Press kit
The facts
| Name | Writ. Capital W, no article, never "Writ app". |
| One line | Light text editor for any text file, with full-text search and inline Markdown. |
| What it does | Opens any text file and saves it where it is. Searches every file in its folder by name and by content. A Markdown file is formatted as you type, with the markup shown on the line being edited. One hotkey brings the window over any app. Connections, a graph, tags, chat, rewriting and an MCP server for other programs are apps, each switched on in Settings. |
| Platforms | macOS 12+, Windows 10+, Linux (x86_64). |
| Price and license | Free. Open source under MIT. |
| Current version | 0.5.0, released 2026-09-26. |
| Public since | April 2026. Source, decision records and release history at github.com/ibrahemid/writ. |
| Made by | Ibrahem (ibrahemid on GitHub), one person. |
| Built with | Rust and Tauri 2 for the shell; SolidJS and CodeMirror 6 for the editor; SQLite for the index. |
| Privacy | No account, no telemetry. The first send to any AI host and the first call from any program wait for the user's approval. |
| Contact | ibrahemid@gmail.com |
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Screenshots
Captures of the real app at 2x are in the repo under docs/media and docs/design. You can take your own.
How to describe it
- A text app, with Markdown one of the formats it opens.
- Desktop only, with no plugins, mobile app or sync.
- No performance numbers have been published. Please do not cite one.