Rough Draft AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Text Editors
The best Text Editor alternative to Rough Draft is FocusWriter, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Rough Draft and nine of them are Text Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Text Editor alternatives to Rough Draft are iA Writer, Ulysses, scrutch and Paper.
Rough Draft alternatives are mainly Note-taking Tools but may also be Text Editors or Novel Authoring Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Rough Draft.- 93 FocusWriter alternatives
- Text Editor
- Word Processor
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
FocusWriter is a fullscreen, distraction-free word processor designed to immerse you as much as possible in your work. The program autosaves your progress, and reloads the last files you had open to make it easy to jump back in during your next writing session, and has many...
FocusWriter Features
- Distraction-free
- Lightweight
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Spell Checking
- Support for Themes
- No registration required
- Portable
- 108 iA Writer alternatives
- Note-taking Tool
- Text Editor
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. The key is focus. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text.
- - iA Writer is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Rough Draft.
- - iA Writer is the most popular commercial alternative to Rough Draft.
iA Writer Features
- Support for MarkDown
- Distraction-free
- Works Offline
- Dark Mode
- Support for LaTeX
- Syntax Highlighting
- Ad-free
- 99 Ulysses alternatives
- Text Editor
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
Ulysses is a text editor for creative writers. Used by bloggers, poets, students and published novelists all over the world, it offers an integrated environment to brainstorm, draft, revise and even submit text on a professional level.
Ulysses Features
- 291 scrutch alternatives
- Note-taking Tool
- Text Editor
- Team Collaboration Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
End-to-encrypted, laser-focussed yet elegant editor. No registration, no login, no ads, no tracking, no hassle. Just write. In private or together with others.
- - scrutch is the most popular Web-based & SaaS alternative to Rough Draft.
scrutch Features
- Cloud Sync
- Dark Mode
- End-to-End Encryption
- No Tracking
- Lightweight
- Works Offline
- Real time collaboration
- Full-Text Search
- No registration required
- Distraction-free
- Privacy focused
- Ad-free
- Support for MarkDown
- 124 Paper alternatives
- Text Editor
- Note-taking Tool
- Word Processor
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
Super-clean writing space with a lot of configurability that stays out of sight when you don’t need it.
Paper Features
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- WYSIWYG Support
- Distraction-free
- Syntax Highlighting
- Support for MarkDown
- 37 Liquid Story Binder XE alternatives
- Novel Authoring Tool
- Word Processor
- Text Editor
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
Liquid Story Binder XE is a uniquely designed word processor for professional and aspiring authors, poets, and novelists. Writing software for those who require the editing ability of a commercial text editor as well as a document tracking system.
Liquid Story Binder XE Features
- Portable
DiscontinuedLast update was around 2011, can still be bought.
- 80 MarkMyWords alternatives
- Text Editor
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
MarkMyWords is the ideal markup-writing tool for authors. By using Markdown, MultiMarkdown, Textile, Wikitext, HTML or BBCode MarkMyWords makes writing articles for the web a breeze and remains platform-independent by using plain text documents.
MarkMyWords Features
- Distraction-free
- Support for MarkDown
- 59 Monospace alternatives
- Text Editor
- Note-taking Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Android
Monospace is a minimal notes and writing app, built from the ground up with a designed-for-touch UI.
Monospace Features
- WYSIWYG Support
- Cloud Sync
- Support for MarkDown
- 61 Quilter alternatives
- Text Editor
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- elementary OS
Quilter is a minimalist, focused writing app for elementary OS .
Quilter Features
- Support for MarkDown
- Distraction-free