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 Dendron. Other great apps like Desk are Foam, FocusWriter, 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.

    33 OmPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Cold Turkey Writer won't let you quit until you finish your work. Like, literally will not quit.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    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
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    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.

    46 Calmly Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
     
  5. JDarkRoom icon
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    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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...

    161 SSuite NoteBook Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. PyRoom icon
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    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 types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. 1Writer icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  9. Blogly icon
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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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