Introduction

Since the idea for TextRoom is in no way new or groundbreaking, and it was strongly inspired by already existing or emerging projects for other operating systems and/or platforms/toolkits, here you can find a list of possible alternatives that you may find useful.

You might also be interested in some criticism of the whole *Room craze. Read on the Wrongroom blog post by author Mark Pilgrim [diveintomark.org]

Alternatives

In alphabetical order

• a4e
• AbiWord
• aee/ee
• CopyWrite
• Dark Room
• Diakonos
• GNU Emacs
• GNU nano
• JDarkRoom
• Jer's Novel Writer
• Joe's Own Editor
• Microsoft Word
• OpenOffice.org Writer
• PyRoom
• Q10
• RubyRoom
• Scrivener
• Ulysses
• Vim
• WestEdit
• WriteMonkey
• Writer [web]
• WriteRoom

Currently in development but worth a look

• OpenQ10
• Phrasis