What's New?

WriteRoom is all new.

New Markdown support, with headings to fold and sections to move, in documents that stay plain text. New themes, including a DEC Terminal theme that draws letters with the dots of a real 1980s terminal. New sounds, from laptop keys to typewriters. And new levels of performance, so typing stays instant in the biggest documents.

New Features

• Markdown Structured documents in plain text
• Themes DEC Terminal, System, Solarized, Flexoki, Gruvbox
• Performance Instant typing at any document size¹
• Headings & Folding Heading Overview Mode, folding, sticky headings
• Focus & Typewriter Writing Focus Mode, Typewriter Mode
• Minimap Scroller A picture of your whole document to scroll by
• Typing Sounds Keyboard and typewriter sounds
• Split Editor One document, two panes or two windows
• Arranging Text Move and indent lines, list items, and sections
• Word Count & Goals Session goals, document goals
• Export HTML, Rich Text, Word
• Printing Print themes and new options
• Spelling Panel Spelling, grammar, autocorrect
• Line Numbers Beside your text, with fold markers
• Find Panel Find and replace
• Automation AppleScript, Shortcuts, command line tool, MCP server

¹ Tested to 1 gigabyte, with hundreds of thousands of headings and dense Markdown syntax.

Upgrading from Earlier Versions

WriteRoom 4 writes plain text and Markdown, and no longer edits rich text. To bring rich text documents along, see Rich Text Documents.