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Wretify vs Dabble
Wretify is a clean, minimalist writing app for nonfiction writers, built for focus — with an AI that has read everything you've written and refuses to write it for you.
What is the difference between Wretify and Dabble?
Dabble is a subscription novel-writing app with plotting, character and manuscript tools that syncs across all your devices.
Wretify is a clean, minimalist writing app for nonfiction writers, built for focus — with an AI that has read everything you've written and refuses to write it for you.
Dabble is built for novels and keeps AI out; Wretify is built for nonfiction and brings in an AI that has read everything you have written and refuses to write for you. Wretify keeps footnotes inside the sentence, builds the reference list from them, and stores every chapter as a Markdown file in your own Google Drive.
What is Dabble best at?
Dabble puts fiction planning and drafting in one place: a Plot Grid, story notes and character profiles beside the manuscript, goal tracking, focus mode, co-authoring and version history. It works offline once installed, syncs across every platform, and describes itself as AI-free — it does not use what you write to train AI models.
Novelists who want plotting, drafting and syncing on every device, without AI.
Wretify and Dabble, side by side
| Wretify | Dabble | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Nonfiction books and articles. | Fiction. |
| Devices | In the web browser, on a computer or a phone. Nothing to install. | Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android, installed from the browser. |
| Price | One plan with every feature: $7 a month or $45 a year. The first 1,000 writers get 3 months free. Opens October 27, 2026. | From $19 a month (Writer), $29 (Author) or $49 (Bestseller); 20% off yearly; $699 lifetime. A 14-day free trial. |
| Where your writing lives | Plain Markdown files in a Wretify folder in your own Google Drive. Wretify keeps no other copy. | Your Dabble account, saved to your device first and then synced. |
| AI | Bring your own key (Claude, Gemini or DeepSeek). The AI reads everything you have written, thinks with you and brings you real research and your own earlier passages. It does not draft your chapters; nothing reaches the page unless you press Replace or Insert, or drag it there. | None — Dabble describes itself as AI-free. |
| Export | A chapter as Markdown, Word or PDF; a whole book as Markdown, Word or EPUB, with a bibliography. | Word (DOCX), Google Docs, a web link and Markdown. PDF through Print. |
| Offline | Once opened on a device, you can keep writing offline; it syncs to your Drive when you reconnect. The AI needs a connection. | Yes, once installed. |
Should I choose Wretify or Dabble?
Choose Dabble if you write fiction and want plot grids and character tools with your draft, and no AI.
Choose Wretify if you write nonfiction and need real citations, a reference list and an AI that knows your earlier writing.
How does Wretify compare to other writing apps?
Every major writing app is good at something different. The full guide answers what the best software for writing books is, app by app.
Sources
- Dabble — www.dabblewriter.com/
- Dabble pricing — www.dabblewriter.com/pricing
- What’s new in Dabble 3 — www.dabblewriter.com/docs/reference/whats-new-in-3
- How Dabble works offline — help.dabblewriter.com/en/articles/5491370-how-does-dabble-work-offline
- Dabble export — www.dabblewriter.com/docs/import-export-printing/export-your-manuscript
Updated . Prices and features of other apps are taken from their own websites on that date and can change. Wretify is our product, so we have tried hard to be fair to the others. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it.