Written vs Better Writing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Word count tracker
- Custom reminders
- Story outlines
- Writing analytics
- Notes section
- User-friendly interface
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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.
Better Writing
This tool helps refine your written text by offering modes to rewrite drafts, craft replies with specific tones, extract key points into lists, or add a playful edge to captions. It prioritizes privacy by processing all text locally on your device without requiring an account or cloud uploads.
- Rewrite rough drafts
- Craft replies with specific tones
- Extract key points into lists
- Add playful edge to text
- Voice input for text generation
- On-device processing for privacy
- Local history saving
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For moments when rough words need help. Rewrite a message. Nail a reply. Pull out the key points. Roast a caption or post. Paste your text, pick a mode, get a better version back. Everything runs on your device. No account. No cloud. Now works on more iPhones. Use Apple Intelligence when available, or download an on-device model from Settings > Manage Models and keep writing. How it works: Paste, type, or speak your text. Pick a mode. Copy the result. Done. Four modes: → Rewrite: Turn a rough draft into something you’d actually send → Reply: Draft a response with the right tone, fast → Bullet: Pull key points into a clean, scannable list → Roast: Rewrite anything with a sharper, playful edge Roast is one of a kind. No other writing app does this. Great for social posts, punchier replies, or anything that needs more personality. Voice input: Tap the mic, talk it out, and get clean text back instantly. On-device transcription. Nothing recorded. Private by design: Your text stays on your phone. No account, no uploads, no server processing. Local history: Your drafts are saved on device, so your work stays with you. Second Draft Pro unlocks full history access. Second Draft Pro Unlock unlimited drafts for life. → Unlimited text transforms → Full history access → All future updates included → One-time purchase, yours forever Second Draft Free Try any mode right away, no signup required. → 3 free drafts to get started Need help or have feedback? https://tally.so/r/2EkrgA Privacy Policy https://reword-it.vercel.app/privacy Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Better Writing at every 2 days against Written's every 12 months. Written's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Written sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Better Writing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Written against 5.0 for Better Writing. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Written ships an update every 12 months, Better Writing every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Written | Better Writing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jean-Pierre Rouhana | SEOU B HOUNKANRIN |
Customer experience
Written
Better Writing
In-app purchases
Written
- Written Premium$1.99
Better Writing
- Second Draft Pro$1.99









