Vespers

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The focused writing app for fiction writers

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.

Vespers editor with an outline sidebar on the left showing beats, chapters, and scenes; prose on the right with a strikethrough, a highlight+comment, and a standalone post-it note visible.

Free until the 1.0.0 release

Download for macOS Apple Silicon · 8.6 MB · macOS 12+

Why Vespers

Honest metrics See the time you actually put in, not just what you typed. Outlining, backstory, reviewing; all of it is part of the writing process.
One surface Outline (structure, drag & drop), Editor (prose with revision marks), Focus (sessions + tasks), Dashboard (writing history). One app. No context switching.
Editorial flow ⌘⇧] to walk your editorial marks, ⌘⇧M to leave a note, ⌘P to jump between scenes. Right-click if that's more your speed. Reviewing and marking without the friction.
Yours, anywhere Every file is plain markdown, so your prose can live anywhere. iCloud, Dropbox, Drive, or just on your Mac. No cloud account, no subscription.

Inside Vespers

Vespers Dashboard: writing time, words per active day, active days, manuscript words per day sparkline, additions and deletions bars, prose signals (readability, dialogue percentage, sentence length), and a contributions total.

Vespers Outliner Progress subtab: every scene as a row with word count bar, revision sparkline, additions and deletions ticks, readability grade, pomodoros logged, and last active timestamp.

Vespers Focus and Tasks panel: pomodoro timer at 21:55 paused, today's intentions with per-task pomodoro pips, yesterday's carry-over section with quick 'done' and 'today' actions.

Requirements

macOS 12+ on Apple Silicon. Windows and Linux builds are on the roadmap.

Why Vespers

Inside Vespers

Dashboard

Outliner

Focus

Requirements