"But if, when it comes right down to it, full screen is your holy grail, and the ultimate
antidote to the bric-a-brac of Word, then you must enter the WriteRoom, the ultimate spartan writing
utopia."
— Virginia
Heffernan, New York Times
"Unlike practically everything else in our digital lives, WriteRoom's minimalist interface
implies a truly flattering proposition: It's you, not the software, that matters."
— Jeffrey MacIntyre, Slate
"Green text on a blank, black screen, with a square, blinking cursor. This was how most of
us wrote on a computer in the early 1980s, and it's resurfacing a quarter of a century later."
—
Rob Pegoraro,
Washington Post
"WriteRoom’s minimalist interface also frees you from the nagging urge to fiddle with
margins, fonts, and other settings, leaving you with nothing to do but write."
— Nathan Alderman, MacWorld 4.5/5
Rating
"It’s a primitive application, to be sure — I suspect completely by design — but it may be
just what the doctor ordered if you need to get your head out of your butt and put some words on the page. I
can see myself spending a lot of time in WriteRoom."
— Merlin Mann, 43Folders.com
"A perfectly balanced, indispensable part of any Mac writer’s toolkit."
— Craig Grannell,
MacFormat.com
"A Great App for Easily-Distracted Writers… Like Me"
— James Floyd Kelly, Wired.com
"WriteRoom boasts a carefully curated feature set for working with text but maintains a
minimalist appeal that’s designed to immerse the user in the words on the screen."
— Christine Preusler,
HostingAdvice.com
