Simple but configurable and themeable, distraction-free text editor for writers. Open-source and available across desktop platforms.
United States
+7
FocusWriter vs Pages Comments
- FocusWriter is Free and Open Source
- FocusWriter is Customizable and Lightweight
Pages AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Text Editors
The best Text Editor alternative to Pages is FocusWriter, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Pages and 16 are Text Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Text Editor alternatives to Pages are Widget-Board, Bean, Growly Write and Celframe Office Write.
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102 FocusWriter alternatives
80 Widget-Board alternativesWidget Board is a productivity tool that lets you create custom boards with your favorite widgets such as tasks, notes, media, date & time, weather, calendar and so much more!.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Google Chrome
- Context Chrome Extension
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
+9
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that is designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is lean, fast and uncluttered. It starts up quickly, has a live word count, and is easy on the eyes. Also, Bean is available free of charge.
72 Growly Write alternativesIt’s a word processor, not a nuclear reactor Perhaps the word processor you’ve been using has 100 times more features than you need. Or it won’t work the way you want it to — too many views or too few, and nothing makes any sense.
Celframe doesn't skimp on the features for its word processor Write. This office software application has nearly every tool you need in a word processor and has a similar look and feel you've likely been familiar with for years.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
Collabio is an all-in-one office suite tool for iPhone and iPad empowering you to collaboratively work with text documents, spreadsheets, scanned documents, PDFs and presentations in one app.
+9
Script is a text editor for digitally interconnected documents. A bit like Notion but for formal business & industrial processes. It turns text into dynamic workflows for seamless collaboration across work streams.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Manuscripts helps you get started on the right track. The app understands the format you need when submitting to your target journal.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
+5
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
- elementary OS
+1
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...
ConstEdit word processor is a Google Chrome / Microsoft Edge web browser extension. It writes doc in the html format, which is the standard internet webpage format. Documents written are therefore directly viewable with any web browsers.
+2
AbleWord is a very capable word processing application that can read and write most popular document formats including PDF's.
Malaysia
United Kingdom
South Africa
Don't provide full text processor functionality