Today
Yesterday
Features
Memoire ships the smallest surface area we could defend — every panel earns its place or gets cut.
Measured line lengths, optical margins, and a type scale tuned for hours — not screenshots. Ambient backgrounds shift with the time of day, and focus mode dissolves every control until you reach for one.
She wrote the way the tide came in —
unhurried, and then all at once.
One shortcut reaches everything: jump between chapters, split a scene, export to EPUB or DOCX. Your hands never leave the keys.
Plain Markdown on your disk, readable in fifty years. Sync is optional, and the app works exactly the same on a plane.
Works fully offline
No telemetry, ever
No ghost text finishing your sentences. Select a passage, summon the menu, and choose a single deliberate edit — tighten, clarify, shift the register. Every suggestion arrives as a diff you accept or dismiss.
Polish
Tone
Pick where your writing lives off-disk. A GitHub repo turns every save into a commit you own; a Dropbox folder keeps the same plain Markdown files, no commits required. Push and pull on demand, or let Memoire push when you close it.
How sync worksGitHub
i-moreau/lighthouse
Dropbox
/Memoire
Only changed files move. Tokens stay in your OS keychain.
Focus mode
⌘ . takes the window full screen, collapses both sidebars, fades the header and command bar, and dims every paragraph but the one you're in. Esc gives it all back, exactly where it was.
Writing style — same page, set in Settings.
The lamp had not been lit in eleven years, and still she climbed the stairs each evening at dusk, counting them aloud against the wind.
Forty-two — the same as the year her father stopped speaking. She had learned the number before she learned the word for it, and the sound of it in her mouth was the sound of the stair itself: worn granite, a hollow under the seventh tread, salt in every seam.
The glass at the top was intact. That was the part nobody in the village believed. Every winter someone swore the storm had finally taken it, and every spring she carried the same bucket up and washed the same panes, and the light that went through them went nowhere at all.
What she wanted was not the light. What she wanted was the climbing.
Inside the app
Four panels, one shortcut each. Nothing floats over your page unless you called it.
01 — Command bar
The status line doubles as a vim-style prompt. Press : and start typing — commands match on their name or their description, so :ex and word both find what you meant.
…and the ferry would not come again until Thursday.
02 — Inline assistance
Put the caret in a paragraph and a small widget appears beside it — never over your text. Pick an edit, read the rewrite in place, then accept it or walk away. Formatting marks live in the same pill, so bold and italic never cost you a trip to a toolbar.
The lamp had not been lit in eleven years, and still she climbed the stairs each evening at dusk.
Still, each evening at dusk, she climbed the stairs.
Polish
Polish grammar
Improve clarity
Logical flow
Tone
Make formal
Make friendly
Make academic
Length
Expand
Shorten
Style
Simplify
Creative
03 — Version history
Every save is a node. Step back with ⌘⌥Z, write something different, and the old path stays right where you left it — a second branch rather than a version you destroyed. Open the graph with ⌘U and read any node before you jump.
Nothing is uploaded to make this work. The tree is a file next to your writing.
v1 · 09:12
The lamp had not been lit…
v2 · 09:40
…in eleven years, and still
v3 · 10:05
Counting them aloud. Forty-two.
v4a · 10:31 branch
She stopped at the landing…
v4b · 10:47
The rail was cold under…
v5 · 11:02 · current
What she wanted was not the light
04 — Export
Export one writing or a whole binder. Standard manuscript format, chapter page breaks, and scene separators are checkboxes — not a template you have to find and fix afterwards.
Typeset and ready to read, print, or send.
Scope
Format
Title
Author
Use writing titles as headings
Page break between chapters
Standard manuscript format
Built from your headings as you type. The one you're reading stays lit.
Chapter Seven
The climb
Forty-two steps
What her father said
Low tide
Words today and words in the binder. No chain to break, no badge to lose.
Folders on disk, drag-and-drop in the app. Rename one anywhere; nothing breaks.
Ch. 7 — The Lighthouse
Ch. 8 — Low Tide
Optional AI
Memoire is a text editor first. The assistant ships disabled — no model downloaded, no key required, nothing listening. Turn it on and you choose where it runs and which model answers.
