Pure Writer - Writing & Notes

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About this app

Writing connects us with the past and lets us imagine the future.

Pure Writer is a very fast plain text editor, built so writing can go back to what it was meant to be: pure, safe, always ready, and a pleasure to do.

Your words stay yours. Pure Writer is a text editor for writing and organizing your own text. It offers no books or other reading content, and no community or publishing platform. What you write is never made public. Your documents are stored on your device and can be backed up to your own cloud drive.

PEACE OF MIND
The Pure Writer icon is the silhouette of a time machine. Even if you delete something by mistake, or your phone loses power without warning, your document is still saved in full, or waiting for you in History. For years, Pure Writer has strived never to lose a word.

SMOOTH AND FLUID
Slide the keyboard up and down with your finger, and watch the cursor breathe instead of simply blinking. An empty pair of quotes disappears with a single backspace, and pressing Enter at the end of a line of dialogue takes you past the closing quote. The design follows Material Design and stays simple.

CRAFTED DETAILS, INCLUDING:

Editing
• Blue Fill Box: type inside paired symbols, press Enter to jump past them
• Paired symbols delete together; lists, numbering, and indents continue
• Undo and redo, with keyboard shortcuts
• Move paragraphs up and down; date completion
• Dual Editors, and no word limit

Focus & Layout
• Typewriter Mode and a top bar that hides as you scroll
• Floating word count, selection count, and your choice of counting rules
• Daily statistics with a heatmap of the days you wrote
• Line spacing, margins, paragraph spacing, and font size, with a live preview
• One-Tap Typesetting

Look & Feel
• Light and Dark appearance, and your own fonts
• Paper backgrounds from solid colors, built-in scenery, or your photos
• Manuscript ruling lines

Quick Input
• A shortcut bar for phrases, names, symbols, dates, and actions
• Set where the cursor lands after inserting

Organize Your Writing
• Nested groups, from quick notes to long drafts
• Tags, drag to reorder, collapsible groups, detailed lists

Find & Replace
• Search and replace across all your documents
• Several conditions at once, match case, regular expressions

Saving & Recovery
• Autosave and History, with version comparison
• Writing Cache and Trash
• Automatic and manual local backups
• A safety backup before every restore
• Fingerprint lock while the app is in the background

Cloud
• Automatic backups to Dropbox, OneDrive, or AliyunDrive, optionally on Wi‑Fi only
• Sync with Pure Writer on iPhone, iPad, and desktop (Windows and macOS) through the same cloud drive

Markdown
• Switch any document to Markdown
• A Markdown panel for headings, lists, quotes, code, links, and tables
• LaTeX math and images; save the source as a .md file

Export
• Long image, image sets, PDF, Word (DOCX), EPUB, and plain text
• Export only the selection, add a watermark, or combine documents into one export with chapters

Proofread by Ear
• Read aloud with the current sentence highlighted, at your chosen speed, even in the background
• Hear the words you just typed

Language & Accessibility
• Choose a language just for this app
• TalkBack support

FREE TO DOWNLOAD
Pure Writer is free to download, and cloud backup and sync are free too. Some advanced features require Pure Writer Pro.

Privacy Policy: https://writer.drakeet.com/android/privacy
Website: https://writer.drakeet.com
Feedback: [email protected]

A writing experience that feels safe and runs smooth. This is Pure Writer. Enjoy your writing.
A fast plain text editor for writing and notes, with History, backups & sync
Updated on
Nov 11, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • No data collected
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  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted
  • Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

19.1K reviews
Go Vocaloider
February 5, 2025
A great app for writing, I have used it for several years and I have purchased the full version. I like the book, section and chapter organization capabilities. Unfortunately hounded by one recurrent problem - no matter how many times I turn off the update notifications and the pop-up notifications, they eventually turn themselves back on again.
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Sheena Marie
September 6, 2026
Best writing app out there. Been using this for 5 or 6 years already, I think. Very easy to use and convenient. I love all the functions!
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Tofu
October 11, 2026
Probably the best writing app ever :) I've been using it for almost seven years now. Other writing apps have way too many features and sometimes they get in the way... so this one is really "sit down and just write" kind of experience. I've experienced occasional bugs but nothing too serious. Great respect for the developer :D keep up with the good work! Ps: the "lite" other app which directly copied this one is really frustrating >:( I hope some kind of action is taken...
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What’s new

- For the latest update log, please check Changelog in the Settings screen
• Add Save as Word .docx
• Support PureWriterDesktop
• Unlimited Words for a single chapter
• Auto-complete for paired symbols
• Deleting symbols in pairs
• Synchronized Animating soft keyboard
• Smooth Cursor!
• Support Enter ⏎ to jump out of blue input block
• Read-only Mode: double-clicking to place cursor
• Faster launching, silky smooth writing experience