YWriter is very user friendly and self-explanatory for the most part. It does everything yWriter does and more, but it does have a steeper learning curve.Īnd the best part about yWriter? It’s free for the downloading! Update: Since writing this post, I’ve moved on to using Scrivener instead (cost: $40), which is basically yWriter on steroids. As an extensive outliner, I’ve found it particularly helpful in organizing my mountains of eventually undecipherable scrawl into neat, easily accessible notes.

It allows you to see your scenes, chapters, characters, settings-and just about anything else you can think of-all at a glance. YWriter in the quintessential organizer for writers. YWriter was designed by author and programmer Simon Haynes, who saw the same needs I saw in my own writing life and was able to use his programming expertise to put together one humdinger of a program. I’d pretty much given up on the hope of finding a program that would meet my needs as a writer… and then someone at the ChristianWriters forums introduced me to yWriter. Over the years, I’ve dabbled with various writing software and have always found them wanting.

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