2025.
Reedsy Studio gets author collaboration feature
Cloud-based ebook creation platform
Reedsy has renamed its book editor for authors to Reedsy Studio. It now features boards for plot planning, research and world-building, now features for automating routine operations and the ability to collaborate on a book for two or several authors. You can invite your co-author, editor or proofreader to work on your book. Studio lets you view edits, respond to comments and revise in real time. The app’s core functionality (writing, formatting, collaboration) is free. The paid version starts at $4.99/month and provides advanced statistics, goal management, version history and a dark theme. The $7.99/month version includes unlimited boards and notes and structure templates.
2022.
Vellum 3.4 enables export books to Word
Vellum 3.4, a new version of the e-book formatting program, is adding some inetersting new features. In addition to importing Word files into Vellum, you can now also export your written text to a Word file using the "Export Contents" command in the "File" menu. The new "Notes" feature allows you to personalize your book by adding a letter or note as if written by characters. You can customize the letter settings by adding various design elements and choose from a variety of handwritten fonts. Additionally, the new "Text Messaging" feature allows you to create instant messaging conversations between characters in your book. You can customize sent and received messages and choose from six different styles to make your book more interactive.
2022.
Sigil adds user templates
Open-source Ebook Editing software
Sigil has released version 1.9.20, which includes several new features. Users can now create new empty xhtml and css files from a user-template.xhtml and user-template.css and the latest version of MathJax (3.2.2) has been added for mathml support in Preview. Additionally, users can now cycle through two different custom stylesheets (or none at all) for use with Preview and the FindReplace dialog user interface has been redesigned to minimize size while adding features. Other new features include a FindReplace "Text" only checkbox and support to exclude tags from search, a Toggle Line Wrap Mode and its support added to CodeView via pop-up menu, a Dry Run Replace dialog to act as "Replace All" what if (Shift + Count All), a Replacement filter dialog to allow users to delete unwanted replacements before applying Replace All (Shift + Replace All) and a Counts Report to Saved Searches to show Saved Search Group counts by search.
2021.
Ebook editor Manuskript improves search and spell-checker
A new version of
Manuskript (0.12) is introducing many exciting new features and improvements. One of the most notable changes is significantly improved search function, which now allows users to search for text using regular expressions across the entire project (including the plot, world, characters and structure). With customizable keyboard shortcuts, users can easily navigate and preview search results with a simple mouse hover. The new version also supports LanguageTool, a spell checker that offers suggestions and checks grammar for many languages. Additionally, a new logging system has been integrated. It provides detailed error reports and simplifies their correction. Other improvements include the ability to add characters and story elements directly from the editor, as well as remove characters in the viewpoint selection dialog.
2020.
Squibler allows to design a book cover in minutes
The online ebook editor
Squibler has introduced a number of new features, including the ability to personalize book covers. Users can now add a title page from the "Title" menu, insert images and choose from several templates, as well as change the title page color. The preview mode shows the page changes in real time. Besides, the program now displays a table of contents for easy navigation and organization of project sections (which can be added, removed or hidden as needed). Additionally, appeared Suggestion Generator - a new tool that provides endless story ideas, including over 500 first-line sentences in "Dangerous" mode.
2020.
LivingWriter now allows to set writing goals for your story
Writing software
LivingWriter has introduced a new feature called "Writing Goals" which allows users to set word count goals for chapters or entire book. By setting a deadline for completing a story or chapter, LivingWriter automatically calculates the daily word count needed to reach the final goal. Users can also uncheck weekends and the program will evenly distribute the daily word count across writing days. This feature is especially useful for those writers who have deadlines such as the National Novel Writing Month challenge, where participants must complete their novels within a month. However, even without a deadline, setting goals is truly beneficial for personal progress as a writer.
2020.
Dabble refreshed its design on desktop
Ebook Editing software
Dabble has released some new desktop features. Dabble's developers have made several updates to improve the user experience. The icons have been improved for a crisper look, the font has been changed to match the user's operating system and section headings in the left-hand navigation have been adjusted for easier scanning. Preferences, profile and billing have been redesigned for easier use, particularly on touch devices. The new status bar at the bottom of the screen displays the word count and project save and sync status, while two quick buttons in the bottom-right corner allow users to toggle and disable focus mode and enter and exit full screen mode. To customize the manuscript and story notes, users can adjust fonts and formatting on a per-project basis. Additionally, the project doc at the top of the navigation allows users to name the project something different from the book's title, which is useful for identifying series or multiple versions of the same book.
2017.
Scrivener 3 for macOS gets Compile feature
Scrivener 3 for macOS is now available and costs $59.99. The update includes several notable improvements, including a streamlined interface, more flexible and user-friendly book compilation feature and a full-flagged style system. Additionally, users now can view cards in color-themes to track various storylines as well as filter the Corkboard and Planner. Other enhancements include an improved metadata editor, the ability to track daily writing progress using History and a new quick search tool. The Bookmarks feature which replaces Project Notes, Links and Favorites, allows users to easily access frequently used cards. Additionally, users can now turn on the Dialogue Focus feature to search for all dialogue within a text and export formatted text in MultiMarkdown or Pandoc formats. The macOS version features expanded Touch Bar support and rewritten 64-bit codebase, making the program faster and more stable.
2017.
yWriter for Android is released 
The first public beta version of the writers' program
yWriter for Android has been released. This version supports loading and saving data from Google Drive and includes import/export of the new yw6 file format. The author of the program says that he writes fragments of his novel every night before going to bed on his Android tablet and then uploads the latest version of the novel to his PC by synchronizing the yw6 file via Google Drive - he says it is very convenient. However, he warns that this is still a beta version and there will likely be bugs, incompatibilities and other problems.
