Comparison

Plotscribe vs Duodecimo

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

Head to head
About

Plotscribe

This app helps you plan, write, and organize your novel. It keeps all your story elements, like characters and locations, linked together in a dedicated world. You can write offline and export your work in various formats.

Highlights
  • Offline writing and planning
  • Linked character and place records
  • Customizable fields for details
  • Visual planning board
  • Mood boards and world maps
  • Optional cloud sync for collaboration
  • Multiple export formats
Features
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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

About

Duodecimo

Access a vast library of 1,009 classic books for offline reading on your iPhone and iPad. Customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts, spacing, and appearance. Import additional public domain books and utilize helpful reading guides and note-taking features.

Highlights
  • 1,009 classic books included
  • Offline reading capability
  • Import from Project Gutenberg
  • Customizable reading interface
  • Searchable notes and highlights
  • Text-to-speech functionality
  • Reading progress tracking
Features
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A personal library, ready when you are. Duodecimo brings 1,009 classic works to your iPhone and iPad. Every bundled book, its individual painted cover, and its reviewed reading guides are included for offline reading. No app account, advertising, paid content, or subscription is required. Find a familiar favorite or discover something new. Book introductions, estimated reading times, and curated reading paths help you choose. Continue Reading keeps your current books close in Grid or List, while Want to Read gives the next ones a place of their own. Add more books from Project Gutenberg. Search its catalog by title, author, or edition number, choose a language, and review the edition before downloading. Supported plain-text editions join your personal library with locally generated covers. Catalog and book downloads require an internet connection; downloaded books can then be read offline. Settle into Book, Scroll, or Study, with fonts, spacing, margins, and appearance choices that suit you. Search the text, mark a page, highlight a passage, and keep your thoughts in a searchable notebook. Return to the source from your notes, export your commonplace book, or make a portable reading backup. For bundled classics, Before You Begin offers context for every book. Who Is This Again? helps you recall people you have encountered, with reminders tied to passages you have already reached. These reviewed guides work offline without Apple Intelligence. On supported devices with Apple Intelligence ready, optional passage explanations and recaps use Apple's on-device models. Generated reading help can be inaccurate. Personal imports include the ordinary reader tools and on-device “What just happened?” recaps when Apple Intelligence is available. Curated Classics Companion guides and selected-passage explanations remain exclusive to bundled books. Listen with Apple's installed system voices, choose a pace, set a sleep timer, and return to your saved listening place. Imported editions use a suitable installed voice for their language, or let you choose an installed voice explicitly. Set an optional daily reading target, look back over your reading calendar, and use the Continue Reading widget to open your book. Optional iCloud continuity synchronizes supported reading data for bundled books. Personal imports and their reading data stay outside this synchronization. Portable reading backups include personal reading data and edition identifiers, but not book text; restoring an import may require the same edition again. Repair unavailable imports from saved source text when possible, or delete an imported book and its associated local reading data. The bundled collection includes all six annotated volumes of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the collected works of the American novelist Winston Churchill, and Sun Tzu's The Art of War in Lionel Giles's annotated translation. The collection uses historical editions in the public domain in the United States. Source, edition, and license details are available in the app. Historical literature may contain mature themes, violence, and language reflecting its time. The interface supports English and nine additional languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Books, edition-specific source notes, and written reading guides retain their source language.

Screenshots

Plotscribe4 screens
Duodecimo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Duodecimo at none against Plotscribe's 2. Plotscribe's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Plotscribe sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.00 per month. Duodecimo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Plotscribe against 5.0 for Duodecimo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plotscribe ships an update every 2 days, Duodecimo daily. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Plotscribe versus Duodecimo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlotscribeDuodecimo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB532 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRobert BoydJay Welshofer

Customer experience

Plotscribe

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Duodecimo

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Plotscribe

Subscriptions2
  • Plotscribe Sync7 Days trial$6.001 Month
  • Plotscribe Sync Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Duodecimo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plotscribe free?
Plotscribe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Duodecimo free?
Duodecimo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plotscribe or Duodecimo?
Plotscribe and Duodecimo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Plotscribe or Duodecimo have ads?
Neither Plotscribe nor Duodecimo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plotscribe or Duodecimo?
Plotscribe ships an update every 2 days, and Duodecimo daily. Most recently, Plotscribe was updated on November 6, 2026 and Duodecimo on November 6, 2026.

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