Writer Match vs Bookhand

Writer Match is the app for writers looking for co-writers, collaborators, and honest feedback. Whether you're developing a screenplay, novel, short story, or any creative project, Writer Match connects you with writers who share your taste, ambition, and creative wavelength. How it works: Discover other writers in two ways. In project-based discovery, you browse and react to individual ideas and loglines — perfect for finding collaborators on a specific piece of work or getting targeted feedback on a concept you're developing. In profile-based discovery, you match with writers based on their full body of listed works and creative preferences, ideal for finding a long-term co-writer or critique partner. Smart recommendations, real compatibility: Writer Match doesn't match you randomly. A three-tier recommendation system surfaces the most compatible writers based on shared preferred genres, preferred formats, creative influences and taste, as well as your language and country of residence. Every recommendation is someone you're genuinely likely to work well with. Your ideas, your way: Store all your project ideas in one place — past work, current projects, and future concepts. You control the visibility: keep ideas private as a personal notebook, or make them visible to other writers who can like them or express interest in collaborating. Built for real collaboration: Once you've matched, chat directly inside the app. Share drafts, exchange feedback, workshop loglines, or kick off an entirely new project together. Writer Match is designed to take you from discovery to collaboration without ever leaving the app.

Bookhand is a free app for writing little books: journals, notes, ideas, short stories, poetry, philosophical treatises or anything else you feel like writing. The idea is that your words live on something like actual paper. Your text is typeset onto real pages with proper margins and page numbers, the pages curl as you turn them, and every notebook gets its own paper size, typefaces, colors and a cover you design yourself. READING A notebook opens in Page Mode, laid out the way it would be set on printed paper, from pocket A6 up to A4. There's also a full-screen e-reader mode with the same page-turning, an outline for jumping to a chapter or section, in-book search, and a page grid for finding your place visually. WRITING Edit Mode is a full-screen, distraction-free editor for your award-winning novel, thrilling memoir or truly revolutionary shopping list, whichever the case may be. Paragraphs can be headings, body text or block quotes; add images and control how they sit on the page. A rearrange mode lets you move, copy and cut whole paragraphs at once. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from seventeen carefully picked typefaces, set your paper size and margins, pick paper and ink colors, style the page numbers, then design the cover: board color, patterns, foil stamping, frames, flourishes and your own lettering. YOUR WORDS ARE YOURS Notebooks are stored on your device. There are no accounts, no servers and no database, and your text goes nowhere unless you want it to. Export to PDF, EPUB, Markdown or plain text, or as a .bookhand file for handing a notebook to someone else (or storing a backup for yourself). Import works too: bring in Markdown, plain text or EPUB. Notebooks can also be locked or hidden behind a PIN. FREE, REALLY Bookhand is made by one person as a personal project, so it's free, with no ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions and no upsell pop-ups. I just wanted an app where it's fun to sit down and write little books. I imagine you do too, so here we are.