About

Small words, every day.

Words Per Day is a quiet room for a daily writing habit. Pick a number of words, show up, and watch the line fill. That's the whole app.

How it works

• Tell it your name and a daily goal. It welcomes you and tracks your streak.
• Write in the blank page. Markdown is supported if you want it; ignore it if you don't.
• Your progress bar fills toward the goal. Hit it, and the day is yours.
• Export any day's words as Markdown or plain text, or print them.

Your words are yours

There is no database and no account. Everything (your writing, your name, your settings) is saved only in this browser, using localStorage. Nothing is sent anywhere, because there's no server to send it to.

The trade-off: if you clear your browser data, switch browsers, or use private mode, your words won't follow. So if a piece matters, export it. That's your backup, and the app will keep reminding you.

How long does it stay?

There's no expiry: your writing stays in this browser for as long as you keep using it on this device. Words Per Day also asks the browser to mark its storage as persistent, which helps protect it from being cleared when your device runs low on space.

One important exception, on Safari (iPhone, iPad, Mac): Apple's browser automatically deletes a site's local data after about seven days without a visit. So if you write in Safari and don't come back within a week, it can be erased. Two ways to avoid that: open the site at least weekly, or better still, use Add to Home Screen (Share, then Add to Home Screen), which exempts it from the seven-day rule. Either way, exporting a backup is the sure thing. Chrome, Edge and Firefox don't do this.

No analytics. No data. No ads. Ever.

There are no analytics: no page counters, no heatmaps, no "anonymous" telemetry, no third-party scripts, no fonts phoning home. We collect no data about you or your writing; there is nowhere for it to go and nothing that wants it. And there will be no advertising, ever: not a banner, not a "partner", not a single sponsored word. That's a permanent promise, not a phase before some later cash-in.

So we're deliberately a little blind. The only signal we ever get isn't a dashboard. It's the very real commitment of the people who show up, write their first words of the day, and choose to support the tool. That's the only feedback that counts here: solidarity instead of surveillance.

Make it yours

Behind the settings gear you'll find light and dark themes, a handful of self-hosted fonts (from calm proportional type to a real typewriter face), and four text sizes. Your choices are remembered on this device.

Accessibility

Words Per Day is built to be keyboard-navigable, screen-reader friendly, and to respect your reduced motion and colour-scheme preferences. If something gets in your way, let me know.

Free, kept alive by its people

It costs nothing to use, now and always. What keeps it hosted and maintained is people chipping in on Ko-fi, plus a quiet count on the support page of who else showed up to write today. No ads to sell, no data to trade: just the people who find it worth keeping.