✍️ Made for novelists

Marí is a cat. Mari is also a cool writing app.

Download beta Windows · Mac · Linux
Your book. But gorgeous. 100% free
Mari with a chapter open, its passages marked in colour, the chapter list on the left and a map of the chapter on the right

Books aren't written. They're rewritten.

Scroll, and watch a first draft get good.

01 · Down the Rabbit-Hole Drawer012 Old versions012
The hot summer sun shone down from the sky above, hotly. Cut
Alice was very, very tired of sitting next to her sister, who was her sister. RewriteAlice was bored stiff on the riverbank.
The Rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket. Move
Somewhere a daisy grew, or possibly it was a different daisy. Cut
Then a white rabbit very quickly and very hurriedly ran very fast right past her. RewriteThen a White Rabbit ran past.
“Oh dear! I shall be late!” it said, to nobody. Good

One file. Everything inside. Cats included.

Every chapter lives in its own .mari file: your prose, highlights, notes, old versions, plan and drawer. Send it to your friends, and they open exactly what you see.

Your chapter

Alice was bored stiff on the riverbank. Then a White Rabbit ran past.

Highlights

Alice was bored stiff on the riverbank. Then a White Rabbit ran past.

Notes

The Rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket.Great line. End on it?

Minimap

Your marks travel, so their map looks like yours.

Old versions

Synopsis and plan

Alice follows a White Rabbit down a hole.
  • Bored on the bank
  • The White Rabbit
  • How far down?

The drawer

The hot summer sun shone down from the sky above, hotly.
Send it.

They open exactly what you see.

What's in the box.

MARIWriting supplies and one catOrder #0007 · 03:12 a.m.
  • Focus mode
  • Book fonts × 5
  • Light and dark
  • Project folders
  • Opens where you left off
  • Unsaved work, kept safe
  • Live word count
  • Opens .docx, .md, .txt
  • Reading view for Markdown
  • 5 languages
  • 1 × cat
Packed by: Mari Thank you for writing!

Now make it all disappear.

Press F11, and concentrate on pure writing experience.

Download

Your second draft is waiting.

Mari runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Pick yours and start writing.

Windows

Download installer
Or the .msi if your workplace prefers it

macOS

Apple silicon (M1 and later)
Older Mac? Get the Intel version

Linux

.AppImage, runs anywhere
Or .deb for Debian and Ubuntu, .rpm for Fedora

Mari is a desktop app. Open this page on your computer to download it.

Windows or macOS grumbling the first time? Read this.

Apple and Microsoft charge for the certificate that stops their warnings. Mari is free and hasn't paid, so both complain once. The file is fine.

Windows says "unrecognised app". Click More info, then Run anyway.

macOS says Mari is damaged. It isn't. Drag Mari to Applications, open Terminal, paste this line once, then open Mari normally:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Mari.app
BETA Version 0.2.7. Ready for daily writing, still sharpening its claws. Found a bug? Tell us