It is not meant to do a lot, but what it does it does very well. This app does everything it says on the tin. This means less code, less bugs and better overall performance. It uses only Apple’s framework and UI components, the way they’re designed to be used without any custom workarounds. Simpletext is a fully native app developed in Swift and runs natively on Apple silicon. This also ensures your words are always accessible on every device, now and in the future. It will never have rich text formatting, images, tables, etc - the focus is solely on writing, not formatting.

Simpletext supports only plain text, which is lightweight and platform independent. If you have a personal favourite font, you can also use it in Simpletext. They are: (1) Akkurat Mono by Lineto (Monospaced) (2) Graphik by Commercial Type (Sans Serif) and (3) Valkyrie by MB Type (Serif). Simpletext comes with three professional fonts for you to choose from, handpicked to provide the finest writing experience. There’s no visual clutter - the intent is to create a quiet space that helps you connect with your voice and get into the flow. Simpletext provides a blank canvas to write with absolutely nothing to distract you from writing.

In order to achieve this, Simpletext is centered around four cornerstone principles: Zero Clutter The idea is to create a dumbed-down writing app that inspires you to do nothing else but write.

In fact, Simpletext began the opposite way - by listing down everything I didn’t want in a writing app. Most people would say Simpletext is lacking in features, and they’re right. So I built Simpletext based on a simple premise - what if there’s an app that refuses to do more, choosing instead to do just one thing, and do it well? For Simpletext, that one thing is writing. Most apps were trying to do too much and ended up bloated with features I don’t need. Simpletext started as a passion project because I couldn’t find what I was looking for. It’s single-minded commitment to simplicity means you’ll get a no-frills writing app that works well and looks great, forever. There are many writing apps for you to choose from today, so why bother with yet another one? Because Simpletext is different.

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