Story Tracker is a productivity utility for freelance writers to manage literary submissions and market guidelines on iOS.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Productivity
Sentiment
4.4
24 reviews
Nemesis
Story Planner for Writers
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Writers hire the app to mitigate the risk of simultaneous submission errors and track income across multiple literary markets.
For Freelance writers and hobbyists managing multiple simultaneous submissions to literary markets.
What does it look like?
Key features
Logs status, dates, and response times for stories, novels, and articles across multiple markets
Stores guidelines, editor details, and submission status for magazines, publishers, and competitions
Supports CSV import/export and WiFi-based database transfer to desktop versions of the app
How much does it cost?
Paid model at $7.99 with a functional Lite version acting as a conversion funnel for power users.
Velocity
Dormant developmentShow more...
5 versions in history. Development pace: zombie.
Who built it?
Andrew Nicolle
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Bonsai AlbumUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows an excited sentiment. Users appreciate simplified submission tracking provides writers with a clear overview of their active literary market outreach and responsive developer communication fosters user loyalty and encourages long-term adoption of the submission management tool.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Simplified submission tracking provides writers with a clear overview of their active literary market outreach
- Responsive developer communication fosters user loyalty and encourages long-term adoption of the submission management tool
- Lack of cross-device synchronization prevents users from maintaining consistent submission records across their mobile and desktop hardware
30 of 30 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for Story Tracker
How's the Productivity market?
The rivals identified
By Bartolome Masco Lopez
This is the only direct competitor that focuses exclusively on the writer's workflow for tracking and planning stories.
- Provides dedicated structural templates for character arcs and plot beats beyond simple submission tracking.
- Offers a specialized interface for organizing complex narrative elements that general productivity tools lack.
- Maintains a consistent update cadence to support evolving writer needs for long-form project management.
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Key takeaways for Story Tracker
Where is it heading?
The literary productivity market is shifting toward cloud-native, automated workflows that reduce the administrative burden on writers. Story Tracker remains stable due to its niche focus, but it is increasingly exposed to churn as users migrate to tools that offer better data portability and sync, so the PM must modernize the infrastructure to remain relevant.
- Lack of cloud sync prevents consistent records across hardware, which compounds the frustration of manual data entry for power users.
- Responsive developer communication fosters user loyalty, which maintains a stable base despite the lack of modern infrastructure features.
The SWOT
- Centralized market database creates high switching costs
- Responsive developer support fosters long-term user loyalty
- Integration with external submission platforms
- Expansion into automated market data updates
Next best moves
Ship cloud-based synchronization because user complaints cite lack of cross-device sync as a primary friction point → reduce churn.
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's manual data entry requirement is a feature, not a bug…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Real-time cross-device synchronization (available in Ulysses Mobile but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The product remains in a zombie development state, but new intelligence provides clarity on user friction points and competitive positioning.
Bottom line
Story Tracker maintains a loyal niche through its specialized submission database, but the lack of cross-device sync creates a critical retention risk against modern writing tools, so the PM should prioritize cloud infrastructure to secure the professional user base.
Unlock 3 critical frictions, 2 market threats, 1 more prioritized move and the analyst’s take.
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