Comparison

Written vs Fiction Tracker

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

Fiction Tracker

This app helps authors track their writing progress for books. It allows users to log writing sessions, monitor word counts, set daily goals, and view detailed statistics on their progress over time. Users can also customize themes and manage multiple book projects.

Highlights
  • Track writing sessions with a timer
  • Log word count fluctuations or session counts
  • Set and monitor daily writing goals
  • Manage multiple book projects and drafts
  • View detailed writing statistics and graphs
  • Customize app themes
  • Maintain writing streaks
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Leech Writing is designed for professional fiction writers & authors. With Leech Writing, you can track your writing progress every time you sit down to write your book. Whether you’re writing or outlining, working on your first draft or second, or drafting a fiction or nonfiction book, Leech Writing will help you track progress, write more, and finish your book. You can customize the app by choosing a theme, and track as many concurrent book projects as you like, each with many drafts inside. Stay motivated by keeping your streak unbroken and meeting your goals each day, and view charts & graphs to see your progress over time. Get a projected completion date when you add a target word count in a draft. --- TRACK YOUR WRITING Inside a draft, tap Start to start the timer, then lock in and start writing. When you’re done writing, tap Stop, and enter your manuscript’s full word count. Leech Writing tracks how the full word count fluctuates to build an accurate picture of your progress. If you prefer, you can input the word count of just that session. HOME TAB View your latest writing session, enter a session manually, or start working on your latest project again. See your streak and set your daily goal. View your chart, progress and stats. BOOKS TAB Select or create your books and view its stats, as well as its drafts. Create a new draft or change which draft is the active draft, and click into a draft to view, and edit, if need be, any tracked work sessions. See stats for each book right inside that book's page. SETTINGS TAB Update the theme, set your goal, and contact me if you have any questions. CONTACT THE DEVELOPER If you have an issue, or there is a feature you want, simply press the Contact link at the bottom of the Settings tab to fill out the contact form and reach the developer right away.

Screenshots

Written4 screens
Fiction Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Written at Free against Fiction Tracker's $3.99. Written also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). Fiction Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 12 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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

Written is free to download; Fiction Tracker costs $3.99 up front. Written sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fiction Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Written against 5.0 for Fiction Tracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Written ships an update every 12 months, Fiction Tracker monthly. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Written versus Fiction Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWrittenFiction Tracker
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJean-Pierre RouhanaSamuel Sullins

Customer experience

Written

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

Fiction Tracker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Written

One-time1
  • Written Premium$1.99
None

Fiction Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Written free?
Written is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fiction Tracker free?
Fiction Tracker costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Written or Fiction Tracker?
Written and Fiction Tracker are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Written or Fiction Tracker have ads?
Neither Written nor Fiction Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Written or Fiction Tracker?
Written ships an update every 12 months, and Fiction Tracker monthly. Most recently, Written was updated on October 14, 2026 and Fiction Tracker on October 14, 2026.

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