---
title: "Apostrophe"
category: "Office, notes and writing"
tagline: "A distraction-free Markdown editor for GNOME, with live preview and export."
source: "Flathub"
package: "org.gnome.gitlab.somas.Apostrophe"
replaces: ["iA Writer", "Typora"]
website: "https://apps.gnome.org/Apostrophe/"
code: "https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/apostrophe"
---

## What it is

Apostrophe is a Markdown editor for writing prose. Its window is a clean page with a focus mode that dims everything but the current sentence, a word and character count, and a live preview of the formatted text. Behind the scenes it uses Pandoc, so you can export to HTML, PDF, Word documents and other formats.

## Why it's here

- **Room to write.** Nothing on screen but your text, for essays, posts and drafts.
- **Plain Markdown.** Files are ordinary `.md` text that any other tool can open.
- **Export anywhere.** Pandoc turns a draft into a document in the format you need.

## On CoreDesktop

CoreDesktop installs Apostrophe as a Flatpak from Flathub. Open it from the app grid, or open a Markdown file with it from Files. `update` keeps it current along with your other Flatpaks.