Comparison

Written vs Ahti

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

Ahti

This writing application provides a peaceful, uncluttered interface for planning, drafting, and finishing long-form projects like novels or screenplays. It offers tools for structuring your work, writing without distraction, and exporting your finished manuscript in various formats.

Highlights
  • Binder for chapters and scenes
  • Corkboard for scene flash cards
  • Outliner for structure overview
  • Distraction-free writing modes
  • Word goal and daily pace tracking
  • Export to ePub, Word, PDF
  • Customizable themes and styles
Features
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Ahti is somewhere quiet to finish writing your long-form book. It gives you what you need to plan, draft, and finish a novel, screenplay, or thesis. It's a peaceful, uncluttered interface that stays out of the way so you can focus on writing. PLAN THE SHAPE OF YOUR BOOK Keep your whole story in one place. The binder holds your chapters and scenes. The corkboard turns each scene into a rearrangeable flash card for structuring and quick reference. The outliner gives you a bird's-eye view of your structure and all the data that comes with it. WRITE WITHOUT DISTRACTION Write in a clean editor, or fold a chapters and scenes into one long manuscript so you can write straight through. Additionally, Composition Mode keeps it simple when all you want is the ink and the page. KEEP TRACK, AND FINISH Set a word goal and a daily pace to keep yourself moving. Take a snapshot before a big revision so you can always go back to an earlier draft. When the book is done, compile it to ePub, Word, PDF, and more, with a table of contents, chapter numbering, and your own title page. LOOK THE PART Choose between light and dark mode, or import your own custom themes so your workspace looks and feels like your story. The style editor gives you complete control over every color, font, and formatting of Ahti. YOUR WORK STAYS YOURS An Ahti project is an ordinary folder of plain text files on your own disk. You can open it in Finder or any other writing app, and nothing is trapped in a proprietary format. Turn on iCloud and your books follow you from Mac to iPad to iPhone. There are no sign ins or accounts to create, and unless you choose to sync to iCloud, everything is completely offline. There are robust features when you need them without disrupting your flow: • Wiki-style links between documents • Collections and saved searches • Places for characters and notes • Comments and footnotes • Light and dark themes • Writing targets and history Ahti is built to be calm and quiet, while being rich in functionality when you need it.

Screenshots

Written4 screens
Ahti4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Written at Free against Ahti's $5.99. Ahti's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 12 months). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Written is free to download; Ahti costs $5.99 up front. Written sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ahti 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 Ahti. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Written ships an update every 12 months, Ahti every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Written versus Ahti: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWrittenAhti
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJean-Pierre RouhanaBret Merritt

Customer experience

Written

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

Ahti

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Written

One-time1
  • Written Premium$1.99
None

Ahti

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Written free?
Written is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ahti free?
Ahti costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Written or Ahti?
Written and Ahti are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Written or Ahti have ads?
Neither Written nor Ahti shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Written or Ahti?
Written ships an update every 12 months, and Ahti every 6 days. Most recently, Written was updated on October 14, 2026 and Ahti on October 8, 2026.

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