A Word Processor
With Power.

Mellel is the leading word processor for Mac. Powerful, flexible and reliable, it will help you write your book, academic paper or doctoral thesis — from outlining your ideas to a finished manuscript.
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Take total control

Mellel is built to handle your long-form writing, be it a novel or a manuscript, a thesis or a newsletter. Mellel’s array of features empower you to keep order. Organize your outline. Keep your styles in check. Control the tiniest of detail.

Write without worry

A journey of a thousand pages needs Mellel's power. Mellel is stable, consistent, reliable, and boring in the most wonderful way: it doesn’t crash. It's always predictable. Create beautiful documents with ease, without surprise.

Mellel + Bookends

Get Mellel and Bookends, the reference manager, with a 25% discount. It’s the perfect combination for anyone writing a paper, a book, or a thesis.
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Trust Its Power

Mellel gets the job done. It’s made to handle long and complex written works. Never worry about Mellel crashing or becoming sluggish.

Outline & Structure

Everything great has a strong foundation.
Get the ultimate tool for structuring, viewing, and editing your document before you begin and while you write.

Live Documents

Stop playing the guessing game. See your
citations, cross-references, and bibliography in
their final format, as you create your written works.

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Find & Fix Anything

This isn’t your standard Find and Replace tool. You can make Mellel find absolutely anything. Define exactly what needs to be searched, found, switched, and fixed.

Best in Languages

There are thousands of languages. Write with the app that aims to support all. With languages, Mellel is unrivaled. Its support for right-to-left systems is incomparable.

Who Uses Mellel

Besides the fact that all of Mellel's features are really well-thought-out, I particularly treasure its stability. This application is rock solid; data loss or corrupted files are unknown to Mellel users.

Film scholar and journalist - Zürich, Switzerland | Simon

I'm an academic, thus a professional writer. Mellel is by far the best word processing program I've ever used.

PhD, Environment Studies - University of Florida | Terri

I write books in different languages, about different cultures. I like Mellel because it allows me to move between languages in a very easy way.

Der Spiegel Best-selling Author | Tuvia Tenenbom

Combined with Bookends, the citation manager, it's a real workhorse of a tool. If you're a Mac user, don't hesitate to switch, and I'll even share my style-set with you!

PhD, New Testament Studies - University of Cambridge | Peter

Unlike other word processors, I know I can focus on writing while Mellel keeps the references, formatting, cross-references, titles etc. the way I want them to be.

Professor of Popular Music History - Popakademie Baden-Württemberg | David-Emil