Recto Writer

Recto is a word processor for people writing books.

Your projects sit on a bookshelf. Open one and start writing your masterpiece.

THE OUTLINE IS THE BOOK

Plan the book in the outline or let the outline grow out of the chapters. It stays beside the manuscript, and a line in it takes you to that part of the book.

FRONT MATTER AND BACK MATTER

A dedication, an epigraph, acknowledgments and an afterword are pages of their own.

YOUR WORDS STAY YOURS

Every book is a folder of Markdown files, on your phone or in a folder you pick. Open it in any editor.

WHEN THE DRAFT IS DONE

Export to EPUB, Word, PDF, Markdown, HTML or plain text. The EPUB is built to what Kindle Direct Publishing expects.

WHAT ELSE IS IN HERE

Darlings: cut a passage and keep it, for this book or the next.

Placeholders: leave a mark for the fact you will look up later, and keep writing.

Daily word goals, timed sprints, and a chart of the last thirty days.

Find and replace across the whole book, spellcheck, typewriter scrolling, five reading typefaces and three styles of drop cap.

FREE

Recto is free. There is no trial, no subscription and no in-app purchase beyond an optional tip, which unlocks nothing.

WITH THANKS

Recto is a native rewrite of NEO, the word processor Hugh Howey wrote and released under the MIT License. The outline, the scene breaks, and the page with nothing else on it are his.