

novelWriter
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novelWriter is a Markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It uses its own flavor of Markdown that supports a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis and cross-referencing between files.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Qt
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- POX added novelWriter as alternative to Scriptorium
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- POX added novelWriter as alternative to freewrite
- dchestnykh added novelWriter as alternative to IWL: Smarter Writing
- tuqueque added Support for Themes as a feature to novelWriter
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- POX added novelWriter as alternative to Writeopia
- dangerous_poultry added novelWriter as alternative to Hiveword
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Office & Productivity, News & Books, Backup & Sync, File ManagementGitHub repository
- 2,432 Stars
- 147 Forks
- 119 Open Issues
- Updated Jun 12, 2025
Comments and Reviews
has just the right amount of structure to help with your writing, without getting in your way
It cleanly separates content from metadata, allowing you to leave in-line comments and headings in your writing, without polluting the finished product
as well as being open source, novelWriter is actively maintained
Doesn't work on Win7 - "api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer" which is apparently due to Python withdrawing support upstream