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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 — under 2 MB on first load1 . 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 and 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
.odtand.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/ 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.
 Review — tracked changes, threaded comments in the margin, a draft watermark |
 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 |
 Newsletter — columns, pictures with captions, a sidebar box |
 Tables — table styles and spreadsheet-style formulas |
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).
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:
docker build -t edentext .
docker run --rm -p 127.0.0.1:8080:80 edentext
Then open http://localhost:8080.
Alternatively, use Docker Compose:
docker compose up --build -d
The Compose service binds EdenText to http://localhost:8080 by default. To use
a different host port, set EDENTEXT_PORT, for example:
EDENTEXT_PORT=8081 docker compose up --build -d
Set EDENTEXT_BIND_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0 to make the service reachable from other
machines. When finished, stop and remove it with:
docker compose down
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 and beta 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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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. ↩︎