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A word processor for real manuscripts. Draft in a clean page, drop into focus and time your sprints, find anything and leave yourself notes, read your work back the way a reader will, and bring existing manuscripts in without reformatting.

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The Editor

Write a poem and you get stanzas and line breaks; write a screenplay and you get scene headings and dialogue; write fiction, an essay, or an article and you get the formatting and the prose metrics calibrated for that form. The page stays a clean, single column you can lose yourself in, with the toolbar one reach away when you need it. It is free for every writer.

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The Editor

A word processor

Pick from a serif, Georgia, Times, Garamond, a sans-serif, Arial, or a monospace face, then set line spacing, the space before and after a paragraph, and independent left and right page margins. A ruler above the page lets you drag those margins and each paragraph’s first-line, left, right, and hanging indents, with eighth-inch snapping and arrow-key nudges. Want one passage in a different face? Select it and change just that range. Whatever you choose travels into the published view and into your Word, PDF, and HTML exports, with Garamond embedded in the PDF, so a double-spaced manuscript reads the same everywhere, and Print is right there when you need a hard copy. Word, PDF, HTML, Markdown, and JSON exports are free for everyone. Two premium formats, Word Online and EPUB, come with a paid Pro plan and carry the same formatting.

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A word processor

Focus, spotlight, and sprints

Press the focus shortcut and the room goes quiet, the toolbar and chrome step back, and only the page remains. Turn on the paragraph spotlight and every block but the one your cursor sits in dims, the way iA Writer reads, so your eye never wanders up the page. Start a sprint of five, ten, fifteen, or twenty-five minutes, with an optional word target, and a small pill counts down your time and the words you have written, then sums up your words, your pace, and whether you hit the goal. And you can set a word goal on a piece that the progress meter greens the moment you reach it. Focus mode and the spotlight are free for everyone. Timed sprints come with Pro, and your free trial counts.

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Focus, spotlight, and sprints

Find, replace, and notes to yourself

Open find and replace and you get a live match count, next and previous, match case, and replace all, in a bar that overlays the toolbar without pushing your page around. Notes to yourself are private margin annotations: select a span, write a note, and it anchors to those words; a side panel lists every note so you can jump to it, edit it, mark it resolved, or delete it. The notes are yours alone and never enter the piece, so they never publish and never export. Find and replace is free for everyone. Margin notes come with Pro, and your free trial counts.

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Find, replace, and notes to yourself

Built to be read comfortably

Choose OpenDyslexic, designed to make letters easier to tell apart for dyslexic readers, or Atkinson Hyperlegible, the high-legibility face from the Braille Institute built for low vision. It is free for every writer, it sits alongside adjustable size, spacing, and margins and pairs with focus mode, and you can turn it on or off whenever you like. Because it lives in your view alone, your manuscript and your exports keep the typeface you chose for them.

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Built to be read comfortably

Your whole notebook, one tap away

Star the pieces you keep coming back to and they gather in one place, free for everyone. Jump from one piece to another and the editor changes in place without a full reload, saving your work as it goes, so you never lose your spot. When the backlog grows, a full-screen file manager lets you drag pieces between folders and move many at once. Opening the notebook panel inside the editor is a Pro convenience, and your free trial counts. Folders, worlds, and series organization come with Pro too.

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Your whole notebook, one tap away

Bring in everything you’ve written

Drop in a single manuscript or a whole backlog and Inkbreaker reads it: Word, ODT, EPUB, PDF, RTF, Markdown, plain text, HTML, spreadsheets, or a zip of all of it at once. A long document splits into chapters on its headings, and you choose where each piece lands. When it finds characters, places, and factions in the text, it offers to file them into a world. Fields it does not recognize are kept with the piece, so nothing is flattened on the way in.

The import wizard accepting manuscripts in many formats

Write from anywhere

The editor and your whole notebook work on a phone, a tablet, and a desktop, and stay in sync across them. Draft on the train, revise on the couch, publish at the desk.

The Inkbreaker editor on a phone-sized screen

A full writing editor and word processor, built for long work.

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