A box that starts its paragraph was a trap: there is no text position beside it, so the browser pulled the caret meant for the box's own place in the line into the frame and everything typed there landed inside it. A frame nobody is editing is now an atom to the browser — a contenteditable node decoration, dropped while the caret is in its text, the frame placing the caret itself on the click that enters it. ArrowLeft/ArrowRight at the box's first and last text position step out to it. The decoration walk enters blocks, without which it never reached an inline box at all.
Powerful word processor — just one URL away.
Free · Open Source · Private by Design
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 — only ~1 MB1 .
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.
Sample File from https://sample-files.com/
Features
- Real page layout — A4/Letter pages, margins, headers & footers, footnotes, columns, page numbering, watermarks, ...
- Opens and saves
.odtand.docx, exports PDF; templates (.ott/.dotx) - Styles — paragraph, character and table styles with inheritance
- 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, comments, spell check (English & German), synonyms
- Private by design — your documents never leave your computer, all processing runs locally; works offline as an installable app
Development
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).
Contributing
Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. Merging requires a signed CLA, checked automatically on every pull request.
Contributors
Thanks to everyone who helped — with ideas, bug reports, testing and feedback:
- Patrick R. — alpha tester
- @Deleh — beta tester
License
Copyright © 2026 Steffen Becker.
AGPL-3.0. A commercial license is available for use cases the AGPL does not fit. Bundled fonts and language data keep their own licenses — see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.
EdenText is an independent project, not affiliated with Microsoft or The
Document Foundation. .docx and .odt are supported for interoperability.
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First load, compressed. Further fonts, spell-check dictionaries and the thesaurus load on demand; the complete offline install is ~25 MB. ↩︎