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FINAL|FINAL for Mac

Long-form writing editor with outlining, citations, versioning, and focus tools.

By kerim. Free and open source, AGPL-3.0 licence.

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FINAL|FINAL at a glance

Version
0.2.135
Released
23 September 2026
Download size
114 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Category
Writing and Editors
Developer
kerim
GitHub stars
44

About FINAL|FINAL

A writing app for academics

How to install FINAL|FINAL on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for FINAL|FINAL and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.2.135 from kerim's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to FINAL|FINAL show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: FINAL-FINAL-v0.2.135.zip (114 MB).

What is new in FINAL|FINAL 0.2.135

### Added

- **A new Typewriter Scrolling option for Focus Mode** — turn it on and the line you're typing on stays at a fixed height on screen while the rest of the text scrolls underneath it, instead of the page jumping as you type. It's off by default; only typing moves the page — clicking, selecting, and scrolling still work normally. Works in both the formatted and source editors.

### Fixed

- **Renaming a heading while zoomed into its section could empty the sidebar, and the sidebar's Zoom Out button then did nothing — worse, the text outside the zoomed section could be silently overwritten the next time the document refreshed** — fixed; renaming a heading while zoomed now keeps the sidebar and your whole document intact, and if the app ever loses track of the zoomed section it restores the full document instead of leaving part of it on screen.
- **A footnote containing a citation or annotation could silently lose it** — citations and annotations inside a footnote's own text are now preserved instead of being stripped out when the footnote is saved.

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Full UI suite: passed on 50df828c

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