River Writer
A quiet Mac app for screenplays, stage plays and novels
River Writer is a free Mac app for screenplays, stage plays and novels. You write plain text (.fountain ormd) and a live preview shows the formatted, print-ready pages beside it: Screenplay, Multi-cam, Stage Play or Manuscript. Git versioning is built in, so you can commit drafts, restore files and try an alternate ending on a branch. Outline, scratchpad and todos live as plain files in your project. No accounts, cloud, telemetry or AI; it makes no network connections. Open source (MIT).
River Writer is a Productivity company. It launched on Product Hunt on Oct 24, 2026, with 82 upvotes. Adamlead has 1 person on file at River Writer.
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- A quiet Mac app for screenplays, stage plays and novels
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Adamlead has 1 person on file at River Writer, including Arjun Acharya (Maker). Each email shows whether it has been verified.