An extremely stripped down Windows zenware* writing application with user interface. It is light, fast and free.
Writemonkey is a Windows zenware* writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words. It is light, fast and free. With an array of innovative tools under the hood, it helps you write better. Editing is for another day.Features:No DistractionsFull-screen editing. Get free from your computer and its distractions. Writemonkey's full-screen mode hides it all away leaving just you and your text behind. Do more with less!Small, Fast, StableNo installation necessary. Just copy files and directories in any folder on your machine. Writemonkey is very fast and responsive. The main executable is less than 1,6 MB in size.PortablePut Writemonkey installation on USB key and use it on any Windows computer.Completely CustomizableChoose your own ui language (separate download), colors, fonts, page layout and many other aspects of the program. Customize info bar with the info items you want. Scale up your text for easy reading, save different profiles …Standard and Clean Text FormatFor maximum portability your work is stored in standard text files. Writemonkey is fully UTF-8 compatible and will recognize virtually all international characters. Supports other encoding standards ‒ Unicode, ANSII …AccessibilityOpen files from Windows context menu, easily switch between full screen and normal mode, toggle recent files with CTRL+TAB, quick peep behind when in full screen mode (unique feature), quit to system tray or lock window on top …Keyboard FriendlyWritemonkey is keyboard friendly software – all commands can be deployed with simple keyboard shortcuts. Even things like scrolling and selecting the text. If you prefer mouse, wm will play along …Markup HighlightingHighlighting helps you visually discern semantic chunks of texts (headings, block quotes, lists and comments). Writemonkey suports for all 3 markup standards. Start any paragraph with two slashes "//" and the whole paragraph will be regarded as a comment. It will be dimmed on the screen and excluded from word count and all other statistics.CSS Templates for Markup ExportUse (or create your own) export templates to transform your plain text into well formatted documents. Great for printing first drafts.Advanced StatisticsInspect your text using built-in statistics module. It will show you all sorts of counts ‒ words, characters, paragraphs, sentences, pages and more elaborate statistics like word frequencies, lexical density, Gunning Fog index … It will even tell you the aproximate reading time of your text.Download