Cheese Paper
Cheese Paper is a desktop writing app that organizes fiction projects into scenes, notes, and character files.
Open source (GPL-3.0-or-later)By Brie
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About Cheese Paper
Cheese Paper is a text editor for long-form prose, especially fiction. Projects are organized into scenes with notes and summaries, plus separate files for characters and worldbuilding. The underlying text uses Markdown with metadata in a TOML header.
Project files can be edited outside the app and synced with tools such as Syncthing or Nextcloud. Cheese Paper can export an outline or combine scenes into a Markdown file for conversion to formats such as EPUB, DOCX, HTML, or PDF.
Strengths
- Keeps scene notes and summaries alongside the draft
- Uses editable Markdown files with TOML metadata
- Can reload project changes made by syncing tools
- Exports outlines and combined story drafts
Limitations
- Syncing between computers requires a separate file sync service
- No phone app is currently planned
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.
- License
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Developer
- Brie
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Fiction writers who want structured projects in files they can sync and edit
- Categories
- Writing apps
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the Flathub
- Sources