Quilter Alternatives

For Mac users to write without distractions. WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment.

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.

Open Source

As the only API powered by the Prince HTML-to-PDF engine, DocRaptor provides the best support for complex PDFs with powerful support for headers, page breaks, page numbers, flexbox, watermarks, accessible PDFs, and much more

Try for free paid Free Trial $15.0 / Monthly (125+ Documents)

FocusWriter is a fullscreen, distraction-free word processor designed to immerse you as much as...

WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click.

Open Source

Minimal Design, Maximum Focus

Open Source paid Free Trial $29.99 / One-off

Developers and publishers of Mac, Win, and iOS productivity, home and office and writing software such as MacGourmet, Paperless and many more. Based in MN.

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.

Open Source free

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

Open-source tool for writers.

Open Source

Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode. It supports all the usual features you would expect like tagging, backlinks, a graph view, split panes, and so forth.

Open Source freemium $5.0 / Monthly (Custom domain name for publishing.)

JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General...

Bear.app is a note-taking and content writing app that helps you boost productivity with its intuitive tools.

The easy way to write Markdown and rich text on your Mac and iDevices