Vector illustration
A full pen tool with real Bézier editing, shapes, custom pressure-style brushes, gradients, dashes, clipping masks, and convert-to-outlines. Everything you expect from a precision vector app.
A native desktop app · Design, layout & writing in oneDesign, lay out, and write —
in a single app.
WriteA brings vector illustration, page layout, and genuine word processing together on one canvas. Sketch the art, place it on the page, and pour in text that flows and paginates — without juggling three separate apps or three separate subscriptions.
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.
One canvas, three disciplines
What WriteA does
Page layout
Multi-page documents with sizes, margins, two-sided spreads, master pages, tables, guides with snapping, rulers, align and distribute, layers, and groups. Place anything anywhere, exactly.
A real word processor
Not an afterthought. From a single headline to a whole book: rich paragraph styles, lists, indents, and a body that paginates page to page. Click, type a paragraph, click, type the next — exactly like writing in Word.
Highlights
Built for real documents
Start however you think
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.
Write across pages, not boxes
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.
Edit Word docs as living text
Import a DOCX and it becomes one continuous, re-flowing story — not frozen boxes. Keep writing and it re-paginates across pages as you go.
Master pages & page numbers
Set headers, footers, and repeating elements once on a master and every page follows. Page numbers update themselves as the document grows.
Tables built in
Drop tables straight into your layout for schedules, specs, and data — no switching to another app to line up a grid.
Wrap text around art
Flow body copy around shapes, images, and illustrations with adjustable margins — magazine-quality layout without leaving the canvas.
Pull text out of an image
Grab the words from a screenshot or photo and drop them straight into your document — no retyping.
Distraction-free story mode
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.
A full vector toolkit
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.
Under the hood
Native, and seriously fast
GPU-accelerated canvas
The drawing engine renders directly on the GPU, so panning, zooming, and live text reflow stay smooth even in dense, multi-page documents.
One engine, every platform
A precise, well-tested Rust core does the heavy lifting — document model, text layout, rendering. The same engine runs on Linux today, with macOS next.
Native, not a web app
A real compiled desktop app — no web wrapper, no heavy runtime. Free for Linux on both Intel and ARM now; a native macOS build is on the way.
Your files, your machine
Documents live as files on your computer. No account required, no cloud lock-in — open, edit, and export on your own terms.
One app for the whole page.
Free on Linux today.
Coming to macOS.