write’s latest keyboard has a mechanical word-counter to track your writing

Astrohaus has announced a caller summation to its distraction-reducing Freewrite statement of penning devices astatine CES. Unlike its erstwhile all-in-one devices that pair a keyboard pinch basal monochromatic screens, its caller Freewrite Wordrunner is simply a standalone mechanical keyboard customized pinch keys and devices designed to thief writers enactment focused and activity much efficiently.

The institution hasn’t announced pricing for the caller Freewrite Wordrunner yet, but it’s expected to beryllium disposable for preorder sometime successful February 2025 done a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. The company’s all-in-one penning devices scope successful value from $349 to $999, but without a screen, storage, and different electronics, its keyboard will perchance beryllium overmuch cheaper. Discounts will beryllium disposable to early backers, but Astrohaus is besides currently trading $1 refundable reservations that committedness “priority access” and “exclusive early-bird pricing.”

The Freewrite Wordrunner features a compact tenkeyless design, a assemblage made from durable die-cast aluminum, backlit “high-quality tactile switches,” and respective layers of sound deadening truthful it tin beryllium utilized successful shared spaces without itself becoming a distraction to others nearby.

What sets the Wordrunner isolated from different mechanical keyboards are the summation of 2 electromechanical counters pinch rotating numbers connected its apical edge. One, called the Wordometer, will continually way connection count until you property a reset button, while the other, upgraded pinch “subtle LED indicators,” serves arsenic a timer for speedy penning sprints aliases search your productivity.

The keyboard’s different large differentiator is simply a redesigned usability statement pinch keys customized for quickly navigating and editing a document. These see dedicated keys for undo and redo, jumping betwixt paragraphs, and quickly skipping to the apical aliases bottommost of a page. There are besides 3 dedicated macro keys — labelled zap, pow, and bam — that writers tin customize to their circumstantial needs.

It intends the Wordrunner loses keys dedicated to controlling media playback, but that’s each handled done a rotating reddish joystick successful the precocious near area of the keyboard that tin beryllium pressed aliases moved successful 4 directions for skipping tracks aliases making measurement adjustments.

Other features see an extended wrist rest, and the expertise to link to and move betwixt up to 4 devices done dedicated hotkeys. The Freewrite Wordrunner tin link to 3 devices complete Bluetooth, including computers and mobile devices, and a 4th pinch a USB-C cable.