Difree - distraction-free writing app — difree

Key Features:
☯️ Distraction-free Design: Say goodbye to cluttered interfaces. Difree provides a distraction-free writing space, allowing you to concentrate on your words.
🖌️ Minimalistic View: Toggle between a regular interface and a simplified view, offering a minimalistic layout with fewer elements for a distilled, uncluttered writing experience.
💾 AutoSave: Forget about manually saving your work. Difree automatically saves your writing, ensuring your progress is never lost.
🔒 Privacy First: At Difree, we prioritize your privacy. We do not collect or analyze your writing, ensuring a safe and private writing space.
🌐 Offline Work: Need absolute focus? Difree works offline too, enabling you to disconnect from the internet and boost your productivity.
🎵 Immersive Typing Experience: Difree goes the extra mile by offering an immersive typing experience. Write with the soothing sound of key strokes, adding a delightful touch to your writing journey.
🌙 Dark Mode: Protect your eyes during late-night writing sessions with Difree's dark mode. Enjoy a visually comfortable experience, day or night.
📊 Word Counter: Keep track of characters, words, and sentences in your text with Difree's built-in word counter.
🔠 Monospaced Fonts: Precision matters, and Difree offers a selection of monospaced fonts for a clean and organized writing environment.
↔️ RTL Writing: Express yourself effortlessly in languages that read from right to left with Difree's RTL writing support.
🌟 Cross-Browser Compatibility: Difree is compatible with Firefox and all Chromium-based browsers, including Chrome, Opera, Brave, Edge, and Vivaldi. Enjoy a consistent writing experience across platforms.
✂️ Effortless Text Copy: Easily copy your text in rich text, plain text, Markdown format, or as an image with Difree's user-friendly copying feature.

★ In a Nutshell:
Difree offers a focused, comfortable, and private writing experience, enhanced with the soothing sound of key strokes. Try it today to unlock more meaningful writing sessions!

★ We Value Your Feedback:
Your opinion matters! Share your thoughts on Difree, what you love, and any suggestions for improvement. We're here to make your writing journey even better! Email us at hi@getdifree.com and tell us.

★ Changelog ★
More: https://www.getdifree.com/changelog/

⭢ 1.3.0 – 2024-02-19
# Added
1. Add About section
# Changed
1. Settings sections moved to the right Sidebar
2. [bug] Welcome Page looks bad in dark theme

⭢ 1.2.3.1 – 2024-01-23
# Added
1. Add app usage events - error handlers
1. Add app usage events - uninstall
1. Add browser unitests

⭢ 1.2.3 – 2023-12-13
# Changed
1. [Bug] sending app usage events causes errors
2. Add app usage events - uninstall

⭢ 1.2.2 – 2023-12-02
# Changed
1. Revert changes about app usage events based on location from 1.2.1

⭢ 1.2.1 – 2023-11-21
# Added
1. Add app usage events based on location
# Changed
1. [Bug] tooltip doesn't disappear
1. [Bug] cannot editing hyperlink
1. [Bug] while adding link, the focus is outside the box
1. [Bug] about:blank when entering URL in incorrect format

⭢ 1.1.1 – 2023-11-07
# Added
1. Add Minimalistic View - a simplified view of the interface

⭢ 1.0.1 – 2023-10-22
# Added
1. Add Word counter
# Changed
1. Adjust the Welcome Page content

⭢ 0.9.5.7 – 2023-10-18
# Added
1. Add more formatting options: inline code, block code
2. Add app usage events

# Changed
1. Adjust the Welcome Page content
2. Adjust the Feedback popup content

⭢ 0.9.4.1 – 2023-10-14
# Changed
1. [Bug] The line doesn't break properly
2. [Bug] The scrollbar appears in the middle of the screen
3. [Bug] [Mac] The focus and cursor disappears

⭢ 0.9.4 – 2023-09-27
# Added
1. Monospaced fonts: iAWriterMono, Courier New
2. Right-to-left writing
# Changed
1. [Bug] Turn off the Key Sound doesn't work

⭢ 0.9.0 – 2023-09-24
# Added
1. Keyboard sounds

⭢ 0.8.9 – 2023-07-25
# Changed
1. Change the way the stats are sent into Posthog

⭢ 0.8.7 – 2023-07-17
# Changed
1. Change from Matomo to Posthog considering sending usage data system

⭢ 0.8.6 – 2023-06-22
# Added
1. Add 'Question mark' button with blue dot [feedback flow]

# Changed
1. [Bug] Feedback popup doesn't look good in dark mode
2. [Bug] Long title of the notes spoils the Sidebarsmal

⭢ 0.8.3 – 2023-05-16
# Added
1. Add option to change the size of the font in the Editor
2. Add option to change the consent for sending usage data in the Settings

# Changed
1. Change the layout of Sidebar
2. Change the layout of Difree on small screens
3. Change the date and time format of saved notes in Notes

⭢ 0.8.2 – 2023-05-05
# Added
1. Add uninstall survey
2. Add consent popup for sending usage data

⭢ 0.8.0 – 2023-04-15
# Added
1. Add dark theme

⭢ 0.7.0 – 2023-03-17
# Added
1. Add Sidebar contains all the options considering coping and managing text
# Changed
1. Change Welcome Page text
2. Change Feedback - moved to the Sidebar
# Remove
Remove Toggle Peak - all the functionalities and more moved to Sidebar

⭢ 0.6.8 – 2023-01-30
# Changed
1. Welcome Page text
2. [bug] design of Copy > Markdown button in Notes view
3. [bug] interpretation of Markdown syntax in corner cases
4. [bug] interpretation of Copy > Plain text

