Loomdraft
Your stories deserve a home — not a cloud.
A local-first writing app for novelists, screenwriters, and anyone who takes long-form seriously.
Your stories deserve a home — not a cloud.
A local-first writing app for novelists, screenwriters, and anyone who takes long-form seriously.
Your manuscripts live on your machine. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry. Ever.
Chapters, scenes, characters, world-building — a full project tree at your fingertips.
Typewriter mode, focus mode, manuscript mode. Pick your zen.
From Midnight Jazz to Arctic Fog. Or import your own custom theme.
Connect your world. Link characters to scenes, hover to preview, trace backlinks.
Markdown, HTML, or PDF. Your work, your format, no lock-in.
Seven built-in themes. Or import your own.
Free, open source, and yours forever. No account required.
macOS note: If you see “app is damaged”, open Terminal and run something like:xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/Loomdraft.app
Adjust /path/to/Loomdraft.app to match where you installed Loomdraft; if you get a “Permission denied” error, re-run the command with sudo.