Freewriter for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By sorokahdeen

  Great idea, weak execution.

  Freewriter in a nutshell: it’s a game where you try to keep your line of words from sinking to the bottom of a screen by not editing. Did you miss-hit some keys? Keep typing. Did the last thing you wrote sound dumb to you? Keep typing. This is good and bad. It’s the kind of writing you can decide to do with a pen and paper in a cafe somewhere, but here you’re doing it at your computer. With your computer, you get a text file so you don’t have to transcribe from handwriting later. You can edit out the bad stuff and neaten up the niceties, and your writer’s journey continues, huzzah! That’s the good part. The bad part is that it’s a one-trick-pony of a program with the completion and nuance of a highschool programming project. Freewriter has next to no controls, nearly no parameters or preferences to set. Want to scream along for one minute? Too bad. Want to grit your teeth and play it for ten uninterrupted minutes? Tough luck, buddy. You signed up for a one-size-fits all minds solution, and that means limits and sometimes the limits are galling. I understand the use of the thing, and I think I will continue to use it, but I’d be a lot happier if it were a little better. It would be a fine thing if it offered you a little more freedom. This review was written using only freewriter.

  
  
• By Ryan S....

  Helps unclutter the mind

  This app is fantastic. It really helps to get your brain flowing and unclog it, so to speak. I’m not really a writer, but this helps me to get clearer thoughts throughout the day. The only issue with this app is that I’m a pretty fast typer, and so I run out of room in the app with about 1 minute left. I can type, and it will show up once the timer runs out, but it won’t show on the screen.

  
  
• By Elliotttate

  Very awesome!

  This app is awesome and really well made! Easy 5 stars and something that I would pay for. My only wish was that it had a destructive consequence mode like Flowstate has. It does an amazing job of motiviating you to continue typing at a fast speed by seeing your words staying afloat, but some negative reinforcement (loosing your work) would also be a nice option. Thanks for making it!

  
  
• By Dan Rehr

  Tool for MBA student

  As an MBA student I have a different subjects, topics, deadlines and homework on my mind at all times. This App affords focus and urgency - for just five minutes at a time. The imposed discipline is fantastic. I use Freewriter to get inside my head and into my subconscious, to create a stream of thought outline for papers, and to think ‘out loud’. Just a great App.

  
  
• By Mlulamile

  Freewritr: a frustration!

  I like the concept of Freewritr, but I'm not understanding completely how it works. I haven't discovered how to save a text. Once I put only the pieces of the texts I wanted to change on the right hand side and then, thought that those parts would be put into the text on the left hand side. So I hit save and all that was saved was the pieces of texts that I selected to work on the right hand side. If I can't see the whole writing how can I possibly change anything in its context. I can't work on the whole text I wrote. And as far as I can see, the app has no support or help page and when I go on the website, all I get is a rather sparse website with no contact details. So far this program has been a frustration for me and yet, I like the concept of writing as a game. It's too bad that one can't really use this for any serious writing at all. Your texts just vanish into thin air.

  
  

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