Calmly Writer

Calmly Studio

About this app

Calmly Writer is a writing app designed to help you focus. The moment you start typing, the interface gets out of your way — no clutter, no noise, just you and your words.

But calm doesn't mean basic. Under that quiet surface is a genuinely capable editor: rich formatting, tables, checklists, version history, writing goals and export to Word and PDF. Everything a writer needs, and nothing that gets in the way.

— WRITE WITHOUT DISTRACTIONS —
• Distraction-free mode hides every control while you type, and brings it back the moment you stop.
• Focus Mode highlights only the line or paragraph you're working on and dims the rest.
• Pick a typing sound — classic typewriter, keyboard or soft taps — or pure silence.
• Optionally hide the caret and tabs while writing for a completely clean page.

— A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO WORK —
• Six handcrafted themes, including Light, Dark, Black, Sea and Dune.
• Serif, sans-serif and monospaced fonts, with adjustable size, text width, line spacing and colors.
• OpenDyslexic mode for easier, more comfortable reading.

— REAL WRITING TOOLS —
• Format as you type with Markdown-style shortcuts: headings, bold, italic, lists and more.
• Tables, checklists, code blocks, blockquotes, links and images.
• Comments and an automatic table of contents for longer documents.
• Smart punctuation: curly quotes, em dashes, ellipses and arrows.
• Find and replace, live word and character count, and reading time.
• Right-to-left writing support.

— STAY ON TRACK —
• Set a word or character goal for any document and watch your progress toward it.
• Automatic saving, so you never lose a word.
• Version history to restore any earlier version of a document.
• Recover documents you closed — even ones you never saved.

— YOUR FILES, YOUR DEVICE —
• Open and save real files on your device. No account, no sign-in, no lock-in.
• Work in plain text, Markdown, HTML or the Calmly format.
• Export to Word (.docx) and PDF to share anywhere.
• Keep several documents open at once with tabs.

Whether you're writing a novel, an article, an essay or just your thoughts, Calmly Writer gives you a quiet, beautiful space to do your best work — and then gets out of your way.

What’s new

- New: hide the system status bar.
- New: context menu with cut, copy, paste and select all.
- System bars now follow your theme colour.
- Now available on Chromebooks without a touchscreen.
- Fixed: the formatting toolbar could disappear with a Bluetooth keyboard.