Bakspace
Write it all without losing the plot.
- Designed and built end to end, our own product
- Binder and corkboard, version snapshots, Word, EPUB and PDF export
- macOS now, Windows and Linux next
- October 2026, US$49 once, 14-day free trial
The client
This one is us. We wanted to write more long-form: essays, a book or two, the kind of thing that takes months. Every time we sat down to start, we got trapped looking for the tool instead. We wanted something sleek and beautiful that did not lock the work into a format, and that we could keep improving as we went. Nothing fit, so we built it.
The challenge
Long-form writing tools have drifted toward complexity and lock-in. The good ones keep your manuscript in a database only they can read. The simple ones lose the research, the versions and the structure that a book needs.
Bakspace had to hold a whole project, the manuscript and the research around it, keep every version without a writer ever thinking about it, and export a finished Word, EPUB or PDF at the end. And if Bakspace disappeared tomorrow, the book had to still be there, readable in anything.
How we worked
Bakspace is what we make when we are the client, so it gets the same rules as a client build: the file format was specified before the editor was written, and every decision that is expensive to change later was made first.
- Files first
- A project is a folder of plain Markdown files on your own disk, with no account and no database behind it. The book is readable in anything, with or without Bakspace.
- Every version kept
- Snapshots are taken without a writer thinking about them. Compare any two, restore any one, and a sentence cut on a bad day is never gone.
- Desktop first
- macOS shipped first, for Apple silicon and Intel. Windows and Linux are coming, and the same licence covers all three.
- Pay once, write offline
- US$49, no subscription, every update included, on up to ten devices. Bakspace works offline, and your projects never touch the network.
- Your cloud, not ours
- To write on more than one machine, keep the project in iCloud Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox. The book stays in a place you already trust.
- Straight to writing
- Open it and start typing. Focus mode and typewriter scrolling stay out of the way, in light or dark.
The outcome
Bakspace launched in October 2026 on macOS, with Windows and Linux to follow. US$49 once, a 14-day free trial with no card, every update included.
It is a small, opinionated product, and it holds us to the standard we hold client work to: it has to work, and it has to be worth existing.