fees for a habit-tracking app. Built for more than one kind of creative. Whether you're counting words, pages, photographs, or crafted pieces, Written tracks progress your way. Your data stays yours. No ads, no third-party tracking or analytics SDKs — your projects sync through your own private iCloud account, not through us. Genuinely useful analytics, not just a progress bar — see your actual patterns, not just a single number. Download Written today and start seeing your creative momentum, not just your word count.

About

Truly Simple Slide Deck

Effortlessly create beautiful presentations by writing in plain text. This app automatically styles your content into visually appealing slides, offering a streamlined experience without complex formatting. Present directly from your device or export your work in various formats.

Highlights
  • Write slides using plain Markdown
  • Automatic styling and design
  • Built-in presenter view
  • Export as PDF, HTML, or Markdown
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • WCAG-compliant accessibility features
Features
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Write what you want to say in plain text. Truly Simple Slide Deck automatically styles it into a beautiful presentation. No complex formatting ribbons, cluttered menus, or spinning loading wheels. Just type your thoughts, separate them into slides, and let the app handle the design and presentation. Present directly from your device using the built-in presenter view (complete with speaker notes and upcoming slide thumbnails), or export your finished deck as a PDF, webpage, or ultra-portable Markdown file. Sync your progress instantly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud. Every core feature is completely free. A one-time, lifetime purchase unlocks custom themes, custom colors, and custom fonts—with absolutely no subscriptions. Buy once, own forever. Features: • Write and format beautiful slides using plain Markdown text. • Present natively with a built-in presenter view featuring speaker notes, next-slide previews, and auto-advance controls. • Export anywhere as highly portable PDFs, HTML webpages, or raw Markdown text. • Transition seamlessly between System, Light, and Dark modes. • Read comfortably with fully WCAG-compliant dynamic text scaling, high-contrast reading themes, and VoiceOver support. • Sync across iOS 17+ and macOS 14+ devices using iCloud.

Screenshots

Written4 screens
Truly Simple Slide Deck3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Written at 100% against Truly Simple Slide Deck's 0%. Written also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Truly Simple Slide Deck's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 12 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Written sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Truly Simple Slide Deck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Written ships an update every 12 months, Truly Simple Slide Deck every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Written versus Truly Simple Slide Deck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWrittenTruly Simple Slide Deck
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJean-Pierre RouhanaColin Wright

Customer experience

Written

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Truly Simple Slide Deck

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Written

One-time1
  • Written Premium$1.99
1 purchases

Truly Simple Slide Deck

One-time1
  • Unlock Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Written free?
Written is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Truly Simple Slide Deck free?
Truly Simple Slide Deck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Written or Truly Simple Slide Deck have ads?
Neither Written nor Truly Simple Slide Deck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Written or Truly Simple Slide Deck?
Written ships an update every 12 months, and Truly Simple Slide Deck every 5 months. Most recently, Written was updated on November 4, 2026 and Truly Simple Slide Deck on October 30, 2026.

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