Synonyms, opposites, rhymes
A thesaurus and a rhyming dictionary, built in and offline. Select a word and get better ones, with no signal and nothing sent anywhere.
A writing app for macOS
Nothing you write, and nothing you look up, ever leaves your Mac.
Full-screen, distraction-free writing. Every word tool runs on your Mac, and nothing you write leaves it.
quiet
still · hushed · calm
More than a blank page.
The calm of an empty screen, plus the tools writers actually reach for.
A timer and a stopwatch
Set the time you’ll write, or count it as you go. Tavla holds you to the session you chose.
Only real writing counts
Step away and the clock pauses. Come back and it resumes. Your record counts the time you actually wrote.
A gentle guard
Leaving a session early stays a deliberate choice, never an impossible one. Focus you can feel, not a lock on the door.
Your words, portable
Everything you write is plain Markdown on your disk. Export any time. Nothing to lock you in.
A year in words
Every session is quietly recorded. At the end of the month, and the year, Tavla shows you what you built.
The privacy isn’t a setting.
It’s the architecture.
Tavla never sends your writing, your lookups, or anything about you anywhere. The only connection it can make is an anonymous check for updates, and you can turn that off.
The stance
No AI. Just your words.
Every writing app is racing to add AI. Tavla is built on the opposite promise.
- The word tools are a dictionary, not a generator. They look words up. They never write for you.
- Your words never train a model. Nothing you write is collected or fed to any AI — it can’t be, because nothing leaves your Mac.
- A tool that writes for you isn’t a writing tool. Tavla guards the thinking, and stays out of the way of the rest.
Tavla will never add AI features — nothing to finish your sentences, rewrite them, expand them, or train on your words. A fixed dictionary can’t do what a model can. That’s the point.
Read the manifesto →Pay once. Keep it forever.
A year of updates included. After that it keeps working at the version you have. Renew only if you want the next year.
- $17.10Waitlist
- $19Founding · first 1,000
- $29Standard
Founders keep the founding price for life.
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Tavla Cloud
Your projects and your streak, synced across Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and backed up so a lost laptop is never a lost draft. Not at launch. Tick the Cloud box in the form and you’ll hear first.