novelWriter#
A markdown-like editor for novels
A markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents.
It is designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organisation of text files and notes, with a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing between files, and built on plain text files for robustness.
novelWriter is Free and Open Source, and runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS
Latest Release#
Version 2.3.1 – Released on March 17, 2024 – Read the Release Notes
Linux
Windows
MacOS
Other Install Options#
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vkbo/novelwriter
sudo apt update && sudo apt install novelwriter
pip install --user novelwriter
For more download options, including pre-releases, see the Downloads page.
You can also use the Ubuntu PPA on other Debian-based distros. See Getting Started for more details.
Ubuntu pre-releases are available on the Pre-Release PPA, by adding
ppa:vkbo/novelwriter-pre
instead.
Sha256 Checksums#
- Linux AppImage: novelWriter-2.3.1.AppImageSha256:
6774b30b7e9ca76697c54e522a32ca09019f4acac2fcab9a2dc3d8b346a71666
ShaSum File - Debian Package: novelwriter_2.3.1_all.debSha256:
76377a6adaeb7a518b2b5d740c1deed66b0b5b7147431fd30beed0893b59a326
ShaSum File - Windows Installer: novelwriter-2.3.1-amd64-setup.exeSha256:
523b1879e778326046199f2b4e990077bd9fc002f5ccdf52f9ddec16d0915c3c
ShaSum File - MacOS DMG Image: novelWriter-2.3.1.dmgSha256:
350d6d0b055863d6d9846f29c7a7e4e2d666b9c5d42b4190ed568293adc91375
ShaSum File
Verify the Checksum
shasum -c novelWriter-2.3.1.AppImage.sha256
shasum -c novelwriter_2.3.1_all.deb.sha256
Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 novelwriter-2.3.1-amd64-setup.exe | Format-List
shasum -c novelWriter-2.3.1.dmg.sha256