bibisco

Writing a short story, a news article, or even a blog entry is one thing, but writing a novel is a whole other thing altogether. A novel is not only a lot lengthier, but it also comes with its own set of challenges - mostly having to do with the general intricacy of the thing.

Of course, people used to write novels without the help of specialized software countless centuries ago, but that's not to say that if you want to write your own nowadays that you should do it without.

Here's where bibisco comes into play. bibisco is a user-friendly and feature-packed writing software, perfectly designed to help you write novels.

The main selling point for bibisco is, of course, the fact that it was designed from scratch for this particular purpose. It helps you keep track and organize everything from chapters, scenes, the architecture of the story, the premise, the setting, locations, all the way up to complex issues such as characters, their relationships, the timeline of the story, and so forth.

In short, it provides all the necessary tools to craft the perfect universe for your novel, without leaving out aspects such as narrative strands and all sorts of geographic, temporal, and social connections and contexts.

At its core, this app is still a writing tool. Naturally, it has a modern, distraction-free editor that allows you to design characters, locations, objects, and the overall story.

bibisco also scores a high mark when it comes to allowing you to analyze all aspects of your writing. For example, the app provides you with various interesting data such as chapters' lengths, time, and locations in which said characters appear, their distribution across chapters, and other nifty aspects regarding the overall timeline.

Your novel or even parts of the novel can be exported to a wide array of useful formats such as PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, archive, and EPUB.

Other than that, the app has a very beginner-friendly GUI, somewhat unsurprising for an application designed with web technologies such as Electron and JavaScript.

The app is open-source (at least the Community edition), but you can get more awesome features if you decide to support the project via a small donation (Supporters Edition).  It's available for all the major OSes out there such as Windows, Linux, and macOS, and it even comes with various supported languages such as French, German, English, Italian, Portuguese (for both Portugal and Brazil), Dutch, Serbian, Spanish, Russian, and Czech.

More details about the app are available in the official Documentation section.

It's really difficult to fault bibisco. Mostly because from the first second you start the app, it feels like something made by someone that has a passion for writing and understands most of the underpinnings and intricacies of writing novels.

It's well-made, it looks nice, it's easy to use, and it has a handful of useful features that will definitely help you stay focused on what is the most important aspect when it comes to creating a novel - the writing.