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 2.5.2 – Released on September 17, 2024 – Read the Release Notes
Linux
Windows
MacOS
* Free code signing on Windows is provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation. See Code Signing Policy.
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 Setup and Installation 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-2.5.2.AppImageSha256:
0448282b3404f1e31bc7e79cf9aa1329758b8352ff8d1729e41b1ae20d8d1703
ShaSum File - Debian Package: novelwriter_2.5.2_all.debSha256:
ccb1c82671d1ce53ced1c05efbe1edf21a0b339d65d4ea3291285762c996f06c
ShaSum File - Windows Installer: novelwriter-2.5.2-amd64-setup.exeSha256:
77af1e1220c1fce9571cb3931802e4b479a78e5aa2ceada0a388e3e60c0c8c7d
ShaSum File - MacOS DMG Image (Intel): novelWriter-2.5.2-x86_64.dmgSha256:
8e9dd98896adfdfc30d9222b4798d86ce6ba82e8eccb319b7e52c40d76448652
ShaSum File - MacOS DMG Image (M1): novelWriter-2.5.2-aarch64.dmgSha256:
3e0c961160af698c82ab7c59d4747b957418b78c8f8741d1dfac306d8eee30c0
ShaSum File
Verify the Checksum
shasum -c novelWriter-2.5.2.AppImage.sha256
shasum -c novelwriter_2.5.2_all.deb.sha256
Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 novelwriter-2.5.2-amd64-setup.exe | Format-List
shasum -c novelWriter-2.5.2-x86_64.dmg.sha256