

Scrivener is PCMag Editors' Choice writing app for long-form writers. Considering Scrivener for Mac costs a one-time fee of only $49 (there are apps for iPhone, iPad, and Windows, too), you get a lot more than you might expect. Whether you're pounding out endnotes for a nonfiction book or crafting characters to set loose in your next novel, Scrivener gives you a place to create, edit, and organize all your work. Scrivener is the best writing app for long-form writers because it was built with their needs in mind.


If there was a list of the top five greatest apps of all time in the Mac App Store, it would start with Scrivener and then there would be four other things.Īs a writer's application, Scrivener is damn near perfect it means outlines, treatments and then first drafts can be put together in the same application. Merlin Mann, indie writer, speaker, and broadcaster. Scrivener gives you the freedom to make a mess, the confidence to know you’ll clean it up, and the semantic relationships to tie it all together in whatever way makes the most sense to you. Michael Marshall Smith, NYT best-selling author. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.
