Plottr

Wish I had read the reviews more carefully, particularly when it comes to the mobile version. Extremely glitchy. I could not even move scenes around without them jumping to different chapters, or disappearing altogether. There appears to be no support for plotting using “story beats.” Instead, Plottr relies on chapters, but I couldn’t find a way to add unlimited scenes to my chapters. (WHY is it necessary to use chapters as the structural backbone in the first place? Chapter divisions are arbitrary.) It’s as if the creators don't actually understand story structure, something I believe is essential if one is to provide a truly useful, versatile tool for plotting. Bummed this didn’t work out. Back to index cards for me.

Desktop version works great. Mobile version is extremely buggy. Lots of crashing, terrible navigation, and lag. I could excuse that but it all culminated in losing three hours of work when I paid the $99 for Pro and the desktop version didn’t recognize the file I had on the mobile version. Poof, new file replaced with the old file. Do not download the mobile version until they iron out these serious kinks. Boy do I feel great about dropping the money…

Update Starting recently, Notes created on IOS now get erased when I open them on Windows desktop. Same issue I had with IOS Scrivener. They obviously cannot translate between the two text formats. This makes the app a complete failure for me. Desktop is still amazing for the timeline, but I’m using something else for notes on my phone. Other apps do not have this problem and they are free. Tl;dr stay away if you use Windows. I’ve lost several critical brainstorming docs, so my trust in the company is badly shaken. Old review, I’ve been using this app since Plottr Pro launched and haven’t had a single sync issue with desktop (outside of a few text formatting issues.) I use this app on my tiny iphone to take notes on the go, and I do the bulk of my plotting on a Windows desktop. The app is imperfect. Glitches have come and gone. Text formatting I do on Windows often gets stripped out, like removing line breaks and colored text. Actually, no colored text at all on mobile. But the app works! And nothing critical has happened to my work. Plottr doesn’t have the best GUI, but my plotting gets done, and that’s all the matters at the and of the day. With this program I can get back to what Really love, writing and editing novels. Plottr makes the painful first step of plotting a little easier.

Its the perfect companion for outlining my story! 🤩

Bought the pro version so I could use Plottr on my phone, tablet, and desktop. Then realized it has significant issues in the new iOS versions. #1 - i keep losing my work. If you accidentally flick your scene in the wrong direction, it just disappears. I’ve even gone to the desktop version to see if I could find it hidden somewhere. Could not. I’ve lost 3 scenes already and it’s cost me at least an hour of time. #2 - there’s no Undo button for mistakes like the above #3 - the Act structure does not work at all in the iOS version. Not sure why they stated it was fixed. In the iOS version, you can’t see anything beyond the “scene’ level. It creates this horrible white space with nothing in it on the iOS version. #4 - other bugs. Random stuff in menus and the overall setup that’s supposed to work just doesn’t. It’s buggy and costs you time trying to work around it. #5 - bluetooth keyboard has constant problems writing text into the scene details. I keep having to change the fields to the “rich text” option to get the issues to calm down. This is a great tool if you’re using the desktop. But I would save some money by purchasing the 1-license version and ignore all the iOS versions. Just use the desktop. Hopefully, they’ll resolve these iOS bugs in the future…but they have a long way to go.

When I try to type in the app, it’ll randomly start typing in the middle of a word, and then I have to fix it. It happens far too often. I’ll end up with something like “Costentnsi” instead of “Consistent”. It’s not my phone’s keyboard, either. It only happens in the app.

Waste of time

Plottr has excellent support. Fast response time. It’s glitchy sometimes, yeah. But the app is still good.

Everything is confusing but the education is amazing!

This app is not the full version of plottr. It does not sync with other devices. So disappointed!