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24 alternatives to Atavist

A web-based word processor as beautiful as Medium

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Atavist launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   FocusWrite▲115

   A local-first writing app with focus modes.

   12d ago · focuswrite.app · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Restyaboard▲197

   An open source alternative to Trello

   2015 · restya.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Atom▲145

   A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

   2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Word Perhect▲59

   the artistic online word processor

   2014 · wordperhect.net · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Clext▲93

   The first clever, colourful and fun word processor.

   2016 · clext.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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   MuM▲93

   A reading-first Markdown engine for macOS

   24d ago · mum.jiker.ai · its alternatives →

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   Typewrite▲103

   Real-time collaborative writing

   2014 · typewrite.io · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Stack▲120

   A beautiful and smart key-value based writing app

   2017 · stack-writer.com · its alternatives →

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   Lexical.io – A web app for reading English text▲9

   2016 · lexical.io · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Hawkee▲73

    A writing platform for web developers

    2014 · hawkee.com · its alternatives →

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    ShallowParse▲6

    A text editor for creative writing

    2014 · shallowparse.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Katib▲99

    A Markdown Editor for Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Hebrew

    2014 · katibapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Allen NLP▲72

    An open-source NLP research library, built on PyTorch

    2017 · allenai.org · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Hi▲62

    A real-time writing community.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    KeenWrite, a Desktop Text Editor▲6

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A WYSIWYM Markdown editor and brainstorming tool on the web▲5

    Minimal yet powerful writing app

    2022 · wrighter.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    PagerRater▲8

    in depth analysis to improve writing and grammar

    2015 · scribbr.com · its alternatives →

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    Wordblot an AI-powered assistant to help you write more effectively▲5

    2021 · wordblot.ai · its alternatives →

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    Fast text▲6

    Learning of word representations and sentence classification

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Choreoglyphs – our new, invisible writing system▲5

    26d ago · choreoglyphs.com · its alternatives →

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    Accelerated Mobile Pages Project▲21

    An open source initiative to create mobile-friendly content

    2015 · amp.dev · its alternatives →

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    Textrazor▲12

    Powerful NLP api , NLP as a Service

    2018 · textrazor.com · its alternatives →

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    Aegea, a smart blogging engine▲7

    2017 · blogengine.me · its alternatives →

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    THORN – a local-first writing app made with Yjs▲7

    2022 · thorn.so · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →