I maintain a laptop from the late 90s that dual boots NetBSD/FreeDOS and often write in WordStar on it. To use an analogy: novelWriter is like Kate, usable and somewhat extendable, whereas Scrivener is like IntelliJ, batteries and even a UPS included.ĭon’t get me wrong, I like more minimalist setups occasionally. In Scrivener, I can drag and drop a web page or PDF into my project, and it’ll be archived there in full as something I can refer back to and annotate.

It also didn’t have the same support for notes/supporting documents that scrivener does. Last time I used novelWriter, HiDPI support was lacking on macOS (Scrivener isn’t the only thing tying me to it unfortunately), and font-rendering was piss-poor (not a reflection on the authors of the novelWriter, it seemed to be related to HiDPI support and GTK+, which… yeah… there’s a reason I use KDE Plasma/QT on Linux).

I’ve tried it (and manuskript, another similar tool), but there’s really no comparison at the moment.

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