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7 Apps that can make you a better writer

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A piece of art might look easy but the efforts that go into making that art aren’t always easy.

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As W.B.Yeats puts it:

“I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe;

Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,

Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”

A poet puts hours of labor to make his/her poetry look a “moment’s thought”.

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For any writer, there are myriads of problems at every stage of writing. And the best way to tackle such problems is to keep writing- organized or unorganized, desirable or undesirable, just don’t stop. And being lucky to have been born in these high-tech times, we have many tech aids too that help us to glide through our writing experience.

Here are 7 apps that can help you during a writer’s block or to organize words, and to find proper ones as well.

1. JotterPad- Writer

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CIOL 7 Apps that can make you a better writer

The app provides you a distraction free interface that helps you write in peace and focus on what you want to write. It has a built-in English dictionary which immediately confirm the meaning of the words that pop up in your head. It has keyboard shortcuts, just in case you are in a habit of using them on your laptop. It can also help you find phrases suitable for a particular sentence and can describe the situation perfectly and also add beauty to the story/poem/article. And because it is a writer’s app, it obviously has a word count feature as well.

2. Grammarly

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Grammarly is a writing enhancement platform developed by Grammarly, Inc., and launched in 2009. Grammarly's proofreading and plagiarism-detection resources check for a writer's adherence to more than 250 grammar rules.

The grammar checker not only identifies your grammatical errors but offers helpful explanations of each mistake.

The Grammarly spelling checker not only helps you locate misspelled words in your writing but also helps you to identify the correctly-spelled words that you have used incorrectly. There is also a proofreading program that checks your writing for plagiarism, scans for grammatical errors, and performs a word usage and spelling check.

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3. Textgram

Presentation of your writing is very important, while we talk about the aesthetic value of it. No doubt, it has a beautiful meaning, but for once, the outer beauty will attract the readers.

CIOL 7 Apps that can make you a better writer

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Use Textgram to arrange what you have written in a beautiful way using a background picture, color, fonts, etc. After you are done with editing you can share it on any instant messaging applications.

There are ten million downloads to this app and is rated 4.4 stars on the Google play store.

4. Writer Plus (Easy Writer)

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Writing is not an easy job- requires constant attention and all your heart. And for writers, there is no particular time for thoughts to dawn over. This app helps you edit, save, redo, undo, and markdown format.

CIOL 7 Apps that can make you a better writer

Additional features include night mode, battery friendly and limited system resource usage with many supported languages like Chinese, German, French, etc.

There are ten thousand downloads to this app and a rating of 4.7 stars on the Google play store.

5. Roget’s Thesaurus

Writing is all about playing with words. A writer would need a thesaurus all the time to use the apt words and phrases to convey his/her perceptions and emotions. This app is 100 percent easy to use, fast, and can be used when offline.

CIOL 7 Apps that can make you a better writer

There are six classes, and branches which are semantically linked to the word with all the meanings, antonyms (if there are any). Users can navigate after choosing one amongst the six.

With ten thousand downloads and a rating of 3.8 stars, this one is another must to have app for all writers.

6. HaikuJam

HaikuJam means poetry with the power of three. To create, you simply need to hit the create button, rest everything will fall in order. The app has been named as one among the 50 best creative apps. You can also win prizes as they regularly team up with artists for competition.

This is not just an app, but an altogether different world wherein poets collaborate to make eternal poetries.

There are five thousand downloads to this app and has 4.6 stars as a rating from Google play store.

7. Plagiarism Checker

This app helps you check if the piece you are reading is copied or an original piece. It screens your papers for plagiarism with 5 search engines- Google, Babylon, Google books, Yahoo, Google scholar.

This can also save results to HTML, PDF, EPUB etc.

There are hundred thousand downloads of this app and has a 4-star rating on the Google play store.

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