Storyist
Storyist is a macOS creative writing app for planning, drafting, and formatting novels and screenplays in one project-based workspace.
What is Storyist?
Storyist is a native macOS writing application built for novelists and screenwriters who want to plan, draft, and organize long-form projects in one place. It combines a word processor with project management tools so you can work on manuscripts, scripts, notes, and supporting materials together. Writers commonly use it to outline scenes, arrange ideas on virtual index cards, track characters and story details, and format work for manuscript or screenplay standards. Storyist also supports images, comments, styles, and project-wide search, which makes it useful for both drafting and revision. The app is available directly from Storyist and through the Mac App Store, and it is designed as a desktop writing workflow rather than a web-based editor.
Key features
- Draft manuscripts and screenplays in a full-featured word processor
- Organize scenes, notes, and research inside project-based writing files
- Plan stories with an outliner and virtual index cards on a storyboard
- Format work with built-in templates and customizable stylesheets
- Track characters, settings, and plot details with story sheets
- Search across an entire writing project to find scenes, notes, or references
- Add images, comments, headers, and footers to support your writing workflow
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Storyist is legitimate writing software for macOS. It mainly works with the documents, notes, and project materials you choose to open or save, so the main privacy consideration is the content of your writing projects. Keep it if you use it for active drafts or archives, and make sure your projects are backed up before removing the app or related support files.
Recommendation: Keep Storyist if you write novels, scripts, or other long-form projects on your Mac. If you no longer use it, you can remove the app, but export or back up any Storyist projects you want to keep first.
Common paths
/Applications/Storyist.app
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Storyist
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.storyist.storyist.mac.v4.plist
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