v0.7.0 — Drafter on a Mac (build it yourself)

Drafter on a Mac, built on your own Mac.

There's no Mac download yet: a signed one, with updates that install themselves, needs an Apple developer account, which comes later. Until then, you can build Drafter on your Mac with one command:

corepack enable   # once, for pnpm (needs Node 22.13 or later)
git clone https://github.com/cschweda/drafter.git
cd drafter
pnpm install
pnpm desktop:mac

This makes Drafter.app in apps/desktop/release/ (see the Mac guide). Drag it to Applications.

• .fountain files open in Drafter from Finder.
• Drafter keeps running with its window closed, and the Dock icon brings the window back. New, Open… and Settings… work with no window open too.
• It has a proper Mac menu (Drafter, File, Edit, View, Go, Window, Help).
• It tells you when a new version is out (Get it). To update, run git pull and the same command again.

You don't want to build anything? Open drafter.dev in Chrome and use Install in the address bar. In Chrome, Save writes straight back to your file.

The Linux app and drafter.dev are otherwise unchanged.

Download (Linux, x64)

• Drafter-0.7.0-linux-amd64.deb: sudo apt install ./Drafter-0.7.0-linux-amd64.deb.
• Drafter-x86_64.AppImage: an earlier AppImage offers this update itself.