The Most Dangerous Writing App

The app is designed to "shut down your inner editor and get you into a state of flow",{{Cite web|url=https://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/help|title=The Most Dangerous Writing App - Help|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301023058/http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/|archive-date=2016-03-01|url-status=|access-date=2019-05-27}} referring to the psychological concept of being in a flow state.

Users start a writing session by choosing a time or word limit,{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/03/sadistic-writing-app-deletes-work-stop-typing/|title=Sadistic Writing App Deletes Your Work if You Stop Typing|last=Rhodes|first=Margaret|date=2016-03-14|magazine=Wired|access-date=2019-05-27|issn=1059-1028}} and can only save or download their work if they complete the set limit without interruption. An optional "hardcore mode" blurs out everything the user has written so far, making it impossible to edit before finishing the writing session.{{Cite web|url=https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pressure-productivity-apps/|title=How to Perform Under Pressure With These 8 Wacky Productivity Apps|website=MakeUseOf|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-27}}

The Most Dangerous Writing App was created by software engineer Manuel Ebert and was released as free, open source software on February 29, 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/9/11186514/the-most-dangerous-writing-app-flowstate-clone|title=The Most Dangerous Writing App lets you delete all of your work for free|last=Statt|first=Nick|date=2016-03-09|website=The Verge|access-date=2019-05-27}} It was reviewed by Wired, Forbes, Vogue, Huffington Post, The Verge, The Next Web, and others.{{Cite web|url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/most-dangerous-writing-app-deletes-copy-stop-typing|title=I Tried The App That Erases Everything You Write If You Stop Typing|website=Teen Vogue|date=9 April 2016|language=en|access-date=2019-05-27}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithwagstaff/2016/03/27/get-back-to-work-6-clever-productivity-apps/|title=Get Back To Work! 6 Clever Productivity Apps|last=Wagstaff|first=Keith|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-05-27}} It has been used in free writing contests and is recommended by NaNoWriMo.{{Cite web|url=http://busy.org/@zord189/powerhousecreativescontestthemostdangerouswritingappresults-cq3ydsq8wt|title=PowerHouseCreatives Contest {{!}} The Most Dangerous Writing App (Results)|date=2019-04-01|website=Busy|access-date=2019-05-27}}{{Cite web|url=https://blog.nanowrimo.org/post/180416835148/5-ways-to-raise-the-stakes-of-your-writing|title=5 Ways to Raise the Stakes of Your Writing|website=National Novel Writing Month|access-date=2019-05-27}}

In April 2019, The Most Dangerous Writing App was acquired by Squibler,{{Citation|last=Ebert|first=Manuel|title=If you stop typing for more than five seconds, all progress will be lost.: maebert/themostdangerouswritingapp|date=2019-10-17|url=https://github.com/maebert/themostdangerouswritingapp|access-date=2019-10-17}} but the original version remains freely accessible.{{Cite web|url=http://www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com/|title=The Most Dangerous Writing App|last=Ebert|first=Manuel|website=MDWA|language=en|access-date=2019-10-17}}

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