Typewriter
Command Shift T
The line you are writing stays at the top, middle, or bottom of the window while the text scrolls past it.
Just the page. Everything else waits.
justwrite is a Markdown writing app for your Mac with no permanent sidebar. Your words sit in the middle of a quiet window, files and commands appear only when you ask, and every document stays a plain file on your disk.
Free beta for Apple silicon · Version 0.2.0 · About 17 MB
Shown in the sepia theme, with light and dark behind it.
Three ways to stay in the sentence.
Turn any of them on from the keyboard, and off again when you want the whole page back.
Focus
Command Shift F
Everything outside the current line fades back, so the sentence in progress is the only thing at full strength.
Clean Mode
From the palette
Markdown punctuation hides while you write and comes back when the cursor is inside a heading.
Your writing is files, not a database.
justwrite reads and writes ordinary Markdown in the folder you choose. Open the same files in any other editor, sync them however you like, and leave whenever you want.
- Version history lives in a hidden
.justwritefolder and never touches a Git repository you keep yourself. - If sync software or another editor changes a file, justwrite offers Compare, Reload, or an explicit Overwrite.
- Deleted documents go to Recently Deleted, where you can recover them.
- Tables, footnotes, and pasted images are plain Markdown too; images are saved in an
assetsfolder beside your writing. - Compile the folder into one Word file in standard manuscript format, ready to send.
- Chapters
- 01.mdMarkdown
- 02.mdMarkdown
- Reference Notes.mdMarkdown
- Quick Capture.mdControl Option Space
- .justwriteversion history
The sidebar is a keystroke away.
A command palette replaces the file tree. Press Command / in the app for the full keyboard reference.
Files
- ⌘ K
- Open or create any document
- @
- Jump to a heading, in the palette
- > search
- Find a line in any file
- ⌘ N
- Name a new document
Writing
- ⌘ ⇧ T
- Cycle typewriter scrolling
- ⌘ ⇧ F
- Toggle focus mode
- ⌘ E
- Preview the rendered Markdown
- ⌘ P
- Print or export a PDF
Panes and history
- ⌘ Return
- Mirror the draft as a read-only reference
- ⌘ ⇧ Y
- Browse and restore version history
- ⌃ ⌥ Space
- Quick Capture from any app
- ⌘ W
- Close the active pane
Help when you ask. Silence when you do not.
AI is disabled by default, and writing never depends on it. Connect an endpoint in Preferences and each feature sends its context only when you use it.
⌘ J
Sounding Board
Talk through an idea in a panel beside the draft.
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Ghost text
Ask for the next few lines. Tab accepts them, Esc rejects them.
⌘ ⇧ R
Structural Review
Critiques structure, pacing, and repetition. Nothing is sent until you press Run review.
Requests go directly from the app to the endpoint you configure, not through a justwrite server. The app asks before it uses any new endpoint, and your API key stays in the system keychain. Point it at a model running on your Mac and nothing leaves the computer; the Sounding Board shows Local or Remote before you send. Use only providers you trust.
A writing app has to earn your manuscript. This beta is where that starts.
justwrite is free during the beta, with no account or license key, in exchange for honest feedback: where the page stays quiet, where you hesitate, and anything that did not save the way you expected.
Windows and Linux (experimental): Windows installer (11 MB, SHA-256) · Linux .deb (16 MB, SHA-256) · Linux AppImage (93 MB, SHA-256). These pass the same automated tests as the Mac app but have not yet been tried by a person. The Windows installer is not code-signed, so Windows will warn before it runs.
- Download
- About 17 MB
- Runs on
- Apple silicon; Windows and Linux experimental
- Updates
- Manual download
- AI
- Off by default
Before you start
- Write with backed-up copies, not the only copy of important work. Crash recovery and installation across many Macs are what this beta needs to test.
- Updates are manual. Quit justwrite, back up your writing folder, then replace the app in Applications.
- Screen reader use has not been fully validated.
- The Mac installer is Developer ID signed, notarized, and stapled. Intel Macs are not supported in this beta.
- The Windows (64-bit) and Linux (x86-64) builds are experimental and untested by people so far. The Linux .deb needs WebKitGTK 4.1 (Ubuntu 22.04 or later, Debian 12 or later).
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