iA Writer Alternatives

iA Writer is described as 'The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. The key is focus. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text' and is a popular Note-taking tool in the news & books category. There are more than 100 alternatives to iA Writer for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best iA Writer alternative is Joplin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like iA Writer are Typora, Zettlr, Simplenote and ghostwriter.

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  1. Rough Draft icon
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    Writing on paper, you let go and just get your idea out. You don't get caught up perfecting the words too early. Rough Draft is like writing with pen and paper, so you can't delete words, only cross them out.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Rocketnotes icon
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    Rocketnotes is a web-based Markdown note taking app with AI-powered text completion. You can sign up for free or deploy it with low effort to your personal AWS account. Check out the installation guides for deploying Rocketnotes at AWS or running it on your local machine with...

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Mac
    • Online
     
  3. Markdown Life icon
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    An elegant and easy to use editor with simplicity for the Markdown markup language. Markdown Life is able to use full power of your new Mac and brings you unprecedented performance.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. A beautiful markdown note-taking app for GNOME (forked from Paper).

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. MemPad icon
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    MemPad is a plain text outliner and note taking program with a tree structured index. All pages are stored in a single file. User interface available in 20 languages.

    21 MemPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Quilter icon
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    Quilter is a minimalist, focused writing app for elementary OS .

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • elementary OS
     
  7. Nottodbox icon
     2 likes

    Nottodbox allows you to create and organize notes, to-dos, and diaries with rich text support in popular formats.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. SpringNotes icon
     3 likes

    Write styled Markdown notes, sync across Mac, iPhone and iPad add to-dos and tags, export to a variety of formats and choose your favourite style from a variety of colourful themes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  9. Allegory icon
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    Allegory is a powerful notes app with a beautiful iOS-centric UI. The minimal and focused writing experience, combined with an impressive set of powerful features, makes this the ideal choice for everyone.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
     
  10. First Draft icon
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    First Draft, developed by a 15-year professional writer, is an offline, artificially intelligent writing tool that assists a huge number of literary tasks.

    100 First Draft alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Blank is a minimalistic, opinionated markdown editor made for writing. It works purely keyboard-based. It's minimalistic UI and WYSIWYG helps you stay focused on what really matters: content. Save to markdown or export your files to PDF.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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