Alternatives to FocusWriter for Linux with any license

Typora

Typora will give you a seamless experience as both a reader and a writer. It removes the preview window, mode switcher, syntax symbols of markdown source code, and all...

Free Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Live Preview WYSIWYG Support Support for LaTeX MarkDown support ... Distraction-free UI Ad-free Code formatting Distraction free writing Live Preview Native application Real-time inline preview Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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Write!

Write! is a distraction-free text editor that boosts your productivity. It supports markdown syntax, spell-checker, cloud integration and much more! Features: ...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Cloud sync Distraction free writing MarkDown support Distraction-free UI ... Reading list Spelling check Add a feature

663 Like
Joplin

Joplin is an open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. It can sync with multiple devices on...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad Chrome Firefox
Cloud sync Apps with End-to-End Encryption MarkDown support Built-in Terminal ... Google Chrome extension E2e encryption Embedded media Encrypted Notes Evernote import File Tagging Firefox extension Full text search Local Storage Nextcloud integration Works Offline Protected by Password Periodic reminders Support for NodeJS Sync with OneDrive Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based To-Do management Add a feature

60 Like
ghostwriter

ghostwriter is a Windows and Linux text editor for Markdown, which is a plain text markup format created by John Gruber. For more information about Markdown, please...
- - Full screen distraction-free. - Open Source license. - Word count and progress stats. javillalba • Apr 2018
Free Open Source Windows Linux
Distraction free writing Fullscreen support Support for Large File Lightweight ... Live Preview MarkDown support Night mode/Dark Theme Portable Spell checking Stay Focused Syntax Highlighting Writing statistics Add a feature

42 Like
Organon

Organon is a plugin for LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Organon allows to split up large texts into parts, allows tagging and opening parts of the project in new tabs. ...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux LibreOffice Apache OpenOffice
Libre Office Integration Tabbed interface Add a feature

23 Like
Rentry.co

Markdown pastebin and publishing service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.

Free Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Console Terminal
Live Preview Anonymity Command line interface Command Line support ... Distraction free writing Lightweight MarkDown support Social Bookmarking Tab preview Add a feature

11 Like
Calmly Writer

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.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS
Distraction-free UI Add a feature

10 Like
UberWriter

Uberwriter is a GTK+ based distraction free Markdown editor, mainly developed by Wolf Vollprecht. It uses pandoc as backend for markdown parsing and offers a very clean...

Free Open Source Linux
Distraction-free UI Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

17 Like
JDarkRoom

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...
- Discontinued Last version dates from 2010.
Free Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

17 Like
PyRoom

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...
- Discontinued The last entry on the dev blog dates from 2010.
Free Open Source Linux
No features added Add a feature

26 Like
Skrifa

A simple note taking application for your computer focused on privacy, using PGP keys to encrypt all your notes by default.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome
Minimalistic Add a feature

2 Like
Nulis

Tree editor for writers, makes outlining your stories and articles easy, fun, and convenient.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web
Web-Based Add a feature

3 Like
TextRoom

TextRoom is a free (as in freedom and free beer) full screen text editor developed especially writers in mind. TextRoom and all other similar editors share one goal:...
- Discontinued Last commit dates from 2011. The last issue (still marked as new) dates from 2013.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Fullscreen support Distraction-free UI Add a feature

10 Like
KoalaWriter

Koalawriter is a fullscreen, distraction-free plain text editor with customizable background images and ambient music. Like its Mac OS counterpart Ommwriter, its...
- Discontinued Last commit dates from 2010, and the last issue (still marked as new) dates from 2013, without an answer.
Free Open Source Mac Linux
Distraction free writing Distraction-free UI Add a feature

5 Like
WordGrinder

WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click. It is not a desktop publisher. It is not a text editor. It does not...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Distraction free writing Add a feature

2 Like