WriteRoom is what TV chef Alton Brown would call a “unitasker”: It’s a tool designed for only one function. But while Brown frowns on such tools in the kitchen, even the toughest critics would be hard ...

I’m sure you’ve been in a store and had the idea of a lifetime. You frantically search around you for a slip of paper to jot it down, but you can’t find anything. You turn to your iPhone, but you just ...

It seems like it's been a long time since we've mentioned WriteRoom, but it's certainly become quite the popular little OS X app among writers of all walks. For those catching up, WriteRoom is a ...

We here at the Orbiting HQ do quite a bit of writing, and we don't always have a computer at hand. What a few of us do have is an iPhone/iPod touch, so we decided to take a look at the text editors ...

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Productivity app WriteRoom is available for $1.99 on the Mac App Store today as part of this week’s Two Dollar Tuesday promotion. Productivity app WriteRoom is available for $1.99 on the Mac App Store ...

This week’s featured app is WriteRoom. The app offers a minimalistic interface with plenty of functionality, and does its job well. It provides a distraction-free zone for the user to write down his ...

David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Distraction-free writing ...

What it is: A full-screen text editor. Why it’s good: It’s easy to get distracted while writing, especially when a dozen other apps are fighting for attention. WriteRoom enables you to block out the ...

Hog Bay Software, maker of the cult-favorite distraction-free text-editor Writeroom, has released its long-awaited iPad app, PlainText. When it was first announced, I was very excited to see a Dropbox ...

We reported a WriteRoom 2.0 beta from Hog Bay Software early last month, and the company has now announced an official release. Version 2.0, as you might remember, brings with it rich text editing, a ...

I’m sure you’ve been in a store and had the idea of a lifetime. You frantically search around you for a slip of paper to jot it down, but you can’t find anything. You turn to your iPhone, but you just ...