Comparison

Write On! Studio vs Penchant

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

Head to head
About

Write On! Studio

Features
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Write On! Studio is your daily creative writing companion from the Write On! Creative Writing Center. Whether you have 3 minutes or 30, Write On! Studio meets you where you are with: • 50+ HAND-CRAFTED PROMPTS — Quickwrites, Story Starters, Visual Prompts, Personal Journal cues, and more. • QUICKWRITE MODE — A 3-minute focused timer with a satisfying bell to push past blank-page fear. • DISTRACTION-FREE EDITOR — Auto-saves as you type. Come back any time. • MY WRITING — Every piece you write, organized in one place. • PROGRESS & BADGES — Earn milestones for first words, streaks, and community engagement. • INSPIRATION — Tips, exercises, and writing wisdom from the Write On! community. Built for kids, teens, and adult writers — pick your identity, choose your prompt, and just start. Write where you belong. Write place, write time.

About

Penchant

This app provides a daily word prompt and a ten-minute timer to encourage consistent writing practice. It helps users capture favorite lines, offers feedback on their writing, and supports habit formation for aspiring writers.

Highlights
  • Daily single-word prompts
  • Ten-minute writing timer
  • Save and search favorite lines
  • Writing feedback and analysis
  • Habit-building focus
  • Grace for missed days
Features
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Every writer knows the exercise that works: ten minutes a day, one word, and everything it makes you notice. Almost nobody keeps it up. Penchant makes it stick. Each day you get a single word. A ten-minute timer gives you room to write about it however it comes — what you see, hear, taste, remember. No plot, no pressure, no blank page to fill. Songwriters and poets call it object writing, and they've sworn by it for years to write with more color and fewer clichés. Penchant gives it everything a notebook can't. KEEP THE LINES YOU LOVE Highlight a line and it goes straight to your vault: searchable, saved, and yours. No more losing your best phrase between a grocery list and an old voice memo. Penchant even brings back lines you wrote weeks ago, right when you'd forgotten them — so nothing good ever really disappears. FEEDBACK, NOT A GHOSTWRITER Penchant reads what you wrote and shows you where it came alive and where it went flat — which details landed, which you left on the table. It never writes a word for you. This is a place to get better, not to hand your voice to a machine. BUILT FOR MOST DAYS, NOT PERFECT STREAKS Ten minutes. One word. Grace when you miss a day. The habit is the whole point, and the habit is kind. FOR ANYONE WHO WRITES Songwriters warming up before a session. Poets sharpening an image. Novelists, journal-keepers, and anyone who wants to notice the world a little more closely and put it into words. Free to start. Ten quiet minutes. Most days.

Screenshots

Write On! Studio3 screens
Penchant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Write On! Studio at every 4 days against Penchant's every 10 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Write On! Studio ships an update every 4 days, Penchant every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Write On! Studio versus Penchant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWrite On! StudioPenchant
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB3 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDawn RiceEthan Gibson

In-app purchases

None

Write On! Studio

No in-app purchases

None

Penchant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Write On! Studio free?
Write On! Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Penchant free?
Penchant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Write On! Studio or Penchant have ads?
Neither Write On! Studio nor Penchant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Write On! Studio or Penchant?
Write On! Studio ships an update every 4 days, and Penchant every 10 days. Most recently, Write On! Studio was updated on November 5, 2026 and Penchant on November 5, 2026.

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