WriteMonkey

What WriteMonkey is

WriteMonkey 3 is a minimal, plain-text editor for writers who want a focused space to draft and organize longer work. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, supports offline editing, and offers full-screen writing, keyboard-friendly controls, and a themeable single-window interface. Projects can divide long pieces into separate documents; full-text library search, a snippet repository, and Jumps provide ways to navigate material, including a live table of contents, bookmarks, and comments. Markdown support includes footnotes, tables of contents, and KaTeX expressions, while templates are available for printing or PDF export. Other tools include live word and character counts, progress tracking, session and Pomodoro timers, highlighting, typewriter scrolling, and inline spell checking. Documents are kept locally in a database file or saved as regular text files. The documentation describes backups that default to every six hours when the application loses focus. WriteMonkey is free to download and use, but the documentation says it handles only UTF-8 text files. Plugins are available to donors.