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 2.4 – Released on April 20, 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 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-2.4.AppImageSha256:
743cdc120defe28bbca759b5f19e96f9c69c430026316ecbbc470a1b7cf60e67
ShaSum File - Debian Package: novelwriter_2.4_all.debSha256:
a0f343d1494e5d60edcb741e79b0617f9cdb0e195beef10629f04c4cb0667b5f
ShaSum File - Windows Installer: novelwriter-2.4-amd64-setup.exeSha256:
1589127a67acf41b242338250b7949a08f7510470d430425d96f45968a238068
ShaSum File - MacOS DMG Image (Intel): novelWriter-2.4-x86_64.dmgSha256:
112a43f8614be36b2a59c1ab4d77dee6621603b72c5376dc18bb6ccba8104f94
ShaSum File
Verify the Checksum
shasum -c novelWriter-2.4.AppImage.sha256
shasum -c novelwriter_2.4_all.deb.sha256
Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 novelwriter-2.4-amd64-setup.exe | Format-List
shasum -c novelWriter-2.4-x86_64.dmg.sha256