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How Writers Streamline Their Process with Plottr
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Why Use Plottr? Simplify Planning and Revision
Plan and structure story arcs using drag-and-drop scene cards. Recall every important idea with unlimited notes.
Tag, color-code and filter everything for clear visual overviews.
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Frequenty Asked Questions
Plottr is a visual outlining tool built for aspiring and published writers of all kinds – novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, academics, journalists, writing students, and others.
For Plottr: You can download Plottr on Windows & Mac. Backups are stored on your computer and you can sync files across devices using a 3rd-party storage service (e.g. Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive).
For Plottr Pro: Plottr Pro is available to download for Windows & Mac as well, but you can also use your browser to use Plottr! That means you can use it on a mobile device, Chromebook, Surface Tablets, and any other device with a browser. It backs up to the cloud and syncs instantly between devices just like working with Google Docs.
We provide friendly and sometimes humorous support to all customers from a real, live person via email even on weekends when you need it most. We try to answer within a day, but often it's quicker than that!
We also offer a full suite of educational resources, including:
Yes! All versions of Plottr are granted unlimited household licenses. You can use it on as many devices as you own!
Lifetime Plottr plans never expire, and you get updates and access to your Plottr projects for life.
Standard (non- Pro) plans: You can keep using Plottr after your plan expires, but you will not receive software updates and bug fixes.
Pro plans: Once your plan expires, you will no longer receive updates and bug fixes or be able to access your projects without renewing your plan. If your Pro plan is set to expire, we recommend downloading/exporting all your projects beforehand.
For Plottr: Backups are stored on your computer as files and it's easy to revert to any stored backup.
For Plottr Pro: Backups are stored in the cloud and you can also save them locally to your device! It's also easy to revert to stored backups.
Both: Backups are made 2x per session per project. The first time is when you open a project for the first time that day. And the second time is when you're finished using a project.
So you will have 2 backups per project for every day that you have worked on it: one before you made any changes that day, and another after your last change.
For Plottr: Backups are stored on your computer as files and we can't access them (not even in the case of a broken computer) though we can help you find them on your computer.
For Plottr Pro: Backups are stored in the cloud and you can also save them locally to your device! We can help you access them and email you a backup file or just show you how to do it yourself.
For Plottr: Backups are stored on your computer as files and we can't access them (not even in the case of a broken computer) though we can help you find them on your computer.
For Plottr Pro: Backups are stored in the cloud and you can also save them locally to your device! We can help you access them and email you a backup file or just show you how to do it yourself.
You can try out Plottr for free for 30 long days with the free trial!
This should give you plenty of time to try it and decide that it's right for you. Because of that, we don't give refunds after purchase.
If you cancel your subscription, you will still have access until the end of the subscription period, but we don't give prorated refunds for unused time.
Yes, all subscriptions are auto-renewing and we are not able to turn that off. You can contact support to cancel an active subscription at any time. You can also self-manage your account from the Account tab within Plottr.
