Wryter

A quiet, distraction-free home for your novel.

Clean typography, generous margins, a live word count — and nothing in the way.

Wryter gives you a quiet writing surface that looks like a traditional typed manuscript — Courier Prime in dark ink on a white page — so you can think about your story, not your software. It's a single idea built natively for every screen you write on: Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android.

Your drafts are plain Markdown files, so they're yours — sign in to your own Google Drive (or use iCloud, a synced folder, or just this device) and your whole library follows you between devices, from iPhone to Android to desktop.

What's inside

The Wryter editor: a clean, centred manuscript page in Courier Prime.

Distraction-free editor

A centred, readable manuscript page in Courier Prime, a faint word count, and inline Markdown that styles as you type — with nothing else in the way.

The Wryter document shelf over a typewriter watermark.

Manuscripts & chapters

Organise a book as a folder of auto-numbered chapters — reorder by dragging, and export back into one document. The shelf shows each manuscript's chapter and word counts at a glance.

Wryter's planning timeline grid.

Plan your story

Plot your characters and locations on a timeline — each beat linked to the chapter that tells it, with photos, profiles and notes alongside.

Wryter's conflict resolution with the changed words in bold.

Resolve conflicting edits

Edit the same chapter on two devices and Wryter keeps both, then shows a clear merge with the changed words in bold — so you choose with confidence. Nothing is ever silently overwritten.

Wryter's version history: earlier saved versions of a document.

Go back in time

Wryter quietly keeps earlier saved versions of your work on the device. Open the clock to look back and restore any point in time — a safety net that's always there.

Wryter's storage picker: Google Drive (sign in), iCloud, a synced folder, or just this device.

Yours, everywhere

Plain .md files synced through your own Google Drive — sign in once and your library follows you across Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android — or iCloud on Apple devices, a synced folder, or just this device. Light and dark themes, adjustable type, native spell-check. No Wryter account, no lock-in — your words stay plain text, yours to keep.

Download

The desktop apps are free. Pick your platform — each links to the latest release:

Android beta — two quick steps.

First join the wryter-testers group (Google Play grants beta access through this group), then opt in and install from Google Play.

iPhone and iPad are coming to the App Store soon.