Storyist is a powerful writing environment for novelists and screenwriters.
“I have now written three novels using Storyist and it has proven itself invaluable to me.” – Michael Brandman, Bestselling Author.
With Storyist, you can:
• Produce submission-ready manuscripts and screenplays. Storyist provides a rich text editor with support for comments, images, headers, footers, and style sheets so you can create properly formatted manuscripts and screenplays. And Storyist comes with manuscript and screenplay templates so you can focus on the writing, not the formatting.
• Work with your story at a high-level. Storyist lets you sketch out a story using index cards and then refine it with customizable plot, character, and setting sheets.
• Keep all your writing organized and accessible. Storyist organizes your novel manuscripts, screenplays, notes, and other project-related writing so you can access them with just a few clicks.
• Create print-ready PDFs that are suitable for online distribution or printing with a professional printing service.
• Create ePub and Kindle editions of your work for online distribution.
Features at a Glance
• Word processor with support comments, images, headers, footers, and style sheets.
• Automatic manuscript and screenplay formatting with familiar tab and return key shortcuts.
• Virtual cork board with support for color-coded index cards.
• Outliner.
• Customizable story sheets.
• Imports and exports RTF, Plain Text, Word, Scrivener, Fountain, and Final Draft FDX files.
• Exports ePub, Kindle, and PDF.
• Works great with Storyist for iOS, so you can create, review, and revise your work wherever inspiration strikes.
FREE TRIAL
Download Storyist 4 and try it for free for 14 days!
After the trial, you can continue to use the app to read documents for free, or you can unlock the editing features via an in-app purchase. Upgrade pricing is available to customers who purchased Storyist 3 from the Mac App Store. No subscription required.
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Excellent Writing Software, but…
Hopkinsfive
I downloaded Storyist 4 and I’m nearing the end of my trial period. The interface is clean and intuitive. I have been using it across two computers and when I leave one and go to the other I have no worries that everything is synced up and ready.My two points of concern for Storyist are, 1) I emailed support and asked a sales question, but it has been 10 days, and I have not gotten a response, so that could indicate a low level of customer support, and 2) I just cannot find much current discussion online or very much activity in the Storyist forums, so I am concerned that the developer is winding down on the product. What happens if I buy Storyist and it stops being updated?I already own Scrivener, but I wanted something cleaner and more streamlined that synced flawlessly across Apple devices using iCloud. Scrivener’s sync capabilities are sketchy with iCloud. Storyist does this and does it very well. But with my concerns over whether this product will be supported in the future - and the fact that my sales support email going unanswered seems to support this - I will probably pass on purchasing Storyist. I tried to research the developer, and while he seems to post on social media about WWDC and other events, I didn’t see anything from him about Storyist. He looks to be retired from some previous career, and I wonder if he might be retiring from this one, too.
Powerful & Easy To Use
Simon Belmont 7
Spend a few minutes getting to know the basics of this fantastic program and from then on you will find all you need to do is sit down, click on the app icon and begin creating. I've used Storyist for years now and it allows you to get as detailed as you want or simply start writing and see where it leads. There's nothing better to me than an app that just works and doesn't get in your way. It's affordable for all that it provides and with cloud syncing whatever Apple device I'm using my file is there and ready in a moment's notice. (The iOS App is a small extra fee to be fair.) I used Final Draft for decades for scripts, and even though I use Storyist for Novels and Short Stories, I would choose Storyist for a screenplay if the chance came back around. It's an all around wonderful and well managed piece of software. If you are just getting started or have been in the game a long time don't hesitate to give this one a try.
Great for writing
SunnyJ0911
I have used Storyist for 5 years now. It's so simple to learn and while it has all the same features as "the other guy's" it doesn't have those same features constantly in your field of vision. And best of all is storyist's promp responses from the customer service team when you get stuck and need help figuring something out. Highly recommend this for anyone wanting to write any size projets and keep it organized! It's actually easier to learn then "Word."
I CANT TYPE!!
MillieAmazing
ok so, i cant type!!! i dunno if u have to buy the thing to type... but im not gonna pay 55 bucks just to type! but if thats not the case then can u tell me how to type on it. bc i was really looking forward to doing it. So if someone could pls help me that would be wonderful! but i have to say one star bc i never got to experience the amazingness about this app that everybody likes! It seems like a very orginized app in all. but the whole point of a writing a book app is to type. Like it said all the stuff about how to write a book and stuff like that. I tried to delete all the words but it wouldnt delete them. And how am i suppose to type if it doesnt let me type. Now im horrible at tech stuff so it is probably just me but still. So if the owners of this could pls help me that would be wonderful. Thank you for reading!
* The show invisible characters setting now persists across navigation to other files in the project.
* Minor macOS 26.0 compatibility enhancements.
Version 4.4.1
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