PureQuill Writer

A word processor that works offline. Your text stays on your machine, saved continuously and with a version history. Plus the tools writing actually needs — word goal, repeated words, spell check.

On the Microsoft StoreFor Windows 10 and 11 Try it without installingRuns in the browser

The writing view with page ruler, toolbar and status bar

Page layout

The page as it will be printed.

Not an endless flow of text but real pages in millimetres — with headers and footers, page breaks and margins you drag on the ruler. What stands on the screen stands on the paper.

Repeated words

See what your editor will see.

A panel beside the text shows which words are piling up, and it weighs them: a word forty times across a novel is harmless, four times in one paragraph is not. Inflected forms are grouped together, function words are left out.

The repeated-words panel beside the text — Every row names the forms found and the closest gap between two occurrences. A click jumps to the spot.

Spelling

Seven languages, all inside the program.

Each with its own dictionary — nothing is fetched, nothing is sent to a service. You walk through the findings one by one, with suggestions and a personal dictionary for whatever the program does not know yet.

The spell check dialog with suggestions — English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Portuguese — interface and help as well.

Colour schemes

Seventeen ways to write the same thing.

From the phosphor screen to the cloud word processor. The choice applies to the whole program, light and dark, and it is a question of eyes rather than fashion.

The colour scheme picker with preview tiles — Each tile shows the paper, chrome and accent of that scheme.

Scope

What is in it.

Fully offline — no account, no server, no subscription
Autosave with checkpoints and version history
Word goal, word count and repeated words in one panel
Spell check with its own dictionaries in seven languages
Sticky notes and a glossary beside the text, each in its own view
Text clean-up: double spaces, empty paragraphs, line endings
Seventeen colour schemes, focus mode, reading view, print preview
Footnotes, tables, pictures, table of contents, handwritten signature
Open: DOCX, ODT, RTF, HTML, Markdown, text
Save as: DOCX, EPUB, PDF, HTML, Markdown, text

System requirements

Windows 10 (version 1809 or newer) and Windows 11, 64-bit. Around 400 MB on disk, most of it dictionaries. No internet connection needed — neither to set it up nor to work.

The browser version runs in Chrome, Edge and Firefox without installing anything. It is meant for trying the program out: headers and footers, margins and the print path are tools for a keyboard and a large screen, not for a phone.