A quiet place to write
Lettera is a typewriter for your desktop — with carriage movement, paper textures, and a mode where backspace doesn’t delete. For macOS and Windows.
Writing that feels like something
The carriage
The page moves left as you type. When you press Enter, it snaps back. Your eyes stay still. The rhythm settles in.
The paper
Parchment, newsprint, ivory. The screen stops looking like a screen. You write on a surface, not into a void.
The focus
No toolbars, no notifications, no AI suggestions. Just you, the cursor, and the sound of the page moving under your words.
Built for the work of writing
Not features for the sake of features. Tools that change how drafting feels.
Writing experience
Typewriter carriage movement
As you type, the page moves left. When you press Enter, it snaps back to the starting position — like a carriage return on a real typewriter. Your eyes stay in one place while the text flows past.
Purist Mode
A no-delete writing mode. Pressing backspace doesn’t erase text — it draws a line through it, the way corrections look on a typewritten page. Your mistakes stay visible. You learn to write forward.
Paper textures
The screen looks and feels like paper. Warm parchment for late nights, clean newsprint for first drafts, soft ivory for everything else. A surface, not a void.
Organization
Chapters
Organize long projects into chapters. Navigate between them in a sidebar. Each chapter is a separate section of your manuscript, not a separate file you have to manage.
The Drawer
Per-chapter notes. Each chapter has its own Drawer for storing ideas, fragments, and thoughts that don’t belong in the main text yet. Always close, never in the way.
Workflow
Paper Trail
A calendar of every day you sat down and wrote. Not a word count bar, not a streak notification — just a quiet, visual record of your writing habit over time.
Export
PDF, Word, Markdown, and plain text. Single chapter or entire project. Your files, your format, your choice.
One price. No surprises.
Pay once, use it forever. No subscription, no tiers, no upsells.
- ✓14-day free trial with full features
- ✓macOS and Windows
- ✓All future updates included
- ✓No account required
- ✓No AI. No cloud. No subscription.