Where your story takes shape.
A writing environment for long-form work. Community-funded, offered for free, and your writing stays entirely on your device.
Using an Intel Mac? Download the Intel version. Go to Apple menu › About This Mac. Look for “Chip” (Apple Silicon) or “Processor” (Intel).
You draft in one tool, keep notes in another, track your plot somewhere else, and share chapters over email. Your manuscript ends up scattered across apps that were never designed to work together.
Notanem brings research, structure, prose, revision, and feedback into one place, without getting in the way of the writing itself.
It’s built for writers working on stories that take time. No AI writing for you. No gamification or social features. A calm, well-made space for putting words on a page.
Manage notes, research, and reference material alongside your manuscript.
Visualize your story’s structure. See the whole arc at a glance.
Write prose in a focused, distraction-free editor.
Compare versions side by side. Make targeted edits with full history.
Send work to trusted readers and collect feedback in one place.
The Notanem mobile app is a companion for when you’re away from your desk. Coming soon to the App Store.
An idea on the train. A line of dialogue at dinner. Capture it instantly by text or voice. It syncs to your desktop and gets filed into your manuscript.
Send sections from your desktop to your phone. Read, edit, and annotate wherever you are, then return them when you’re back at your desk.
Notanem is offered for free — all of it. Desktop, mobile, sync. No features are gated and no subscriptions required.
The local-first architecture keeps costs low. Your writing passes briefly through secure servers when you sync between devices, but nothing is stored permanently. No cloud storage bills that grow with users. This is what makes offering Notanem for free viable, for as long as it can be sustained.
Development and maintenance are funded by voluntary support from writers who use Notanem. If it becomes part of your writing life, consider helping keep it that way.
Notanem is community-funded, offered for free, and built for long-form writing.
Using an Intel Mac? Download the Intel version. Go to Apple menu › About This Mac. Look for “Chip” (Apple Silicon) or “Processor” (Intel).