by Bardl

Verso

Early Access

A word processor for people who just want to write.

Download for MacFree · macOS 14+ · 10 MB

Why this exists

I switched to Mac and discovered that writing on it is a mess. Pages feels dated. LibreOffice buries everything under three menus. Word wants a subscription. I just wanted to open a document and write.

So I built something different. A word processor where the toolbar stays out of your way until you need it. Where formatting is one click, not three. Where you open a .docx file and it just looks right.

Clean toolbarWord .docx supportHeaders & footersTablesCommentsExport to PDFFootnotesSyntax highlighting

Real features, without the bloat. Tables, headers and footers, footnotes, comments, page breaks, and full .docx round-tripping. Everything lives in one clean toolbar that never gets in the way.

It launches instantly. It runs offline. It never phones home. And it costs nothing.

I built the thing I actually wanted.
Turns out I’m not the only one.

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Focused writing

Styles and formatting

Word docs, rendered right

Opens Word files

Your colleague sends a .docx. You open it. It looks like a document.

Native Mac app

Built with SwiftUI. Looks right, feels right, launches instantly.

Yours forever

No subscription. No account. No cloud. No telemetry. Nothing.

Mac only. Yours forever.

No subscription. No account. No cloud. Nothing between you and your writing.

You are early. That matters.