Bird Writer

Bird Writer is a writing app built around a single idea: zoom.

Scatter fragments, notes, and scenes across an infinite canvas as text boxes. Zoom out to see the shape of your whole story at a glance; zoom in to lose yourself in a single passage. Your structure and your sentences live in the same space — and you can rearrange either, freely, at any time.

WRITTEN FOR FOCUS
• Distraction-free focus mode: one box, full screen, nothing but your words in an elegant serif.
• Vertical or horizontal writing, per box — with full support for Japanese vertical text (縦書き).
• The page is undecorated. The text is the only thing that matters.

SEE YOUR STORY'S STRUCTURE
• Arrange chapters, plot notes, and character sketches spatially.
• Color-label the boxes that matter; from a distance, only the places you've marked stand out.
• Connect related boxes, and link between boards to move through an entire manuscript.

YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS
• Everything is saved on your Mac. No account, no cloud, no network — ever.
• Nothing is collected or sent anywhere.
• Automatic saving and generational backups keep your manuscript safe.
• Export to plain text, or save your whole workspace as a single project file.

Bird Writer is a quiet, local, native app for people who write.