App
Proso Draft and Revise
Revision Marks for Novelists
Revise a draft and keep every change in sight. Tap Revise and your edits stay on the page as marks: the words you cut are struck through, the words you add are underlined, and a bar in the margin shows which paragraphs changed. Walk through the marks and accept or reject each one, or settle them all at once.
The marks live in the file itself, written in CriticMarkup, a plain-text convention any text editor can read. Close the app, open the chapter in Files or on your Mac, and the pass is still there.
COMPARE DRAFTS
Save a draft of the whole book under a name, "Second draft", and Proso keeps it for good. Set any chapter against an earlier draft or against any saved version of the day: the changed paragraphs are marked word by word, and each one can take its older wording back on its own.
CUTTINGS
Delete a paragraph of twelve words or more and it goes to the project's cuttings, with the chapter it came from and the paragraph it followed. Put it back in one tap, at its old place. The cuttings are a plain markdown file in the project's folder.
THE PAGE
Write in markdown without seeing it: the symbols appear only while your cursor is inside them, and a formatting bar covers what you would otherwise type. The page is set in Seravek on a bright proof white, with a word count, six looks and Focus, which clears everything but the text while you type.
FOR NOVELS, AND ANYTHING LONG
Projects are folders of plain .md files in your own iCloud Drive (or on the device), so your manuscript is yours and opens anywhere. Order chapters by hand, start from one of sixteen story, essay and journal structures, and keep version history for every sheet on your device.
THE RIBBON
Set a weekly goal on a dial marked in pages and a ribbon at the page edge fills as the words land. The ribbon also sits on the Lock Screen and the Home Screen, and a writing session can run as a Live Activity with its clock and its word count.
ON THE MAC TOO
The same projects on your Mac, with a Format menu and keyboard shortcuts.
FREE AND CLOTHBOUND
Free: writing with no time limit, revision marks, comparing drafts, named drafts, cuttings, version history, writing sessions on the Lock Screen and up to three projects plus an Inbox.
Clothbound, one payment, nothing renews: unlimited projects; the weekly ribbon and its Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets; the other thirteen structures; four more typefaces and two more looks; and whole projects exported as one manuscript in PDF, RTF or HTML. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac with the same Apple ID; restore it from Settings.
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