Comparison

Jiraiya vs Wayscript

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

Head to head
About

Jiraiya

Features
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Capture ideas for the book you write on Mac. Jiraiya for iPhone is a companion to the Mac writing app. Collect material while you are away from your desk and read books created on Mac. Manuscript writing, outline editing, EPUB and M4B export, and audio generation take place in the Mac app. FIELD NOTES • Capture ideas with text, photos, or voice • Keep the capture time and, when permitted, location • Add notes quickly from widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, or the Action Button ORGANIZE YOUR MATERIAL On supported devices, Sennin Mode suggests tags and writing prompts on device. It requires an Apple Intelligence capable device. READ YOUR BOOKS Browse books created on Mac and synced through iCloud, organized by act, chapter, and section. When rereading sparks a thought, save it as a new Field Note. DASHBOARD View the days, time, and characters you wrote on Mac, plus your KDP sales summaries, in Dashboard. Switch between Writing and Sales performance. In Writing, choose a book and a period (7 days, 30 days, 3 months, or 1 year). Records and summaries are created on Mac and arrive through iCloud; iPhone is view-only. Only time and character counts are recorded, never the text itself. KDP sales appear only after you explicitly enable sales summary sync on Mac. Original Excel files, ASINs, KDP Dashboard estimates, and Payment Reports are not uploaded to iCloud. JIRAIYA PRO Your subscription is shared with the Mac app. On Mac, unlimited books, EPUB Reader preview, PDF export, Focus Mode, EPUB export, and M4B export are Pro features. The free Mac version includes one book. Manuscript writing and file export also take place on Mac. iCloud sync requires the same Apple Account on each device. Jiraiya Pro is an auto-renewing monthly or annual subscription. The price appears on the App Store purchase screen. Privacy Policy: https://rkpg.net/jiraiya/privacy-policy-en.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Wayscript

Features
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Blank page to finished book, in one studio. Wayscript is a desktop-class writing studio for novelists, whether it's your first book or tenth. Draft, plan, and build your world, all in one powerful writing tool that syncs across your Mac, iPhone and iPad. The full studio is free on your own device. No account. Your manuscript stays private and local until you choose otherwise. WRITE A distraction-free editor that knows your story. Characters, places and items highlight and link themselves as you type. Spell-check learns the invented names in your world. Focus mode, continuous scroll, timed sprints and goals keep the words coming, with scene snapshots and version rollback whenever you need to step back. PLAN See the whole book at a glance. Drag scene cards on the corkboard, fold the outline, and follow color-coded narrative threads through a story timeline that flags chronology conflicts. Your plan and your manuscript stay in sync, always. WORLDBUILD A story bible that links itself. Keep characters, places and items with covers, galleries and custom sections. Automatic backlinks show where each one appears. A link graph and relationships canvas map how everything connects. Attach research to any entity so your facts stay straight. ANALYZE Catch the cracks before your editor does. See POV distribution, thread balance and a character-presence heatmap. Prose reports surface echoes, overused words, adverbs, passive voice and overlong sentences. Every chart is computed from your own text, with no AI at all. REVIEWER When you want feedback, the Reviewer reads like an attentive editor: specific, diagnostic and opt-in. Ask about pacing and weak verbs, check a scene against your plan, or request a structural read that catches dropped threads and character drift. It knows your story bible. It points at problems. It never writes your prose. CERTIFICATION We believe that human authorship is essential in literary content. Earn an authorship mark from Bronze up to Onyx. Onyx means not a single word came from a machine. Wayscript is built to make that provable. Because the Reviewer only critiques, using it keeps you at Diamond or higher. Share tamper-evident proof with agents, contests and readers. WHERE WE STAND ON AI We believe AI has no place in art. Wayscript's tools exist to help you write, keep your world consistent and prove the work is yours. Analytics are computed from your own text with no AI. AI is used only where you opt in: critique you explicitly request, and research support. FREE, AND YOURS - Full editor, planning and story bible - Unlimited books and projects - Export to Markdown, DOCX, EPUB and PDF - Fully local and private UPGRADE WHEN YOU'RE READY Author adds cloud sync and backups, manuscript analysis and reports, advanced typeset export, monthly passage diagnostics and community clubs and sprints. Author + Reviewer unlocks full scene, structural and whole-manuscript reviews, unlimited certifications, and top-up credit packs. No surprise bills. Built for novelists, series and worldbuilders, drafters and sprinters, and indie authors. On every platform. Terms of Use: https://wayscript.app/terms

Screenshots

Jiraiya4 screens
Wayscript4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Wayscript at every 3 days against Jiraiya's weekly. Wayscript also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.4). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Jiraiya sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Wayscript sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Jiraiya ships an update weekly, Wayscript every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Jiraiya versus Wayscript: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJiraiyaWayscript
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB14 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRyota KimuraBinary Spiders LTD

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Jiraiya

Subscriptions2
  • Jiraiya Pro(Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Jiraiya Pro (Yearly)$29.991 Year
7 purchases

Wayscript

Subscriptions4
  • Author (Monthly)$7.991 Month
  • Author + Reviewer (Monthly)$14.991 Month
  • Author (Annual)$71.991 Year
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  • Author + Reviewer (Annual)$119.991 Year
One-time3
  • 100 Reviewer Credits$4.99
  • 500 Reviewer Credits$19.99
  • 1000 Reviewer Credits$39.99

Questions

Is Jiraiya free?
Jiraiya is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wayscript free?
Wayscript is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Jiraiya or Wayscript have ads?
Neither Jiraiya nor Wayscript shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jiraiya or Wayscript?
Jiraiya ships an update weekly, and Wayscript every 3 days. Most recently, Jiraiya was updated on September 25, 2026 and Wayscript on September 11, 2026.

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