Software · Internet & communication

Writ

Light text editor for any text file, with full-text search and inline Markdown.

Completely free
Windows
Open source
No account

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
License: MIT — Open source (permissive)confirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: WindowsEstablished by Windows: Winget
Publisher: ibrahemid
Latest version: 1.0.1
Source code: github.com/ibrahemid/writ

Overview

Features described in its Winget manifest and in its GitHub repository: full-text search and Markdown support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Light text editor for any text file, with full-text search and inline Markdown” — Winget, 10 November 2026
“Light text editor for any text file, with full-text search and inline Markdown” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Writ is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 9 November 2026
Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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