Indent vs Feather Book Writing App

Write Markdown on one side. See the page on the other. Indent is a Markdown editor. You write the way Markdown is written, a hash for a heading, stars for bold, a dash for a list, and the preview beside you turns those marks into the finished page: headings, tables, code, the checklist you will actually tick off. Indent does not format for you. It shows you what your Markdown means, as you type it. Your notes are ordinary Markdown files. Indent opens them where they already live: in Files, in iCloud Drive, in a folder on your Mac, or in the folder another notes app keeps them in, such as an Obsidian vault. It saves them back as the same text. Nothing is imported and nothing is locked in. If you stop using Indent tomorrow, every word is still yours, readable in any editor. It is the same app on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Write on the phone in the queue, open the split view on the iPad at the kitchen table, finish on the Mac with the outline open beside you. An Indent folder in iCloud Drive keeps the file in step. When the piece is done, share it as a PDF or HTML, or print it from the Mac, on A4 or Letter depending on where you are. Choose a look that suits the writing. Seven themes, each with a light and a dark face, from warm paper to plain black on white. There is no account to create and nothing to sign in to. No ads, no analytics, no tracking. A note never leaves your device unless you share it. Indent is free, and if it earns a place in your day there is a tip jar inside. What you get • Markdown highlighting as you type, a formatting bar above the keyboard, a Styles panel, keyboard shortcuts • A live preview with real tables, checklists, nested lists, quotes, images and coloured code in more than forty languages • Split view on iPad and Mac, with the preview following as you scroll • An outline of your headings, and Find in both the editor and the page • Files from Obsidian, Jekyll and Hugo open cleanly, front matter included • Saves as UTF-8, opens most older text encodings • Standard CommonMark with tables, strikethrough and task lists

Feather is a writing app for people who want to write a book and want some peace to do it. You write in plain text with Markdown, your chapters sit in the sidebar, and everything you need to keep a story together is a few taps away. WRITE • A quiet editor with Markdown you see as you type: bold, italics, headings, quotes and lists • Chapters in a sidebar, with word counts, status and coloured labels • Two chapters side by side, handy for rewriting or comparing • Zen mode, so only your text is left • Find and replace across the whole manuscript • Your work is saved as you write, and after a crash Feather picks up where you left off NOTES ON YOUR TEXT • Notes attached to a sentence or passage, visible without cluttering your text • A checklist for each chapter and a notepad for the whole book • A story bible with characters, places, objects and organisations, with relationships and photos, always one click away from your text PROOFREAD • Spelling and grammar in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese • A word list for each book; names from your story bible are ignored automatically • The repetition panel finds words that sit too close together, as well as filler words, adverbs and sentences that keep starting the same way SEND YOUR BOOK INTO THE WORLD • Export to Word, EPUB, PDF, Markdown or plain text • Pick a destination: general, Amazon KDP paperback, Amazon KDP Kindle or Apple Books • A PDF that looks like a printed book, with the right trim sizes and margins • Print with a choice of chapters, paper size and title page STAYS YOURS • Your book is an ordinary folder of text files. You can always open it in another app, keep it in iCloud Drive or put it on a backup disk • No account, no subscription and no ads. Feather collects no data • If you like: a small local server (off by default) that lets another app on your own Mac, such as an AI assistant, fetch a chapter and add proofreading notes to it. Nothing goes onto the internet Feather runs on Mac, iPad and iPhone and comes in Dutch and English.