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Productivity Apps
General-purpose programs that help you get real work done. There are 4 in this category:Growly Calculator, a simple spreadsheet app that also has three specialty calculator windows. Easy formula construction and incredible control of display, without unnecessary complications.
Growly Draw, a drawing app for people who aren’t artists. Work with shapes that can be adjusted at any time, and bitmaps like photos, all in the same document.
Growly Notes, a note-taking app somewhat like Microsoft OneNote®. Gather text, images, PDFs, links and anything else you can think of in free-form pages organized into sections.
Growly Write, a small but capable word processor. Create great-looking documents with ease. No feature overload here, just the things you’ll use every day.
Home Apps
These are programs for accomplishing specific tasks at home. They’re capable but very simple, targeted to the task at hand. There are 7 in this category:Growly Backup, for performing on-demand backups of your critical files.
Growly Calendar, for sharing a calendar on multiple computers in your home or office without needing an iCloud account or a server.
Growly Checkbook, a no-frills electronic checkbook register that manages checking and savings accounts.
Growly Glucose, a blood sugar tracker with charting and conditional formatting.
Growly Groceries, a shopping list manager.
Growly Journal, a multi-year personal diary that makes it fun to keep a record of the events, accomplishments, and activities in your life.
Growly Photo, a simple organizing tool for your photo files.
Games
No shoot-em-ups or 3D, just good old-fashioned time wasters. There are 11 in this category:Growly Backgammon, perhaps the oldest board game.
Growly Checkers, another really old board game. Not just for kids.
Growly Cribbage, a quirky 17th century card game that uses a special board to keep score.
Growly FreeCell, one of the easiest solitaire games to win.
Growly Hearts, a card game where you try to avoid taking any hearts or the Queen of Spades. Or take all of them.
Growly Jigsaw, play one of our jigsaw puzzles or create one of your own. Different every time.
Growly Pinochle, a cutthroat bidding game with complex rules.
Growly Poker, 12 popular variations on the game of poker.
Growly Rummy, a structured, progressive rummy game.
Growly Solitaire, the classic one-person card game.
Growly Spite & Malice, a solitaire-like card game played against the wicked computer.
Download instructions
- Click the Download button on any of our product pages (follow the links in the sidebar on the right). The program disk image will be copied to your Downloads folder.
- The download will probably not be opened automatically. Find your Downloads folder (Go→Home in the Finder) and look inside. The name will be something like write_220.dmg, starting with the name of the app you downloaded.
- Double-click the dmg file and drag the program into your Applications folder.
- Start it up and have fun.
If the download button doesn’t work
Some versions of some browsers can’t download the apps. Instead of downloading the file, they display the file, which isn’t particularly useful if you happen to be human. If you click the download button and see a screen full of garbage, you need to use another browser to download. Safari always works.Firefox seems to be especially bad at this. It’s a bug: we reported the problem and they ignored us.
Recent updates to Mac OS
When you upgrade to 10.15 Catalina or a later version of the OS, check for updates to our apps, too. Many of our apps had a bug that prevented them from starting in 10.15 or later.OneNote is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.