3 best free book writing
apps for beginners
Paper
Super-clean writing space with a lot of configurability that stays out of sight when you don’t need it.
- Gorgeous writing space
- Silky-smooth typing
- Deep personalization (Pro)
- Markdown or Plain Text
- Syncs with iCloud
- Writes and edits texts with ChatGPT AI
- Publishes drafts to Medium, WordPress, or Ghost
- Exports to PDF, HTML, RTF, DOCX, image, or clipboard
- Works seamlessly across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Bear
Markdown Notes for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.
Ready when you need it
Bear works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you can write wherever inspiration strikes. Use todos to stay on task across every device.
Organize easily
Link notes to each other to build a body of work. Add hashtags to organize the way you think. Use Face/Touch ID to protect sensitive notes.
Write your way
Bear is perfect for everything from quick notes to in-depth essays. A focus mode helps you concentrate, and advanced markup options are an online writer's best friend. Full in-line image support brings your writing to life.
Gorgeous settings
Packed with beautiful themes and typography and Dark Mode, Bear makes your writing look great before and after publishing.
Keep notes safe
With Bear Pro, you can encrypt individual notes to keep them safe and lock Bear to keep away nosy friends, family, and coworkers. Set a unique password that only you know, use Face/Touch ID to open your notes, and know that your Bear is safe from everyone.
Edit and export
Bear's simple tools take the effort out of writing, whether you need to hit specific word counts and reading times, or you need to convert your writing into PDF and Word docs. With Bear's custom markup shortcuts, you can add style and links with just a tap or keystroke.
Spaces
The joy of writing, elevated. A distraction free writing app built with an intelligent editor, smart organization & a design brought to perfection after years of iterations.
Practically magic
The pure joy of bringing words & thoughts to life is what makes writing magical. Unable to write freely, that flow is disturbed. It takes the magic away.
While most apps have a toolbar that makes you choose different options & rest of them support markdown with a syntax that is visible all the time...
Spaces blissfully integrates Markdown & hides all your syntax, as soon as you move your cursor away. It's practically magic!
People loveeeee Spaces
Thousands of people already in love, and we couldn't be happier! Just getting started.
Everything you need
Pin, archive, add to favorites or simply mark your notes as unread to visit them one more time. Sort your content into spaces using hashtags and/or add them into custom filters.
At your fingertips
All your options, spaces & filters available at a swipe with the gesture perfected to milliseconds after 100+ tests so that you get a flawless experience. Every. Single. Time.
An app you can trust
Spaces is built by a truly independant team of passionate people. All your data is synced using Apple Cloudkit.
We don't have access to your data, it is synced directly using Cloudkit, which also powers native Apple apps like iMessage, Reminders etc.