Quiet Write vs Pomochan

Quiet Write is a calm, local-first Markdown writing app for journals, drafts, essays, newsletters, and quiet daily notes. Create and edit drafts in a focused writing space with Markdown-friendly tools, preview, outline, focus mode, and typewriter mode. Keep your writing organized with archive, recently deleted, search, and version snapshots. Quiet Write is intentionally small: no custom account, no subscription, no publishing platform, and no AI writing pipeline. Your writing is stored locally first, with optional iCloud sync for continuity across your Apple devices. Features: • Write drafts, journals, essays, newsletters, and notes • Markdown-friendly editor with preview • Focus mode and typewriter mode • Outline view for longer writing • Archive, restore, and recently deleted • Version snapshots for writing changes • Search active and archived drafts • Import .md and .txt files • Export one draft as Markdown • Export all writing as Markdown or JSON backup • Optional iCloud sync • One-time lifetime unlock Quiet Write is designed for people who want a slower, clearer writing space without accounts, feeds, pressure, or noise.

Your focus time becomes a Pomochan. A simple Pomodoro timer that switches between 25 minutes of focus and 5 minutes of rest, automatically. The more you keep at it, the more friends you meet. ■ A timer with a reward at the end Staying focused is hard, not because you lack willpower, but because nothing waits for you on the other side. Pomochan remembers every minute you focused, and brings a new friend along at every milestone. ■ 15 Pomochans to collect Your first session, a daily streak, an early morning, a late night — different Pomochans unlock based on what your records look like. Browse them in the gallery, and set your favorite as the companion on your timer screen. ■ 9 achievements, detected automatically "Started today", "50 sessions", "7 days in a row" and more are judged automatically from your records. Nothing to claim by hand. ■ Starts with one tap Pick a category and go. Focus and break switch on their own, so you never have to watch the clock. Close the app or restart your phone — elapsed time keeps counting from the real clock, so nothing drifts. ■ See where your time actually goes Sort your sessions by category: study, work, reading, anything. A color-coded donut chart, a heatmap and a trend graph let you look back by day, month or year. You can add or edit past records too. ■ Notifications and sounds Get a nudge when a focus or break period ends. Choose from six notification sounds, previewable right in settings. ■ Free and private ・Every feature is free. No in-app purchases (the app is ad-supported) ・No account required ・Your records stay on your device. Nothing is sent to the developer's servers ・iCloud backup is optional. Turn it on and your records and categories carry over to a new phone ■ Made for Exam prep, certifications, essays, remote work, reading, early mornings, or just getting through the chores. Let's start with 25 minutes today.