Vespers

Vespers is a desktop app for novelists who want to outline, draft, and revise their prose in one place — without the clutter of Word, the overhead of Scrivener, or the surveillance of the cloud.

— Built by a fiction writer, for fiction writers.

Why Vespers

• Honest metrics Pomodoro-based accounting instead of word-count goals. See the time you actually put in — not just what you typed.
• One surface Outline (structure, drag & drop), Editor (prose with revision marks), Focus (pomodoro timer + tasks), Dashboard (writing history). One app. No context switching.
• Keyboard-first ⌘⇧] to walk your editorial marks. ⌘⇧M to leave a note. ⌘P to jump between scenes. Fast because writers are fast.
• Offline & yours Your prose lives as plain markdown files on your Mac. No cloud, no subscription, no account. Export to .docx or a folder any time.

What's inside

Every writing session is a pomodoro. Every revision leaves a snapshot. Every mark you leave is one keystroke away from the next. The dashboard shows you a month of your work at a glance — additions, deletions, marks resolved, focused time.

There's no "Distraction-free Mode" toggle because there aren't any distractions to hide.

Requirements

macOS 12+ on Apple Silicon. Windows and Linux builds are on the roadmap — sign up for updates via GitHub Watch on the app repo.