WriterDuet

Writer duet (on my computer) is great and it is a very fair price for the yearly price but I am disappointed by the app. On my computer using a browser writer duet works great but this app on my phone is not good. It does not update my scripts so if I use my computer to write and come on my app later to work on the go it doesn’t update to the cloud version. I just finished writing a 14 page short film script and went to review it on my phone to shortlist and it didn’t update so my phone only shows 6 pages of the script. This issues, on the book I am writing, caused me to lose work in the past. I don’t use the phone app anymore because it is unreliable but this is extremely frustrating because I am paying for a service and not getting the full benefit. Please fix this issue and I will change my review, thank you.

I was about a third of the way through a screenplay on the Writer Duet app and then I stopped working on it because I couldn’t figure out where to take the story. While my story languished in cyberspace I lost the email address associated with my Writer Duet account. It was a Comcast email address. That’s a separate story in itself but the bottom line is because I couldn’t use the old email address Writer Duet is refusing to let me access my writing project. They insist the only solution is to reinstate the old address which is impossible to do with Comcast. I’ve offered to send the Writer Duet staff a photo of my drivers license to prove my identity and they won’t accept that. So I guess all the hours I spent on the screenplay was a waste. I’m sure it’s a rare problem but the way they’re refusing to help should scare people away from putting their writing projects at risk on this app.

The tool is amazing! It has a bunch of great formatting tools that will make writing fast and easy. There’s also a plethora of templates for different types of writing. Ex: novels, screenplays, graphic novels, etc. Where this app fails is pasting from an external file like Google Docs. I have the first few episodes of my graphic novel written up, but I am having a really hard time trying to paste them into this app. The performance is just not that great.