WriteANative app · Mac, Windows, and LinuxA real word processor, page layout, and vector illustration on one canvas. Type, and the story flows from page to page while you design around it.
macOS and Windows versions are the complete editor for free — every tool, and saving your work, included. A one-time in-app purchase adds exporting to PDF, Word, EPUB, SVG, Markdown, and plain text, plus printing. Linux is free.
Font editor, endnotes, margin comments, spell checking, and SVG import are on Mac today.
Click anywhere on this page and start typing. When the words reach the bottom margin they carry on to the next page on their own — no text boxes to draw, no frames to link.
The artwork on the right is a real shape, and the text wraps around it. Switch to Layout to see its anchor points, the page margins and the wrap setting, without leaving the story.
Keep going: add a paragraph or paste a few, and a new page appears the moment the story needs one.
That is the idea behind WriteA — one document where a word processor and a layout tool share the same pages.
This page is live — type into it and watch the text move to the next page, then switch to Layout.
Most tools treat a document as either free-form pages (design tools) or one continuous flow of text (word processors) — never both. WriteA doesn't choose. A page is just a page, and your text is part of one ongoing story that can run through as many pages as it needs.
Type past the bottom of a page and WriteA just continues the same story onto a new page.
It doesn't stop you or ask you to draw a new box. There's no separate “flowing text mode” bolted onto a design canvas underneath. It's one model, doing both jobs.
Most creative work falls between the cracks of tools built for one job. Illustration apps can't set a paragraph. Layout apps treat drawing as an import. Word processors give up the moment you need real design. WriteA is built for the work that needs all three at once — flyers, zines, reports, comics, manuals, posters, and books.
Not an afterthought. Paragraph and character styles, lists, indents, footnotes, and a story that paginates page to page as you type — click, type a paragraph, type the next, exactly like writing in Word. On Mac: endnotes, margin comments, spell checking, hyperlinks, and columns.
Multi-page documents with sizes, margins, and two-sided spreads, master pages, tables, guides with snapping, rulers, layers, and groups. Wrap text around any shape. On Mac: smart guides, picture cropping, and print-ready PDF with bleed and crop marks.
A full pen tool with real Bézier editing, shapes, custom brushes, gradients, dashes, clipping masks, Pathfinder, and convert-to-outlines. Coming in 2.1: art, scatter, and pattern brushes made from your own artwork, plus Scissors, Knife, Eraser, and Shape Builder.
Open a template and edit its live preview, start a flowing text document, or begin with a blank design canvas. WriteA meets you at the kind of work you’re doing.
Type and your words flow live across the page and onto new pages — the cursor follows the text, and fresh pages appear as the story grows. It reads and edits like one continuous document.
Import a Word (.docx) file, a PDF, RTF, or images, and they become part of the page. A Word document becomes one continuous, re-flowing story — not frozen boxes. Keep writing and it re-paginates as you go. On Mac, import SVG as well.
Your fonts’ own pair kerning, honored on every line. On Mac, a built-in font editor lets you reshape glyphs, tune kerning, and embed the typeface in the document so it travels with the file.
Set headers, footers, and repeating elements once on a master and every page follows. Page numbers update themselves as the document grows.
Drop tables straight into your layout for schedules, specs, and data — no switching to another app to line up a grid.
Flow body copy around shapes, images, and illustrations with adjustable margins — magazine-quality layout without leaving the canvas.
Grab the words from a screenshot or photo and drop them straight into your document — no retyping.
Switch to a continuous, full-document writing view — with light, dark, and colored themes, or a clean Word-like pages view — when you just want to write.
Pen and Bézier curves, shapes, custom brushes, gradients, dashes, and convert-to-outlines — the precise drawing tools a design app needs, on the same page as your text.
Available now for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
macOS and Windows versions are the complete editor for free — every tool, and saving your work, included. A one-time in-app purchase adds exporting to PDF, Word, EPUB, SVG, Markdown, and plain text, plus printing. Linux is free.
Font editor, endnotes, margin comments, spell checking, and SVG import are on Mac today.
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Write | Layout
A new window designed for macOS 26: switch between Write and Layout, with a labelled toolbar, page thumbnails, and a Format inspector.
Hyperlinks
Insert ▸ Link (⌘K). Links are kept when you export to PDF, Word, EPUB, and Markdown.
Columns
Set the number of columns and the gutter for your document.
Crop and smart guides
Crop pictures right in the Format inspector, and let smart guides line objects up as you move them.
Print-ready PDF
Export PDF with bleed and crop marks, ready for the printer.
At home on the Mac
Full system text input — accents, dictation, and emoji — plus autosave with crash recovery, Revert to Saved, and pinch to zoom.
Coming in 2.1
Art, scatter, and pattern brushes made from your own artwork, plus Scissors, Knife, Eraser, and Shape Builder for cutting and combining shapes.