⭢ 0.6.6 – 2023-01-06
# Add
1. Add Heading 2 style in Text Formatting Menu
2. Add option to copy text as an image in Firefox extension
3. Add option to copy text as a plain text
# Changed
1. Change style of ordered and unordered list - more space before and after the list
2. [bug] Firefox extension opened many instances at once

⭢ 0.6.5 – 2022-12-22
# Add
Add Firefox version

⭢ 0.6.3 – 2022-11-28
# Add
Add option to add, edit or delete link
# Changed
Minor changes in Welcome page mechanics

⭢ 0.6.2 – 2022-11-05
# Add
1. Add option to add automatically signature
2. Add section 'Settings'
# Changed
Minor changes in Welcome page

⭢ 0.6.1 – 2022-09-19
# Changed
Minor changes in Welcome page

⭢ 0.6.0 – 2022-09-11
# Add
Add option to copy text as an image

⭢ 0.5.3 – 2022-07-30
# Changed
Minor changes in feedback mechanism

⭢ 0.5.2 – 2022-07-23
# Changed
1. Minor changes in feedback mechanism
2. Minor changes in interpreting Markdown syntax
3. Minor changes in Welcome page

⭢ 0.5.1 – 2022-06-22
# Changed
1. Minor changes in interpreting Markdown syntax
2. Minor changes in Welcome Page content

⭢ 0.5.0 – 2022-06-19
# Added
1. Added option to copy text into Clipboard in Markdown
# Changed
1. Minor changes in HTML version of text copied into Clipboard

⭢ 0.4.0 – 2022-05-15
# Added
1. Added the blue dot on Feedback icon
2. Added blockquote type of formatting
# Changed
1. Changed the look of Feedback pop-up
2. Minor changes in the look of Difree

⭢ 0.3.5 – 2022-04-18
# Added
1. Added the button to upload the image
2. Added the button to adjust the paragraph (adjust to right, center, left or justify)
3. Added the analytical events for buttons
# Changed
1. Changed the font type to Inter
2. Changed the font's design
3. Changed the text in Welcome Page

⭢ 0.3.4 – 2022-04-10
# Added
Added icon of Difree in context menu – the menu appears when right mouse button is clicked. The icon of Difree in context menu opens Difree with a Note containing the title and the URL of the page.

⭢ 0.3.3 – 2022-03-07
# Changed
1. Changed the logic, when a new Note is added – to improve the flow
2. Improved the design in opened Note – to improve the look and extend the editorial space
3. Improved the design on Toggle Peak
4. Improved the design of Editor

⭢ 0.3.2 – 2022-01-28
# Changed
1. Changed the logic, when a new Note is added - to improve the flow
2. Improved the design in opened Note - to improve the look and extend the editorial space
3. Improved the design on Toggle Peak
4. Improved the design of Editor

⭢ 0.3.2 – 2022-01-28
# Added
1. Button `Save to Note` – to make possible to save current text as a note and come back to it later
2. Button `Toggle Peek` to turn on / off the preview of saved notes – to make possible to access saved texts, edit or delete them

# Changed
1. Increased space between the lines in paragraph – to make the text more readable
2. Increased space between the paragraphs – to make the text more readable
3. Design of buttons – to make the buttons more readable
4. Increased the memory extension can use – to make possible to save more and longer texts

# Removed
1. Heading 2 and Heading 3 styles from Text Formatting Menu – to make the menu more readable

⭢ 0.3.1
We focused our efforts on resolving the issues with opening more than one instance of Difree.

⭢ 0.2.9
We focused our efforts on:
1. Building feedback solution for people using Difree,
2. Implementing dedicated framework.
We added a way to easily feedback us or ask question. In the bottom-right corner, there's a question mark button. When clicked, it opens a popup where you can send feedback.
We changed framework, we build Difree. This will help us easily introduce new views in Difree, which we definitely will do, as we have plans to add more useful features.

⭢ 0.2.8
1. We focused our efforts on improving your experience in Difree and getting to know better how Difree performs.
2. Add Clear button
- The button helps you to clear the editor from text; instead of selecting all text and deleting it, use Clear button
3. Add Introduction to Difree
- When you install Difree, it opens with short introduction of the features.
4. Add statistics
- We implement tracking statistics. We have done it because we would like to know what's working and what's not in Difree, to improve Difree.
- We collect following events: open of Difree, time spent in Difree, click on buttons Copy, Clear and Close.
- We use Matomo to gather the data, and we have full control of the data.
- We still DON'T know what you write, and we DON'T want to. We prefer the approach 'your data is none of our business'. Our privacy policy is pretty strict about it, the privacy of your data — and it is your data, not ours! — is a big deal to us. Here's a link to our privacy policy: https://www.getdifree.com/privacy-policy/

⭢ 0.2.7
- Small fixes in the look of extension
- Add the possibility to work offline

⭢ 0.2.6
1. Redesign the look of extension
- We increased the area of writing space
- We improved extension's responsiveness
- We changed the color of text editor's background and buttons
- We changed the way the header menu looks like
2. Redesign text style
- We changed text style to Arial, regular, 22pt, with letter spacing 4%, with paragraph spacing 12pt
3. Add Full-screen mode
- We added an icon to expand text editor to Full-screen mode.
4. Add Undo / Redo mode
- We added icons to undo or redo changes.
5. Add Copy button
- We added `Copy button`, which copies text to the clipboard.
6. Add a method of coping to clipboard simplified formatted text
- Text is copied in two versions: plain text and simplified rich text.
- When pasting text, it pastes in plain text or simplified rich text, depends on the place where text is pasted. It helps to keep formatting consistent when pasting text.

⭢ 0.2.5
- release first version of Difree

Check our privacy policy and see what we know about you. If you have any questions, considering privacy, drop us a line: privacy@getdifree.com.