OpenAtelier,
on your desk.
A quiet, native window for your manuscript. No tabs, no browser chrome. One click from the dock to the page.
Stay in the page, not the browser.
A focused window
No tabs, no address bar, no notifications bleeding in from elsewhere. Just the page.
Lives in your dock
One click from anywhere on your machine, straight to the manuscript you were last editing.
A real menu bar
Native macOS menus and keyboard shortcuts. Cmd+S, Cmd+F, Cmd+W, all where your hands expect them.
Calm, quiet, fast
A thin native shell over the studio you know. No browser overhead, no extension chatter.
What you need
- macOS 11 Big Sur or later
- Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4)
- 3.2 MB download, signed disk image
- Free, no account required to install
Four small steps.
Download the disk image
Click the download button above. The file is small, around 3 MB, so it should arrive in a moment.
Open the .dmg
Find Open Atelier in your Downloads folder and double click to mount it.
Drag to Applications
In the window that appears, drag the Open Atelier icon onto the Applications shortcut.
Launch from Spotlight
Press Cmd+Space, type "Open Atelier", and press Return. Sign in with your account, and you are writing.
A room of one's own, the saying goes. A window of one's own will do, too.The studio
Bring the atelier home.
Free to install, free to use, always one click from your manuscript.
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