When comparing OmmWriter vs Dark Room, the Slant community recommends OmmWriter for most people. In the question“What are the best distraction-free word processors?” OmmWriter is ranked 4th while Dark Room is ranked 12th. 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 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+.
Pro Portable
As long as the target machine has .NET Framework 2.0 or later installed (and most Windows machines do by default) the software can be run without requiring an install. It can be carried around on an external device, such as a USB thumbstick, and run directly from that.
Pro Decent customization options
Pro Completely free
Cons
Con Requires .NET to be installed
It depends on .NET before it is able to run.