Best Writing & Documents Apps for Mac
Draft, convert, and wrangle PDFs, notes, and long-form text. 5 hand-picked writing & documents apps for macOS, each with the screenshots to prove it.
Writing & Documents · Free · Pro $2.99/mo
A focused Markdown notes app with a gorgeous editor, hashtag organization, and an Apple Design Award on the shelf.
Writing & Documents · $49.99 · one-time
The writing app that made focused, plain-text Markdown a genre — a fixed mono typeface, a tuned measure, and nothing else to fiddle with.
Writing & Documents · Free on Mac
Seven dots, seven scratch pads — a tiny, gorgeous place to hold the text you would otherwise lose in a pile of untitled files.
Writing & Documents · Free · Premium plan
The PDF app that feels native — read, annotate, edit text and images, fill and sign forms, and redact, all at a speed the incumbents never manage.
Writing & Documents · Free · Pro $9.99 one-time
A native macOS Quick Look extension and viewer for Markdown — instant, WebView-free rendering with Mermaid diagrams, LaTeX math, tables, and code highlighting.