Shy Editor Alternatives

App for writing documents, scripts, books and more.

Scrivener is a content-generation tool for composing and structuring documents.

NEURONwriter is an AI-powered tool for writing and optimizing content for SEO. With a user-friendly interface and advanced content editor, it is designed to help you quickly write and optimize high-quality SEO-friendly content.

Try for free Free Trial $19.0 / Monthly ("Bronze", "2 projects”, "25 analyses", "15.000 AI credits" )

STARC - A smooth yet powerful screenwriting experience for devoted authors. With only wanted features and simple workflow it runs faster than all your previous apps combined.

Open Source freemium $3.34 / Monthly (Pro)

Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.

Open Source

Microsoft Word is a commercial word document processor for Windows.

Open-source tool for writers.

Open Source

Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode. It supports all the usual features you would expect like tagging, backlinks, a graph view, split panes, and so forth.

Open Source freemium $5.0 / Monthly (Custom domain name for publishing.)

Celtx is a scriptwriting software platform with applications in a wide range of mediums but that specializes in helping screenwriters.

A note-taking tool for networked thought

Ruff is your writing's best friend at home and on the go

Markdown pastebin/publishing service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.

Use your creative energy to focus on the content; let Final Draft take care of the style.

A powerful writing tool for Mac, iPad, and iPhone