Silt vs Plotscribe

Silt is a calm place to think on the page. It's built for two kinds of writing — essays and journaling — and for the reading that feeds them. Choose your intent and the room changes to suit it: an open canvas for an essay, a quiet daily page for a journal, a focused reader for a book. Most writing apps forget what you've read. Silt doesn't. As you write, it brings the relevant lines from your reading alongside the paragraph you're working on — so the right quote or idea is there when you reach for it. WRITE WITH INTENTION • Start from a prompt — "What are you here to think about?" — not a blank page. • Separate modes for drafting and revising: get the words down first, shape them later. • Every paragraph keeps its own version history. Try a line three ways and never lose the one you liked. • Set a gentle deadline and a daily writing reminder. A LIVING READING CORPUS • Bring in highlights from Kindle and Obsidian, or highlight as you read inside Silt. • While you write, Silt surfaces the passages that match what you're saying, ranked by relevance. • Drop any highlight straight into your draft as a quote. READ INSIDE THE APP • Open your own PDFs and EPUBs in a clean, distraction-free reader. • Your books stay on your device. • Highlights you make flow back into your corpus, ready to resurface later. ONE LIBRARY, EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE • Notes, journal entries, highlights, and books — organized and searchable. • Light and dark, with accent colors you can tune to your taste. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your writing is end-to-end encrypted (AES-GCM-256). Only you hold the key. • Local-first: the app works fully offline, with no account required. • Optional sync keeps your work in step across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Silt runs natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — one app, all your devices. Writing settles like sediment, layer on layer, until something solid forms. Silt is where it settles.

Plan, write and finish your novel in one place. Plotscribe keeps your chapters, characters, places and lore together in a World, and every name you write links back to its record. You write every word. FREE, AND IT WORKS OFFLINE • No account and no sign-in: open the app and start writing • Write anywhere, with or without a signal. Nothing waits on the internet • Your Worlds are files on your iPhone or iPad, in the Files app under On My iPhone › Plotscribe EXPORT ANY TIME • Export from the dock on iPhone or the sidebar on iPad • Standard manuscript (.docx), styled Word, Print PDF, EPUB, a submission package or Markdown • Exports are always free and save to Files, ready to share KNOW YOUR WORLD • Tap a character's name in your prose to open their record • Keep the details you need: your own fields, notes, aliases and relationships • Plot every thread on the planning board, chapter by chapter • Mood boards of images, colors, quotes and notes, linked to chapters and characters • Maps of your world, with your characters and places pinned on them ADD SYNC WHEN YOU WANT IT • Sync carries your Worlds between your iPhone, iPad, computers and the web • Pick up the chapter you left on your computer, right where you stopped • Invite co-authors to write in the same World, live; readers you invite don't need a subscription • Try Sync free for 7 days YOUR BOOK STAYS YOURS • Your writing is private and never used to train AI • The desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux is free too, with no account Terms of Service: https://plotscribe.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://plotscribe.app/privacy