A Markdown editor for Linux

The page is the whole window.

No sidebar, no file tree, no toolbar waiting to be noticed. HushHour opens on your text and gets out of the way — and when you want it quieter still, it dims everything except the line you are actually writing.

Download for Linux (AppImage) Source on GitHub

Free and open source, MIT. Written in Rust. Current release v0.2.2.

HushHour in its light theme: a single column of prose centred in an otherwise empty window, with the paragraph being written held at full strength and the paragraphs around it dimmed back.

One thing at a time.

Distraction-free usually means hiding the chrome. HushHour goes further and dims your own text too, so the sentence in front of you is the brightest thing on the screen.

Spotlight

Everything fades back except the paragraph you are in — or the single sentence, if you want it tighter. What you wrote an hour ago stops competing with what you are writing now.

Typewriter scrolling

Anchor the caret line partway down the screen and leave it there. The page moves under your cursor instead of your eyes chasing the cursor down to the bottom edge.

Three faces

IBM Plex Mono, IBM Plex Sans or Literata, depending on whether today is drafting, typing or reading. Light and dark themes, and the theme is a setting rather than a mood board.

It keeps what you typed

Autosave writes atomically: the file on disk is either the old version or the new one, never a half-written file. Plain Markdown, in a folder you chose, readable by anything.

HushHour in its dark theme with the spotlight on: one paragraph in the middle of the page is held at full brightness while every paragraph above and below it is dimmed almost into the background.
Spotlight on a single paragraph. Everything else is still there, just not asking for anything.

Nothing youdid not ask for.

The menu is there when you reach for it and gone when you do not. Everything in HushHour is one window, one column, one job.

HushHour in its dark theme with the menu open, showing the file, view, font and sound options in a single plain list over the editor.
The dark theme, with the menu open. It closes back to nothing.
HushHour's Sound and music dialog over the editor: a typing-sound section with its switch off, a sound choice and a volume slider, and a music section set to off with its own volume, above a note saying where to drop your own tracks.
Sound, all of it optional and all of it off until you turn it on.

Or make some noise.

A quiet editor is not the same as a silent room. If a bit of texture helps you keep going, it is built in — and it is generated on the machine in front of you, not streamed from anywhere.

Typing sounds

A key press that sounds like a key press, if that is what keeps your hands moving.

Loops and soundscapes

Background music loops, and soundscapes generated as you write rather than played from a file.

Count it

Words, characters and sentences, there when you want the number and never in the way when you do not.

Get it.

Linux · x86_64

An AppImage attached to every release. Download it, make it executable, run it — there is nothing to install and nothing to uninstall.

Download for Linux (AppImage)

A Flathub submission is in progress and not listed yet. Until it is, the release page above is the place to get it. The source is MIT-licensed and the whole thing builds from a checkout.