the writing app that won't let you fix yesterday until you've written today.
Blank pages be damned, dailywriter+ forces you to write today before you can edit yesterday's work. It's the no frills, no ai, writing app for those that actually want to write.
--> Here's thirty seconds of today's session. The clock only runs while you're typing.
Finish today's session to unlock your archives.
In the app you can still read all of it. Editing waits for today's words.
That's the session. It's finished, exactly as you left it. In dailywriter+ it's saved and synced, and tomorrow you get another one.
get dailywriter →--> the problem
why your book is stuck in chapter one
Your novel was found in chapter one, face down, covered in commas.
- forced entry
- None.
- last seen
- Opened almost every day for months. Reread, nudged around, closed again.
- new pages
- Not a single one.
- suspect
- Has your handwriting.
accomplices
And the tools were in on it. Microsoft Word will let you polish chapter one until the day you die, and Bill Gates got rich off every comma you ever moved. Google Docs and Notion are just as patient. None of them has ever asked you to write something new before you fiddle with the old.
--> how it works
what happens to everything you write
With dailywriter+, every session you finish is saved, in folders you arrange, synced across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. None of them can be rewritten. They just accumulate.
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01 · today
do today's session.
New words only, for as long as you've set. The clock only runs while you're typing, so you can't stare at the screen and wait it out.
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02 · unlocked
unlock your docs.
You've beaten the blank page, now it's time to dive head first into editing or writing that next chapter.
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03 · again
write again.
Every day you have to earn your editing time. Forcing you to overcome the blank page and get out the gunk before you begin really writing.
--> difficulty
choose what happens when you stop typing
Hard mode. Stop for five seconds and the page wipes.
--> pricing
free vs. dailywriter+
The free version is five minutes, normal mode, and no archives just .txt file from the daily session. dailywriter+ lets you write for as long as you want, at whatever difficulty you can stand, and saves every word to an archive that follows you across your iPhone, iPad and Mac.
free
$0
- daily session
- 5 minutes
- difficulty
- normal
- your writing
- download as a text file, then it's gone
- drafts locked until you write
- no
- streak and word counts
- no
dailywriter+
$10 a month
or $60 a year, or $150 once
- daily session
- 1 to 180 minutes, your call
- difficulty
- normal, hard, sadistic
- your writing
- saved in folders, synced across iPhone, iPad and Mac
- drafts locked until you write
- yes
- streak and word counts
- yes
On day one, the archive doesn't mean much. Somewhere around day ninety you'll open it and find ninety sessions, a draft that finally got out of chapter one, and proof, to yourself, that you showed up.
--> privacy
your writing stays yours
No AI in the app. dailywriter has never called a language model and never will, because the whole point is that the words come out of you.
No server and no account. Your writing syncs through your own iCloud and runs on your Apple ID, which means I can't read it. Nobody can, except you and Apple.
--> the maker
a note from the maker
A decade ago, I sat down across from a mentor of mine. The world was my oyster as a young copywriter and I'd sent my newly published blog to a senior coworker in hopes to have my belief in myself validated.
He told me "you know, you're not a writer's writer."
Damn.
As I stared poignantly into my pint glass, I decided that I'd give up my hopes to be an author and instead become a "reader's writer".
So, I've spent my years learning to craft words that everyone reads whether they like it or not. I've seen my title go from copywriter, to content strategist, to content designer, and now, in the not too distant future: defunct. As AI looks salaciously at my job title, I decided that I needed to diversify my skill set.
Instead of writing a book, I wrote a piece of software (or really, my buddy Claude did but he said I could take credit). I guess, you can call it an exercise in productive procrastination. Because, after all these years, I've decided that my "mentor" was full of shit and that I should write a book. So, if you want to support me and my quest to become a paid author, join me in using dailywriter+.
Josiah