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Mono Writer
Set a goal. The screen locks until you've written it.
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Set a goal. The screen locks until you've written it.
2 followers
Mono Writer is a free focus writing app. Set a word or time goal and your screen locks until you hit it. Distraction-free, synced through your own iCloud, no account, no tracking. Available on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android.
Free
Launch Team
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Promoted
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I have a folder full of half-written drafts and almost nothing finished. Every time I sat down to write it turned into a new tab, then Slack, then a "quick" search, and the session was gone. Willpower advice never stuck, so I stopped trying to fix myself and built a cage instead.
Mono Writer works like this: set a goal (a word count or a timer), hit start, and the screen seals. The distractions go away, the quick exits are blocked, and you're left with just the page. You're out when you hit your goal.
What it is:
- 🔒 Goal-based lock: by words or by minutes. The timer pauses if you go idle, so slacking doesn't count.
- ✍️ Make it yours: typeface, size, ink and paper colors, light and dark themes.
- ☁️ Syncs through your own iCloud on Apple devices: no account, no login, nothing on my servers.
- 🛟 Your words are never lost: every document is mirrored to local files, and sync conflicts keep both versions.
- 💸 Free: no subscription, no ads, no tracking.
- 📱💻 Everywhere: macOS, iOS/iPadOS, and Android.
An honest note: the lock is a soft lock, not jailbreak-proof. If you truly must, you can still force-quit. The point isn't to be unbreakable. It's to remove the habitual, frictionless exits, and in practice that's most of what keeps me from finishing. How strict it gets differs by platform (on iPhone and iPad, for example, it's read/edit only).
Built with Tauri v2 (Rust) + React + CodeMirror 6. I'm a solo maker and just launched, so I'd really love your feedback, especially on the lock experience on each platform.
What's the one thing you keep not finishing? 😅