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 2.4.1 – Released on May 6, 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-2.4.1.AppImageSha256:
6af6d24ae7512541af4b17c445b94730e514dab094750da482598cf8aa2fa46c
ShaSum File - Debian Package: novelwriter_2.4.1_all.debSha256:
631481ca7b62ae5d69b6b06b1cb8ce487c9f25888feb6819454c1353bc58ac82
ShaSum File - Windows Installer: novelwriter-2.4.1-amd64-setup.exeSha256:
6f743fb47056273bca3db80eb3b241e51cc71f9eebbad2da5e6b39872219727b
ShaSum File - MacOS DMG Image (Intel): novelWriter-2.4.1-x86_64.dmgSha256:
0f4beb0d626863937005ec3d8fe42b726f1d0112278ec8fa9f477fdce5c3bf84
ShaSum File
Verify the Checksum
shasum -c novelWriter-2.4.1.AppImage.sha256
shasum -c novelwriter_2.4.1_all.deb.sha256
Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 novelwriter-2.4.1-amd64-setup.exe | Format-List
shasum -c novelWriter-2.4.1-x86_64.dmg.sha256