Windows desktop app to plan your novel, prepare and maintain research material, write scene by scene, edit your drafts and maintain a full version history -- all in a modern app that has a similar look and feel to Microsoft Word.
Hi everyone,
This is my first post on Product Hunt despite setting up the account a few years back. Late to the party, I know...
I built SmartEdit Writer to scratch my own itch. I wanted a light-weight Windows desktop app that gave me everything I needed to write my novel and nothing more.
No clutter. No excess. No functionality I'd never use. And no need to watch a 4 hour video to work out how to use it!
I wanted, and built:
- Scene by scene writing
- Ability to move scenes around using drag and drop
- Easy access to research material
- Built in editing functionality just for novel writers
- Built in Draft process so that I can compare my work to previous versions
- Automatic backups
- And of course, a dark theme
It never made it as a commercial app and it's been free for a good while now. I've been adding to it over time, growing its features slowly.
My latest addition (Version 9, released yesterday) is a built in versioning system (Document Drafts) that no other writing app has. Not even Scrivener!
Hope you like it!
Darren
SmartEdit Writer