NovelPad vs oStorybook
NovelPad
novelpad.co
oStorybook
ostorybook.euSide by side
| Figure | NovelPad | oStorybook |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $12.50/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 1 |
| Spec score · Writing Apps | 8.6 (#28) | 7.5 (#117) |
| Spec score · Book Writing Software | 8.5 (#10) | 7.7 (#28) |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Purpose | NovelPad is an all-in-one novel-writing application for professional and aspiring novelists. | oStorybook is Libre Software for writers, essayists and authors to help manage a story from draft to finished work. |
| Story organization | Writers can organize scenes as cards across chapter, subplot, character, timeline, and outline boards. | It manages characters, locations, scenes, objects, reference points and ideas in one package. |
| Writing tools | Features include writing goals, adaptive schedules, sprints, focus modes, and locale-aware smart quotes in more than 20 locales. | The software includes text spell-checking with a customizable dictionary and synonym and antonym lookup. |
Plans
NovelPad
- Pro Cloud Monthly$15 a month
- Pro Cloud Annual$150 a year
- Desktop Only$89 a month
- Lifetime$349 a month
- Pro Cloud — monthly$15 a month
- Desktop$89, paid once
- Pro Cloud — annual$150 a year
- Lifetime$349, paid once
In their own words
NovelPad
NovelPad is a novel-writing application for professional and aspiring novelists, available on desktop and the web. Writers can arrange scenes as cards across boards for chapters, subplots, characters, timelines, and outlines. Its Codex tracks characters, locations, and items across scenes, with profiles, aliases, co-mention rankings, and chapter presence. Writing aids include goals, adaptive schedules, sprints, focus modes, and smart quotes that account for more than 20 locales. For revision, NovelPad offers scene revisions, snapshots, structural and text diffs, and recovery of deleted scenes. The desktop app works offline; cloud sync can reconcile changes across devices when connected. NovelPad imports DOCX and exports chapters, subplots, or outlines to DOCX. Beta readers can join by email with viewer, commenter, or editor roles and use threaded comments. ProWritingAid is named as an integration. The 14-day trial requires no card. Pro Cloud costs $15 a month or $150 a year. The Desktop license costs $89.00 USD once and has no sync or sharing.
oStorybook
oStorybook has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.