SpacePad

Open SpacePad and go somewhere...

Now available for mac, windows, linux, and raspberry pi.

Writing is an Away Mission into the unknown, and on that mission, you deserve a focused tool and an atmospheric space that feel nothing like the modern computer environment.  

Now, with SpacePad, you can turn your computer into a cool space to write, any time you want. Your project will end up in Word eventually. That's life. But until then, SpacePad offers a respite: a place to start, to spread out, to think clearly, to imagine deeply. A writing app that feels special to open, like it's made for actual writers. Because it is. 

What's here:

→ Typewriter scrolling. True Fullscreen. Super Fast keyboard interface. 

→ Five sharp and readable terminal fonts: IBM, HP, Phoenix, Olivetti, and others

→ Ten environments: Alien mountains,  CRT monitors, exoplanet horizons, dusk.

→ Six text palettes: phosphor green, amber terminal, IBM cyan, white/gray/black.

→ Eight original lo-fi BGM loops, composed for deeeeep Alpha Waves. 

→ A pixel art spaceship that drifts past when you've been idle too long. 

Your files: Plain .txt saved to your Documents folder. Auto-saves every 60 seconds. Your writing never leaves your machine. No cloud, no AI bs, no internet required. Move the app, delete it: your writing stays put, forever. 

$7. Yours forever. No subscription. No add-ons. Notarized and signed DMG. Windows and linux coming soon for cyberdeck action.  Free updates for life (and they're coming).  

Make it yours, truly: 7,200 possible environments can be set up from one stupidly simple menu, viewable in real time. 

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We writers get no respect. The focused writer is the last person Apple or Lenovo is thinking about when they design a laptop. It's not about what we can live with. It's about what we deserve. In the same way that musicians hunt for Gibson L-1s or photographers save up for Leicas—we deserve thoughtfully designed, evocative tools. 

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What writers are saying: 

"My time with SpacePad feels like I'm squirreling away inside a SCIF."

"It makes me enjoy writing a little more and want to write a little longer."

"Reminds me of making beats on my MPC2000XL."

"I've always wanted to write on the Mother computer in Alien. Know what I mean?" (ED: bet.)

"I fookin love it, mate." (ED: he's not British. No idea why he called me 'mate.')

"dope."

Development backstory

SpacePad began as a hardware project. I spent years trying to build a mono-tool word processor—something between a Lettera 22 and a Sega Genesis. But hardware is like the watchmaker's art: it's hard. Software was a little easier. 

The design principles that survived: 

The software must feel good, and be capable of storing up an emotional charge. It must be fast, lightweight, responsive, and gestural—as natural as an acoustic guitar or an Akai MPC2000. It must look cool, feel warm, and engage the senses. It must do one thing really well, and then get out of the way. 

A Dose of Reality

SpacePad won't solve all your problems. If you have writer's block (if that's actually a thing), you should see a therapist and develop a more consistent discipline. If you have ADHD (like me), you'll still feel unfocused unless you're writing about something that's life or death. I'm not selling a lifestyle or a nervous system hack here. Just the tool you've always needed, but never knew you wanted. 

A NOTE ABOUT INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT and KEYBOARD LAYOUTS

Please see my latest my devlog, l'international SpacePad Station and Imperial SpacePad for full notes as to whether you're language is supported...These are vintage terminal fonts that cover only about 300 glyphs. Western European languages can expect anywhere from 50-95% support. Central and Eastern European languages have significantly less support...for now. Feel free to use whatever keyboard layout you like. All should work fine. And coming June 1st, I'll be releasing  a fully "international" version  v1.2, with fully supported terminal bitmap fonts with all the latin characters you need.  

LINUX AND RPI USERS

The Linux build is experimental. Depending on your display, the window might be too small to be functional. But it works. Scaling options and support coming in v1.2. 

IF YOU ARE READING THIS THAT MEANS THE INTERNATIONAL PATCH IS NOT YET LIVE FOR LINUX. IT IS COMING TODAY. UNTIL YOU HAVE v1.14, PLEASE ONLY USE AN ENGLISH KEYBOARD LAYOUT.

RPI users, download the linux zip. For now, you have to also dl love for it to work, but there is full instructions in the README.txt. very easy. 

Full instructions for both RPI and linux setups in the README.txt file. 

On Deck

V1.1 SHIPPED:  windows and linux (including raspberry pi) versions

V1.2: export as .md and PDF (with app fonts), text size options, window size options, sound fx expansion, bgm expansion, text editing updates. Full international latin support with vintage terminal fonts! 

V1.3: Two-page spread reader/editor mode, BGM expansion with realtime pitch controls 

V2.0: one button print page, plus more innovative ish for your domepiece. 

MAKE ROCKET GO NOW AND GET THE APP