Written? Kitten!

Written? Kitten! is a bare-bones writing pad powered by positive reinforcement: hit a chosen word interval and a fresh animal photo appears. Its cheerful bargain is easy to grasp, pleasantly silly, and honest about the important catch—browser storage is not a substitute for saving your work somewhere dependable.

What is Written? Kitten!?

There is almost nothing between you and the next small victory. The page gives you a text box, a word counter, and controls for how often a new picture should arrive. Independent guides document intervals from 100 to 1,000 words and rewards that can include kittens, puppies, or bunnies. That modest loop turns drafting into a string of reachable checkpoints without piling on projects, formatting panels, or productivity theater. The page also deserves credit for putting its biggest limitation in plain sight: copy important writing into a real document, because local browser storage can fail. Think of it as a friendly drafting perch, not a filing cabinet.

What you can do there

• Write in a distraction-light text area
• Choose a reward interval
• Receive animal images as word-count rewards

Why we picked it

The joke and the utility are the same thing. A cute image is just enough ceremony to mark another chunk of writing finished, and the deliberately tiny interface leaves procrastination with very little furniture to hide behind. It has also survived since at least 2011, which is a respectable nine lives for a one-trick web toy.

How to get the most from it

Choose the shortest interval when getting started feels hardest, then increase it once the words are moving. Draft in the plain text area, enjoy the earned animal break, and copy your work into a word processor regularly. The page itself recommends keeping an external copy even when local storage appears supported.

Good to know

The tool is free and its source is public. It is intentionally not a full writing suite: no reliable cloud backup, rich formatting, or collaboration is promised. Reward images come from Flickr searches, while storage, third-party requests, image licensing details, mobile behavior, and assistive-technology support were not verified in this check.

Who made it, and when?

The earliest supported launch date we found is 2011.