Students are constantly working with texts — notes, articles, lecture notes, essays, or even personal poems. An ordinary notebook, a piece of paper, a napkin in a café, etc., used to help students not miss a good idea for a long time. But nowadays, a smartphone is most often at hand. It allows not only to save important thoughts but also competently arrange, edit, and quickly publish them in social networks, as well as share ideas and work with classmates and professors.
Focusing on large amounts of text in the era of Internet surfing and general lack of attention is not easy. Fortunately, technology can not only distract but also help us in our work. We have prepared a list of the best writing apps for students.
Bear
It is an easy-to-use but powerful text editor with built-in image and photo support. Bear writing app works on Mac and iOS. There are no folders, and you can use the hashtag system to navigate through your documents quickly. You can create embedded tags using a slash: #blog/article, etc., and the chain can be infinitely long. The Smart Search Box helps you search for notes by criteria — just type @image to quickly find documents with images, or @yesterday and get yesterday’s entries. You can create cross-references between notes. You can also set up hotkeys for quick text formatting. The markup editor supports more than 20 programming languages, including Markdown, which is loved by journalists and bloggers. There is an extension for your browser that lets you highlight text or a whole web page and save it as a new note.
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The functionality of the free version is limited. The cost of Bear Pro with additional design themes, the ability to synchronize between gadgets via iCloud and export in PDF, HTML, JPEG, DOCX formats is $1.49 per month or $14.99 per year. The first version offers a free trial for a week, while the second offers a free trial for a month.
Draft
This is a free cloud service for collaborative work on texts and controlling versions of documents. It supports the markup language Markdown. Draft, as one of the best writing apps, allows you to import files from Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote, Box, and upload via a link, FTP, or local disk drive. One of the awesome features is working with the versions of documents. You can save the drafts at different stages of work and then compare them.
A unique feature is the Hemingway Mode, which embodies his principle of “Write drunk, edit sober.” If you activate it for a certain period of time, it is impossible to delete and edit what you have written.
iA Writer
The minimalistic text editor, the interface without buttons, and menus do not distract from work on the text (a “blank page occupies the whole space”, and the already written paragraph becomes less bright). The application is available for iOS, Android, and Mac, and in 2018, it was released for Windows as well. It supports the markup language Markdown. The app supports syncing between Mac and iOS devices, downloading documents to iCloud and Dropbox. You can export the finished document to Docx, HTML, PDF, publish it to WordPress and Medium.
The program for Mac costs $29.99 and $19.99 for Windows. The app for Android is free, while for iOS, it costs $8.99. There is a free trial for two weeks.
OmmWriter
This is an unusual but comfortable editor for Mac and Windows, allowing you to focus on your creativity entirely. The program opens in a full-screen mode and blocks all distracting notifications, pop-ups, banners, etc. The main feature is background music to support a calm stream of inspiration. The cherry on the cake is seven key-pressing sounds that calm many people down and help them get into the working rhythm. There are eight built-in shimmering themes in pastel tones to match your mood. All these delights turn the writing process almost into meditation. When you move the cursor, a pop-up menu appears. You can choose a background picture, font and its size, a sound when you press keys, turn music on or off, load, or save text (txt, omm, doc, docx). You can export it to PDF. The program for Mac costs $6.98, for Windows — $5.18.
Scrivener
The handy text editor is positioned as a “literature assistant program“. It is optimized for preparing long reads, books, scripts, dissertations, diplomas, scientific articles, etc. The writing app works on Windows, Mac, iOS. Application for iOS can be downloaded from the Apple Store for $19.99 (for synchronization you need a Dropbox account), the demo version is not provided. An educational license for a Mac costs around $42.
EssayShark App
One of the powerful and proven the best writing apps among all grade students, that provides you with expert assistance in writing many papers and essays. Here you can get help from anywhere on any discipline, deadline, and topic. All the experts are sorted by ratings, and you can see the number of awards, previous works, and the field of expertise in their profiles. If you have a question, the support team is ready to help you 24/7! But the most outstanding feature is that you can see the preview of the paper you need for free!
Simplenote
This is a free and extremely simple text editor, the name of which speaks for itself. It differs from many similar products by its true cross-platform — it works on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and web interface. It quickly synchronizes notes on all devices and supports collaborative work on them. It allows you to create and store an unlimited number of text notes without inserting images or media files. The app stores your change history — by moving the slider, you can restore earlier versions of the text. The application features a minimal formatting set but supports the Markdown markup language.
Ulysses
This powerful editor with an ascetic interface can be customized to your liking. The application works on Mac and iOS. The main window consists of three columns: a folder library, a list of “sheets,” and a field of the selected “sheet.” You can change their size and hide unnecessary columns, leaving only the typing window. The library contains all documents, including files from external sources. The editor uses its own version of the Markdown language (Markdown XL). Tags, annotations, footnotes, separators, etc. are added using hotkeys. The text formatting itself is directly performed when exporting a document. You can export it to HTML, RTF, PDF, and ePub and publish it in WordPress and Medium.
The application can be downloaded and used for free for 14 days. You’ll have to pay further. One subscription applies to both Mac and iOS versions. The six-month version for students costs only $11.
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