Native app for vector illustration, page layout, and a real word processor on one canvas.
writea.com · Mac App Store · Microsoft Store
Most tools treat a document as either free-form pages or one continuous flow of text. WriteA does both. A page is just a page, and your text is one story that can run through as many pages as it needs. Type past the bottom and it continues onto the next page — no separate “flowing text mode” bolted onto a design canvas.
Built for work that needs drawing, layout, and writing at once: flyers, zines, reports, comics, manuals, posters, newsletters, and books.
| Platform | Price |
|---|---|
| macOS | Editor free · one-time IAP for PDF / Word / EPUB / SVG / Markdown / plain text export + print |
| Windows | Same freemium model |
| Linux | Free (Intel and ARM) |
No subscription. Documents are files on your machine — no account, no cloud lock-in.
- Draw — pen / Bézier, shapes, brushes, gradients, masks, convert-to-outlines
- Lay out — multi-page docs, masters, guides, tables, wrap text around art
- Write — styles, lists, footnotes; on Mac: endnotes, comments, spell check, font editor
- Import — Word, PDF, RTF, images (SVG on Mac); OCR text out of a screenshot
- Native + fast — GPU canvas, Rust core shared across platforms
WriteA is a desktop design + layout + writing app by Alexander Garmash. It is unrelated to the Write.as blogging platform.
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Product source lives privately (NAS). This public repo is the marketing / discovery stub for WriteA.