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Just you, a green screen and your words.

Retroprose is a free word processor that looks and feels like the DOS word processors of the late 1980s. It fills the screen and keeps everything else out of the way.

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  • Free, with no card to enter
  • Private and kept in the UK
  • No adverts

The four screens

Screen
The Retroprose editor on the green screen: green text on black, like a terminal.
The Retroprose editor on the blue screen: grey text on blue, with headings in yellow and bold in white.
The Retroprose editor on the amber screen: pale amber text on a dark brown background, with the status line and key bar at the foot.
The Retroprose editor on the paper screen: black text on white.

Everything a writer needs. Nothing a writer doesn’t.

  • Keyboard first

    F6 for bold and F2 to search, or Ctrl+B if you prefer. Menus and a key bar do the rest.

  • The classic tools

    Reveal codes, Block, Typeover, Undelete, footnotes and two documents open at once.

  • Private by design

    Kept in the UK, with no adverts. Your writing is never sold, shared or used to train AI.

  • Yours to keep

    Saved as plain Markdown. Download it at any time, or export it to Word, PDF and more.

  • Never lose a word

    Saves itself as you write, keeps older versions, and carries on with no connection.

  • A writing habit

    A daily goal, streaks, and a word goal for each document.

Everything in the box

Free to start

The floppy disk edition is free, with room for about 240,000 words. It has every screen, key and editing tool, and exports to Word, PDF, OpenDocument, HTML, text and Markdown.

For more room, ebooks or WordPress, the Zip disk edition is £39 a year, and the hard disk edition £79 a year. Compare the editions

Start writing

Free, with room for about 240,000 words. No card to enter, and no adverts.

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