Desk Alternatives

Desk is described as 'An award-winning & beloved desktop publishing client, exclusively for OS X' and is a Note-taking tool in the news & books category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Desk for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and iPad apps. The best Desk alternative is Typora. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try ghostwriter or FocusWriter. Other great apps like Desk are Dendron, Foam, Nuclino and Bear.

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  1. OmPad icon
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    OmPad is a free, simple, powerful, beautiful and minimal writing app that helps you focus and concentrate on writing great content. Format your text with headings, bold, italic, links, images, lists, code and quotes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Deepdwn icon
     3 likes

    Deepdwn is a markdown editing suite, designed to organize and edit collections of markdown files.

    96 Deepdwn alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. A modern macOS markdown editor - themeable, tabs, sidebar, GitHub flavored markdown, exporting, latex and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Calmly Writer icon
     14 likes

    Calmly Writer is a professional text editor designed to focus on what you want to tell, with a simple, unobtrusive and distraction-free user interface.

    48 Calmly Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
     
  5. JDarkRoom icon
     20 likes

    JDarkRoom is a popular, simple full-screen text file editor with none of the usual bells and whistles that might distract you from the job in hand. If you are writing a speech, novel, essay, thesis or just need to be able to concentrate on your writing, then JDarkRoom may help...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. SSuite NoteBook Editor is a free portable text editor that has all the functionality to start you on writing that important novel, short-story or article, with enough bells and whistles to help out. It also includes all the necessary editing short-cut keys for power users and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. PyRoom icon
     27 likes

    PyRoom is a free editor that stays out your way - and keeps other things out of your way, too. As a fullscreen editor without buttons, widgets, formatting options, menus and with only the minimum of required dialog windows, it doesn't have any distractions and lets you focus...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Writer is a free online distraction free writing environment provided by Big Huge Labs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. 1Writer icon
     8 likes

    1Writer combines all the basic text editing features you would expect with all the advanced features you will ever need. Use 1Writer to write, research, revise, and share your ideas with maximum efficiency.

    20 1Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. Blogly icon
     3 likes

    Blogly is an open-source desktop application for bloggers and content writers. It is a cross-platform application and could be compiled on any platform that supports Electron desktop application framework.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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