BookWrite vs Braid

Step through the door of an old bookshop and write. Open ScribeMe and you're standing at the door of a bookshop. Push it open, step inside, and your library is waiting on the shelf - every book you've written, standing spine-out, in whatever order you like. MAKE A BOOK, NOT A DOCUMENT Choose how a book feels before you write a word: hardcover, leather, cloth or paperback; the colour of the boards; cream, white or parchment pages; and the pen in your hand - fountain pen, ballpoint, pencil or marker, each with its own ink and weight of line. Pick a typeface with real character. Every cover gets its own grain, so no two books on your shelf look alike. Tall, square and wide picture-book shapes are all here. A DIARY THAT LOCKS Any book can be locked with Face ID or your passcode - a private diary that stays private. Night pages give you dark paper and light ink for writing after bedtime. WRITE, DRAW, ILLUSTRATE Real styling: bold, italics, centred lines, scene breaks. Draw straight onto the page with Apple Pencil or a fingertip, and add photo illustrations wherever you like. Draw your own cover, too. ORGANIZE A REAL STORY Chapters with a contents sheet. A plot board that lays your pages out at a glance. A story bible that interviews your characters and remembers your places. Story templates - three acts, hero's journey, fairy tale, mystery - that scaffold the chapters for you. Find and replace, and search across the whole shelf. TAKE IT OFF THE DEVICE Export a typeset PDF with cover, dedication, contents and illustration plates. Print a fold-at-home booklet. Make an EPUB ebook, a plain-text file, or an audiobook read aloud. Back up your whole library to a single file and carry it to another device. KEEP GOING Daily goals, streaks, milestones and writing sprints. A home-screen widget with your shelf and your streak. An evening writing prompt if you want one. Read a finished book with a real page curl, or have it read to you. YOURS, AND PRIVATE No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking, no subscriptions, and nothing is ever collected. Your books live on your device. Turn on iCloud sync (beta) and they sync through your own private iCloud - still nobody else's. Automatic version snapshots mean nothing you write is ever really lost. Everything in ScribeMe is included, free. It always will be. Made for iPhone and iPad.

Braid is a novel-writing app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, built for stories with more than one thread. Outline with proven story structures, write chapter by chapter, and see at a glance where every character weaves through your book. OUTLINE WITH STORY BLOCKS • Start from 14 story structures, including Three-Act, Hero’s Journey, Story Circle, Seven-Point, Kishōtenketsu, Mystery, Romance, Horror and Fantasy Quest, or start from scratch • Each block explains what belongs there and roughly where it lands in the book • Add ideas, research and characters to blocks, plan scenes, then let Build Chapters turn the outline into your manuscript, or link chapters you’ve already written • Change structure anytime without losing what you’ve written WRITE • A clean chapter page that flows from scene to scene • Bold, italics and bulleted lists, shown as you write and kept in Word and PDF exports • Deep Focus: a full-screen page with typewriter scrolling, dimmed paragraphs and controls that fade while you type • Trailheads remember where to pick up next time • Spelling checked as you type, and Proofread for spelling and grammar, both of which learn your characters’ names. Plus Read Aloud SEE YOUR WHOLE BOOK • Character Weave shows who carries each scene and flags characters who vanish for too long • Interwoven Outline tracks point-of-view rhythm across chapters • Relationship Map shows who shares scenes with whom • A Story Bible for characters, locations, plot threads, world and themes • Name Ideas: full names from 55 naming traditions, matched to each character’s age and your story’s year. Mix and match, or type your own LEARN THE CRAFT • A free Writing Guide: short lessons on character, setting, point of view, dialogue, scenes, plot and pacing, revision, and getting unstuck • Each lesson ends with something to try in your own book, and links to it sit beside the fields they explain IDEAS AND RESEARCH • Brainstorm by typing, speaking or handwriting; voice notes are transcribed for you, on your device where supported • Save web pages, videos, articles, PDFs, photos and quotes, with MLA, APA and Chicago citations • On iPhone and iPad, share from Safari and other apps straight into Research FINISH AND SHARE • Export in Standard Manuscript Format, the layout agents and publishers expect, as PDF or Word, or as a book-style reading copy • Import a draft from Word, RTF, text or PDF, with chapters, characters and places set up for you • Reader feedback: send chapters to beta readers, critique partners or an editor, and get their comments back on the right scenes ON EVERY DEVICE • Your books sync through your own iCloud account • Apple Watch: record an idea from your wrist and follow your writing sprint countdown • Siri and Shortcuts: “Continue writing in Braid” PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your writing stays on your devices and in your iCloud. BRAID PRO Braid is free for one book, with Story Blocks, Character Weave, research, brainstorming, Deep Focus, the Writing Guide and Markdown export. Braid Pro adds unlimited books, Word and PDF export, manuscript import, reader feedback, writing sprints, a writing soundtrack and Apple Watch capture. Braid Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription (the yearly plan starts with a 2-week free trial), or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Your writing is never locked: you keep every book, and Markdown export is always free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://keesnap.com/braid-privacy.html