Top 7 writing-software Open-Source Projects

notebook

2 346 8.1 Ruby

Notebook.ai is a set of tools for writers, game designers, and roleplayers to create magnificent universes – and everything within them. (by indentlabs)
scrivomatic

4 280 6.9 HTML

A writing workflow using Scrivener's style system + Pandoc for output…
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
org-novelist

5 150 3.0 Emacs Lisp

Org Novelist is a system for writing novel-length fiction using Emacs Org mode.

Project mention: How to use Scrivener with Org Mode? | /r/orgmode | 2023-06-06

I really liked Scrivener, but I've somewhat abandoned it in favour of my own project, Org Novelist.

ThiefMD

5 143 6.1 Vala

The markdown editor worth stealing. Inspired by Ulysses, based on code from Quilter
hammer-editor

1 97 9.8 Kotlin

A simple tool for building stories.

Project mention: ⟳ 2 apps added, 14 updated at apt.izzysoft.de | /r/FDroidUpdates | 2023-05-20

Hammer: A simple tool for building stories.

bilge

8 39 7.7 HTML

Documentation for The Psalms - my blog about software’s intersection with culture. Not just for the website - for the entire process (correspondence, notetaking, drafting, *revising*, editorializing, promoting, discussing, and even reflecting.)
warewoolf

9 24 9.4 JavaScript

A minimalist novel-writing system/rich text editor designed to be usable without a mouse. For desktop and standalone word processors/digital typewriters/writerDecks.

Project mention: New WareWoolf v0.10.0 beta release has built-in File Manager for use in writerDecks | /r/WareWoolf | 2023-06-11

WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).