OmmWriter for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By robhulson

  Still my favorite writing environment

  Ommwriter is like my home office. I have made Ommwriter the place where I dump all my thoughts about any project I’m working on. Journaling. Writing marketing messages. Emails. Blog posts. Messages to my ex-wife/co-parent. It’s the place I like to disappear to in order to get my work done. The rest of my computer truly disappears and I feel like it’s a unique place. I remember how using apps on the original iPhone felt so unique because the UI completely disappears and the phone BECOMES the app. With Ommwriter, my Windows BECOMES my pleasant little home office, a place for my creativity to feel safe and come out and express itself. There are many other apps that do something similar to Ommwriter, but I was determined to make Ommwriter my home office. Wherever I am, I can plug in my headphones, breathe deeply, and then start to write. There’s little to no UI elements. Just the text. And that’s how I like it. In today’s age, the ability to focus and concentrate is what separates the creative and productive from those just “getting by.” Ommwriter made it easy to start writing, which for me personally has always been the biggest hurdle. I’m glad I made Ommwriter my home office, and grateful that the developers are still paying attention to it.

  
  
• By Joel123343212

  Forced to create an account (NO LONGER - SEE UPDATE #2)

  UPDATE #2: I’m very pleased to say that the developer has listened to the user base and removed the mandatory account creation. It gives me hope when companies buck the trend to collect more data (or open the door for this data collection), and I’m more than happy to give the program a five-star rating now that they have removed this requirement. UPDATE #1: They now mention the registration requirement in the “what’s new” release notes, but the reasons they give aren’t great in my opinion. Please, just make the registration optional - I’m not going to make an account for an app I purchased years ago and so the money I originally paid for is otherwise a waste. If you need more income, make a paid upgrade version - it’s so much better than giving up more data in this day and age. I considered the old version a five-star program for what it was, but the new update appears to force the creation of an account to continue to use the software. These types of tactics really bother me when they're for software I’ve already paid for, so I’m giving it one star until they remove that requirement. The account creation is not even mentioned in the "what’s new" notes. Good grief.

  
  
• By Memodeth

  It is great for what it is.

  I don’t really understand the outrage about creating an account. It takes five seconds. Everyone creates trial accounts all the time just to try apps. One issue could be that having an account doesn’t really do anything. I think it makes sense to have a Guest option for people who doesn’t want to create an account. I understand taking a star off for this, but by giving these horrible ratings, people are just hurting this app, which is otherwise still great after several years. It is a simple distraction free writing environment with minimal features. I hope the iPad version gets an update, too, because I think the iOS is a better platform for such a minimal app. I tend to use more feature rich apps on my Windows.

  
  
• By xblindside

  Love it

  I've been using this app for a little over 6 years now, and its beautiful ambient backgrounds have helped tremendously with increasing my productivity. One suggestion I would make - I would love it if we were able to drag the text box all the way to the right of the screen so that the text spans the whole screen rather than it just being left-justified, and maybe move the toolbar on the right to the bottom when you do this so it's not in the way - just a little personal nitpicky thing I would love to see implemented in a future update if it's possible. With that said, thank you to the developers for creating this amazing app! I don't know where I'd be without it.

  
  

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