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24 alternatives to Hemingway

Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear.

Hemingway is a writing editor available as a desktop application for Windows and Mac, as well as a web app. It analyzes text to improve clarity and directness in writing. The tool highlights areas where prose can be… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hemingway launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Hemingway Editor 2.0▲494
An editor that makes your writing bold and clear
2015 · hemingwayapp.com · its alternatives →
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Hemingway Editor 3.0▲410
Make your writing bold and clear, send to Medium/Wordpress
2017 · hemingwayapp.com · its alternatives →
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Hemingway Desktop App▲218
An editor that makes your writing bold and clear.
2014 · hemingwayapp.com · its alternatives →
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Hemingway Editor Plus▲241
Make your writing clear and concise with AI
2024 · hemingwayapp.com · its alternatives →
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Hemingway Editor 3▲1
Make your writing bold and clear.
2020 · hemingwayapp.com · its alternatives →
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Paragraphs▲272
A minimalist writing app for Mac
2015 · its alternatives →
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Rough Draft▲408
Write now. Edit later. Remember, it's just a rough draft.
2015 · 96problems.com · its alternatives →
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Compose for macOS▲280
Your personal writing assistant to increase productivity
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Notebag▲298
A keyboard-focused note-taking app that gets out of your way
2020 · notebag.app · its alternatives →
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Sublime Text 4▲516
The sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
2021 · sublimetext.com · its alternatives →
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Cleartext▲307
A text editor that allows only the 1,000 most common words
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
Bear▲600
A beautiful, flexible writing app for notes and prose
2016 · its alternatives →
13
Writty▲292
An open-source text editor to help you focus on what matters
2020 · its alternatives →
14
Typed▲256
The stunning markdown and writing app for Mac
2014 · realmacsoftware.com · its alternatives →
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Blurt▲443
Writing tool optimized for productivity and focus
2018 · blurt.app · its alternatives →
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Fluently Beta▲500
Write fluently in any language
2020 · fluently.so · its alternatives →
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Notebook for Mac▲341
The beautifully simple note-taking app from Zoho. Now on Mac
2017 · zoho.com · its alternatives →
18
Writer▲134
Beautiful, fast, native notes app with Markdown
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Writer▲81
Beautiful, secure and fast text editor and notes app.
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Simply Write▲154
Distraction-free writing tool
2025 · simplywrite.online · its alternatives →
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OmniaWrite▲89
A text editor engineered for creative writing.
2019 · omniawrite.com · its alternatives →
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Sentence Studio▲147
The only way to get (really) good at writing
2024 · sentencestudio.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Chunks▲138
A new way to write a whole bunch of stuff
2018 · chunks.app · its alternatives →
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Edward the App▲129
Write your first novel.
2018 · edwardtheapp.com · its alternatives →

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