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Fast and private: your files stay on your PC, no cloud. The new 4.0 editor stays smooth even on half-a-million-word novels, and you see the formatted document as you type.
Zero distractions
Instant launch, no browser, no account. Write, click, export.
Ideal for teams who want a native editor with a full workflow.
Handle long texts with no slowdown or cloud dependency.
Local files, total privacy, and certified exports.
One platform from data to final output.
No jargon: every feature explained in three lines.
Google Meet and Google Docs in one app: share the document, write together live, see and talk to each other. But the file stays yours, on your computer — no text on a server.
Every change is saved as a snapshot. Try a radical edit and, if it doesn't work, go back in one click. Never fear ruining the original again.
A three-tab panel next to your manuscript: notes, research and character sheets live inside the document but never end up in exports. And with «Reference» you keep another chapter or a note in view while you write, read-only.
A panel above your text with two views. In Cards each chapter is a card you can move around, with its synopsis and notes. In Table those same chapters become a spreadsheet: the words you aimed for, the words you wrote, what's left. At the bottom, the whole book's tally — and if you set a deadline, how many days remain and how many words a day it takes to get there.
A list for moving through the manuscript: your chapters in a column, with a dot on the ones that have a synopsis. Scenes get their own navigator, and chapters are reordered by dragging the Synopsis cards.
Give each chapter a word target and watch the bar fill: green when on track, amber when behind, red when over.
Export a PDF or CSV report: words per day, best hour, most productive day. Useful for contracts, habits, or your professional records.
Type [[ to link chapters, notes, or research to your text. Hover to preview the target, without switching apps.
The built-in AI proofreads, rewrites and checks character consistency running on your computer, offline and with no setup: for it, your work stays put. Or you connect the assistant you already use — Claude, Codex, Gemini — which reads your project read-only.
As you write, PressWork checks margins, bleed, and images for Amazon KDP. Catch errors before you upload, not after a rejection.
Sign a PDF — or a whole folder at once — with a legally valid timestamp. Prove that text was yours on that date. No notary needed.
Import an Excel sheet and turn it into tables or charts in your document. With «Generate batch», in the Business Hub, every row of the sheet becomes a document: letters, invoices and contracts, all at once.
Drag a PDF and PressWork extracts the text while keeping the structure. Rewrite it and re-export as an eBook or print PDF in minutes.
Every save quietly produces PDF, ePub, Word, FDX for film, and ICML for InDesign — ready to go, with no 'export' button to remember.
When a new version ships, PressWork tells you and updates itself in one click. No manual downloads, no stale versions around.
Interface, manual and in-app guide in nine languages — Italian, English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Hebrew — with the right typography for each and right-to-left where it belongs.
Two roads, and both are yours. Pick the one the job in front of you needs.
Local models inside PressWork, zero setup. The text doesn't leave your computer: this is the fully offline lane, the one for unpublished manuscripts, contracts and expert reports.
Already have Claude, Codex or Gemini? PressWork connects and gives it read-only access to your real project. You ask it:
The connector only reads: it has no tool to write into your projects.
A package that teaches the assistant to work as an editor on your projects: the pace of a chapter, character consistency, comparing translations. Added once, it lasts.
You see in black and white which folders each assistant can read, and when it read them. Not a hidden log: a page in the app.
PressWork sends nothing to servers of its own: the connector is local and read-only. What it reads is processed by the service of the assistant you chose, according to that service's own settings and terms. Assistants may have their own tools for accessing files on your computer: what they do with those depends on how you configured them, not on PressWork.
Two things that cost time and scattered files in an ordinary editor: PressWork automates them.
Screenwriters already know the idea: in Final Draft you keep several versions of the same line and only one reaches the page. PressWork brings it to the scale of a book. On paper this was crossing a passage out and rewriting it alongside. Here the drafts live inside the same chapter: in the Synopsis you hover over the card and click ⑂, what was there becomes «first draft», and you give the new one a name. One is live at a time, you swap it with a click, and the export always carries the one you want.
A branch is an alternative version of the whole book: you change the ending, drop a character, rewrite the structure — and the main document stays untouched. A variant is one chapter written several times over; a branch is another book. The risk, at that point, isn't losing work: it's writing in the wrong place while believing you're somewhere else. That's why a pill in the status bar always tells you which branch you're in — on the main document it isn't there, and its absence is itself the information. It's what GitHub branches gave to code: branches of a whole manuscript, inside the file, without Git. Scrivener has snapshots and Ulysses version history — the past kept safe, not two live roads running side by side.
Anyone who bought 4.2 six days ago has 4.3 today, at no cost.
A comparison by category of tool, not against a single name: what matters changes a lot depending on where you're coming from.
Swipe sideways to see all the columns.
| What matters | General editors (Word, Docs) | Editors for authors (Scrivener, Ulysses) | PressWork |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where your texts end up | On someone else's servers (cloud) | On your computer | On your computer |
| Chapter and scene structure | — | Yes, the binder | Yes, the Outline |
| Targets and deadlines | — | Yes, in a separate window | In the chapter table, with the gap per chapter and the printed pages |
| Project format | Closed | Proprietary (.scriv) | Open (.pwk / Markdown) |
| Certified PDF/X for print | — | Basic | Yes, validated |
| Validated ePub (ePubCheck) | — | Basic | 3.3 certified |
| ICML for InDesign | — | — | Yes, full round trip |
| FDX for Final Draft | — | Basic export | Full round trip: dual dialogue, production tags |
| Amazon KDP errors | You find out after uploading | You find out after uploading | Flagged as you write |
| Where the AI runs | Only on their servers | — | Built-in offline, or the assistant you choose |
| Legally valid signing | — | — | RFC 3161 timestamp |
Included in PressWork Complete
FDX, ePub 3.3, PDF/X-4, Fountain. From first chapter to Hollywood-ready script.
Explore Editorial →Included in PressWork Complete
Batch signing, data grid, one document per row and built-in charts. From spreadsheet to signed PDF in one flow.
Explore Tables →Everything PressWork can do for you.