Installation

Writingale is a native macOS app, available on the Mac App Store.

Requirements

• macOS 14 or later

Install

Get Writingale from the Mac App Store. Updates arrive through the App Store like any other app — your books are plain files on disk and are never touched by an update.

Try the example book

Open the bundled example book from the welcome screen to explore a complete sample project, The Machine Stops (after E. M. Forster), that uses every feature.

Try the demo

A free demo of Writingale is available to download. It is the complete app with one difference: saving is disabled — explore every feature, open the example book, write and rearrange as much as you like, but nothing is kept when you quit. When you're ready to keep your work, get the full version from the Mac App Store.

Your data stays yours

Writingale has no accounts and no sync service of its own. A book is a folder of plain text files wherever you keep it — in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or a plain local folder. Removing the app never locks you out of your writing; every file opens in any text editor (see the file format reference if you're curious what's inside).