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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. The file stays yours, on your computer. During a session, text, chat and attachments go through our connection server, which forwards them without storing them but can see them: they aren't end-to-end encrypted, and collaboration isn't suitable for confidential material.
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 access to your real project through a connector that never writes in the text. You ask it:
The connector never writes in the text: none of its tools changes it.
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 never writes in the text; on documents where you allow it, it leaves proposals for you to decide. 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.
Assistants propose and you decide, the text that goes to print is the one you chose, and your files for Amazon come out ready and checked.
Claude, Codex and Gemini, on documents where you allow it, can propose changes to your text but never make them, and the AI inside PressWork, on a selection, proposes instead of replacing your text: every proposal comes with who made it and why, and you keep it or discard it with ✓ and ✗. Proposed notes and synopses too. What you haven't decided doesn't go to print.
Branches are now versions; the one that goes to print is the final version. If you export from inside a version, that version is what comes out, and Export tells you so, in the menu and in the file name.
The Editorial Hub exports the three files to upload: the interior (PDF/X, if LaTeX is installed), the ePub and the printed book's full-wrap cover. PressWork tells you the right size, spine included, and checks the cover you choose. The interior comes out in A4, A5 or US Letter.
Chosen in Metadata, applied to ePub and PDF.
Anyone on the 4 series has 4.7 today, at no cost: it arrives by itself at first launch.
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.