Recto Writer

Recto is a word processor for people writing books.

Arrange your projects on your bookshelf.

THE OUTLINE IS THE BOOK

For pantsers and plotters alike, arrange your outline or infer it from your book. Your outline is always there for you to quickly glance at and jump to that section of your book.

FRONT MATTER THAT KNOWS WHAT IT IS

Keep your book's blurb, back cover description, and other information in one place so it's easy to export to EPUB.

YOUR WORDS STAY YOURS

No proprietary files or storage systems. Every book is stored as Markdown so you can open it in any editor. All files are kept in your own iCloud.

WHEN THE DRAFT IS DONE

Export to EPUB, Word, PDF, Markdown, HTML or plain text.

WHAT ELSE IS IN HERE

Kill Your Darlings, except you can also keep them and reuse them later in this book or the next book.

Placeholders, for the fact you will look up later. Drop a flag 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 purchases lurking in the shadows to steal your lunch money.

If it becomes part of how you work and you want to say thank you, there's an opportunity to send me a tip. But it's not necessary. You can also email me and just say hi.

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 idea that a writing app should get out of the way are all his. Recto shares none of his code and all of his intent.