Originally Posted by DrDan
But since you mentioned your are working on the Great American Novel, have you looked at https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview.

I am working on my Biography with the 30 day free version of Scrivener, however, I am in the procrastination stage of writting which is good for me since the 30 days only counts when you actually use Scrivener so there is no rush. crazy

Scrivener's great strength is as an outlining and organizing tool—write to your outline structure, change as needed, plug anything else in, then compile to Word (or any of the free Word emulators) for final editing and publication. Very powerful—I've done picture-laden coffee table books, ghost-written a few other books etc. It can be a bit confusing but there's good support and a number of User Groups where someone is always ranting about Scrivener not performing the way they want—without learning how to use the app.

There are three versions, one each for Mac, Win and iOS/iPadOS but none for Android. Stand-alone pricing is $24 for iPadOS, $60 for Mac or Win, $96 for Mac/Win bundle and there are Subscription options as well. They can all work on the same files as long as they are hosted in Dropbox—the free version has enough storage for most users. Scrivener can be made to work with other cloud services but only Dropbox is supported. If not accessing your files from more than one station, the Mac/Win versions work fine as stand-alone.

I bought the iPad version in 2016 from the App Store. Scrivener 3 was released in 2017, the last time L&L got any money from me. Nine years since the last paid upgrade works for me.

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