Powerful word processor — just one URL away.
Free · Open Source · Private by Design
▶ Open EdenText
---
EdenText is a web-based, powerful word processor for everything from quick notes to full-length books. No server, no account — processing runs locally and your documents never leave your computer. Just one URL away, or completely offline as a slim browser app — under 2 MB on first load[^1]. The interface comes in English and German.
> [!NOTE]
> EdenText is young, in **beta** and actively developed — more features are on
> the way. It is tested — the full suite plus LibreOffice round-trip checks run
> on every commit — but expect occasional bugs, and keep backups of documents
> you care about. The browser copy also keeps the last three versions of the open
> document, and offers them if it ever fails to load one. What is still missing is
> listed under [Not yet implemented](CHANGELOG.md#not-yet-implemented) and
> [Known limitations](CHANGELOG.md#known-limitations).
## Features
- **Real page layout** — A4/Letter pages, margins, headers & footers, footnotes,
columns, page and line numbering, watermarks; mirrored margins and chapters
opening on a right-hand page for books
- **Opens and saves `.odt` and `.docx`**, exports PDF; templates (`.ott`/`.dotx`)
and a letter gallery (DIN 5008); password-protected files in both formats
- **Plays well with Word and LibreOffice** — documents keep their layout across
all three, backed by a sophisticated test pipeline
- **Styles** — paragraph, character, table and list styles with inheritance,
chapter numbering
- **Tables** with styles, sorting and spreadsheet-style formulas
- **Everything a thesis needs** — table of contents, captions, cross-references,
citations & bibliography, alphabetical index, formulas (LaTeX)
- **Review tools** — track changes and threaded comments with margin balloons,
printable markup, spell check (English & German), synonyms
- **Private by design** — your documents never leave your computer, all
processing runs locally; works offline as an installable app. The site counts
anonymous visits (GoatCounter, EU-hosted, no cookies); the editor sends nothing
- **Any current browser** — in Chrome and Edge, Save writes back to the opened
file; other browsers receive each save as a download, so turn on "Always ask
where to save" in their settings to pick the location
## Gallery
The documents behind these pictures are in [`docs/showcase/`](docs/showcase/) as `.odt`
and `.docx`, ready to open in EdenText, LibreOffice or Word. They are built by
`scripts/showcase/run.mjs`; the photographs are NASA's and the book is Lewis Carroll's,
both public domain.
| | |
|---|---|
| [](docs/showcase/thesis-review.png) **Review** — tracked changes, threaded comments in the margin, a draft watermark | [](docs/showcase/book-spread.png) **Book** — A5, mirrored margins, chapters opening on a right-hand page, running heads; the numbering restarts after the front matter, so page 11 prints the folio 9 |
| [](docs/showcase/newsletter.png) **Newsletter** — columns, pictures with captions, a sidebar box | [](docs/showcase/newsletter-tables.png) **Tables** — table styles and spreadsheet-style formulas |
## Development
```bash
npm install
npm run dev # dev server with hot-reload
npm test # test suite
npm run build # production build → dist/
```
Built with Svelte 5, TypeScript, Vite and TipTap 3 (ProseMirror).
### Docker
The production image builds the static application with Node.js and serves it
with Nginx. No application server or persistent volume is required; documents
remain in the browser.
Build and run the image directly:
```bash
docker build -t edentext .
docker run --rm -p 0.0.0.0:8122:80 edentext
```
Then open or use the Docker host's IP address from
another machine.
Alternatively, use Docker Compose:
```bash
docker compose up --build -d
```
The Compose service listens on all host interfaces on port 8122 by default. To
use a different host port, set `EDENTEXT_PORT`, for example:
```bash
EDENTEXT_PORT=8123 docker compose up --build -d
```
Set `EDENTEXT_BIND_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1` to restrict access to the Docker host.
When finished, stop and remove the service with:
```bash
docker compose down
```
## Contributing
Contributions are welcome — see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). Merging
requires a signed [CLA](CLA.md), checked automatically on every pull request.
### Contributors
Thanks to everyone who helped — with ideas, bug reports, testing
and feedback:
- Patrick R. — alpha and beta tester
- [@Deleh](https://github.com/Deleh) — beta tester
## License
Copyright © 2026 Steffen Becker.
[AGPL-3.0](LICENSE). A [commercial license](LICENSE.commercial.md) is available
for use cases the AGPL does not fit. Bundled fonts and language data keep their
own licenses — see [THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md](THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md).
*EdenText is an independent project, not affiliated with Microsoft or The
Document Foundation. `.docx` and `.odt` are supported for interoperability.*
[^1]: Over the wire, compressed: ~0.4 MB of app code, the rest the bundled fonts a
page shows and the spell checker with its dictionary. Further fonts, the second
dictionary and the thesaurus load on demand; the complete offline install is ~25 MB.