Quantised GGUF models run locally on your own hardware. The first one you pick downloads once — around 1.5 GB for the default — then works forever with the network off. Nothing you write is transmitted, because there is nowhere for it to go.
Works on a plane, in a cabin, behind a firewall
No API key, no account, no per-token bill
Swap models any time without losing a draft
Prefer something larger than your laptop can hold? Point Memoire at OpenRouter with your own key and pick any model it offers. The key is stored on your machine, and the choice is a dropdown — not a migration.
Your key, your account, your usage limits
Switch back to local in one click
Only the passage you select is ever sent
Enable AI features
Chat, autocomplete, and the inline edit menu. Off until you say so.
Provider
Model
Downloading Llama 3.2 3B — 64%
Pick by what your machine can hold — from a 0.5B that runs on anything to an 8B for a workstation.
Chat
Reasoning
Coding
Never want any of it? Leave the switch off and Memoire stays a plain, fast editor — no model is ever fetched.
Workflow
⌘N opens a blank page in under 40 ms. No project wizard, no template picker, no folder to name before you've had the idea.
Focus mode dims everything but the current paragraph. Session goals track words written today — never total, never a streak you're afraid to break.
One command produces EPUB, DOCX with your editor's styles intact, clean PDF, or Markdown your static site already understands.
Sync
Pick one home for your writing off-disk: a GitHub repo if you like history you can diff, a Dropbox folder if you'd rather never think about commits. Switch any time in Settings.
The branching history stays local. Git sync is the other half: point Memoire at a GitHub repository and every save becomes a commit you own, in a repo you can clone, diff, and read without us.
Sign in with GitHub, give it an owner/repo, and push with :push — or let it commit everything automatically when you close the app. Already have drafts on GitHub? Import pulls them down into your writing folder.
Repository
Writing in your content directory is committed & pushed to this repository.
Auto-push on exit
Commit & push pending changes when you close Memoire.
No repos, no commit messages. Connect your Dropbox account, name a folder like /Memoire, and your chapters sit there as the same Markdown files you see on disk — open them from any device Dropbox runs on.
Push uploads what you changed, pull brings down what changed elsewhere, and Memoire can push on its own when you close it. If a file changed in both places, nothing is overwritten: pull keeps yours and saves Dropbox's copy beside it as Chapter 3 (Dropbox conflict).md.
Folder
Writing in your content directory is uploaded to this Dropbox folder.
Auto-push on exit
Upload any changed writing to Dropbox when you close Memoire.
On the way
None of the below is in the current release. We'd rather list it honestly than let you find out after downloading.
Read and capture on a phone, syncing through the same Git repo. Drafting stays a desktop job.
Comments and tracked changes for a copy-editor, exported as suggestions in the DOCX they already use.
Your own commands in the palette and your own panels beside the page, without forking the app.
Dates are deliberately absent. Follow the repo if you want to watch it land.
Download
A real desktop app — not a browser tab pretending to be one. No account to create before your first sentence.
Apple Silicon · M1 and later
Download .dmg
Intel · x86_64
Download .dmg
10 and 11 · x64
Download .msi
AppImage & .deb
Download
Memoire isn't signed with an Apple Developer certificate yet, so macOS quarantines the download and says the app is damaged. It isn't — that's Gatekeeper refusing anything it can't trace to a paid certificate. Drag it to Applications, then strip the quarantine flag:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/memoire.app
Run it once, in Terminal. It removes the com.apple.quarantine attribute from that one app and changes nothing else on your system. Right-click → Open works on Intel Macs too, but not on Apple Silicon.
Sorry about this step — I've been trying to get an Apple Developer account approved and haven't got anywhere yet. The moment it comes through, these builds get signed and notarized and the command goes away.
Open source
Memoire is MIT-licensed and built in the open — a SvelteKit front end over a Rust core in Tauri. Issues, pull requests, and blunt opinions about the typography are all welcome.
The most useful contribution is a bug report with the file that caused it — an export that mangled your formatting, a shortcut that fought your keyboard layout, a crash on open.
bun install, then bun run tauri dev, and you're running it locally. Svelte 5 and Tailwind on top, Rust underneath.
Line length, caret behaviour, what belongs in the command palette. Opinions from people who actually draft in it carry the most weight.