Byword
Byword makes writing notes and long-form texts easier on your Mac.
Essayist
Essayist is an academic writing app that combines a focused word processor with reference management and automatic document formatting. It is intended for students, researchers and professionals who want to spend less time adjusting citations and page layouts.
Feldar
Feldar is an AI-assisted writing workspace that keeps drafts, notes, research and story material together, aimed at sustained writing rather than isolated text-generation prompts.
iA Writer
iA Writer is a deliberately minimal writing app built around plain text and Markdown. It is designed for drafting, editing and thinking with fewer formatting controls competing for attention, rather than acting as a full desktop-publishing suite.
Lattics
Lattics is a card-based knowledge and writing app for research papers, reports and fiction. It connects small notes with larger documents so that collecting ideas and shaping a finished manuscript can happen in the same workspace.
Plain Text Editor
Simple distraction-free text editor without any rich text nonsense.
TextEdit
Simple word processor and plain-text editor built into macOS.
The Markdown Editor
The Markdown Editor is a local-first writing app for Mac that edits ordinary Markdown files in their existing folders, rather than importing them into a proprietary library.
Writer
Writer.so is a proposed AI writing workspace combining research, drafting, editing and document organization. Its public website currently invites visitors to a waitlist, so the advertised workflow should be understood as the product's intended experience rather than confirmed general availability. This is Writer.so, not the separate enterprise platform at Writer.com.