Apostrophe

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Description

Focus on your writing with a clean, distraction-free markdown editor.

Features:

An UI tailored to comfortable writing
A distraction-free mode
Dark, light and sepia themes
Everything you expect from a text editor, such as spellchecking or document statistics
Live preview of what you write
Export to all kind of formats: PDF, Word/Libreoffice, LaTeX, or even HTML slideshows

Source

Notice

Mobile-friendly since 3.3.0 - as long as you don't need tables.

Project links:

Links with more information:

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-216/

Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: pre-release

This project has not seen a release yet. It may be in development for a short time only, or maybe longer. It should work mostly fine, but don't expect to find it packaged in your distribution.

The project repository was created on 2020-03-17.

The last known commit happened on 2025-09-11.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-09-13

Features

Connectivity: This app works better with a continous internet connection, but does not require it. This app can work completely offline.

✔ This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

Is this app packaged for my distribution?

green: current and packaged,
red: packaged, but not current, ratings and other details may not apply.

Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.gitlab.somas.Apostrophe.flatpakref

Build and install your own flatpak: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/apostrophe/-/raw/main/build-aux/flatpak/org.gnome.gitlab.somas.Apostrophe.json

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Programming languages: Python

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/apostrophe/-/raw/main/data/org.gnome.gitlab.somas.Apostrophe.metainfo.xml.in