







Check grammar, track writing goals, measure readability, and time focused writing sessions.
Harper | Privacy-First Offline Grammar Checker
Blazing-fast, open-source grammar & spell checking that never sends your words to the cloud.

Scribe — Meeting notes that never leave your Mac
Scribe records, transcribes and summarises your meetings on your Mac. Free and open source.

iA Writer: The Benchmark of Markdown Writing Apps
Plain text. Total focus. The Industry standard Markdown text editor. Available for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows. Download it now, try it for free

Ensō—Write now, edit later.
Ensō is a writing tool that helps you enter a state of flow.
Writing Is Thinking
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, n…

harper-desktop: init at 2.7.0 by TyceHerrman · Pull Request #545822 · NixOS/nixpkgs
harper-desktop: init at 2.6.0 Adds Harper Desktop, a privacy-first, offline grammar checker that provides system-wide writing suggestions on macOS. This is separate from the existing harper CLI/LSP...
Sublime Text - the sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
Available on Mac, Windows and Linux

Long form writing in Logseq
An area that has traditionally been described as one of Logseq’s weak points is long form writing, however, with the right setup, it’s very much possible to get an excellent writing experience While writing long form text, such as while scripting videos, I absolutely adore the experience of using both iA Writer and Ulysses. They’re some of the best designed apps I’ve ever used and offer an unparalleled editing experience. At the same time, I absolutely love using Logseq and all my notetaking and outlining for videos happens there.
Maggie Appleton on Twitter / X
I've always wanted my own WYSIWYG editor for my website, and now I have one! Works locally, saves changes to MDX.But the better part is building semantic writing tools on top. Colour-coded sentence classification, flagging cliches, repetition, and claims that need citations pic.twitter.com/lvOMTZ4DUB— Maggie Appleton (@Mappletons) September 28, 2026
Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing
A growing suite of tools allows teams of researchers to work collectively to edit scientific documents.

Astro Editor — A focused markdown editor for Astro content collections
Astro Editor is a native, distraction-free markdown editor that reads your Astro content collection schemas and turns frontmatter into clean, schema-aware forms. For writer mode, not coder mode.

Dangerous Writing App
Dangerous Writing App. If you stop typing, all progress will be lost. Now with over 500+ writing prompts to choose from.

OmniCanvas - Free Infinite Canvas Notes App
Best Notes App - Write and Organize with UpNote
Antinote — a $5 scratchpad for macOS

NotePlan – Notes, Tasks and Calendar in One Daily Note

Let your thoughts sink in — Gravity
Knowledgebase Apps (by Boris) — Semble