MoveInProof vs Novalist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MoveInProof
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MoveInProof helps you document a rental's condition — before a move-in, after a move-out, during a landlord inspection, at rental turnover, or after an insurance loss. Walk each room, flag damage, attach condition photos and notes, mark checklist items, and export a clean, dated PDF report when you are ready to share. Four report modes cover the full rental lifecycle: - Renter move-in / move-out walkthrough - Landlord inspection - Rental turnover between tenants - Insurance loss inventory Build a room-by-room photo inventory with timestamps so the property's condition is recorded clearly and fairly for both renters and landlords. The app is local-first and does not require an account. Your report stays on your device unless you choose to export or share it. MoveInProof is for personal documentation only. It does not provide legal advice, verify admissibility, determine responsibility, or guarantee deposit recovery.
Novalist
A dedicated writing environment for novelists to plan, build worlds, and write manuscripts. It offers a clean editor with advanced features, a comprehensive world-building codex, and flexible organizational tools. Your writing is stored in plain files on your device, ensuring ownership and longevity.
- Clean writing editor with formatting and comments
- World-building codex for characters, locations, and lore
- Plotting tools: Grid, Timeline, Calendar, Relationships
- Multi-book projects with shared World Bible
- Plain file storage for project ownership
- Themeable interface and keyboard navigation
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Novalist is a writing environment built for novelists — a single, focused workspace where you plan your story, build your world, and write the manuscript, instead of bending a general-purpose word processor to the task. WRITE A clean editor with real formatting, paragraph styles, inline comments, and footnotes. Focus Mode hides everything but the page; the split editor lets you work on two scenes at once. Every scene auto-saves with its own snapshot history, so you can compare versions and revert a single scene without disturbing the rest of the book. Smart quotes, em-dashes, and dialogue punctuation are handled as you type, with presets for ten languages, alongside grammar and spelling checks and live word count, reading time, and readability. BUILD YOUR WORLD A full Codex keeps your characters, locations, items, and lore in one place — with images, relationships, custom fields, and long-form notes. Define your own entity types, such as factions, spells, vehicles, or races, each with its own fields. Character details can change per act, chapter, or scene, so someone can age, move, or transform across the story without losing their earlier state. PLAN AND SEE THE SHAPE Plot Grid: toggle which scenes belong to each plotline in a spreadsheet view. Timeline: acts, chapters, scenes, and events in chronological order. In-world Calendar: place scenes on the dates they happen in your story. Relationships: a living map of who knows whom, with automatic inverse roles. ORGANIZE WITHOUT LOCK-IN Work in multi-book projects with a shared World Bible for a series. Chapters carry status, acts, and colors; Smart Lists save the scene queries you return to. And your project is simply plain files on disk — add, rename, move, or delete scenes in Finder and Novalist keeps up. Your writing stays in a format you can read forever. MAKE IT YOURS A themeable interface, keyboard-driven navigation with a command palette, and an extension system for adding new tools. Novalist keeps your manuscript on your Mac, in files you own. Write the book.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MoveInProof at 17.0 against Novalist's 27.0. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | MoveInProof | Novalist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 190 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clashware Sàrl | Dominik Goblirsch |
In-app purchases
MoveInProof
No in-app purchases
Novalist
No in-app purchases









