Lettera has no AI features. No autocomplete. No rewrite suggestions. No generated text. Not because we couldn't add them, but because we believe the point of a writing tool is to help you write — not to write for you.
More and more writing apps are adding AI. Google Docs has Gemini. Notion has Notion AI. Hemingway Editor offers AI rewrites. Even some focused writing tools are integrating language models that can draft, summarize, and rephrase your sentences. If you're looking for a writing tool that stays out of the way and lets the words be entirely yours, the options are getting smaller. Lettera is one of them.
Lettera invests in the experience of writing, not in replacing the writer. The carriage gives your typing rhythm. The paper textures give the screen warmth. Purist Mode teaches you to write forward instead of endlessly editing the same sentence. Paper Trail makes your writing habit visible over time. These are tools for a human sitting at a desk doing the work. Not shortcuts around the work.
This isn't a position against technology. Lettera is software. It runs on your computer. It was built with modern tools. The choice to exclude AI is a creative decision, not a reactionary one. When a writing tool offers to finish your sentences or rephrase your paragraphs, it changes the relationship between you and your draft. The words on the page become a negotiation between what you wrote and what the machine suggested. For some writing, that's fine. For the kind of writing Lettera was built for — fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, the work where voice and instinct matter most — that negotiation gets in the way.
Lettera is built on a simple belief: the words should be yours. All of them. The good ones, the bad ones, the ones you strike through in Purist Mode and leave on the page as a record of where your thinking changed. Yours.
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Lettera — a quiet place to write.