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About Effie
Effie is a writing and note-taking app built around a distraction-free editor. Text can be arranged into outlines and mind maps to turn scattered ideas into a structure, and finished work can be exported to several formats or as image strips for sharing.
Clients are available for Mac, Windows, iPhone and iPad, and Android. Effie AI adds summaries, outlines, rewriting, shortening, expanding and tone changes. It suits writers who want outlining and mind mapping in the same tool as drafting.
Strengths
- Writing, outlining and mind maps in one app
- Clients for desktop and mobile platforms
- Export to multiple formats or image strips
Limitations
- Proprietary, closed source
- AI features and plan details are tied to the paid tiers
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree to download, with paid plans listed on the pricing page.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Android, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Writers who plan with outlines and mind maps before drafting
- Categories
- Note-taking, Office tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Effie
Compare allSoftware that can replace Effie for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Ulysses
A focused writing app for Mac, iPad and iPhone with project management, sync and export.
Ulysses is a paid, distraction-free writing app for Apple devices with a library for large projects and grammar checking, but it lacks mind maps and Windows or Android apps.
iA Writer
Minimalist Markdown writing app focused on the text.
iA Writer is a paid minimalist Markdown editor on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS that keeps plain files in your folders but offers no outlines or mind maps.
Scrivener
A writing app for drafting and organising long documents such as novels, screenplays and theses.
Scrivener is a paid app for drafting long manuscripts with research and notes in one project on macOS, Windows and iOS, with no Android version or mind maps.
Bear
Apple-exclusive markdown notes app with tag-based organization and a polished editor.
Bear is an Apple-only Markdown notes app with tag-based organization and a polished editor, trading Effie's mind maps and cross-platform clients for native Apple design.
Notebooks
A writing, notes and task app for Mac and iOS that organises documents in nested books.
Notebooks is a one-time purchase for Mac and iOS that holds notes, long documents and tasks in nested books with PDF and ebook export, but without mind maps.
Effie as an alternative
Listings that name Effie as an alternative.
SimpleMind
Cross-platform mind mapping app for brainstorming and planning, sold with a single purchase per platform.
Effie combines mind maps with writing and outlining on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, with AI features tied to paid tiers.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
MindNode
A mind mapping and outlining app for Apple devices that turns loose ideas into structured plans.
Xmind
A mind mapping and brainstorming app for web, desktop and mobile with AI and Gantt planning.
OmniOutliner
An outlining app for Mac, iPad, iPhone and Vision Pro for structuring ideas and documents.
Workflowy
A nested outliner that organizes notes, lists and projects as a single tree of bullets.
