novelWriter#
A plain text 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 2.7.4 – Released on July 15, 2025 – Read the Release Notes
Linux
Windows
MacOS
* Code signing on Windows is sponsored by SignPath.io, certificate by the SignPath Foundation. See the Code Signing Policy.
Other Install Options#
pip install --user novelwriter
sudo dnf install novelwriter
Note that the Fedora package is maintained by Fedora package managers and will have a delayed release cycle.
For more download options, including pre-releases and checksum files, see the Downloads page.
You can also use the Ubuntu PPA on other Debian-based distros. See Installing on Linux for more details.
Ubuntu pre-releases are available on the Pre-Release PPA, by adding
ppa:vkbo/novelwriter-pre
instead.