WriteTimer vs Vondel

Writers of all types deserve a dedicated timer. WriteTimer helps you build a daily writing habit with focused sprint sessions, word count tracking, achievement milestones, and beautiful progress rings — no accounts, no ads, and no data ever leaving your device. HOW IT WORKS Choose a session length or dial in a custom duration and press play. A full-screen countdown begins, with three animated progress rings showing your daily, weekly, and yearly writing time at a glance. Completed sessions are logged automatically. Need more time mid-sprint? Tap any preset to add minutes to a running timer without interrupting your flow. TRACK YOUR WRITING After each session, log a note about what you worked on, how many words you wrote, and even add a customizable tag. WriteTimer calculates your words-per-minute pace automatically and saves everything to your session history. Browse your history sorted by date, word count, or project tag. Tap any session entry to edit its note, word count, or tags from a single screen. The Stats tab shows daily, weekly, and yearly writing totals alongside a seven-day activity chart. BUILD YOUR HABIT WriteTimer tracks your writing streak day by day and awards achievements as you hit milestones — your first session, your first word count, consistent weeks, and more. A customizable daily reminder notification nudges you to open the app and write. FEATURES • No subscriptions - pay once for lifetime • Sprint timer with 7 presets and a custom duration option • Add minutes to any running session without stopping • Three animated progress rings — daily, weekly, and yearly goals • Automatic session logging for any session over one minute • Word count tracking with live words-per-minute calculation • Session notes to capture what you worked on • Project tags to organize sessions by book, blog, or project • Sortable session history — by date, word count, or tag • Writing streaks to build and maintain your habit • Achievements to mark your milestones • Five hand-crafted color themes you can customize • Fully customizable progress ring colors • Six completion sounds to mark the end of each sprint • Daily reminder notification at a time you choose • Stats view with a seven-day writing activity chart YOUR PRIVACY WriteTimer collects no data whatsoever. There are no accounts to create, no analytics running in the background, and no third-party SDKs of any kind. Everything — your sessions, word counts, notes, tags, and streaks — lives entirely on your device. BUILT FOR WRITERS Whether you're working on a novel, a blog post, a screenplay, or a daily journal practice, WriteTimer gives you the motivation and structure to sit down, focus, and write. Every session is logged. Every word is counted. Every streak is worth protecting.

Vondel is a writing studio for people working on something long: a novel, a memoir, a non-fiction book. It gives you a focused place to write and the structure to finish. WRITE A focused, distraction-free editor in a readable column. Lightweight Markdown formatting, automatic saving, and clean typography built for long sessions, not a wall of toolbars. ORGANIZE Break your manuscript into folders, chapters, and scenes in a sidebar you can rearrange by dragging. Keep research, characters, and notes alongside your draft, and move a scene to another chapter in a single gesture. PLAN See any part of your project as editable index cards or as an outline with status, labels, and word counts. Write a one-line synopsis for every scene, color-code by point of view or storyline, and rearrange your plot visually. REVISE Save a version whenever you reach a good point, see exactly what changed since, and go back to any of them. Leave anchored comments on specific passages without touching your prose. TRACK Set a word target for your manuscript and a daily writing goal. Watch your streak, your pace, and your projected finish so you keep moving toward the end. OWN YOUR WORK Your writing is stored as plain text you control. No proprietary format, no lock-in. Optional cloud sync keeps every project on all your devices and safely backed up, so you can pick up your draft anywhere. From the first blank page to a finished manuscript, Vondel is built for your biggest works. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://vondelapp.com/privacy-policy