Graphite: What’s new

Graphite 1.4.0 “4B”, tools for long pieces

2026-10-17T12:00:00Z

The fifth pencil grade. 4B is soft and dark, made for long strokes. Read the guide.

Word targets and deadlines: choose Set Word Target… from the document’s title or the Command Palette. The status bar shows your progress, such as “1,240 of 2,000”, and the words a day you need to make the deadline. The Writing Habit sheet shows it too. The target is kept in the document’s front matter (target: and due:), so it travels with the file.
Compare versions: in Version History, choose Compare to see two versions, or a version and the current text, word by word, side by side or inline. Restore This Version works on either side.
Paste a web page as Markdown: copying from a browser, Google Docs or Word keeps headings, links, lists, emphasis, quotes, code and simple tables. Scripts, styles and tracking pixels are dropped. Dropping text from a browser works the same way, and pasted text is still credited in Authorship. Paste as Plain Text (⌥⇧⌘V) keeps the words only.
Quick capture: share text or a link into the installed app, and Graphite asks Save Shared Text? before it saves anything. New Draft, in the Command Palette and the app icon’s menu, opens a blank page ready to type.
Manuscript: choose Make Manuscript… on a folder and its documents become chapters. Drag them into order (the order is a list of links in _manuscript.md), then preview them as one, or export them as a web page or Markdown. Print, PDF and Word Document are Pro, as for a single document.
Front matter is no longer counted as words, and it’s left out of Preview, printing and every export except Markdown.
Nothing new is stored on our servers.

Graphite 1.3.0 “3B”, one account and Pro on sale

2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

The fourth pencil grade. 3B is soft and dark, made for drawing.

One way in: choose Sign In, then Continue with Google or Continue with Email. The first sign-in creates your free account. With Google, one step signs you in and syncs your documents with Google Drive.
Graphite Pro is on sale, and it belongs to your account: no license keys. Pro Lifetime is $29 once at the founding price, until 13 November. Pro Membership is $3.99 a month or $29 a year. See pricing.
How to pay: by card or PayPal through Lemon Squeezy, which shows your local currency and handles tax and receipts.
Passkeys: sign in with your fingerprint, face or device PIN, and use a passkey as your second step.
Sign Out Everywhere now lists your passkeys and emails you, so you can spot anything you don’t recognise.

Graphite 1.2.0 “2B”, a complete Graphite account

2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

The third pencil grade. 2B is soft enough to sketch with.

Sign In and Sign Out at the bottom of the sidebar. Once you’re signed in, your photo or initials open a menu with your account and Sign Out, which saves anything unsaved first.
Your profile: add a name and a photo in Settings › Account, or copy your Google photo. The photo is resized in your browser, which removes hidden details like location.
Two-step sign-in with an authenticator app, plus ten single-use backup codes. If you lose both, recovery turns two-step off after a 7-day wait that you can cancel.
Signed-in devices: see every browser signed in to your account and sign out any of them, or all the others at once.
Recent activity shows the last 90 days of sign-ins and account changes, and security emails tell you about important ones.
Change your sign-in email, link or unlink Google, and add a contact email. News email is off unless you turn it on.
Sensitive changes now need a recent sign-in or a two-step code. Read the account guide.

Graphite 1.1.0 “B”, accounts and a free month of Pro

2026-10-15T12:00:00Z

The second pencil grade. B is a little softer than HB.

Graphite accounts, optional: sign up with Google or with a 6-digit code sent to your email. Writing never needs an account.
Launch offer: new accounts created by 13 November 2026 get every Pro feature free for 30 days. Graphite reminds you before the trial ends, and nothing is charged.
Settings › Account shows what Graphite keeps. Sign-up asks whether to share usage data (off until you tick it in the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland); change it any time, download your data, sign out everywhere or delete your account.
Pro Lifetime and Pro Membership show Coming Soon until our store opens.
The app counts page views with Cloudflare’s cookieless Web Analytics. It never sees a share link’s text. See the privacy policy.

Graphite 1.0.0 “HB”, the first stable release

2026-10-13T12:00:00Z

Graphite releases are named after pencil grades, and HB is the standard pencil. Settings › About shows the version you’re using, such as 1.0.0 “HB”.

Plans: Graphite, Pro Membership and Pro Lifetime, side by side in the app. Pro Membership is coming soon. Settings › Graphite Pro shows your plan.
Favourites no longer disappear when you reload.
Authorship: an example of the annotation format at the end of a document is never removed. Author marks that no longer match the text are kept as text, and Graphite tells you so you can delete them.
Google Drive: a folder deleted on a device that was behind no longer takes another device’s new documents with it.
Graphite Pro: a temporary error from the license server no longer removes your Pro key.
Links to names with characters files can’t use, such as [[What? Why]], find their document instead of creating a new one.
A rename that arrives from Google Drive keeps the open document’s versions. A failed delete keeps unsaved changes. Signing out of Google waits for the last save.

Graphite 0.1.0 First release, with Graphite Pro

2026-10-13T12:00:00Z

Graphite is live at write.aroice.in. Everything below is in the first version. Features marked Pro are part of Graphite Pro, a one-time purchase.

Focus Mode, Typewriter scrolling and Zen full screen.
Syntax Highlight for five parts of speech and Style Check for filler, clichés, redundancies and repeated words. Pro
Authorship tracking in the open Markdown Annotations format. Show Authors, Paste As and Mark Selection As are Pro.
A welcome screen to choose where you write: Google Drive, this device, or a folder on disk (Chrome, Edge, Arc).
With Google Drive, your writing streak, settings and favourites sync between devices. Each device adds its own words, so nothing is counted twice.
Folders with Move To, favorites, #tags, Quick Search and the Command Palette.
Preview and Side by Side in the Plain style, plus Essay, Modern, Book, Newsletter, Academic and Typewriter styles. Pro
Links between documents: type [[ to link, ⌘-click to follow, see what links to a document under Linked From, and update links when you rename.
Better PDFs and printing: page numbers from page two, headings kept with their text, and code, quotes, tables and images never split across pages. Pro
Export to Markdown and Web Page, copy formatted text, and share links that carry the text inside the link. PDF, Word and Blog Post export. Pro
Daily goal, streaks, a year-long heatmap and 10, 25 and 45-minute sprints.
Autosave that keeps both copies instead of overwriting, crash recovery, Recently Deleted, Version History (latest 5, or up to 40 per document with Pro), import and .zip backups.
Paper, Graphite and Auto appearance, three typefaces, offline support and installation as an app.
Seven colour themes or your own, four more typefaces, and custom keyboard shortcuts. Pro
WCAG AA contrast in every theme, full keyboard control and reduced-motion support.