When comparing Quoll Writer vs Affinity Publisher, the Slant community recommends Affinity Publisher for most people. In the question“What are the best tools for creating EPUB books?” Affinity Publisher is ranked 2nd while Quoll Writer is ranked 11th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Automatic chapter save
Pro Open Source
Pro Frequent updates
Pro Image attachment
Pro Organizing-friendly
Pro Encryption
Any project can be encrypted with a password.
Pro Distraction-free mode
Pro Problem Finder
The Problem Finder helps you to identify issues with your writing.
Pro Import from Microsoft docx
Pro Export projects to docx, epub and html
Pro Achievements
Achievements are aimed at helping you get to know Quoll Writer and providing rewards for writing (after all no one else will be doing it).
Pro Cardboard
Pro Customizable
It's possible to change several aspects from displaying to character's datasheet.
Pro Statistics
Pro One-off reasonable price, with no upgrades or monthly subs
Pro Very comprehensive set of features
Pro Has become sufficiently popular over the past year that there is an excellent knowledge base
You can quickly find solutions, tutorials, etc. online when you need help. Contrast this to Scribus, which despite its rich feature set, is often unintuitive and awkward to use, and help from other users sometimes difficult to find.
Pro Lots of Resources to Learn
Serif's forums, videos and other sites offer good resources to learn this tool, which has a very intuitive interface.
Pro Most intuitive interface
Cons
Con Windows only
Although it should be possible to make a multi platform version as Quoll is written in Java.
Con No mobile app
Con No cloud support
Unfortunatelly, there's no cloud support, which is very important nowadays.
Con No EPub options (yet?)
Con No Linux version available
Unfortunately, there is no Linux version available in 2021, despite of numerous requests of the users.