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Quillwright
A distraction-free writing en designed to work alongside AI
I'm Fabio, and I built Quillwright because I wanted to write fiction with AI agents without
handing my book over to them.
Tools like Claude Code and Codex are surprisingly good at helping with long-form writing:
checking continuity, keeping character sheets up to date, drafting a scene you're stuck on. But
they work on files, and most writing apps either lock your text in a database or fight with
anything that changes the file behind their back.
Quillwright is a native desktop editor that takes the opposite approach:
📁 Your book is just a folder of Markdown files. One file per chapter, one per character, one for the rules of your world. No database, no hidden metadata, no lock-in. It works with Git and any other tool.
🤝 Made to run next to AI agents. It watches the folder and reloads changes from the agent safely. If you have unsaved edits, you choose what to keep. It never silently overwrites your text.
✍️ AI suggestions are shown as diffs. The built-in assistant panel calls Claude Code, Codex, or Ollama (no API keys stored in the app). Nothing enters the manuscript until you accept it.
📖 A calm, book-like page. Live Markdown styling, Paper/Sepia/Night themes, focus mode, typewriter scrolling, word goals, autosave, and version history.
📤 Offline export to Word, EPUB, PDF, OpenDocument, and HTML, built in. No pandoc, nothing downloaded.
It's free and open source (MIT), written in Rust, and available for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
The Windows and macOS builds aren't code-signed yet, so you'll see a warning the first time you open them.
It's early, and I'd love your feedback:
- If you write with AI, how do you do it today, and what gets in your way?
- What would you need before using this for a real manuscript? (Spell checking is next on my list.)
Thanks for checking it out! 🙏
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About Quillwright on Product Hunt
“A distraction-free writing en designed to work alongside AI”
Quillwright was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #158 on the daily leaderboard. A distraction-free writing environment for novels and long-form fiction, built on plain Markdown and designed to work alongside AI agents
Quillwright was featured in Open Source (69k followers), Writing (59.4k followers), Artificial Intelligence (481.6k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 193.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Quillwright?
Quillwright was hunted by Fabio Covolo Mazzo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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