When comparing Poe vs OmmWriter, the Slant community recommends OmmWriter for most people. In the question“What are the best distraction-free word processors?” OmmWriter is ranked 4th while Poe is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose OmmWriter is:
OmmWriter's greatest strength lies in a great selection of pleasant visual designs (images, photographs and chromatherapy backgrounds) and immersive music that can change the look and feel of the writer allowing to create desired ambiance. The backgrounds choices are calm and unobtrusive and the ambient music options are enveloping. You can even choose to replace keyboard strokes with different kinds of sounds. These elements, together with a clean design, create a feeling of a space that's separate from all distractions found in world around you.
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Pros
Pro Free
Pro Beautiful UI
It might be the typewriter fan in me, but I'm a big fan of serif fonts, and this app comes with dark mode and serif font readily accessible and gorgeous together (see screenshot).
Pro Custom Theme support
Pro Simple, easy to use interface
Pro Wordcount goal and timer features
Pro Built in list of writers resources
Pro Offers a selection of great backgrounds, audio tracks and keystroke sounds to add ambiance
OmmWriter's greatest strength lies in a great selection of pleasant visual designs (images, photographs and chromatherapy backgrounds) and immersive music that can change the look and feel of the writer allowing to create desired ambiance. The backgrounds choices are calm and unobtrusive and the ambient music options are enveloping. You can even choose to replace keyboard strokes with different kinds of sounds. These elements, together with a clean design, create a feeling of a space that's separate from all distractions found in world around you.
Pro Blanks out the any other screens if you have more than one
Pro Monospace font support
Pro Exports to a .omm, .txt and .pdf files
OmmWriter can save to plaintext files (.omm and .txt are both plaintext, only the extension is different) and PDF documents.
Pro Cross-platform
OmmWriter is available for OS X 10.5+, Windows XP - 7 and iPad iOS 3.2+.